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Impressed with blood

By Aparna Venkatraman · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Scantily clad women. Arson. Average Joes beating the crap out of each other. Characters urinating on cop cars. No, this isn’t just your run-of-the-mill weekend debauchery. This is the content of many of today’s video games, which lawmakers fear might influence the behavior of the impressionable young people who take in these images day after day.

Community organizations will receive money from Feinstein Challenge

By Erin Riley · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

$1 million will be distributed nationwide to hunger-relief organizations participating in the 10th annual Feinstein Challenge this spring.

Mobile home park gives weather radios to its owners Saturday

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

EVANSVILLE – The owners of a southwestern Indiana mobile home park have given each of its 120 residents weather radios to help give them adequate warning in the event of an approaching tornado like one that killed 20 people at another trailer park.

Online Only: Excuse my French

By Matt Peyton · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Amid the always-busy week leading up to spring break, it has dawned on me that I don’t speak a lick of French. Usually this wouldn’t be a problem (it also occurred to me that I don’t speak Arabic), except I’m going to Paris for spring break.

Prior yanked after getting 4 outs, allowing 3 runs

By Aaron Beard · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

PEORIA, Ariz. – Mark Prior’s return didn’t answer as many questions as it created. Prior, who missed most of last season because of injuries, started, allowed three earned runs and got just four outs before Chicago manager Lou Piniella pulled the Cubs’ former ace from Monday’s exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners.

Students a no-show to question executives at RHA election forum

By Shannon McEnerney · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

The Willkie Auditorium appeared empty Monday evening, as three candidates waited in suits for students to come and ask questions about the future of the Residence Halls Association.

Anna Nicole: death of a corporate scam

By Ryan Brown · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

One night, as I flipped through the channels, I came across what I assumed was an entertainment-based network showing clips and up-to-date info on the death and burial of Anna Nicole Smith. I was shocked to find out the late Smith, 27 days since her death, is still receiving headline coverage on one of America’s most powerful news stations: CNN.

Obama’s ‘audacity’

By Brian Stewart · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Politics is not the nursery, as the philosopher Hannah Arendt always liked to say. But a glance at today’s retail politics shows this maxim to nontrue, if not exactly untrue.

Media menagerie

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

In my years of working at a veterinarian’s office, I saw pet owners exploit their animals to no end. Some clients would enter towing schnauzers in miniature Hawaiian shirts, while others dyed their pets pastel colors for Easter. Still, I don’t think I ever saw any situation worse than that of Ebony, a high-fashion furball, though not by choice.

School critic invited to return to schools after being banned

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

FORT WAYNE – A vocal critic of Fort Wayne’s school system has received an apology from the superintendent, days after being told he was no longer welcome in the district’s schools as a volunteer.

A glaze that pays

By Megan George · Tuesday, March 6,2007 12 a.m.

Mixing red and blue makes purple. Mixing a little bit of music, paint and imagination makes The Latest Glaze. The Latest Glaze studio, 1301 S. College Mall Road, provides a unique environment for the Bloomington community.

Hoosiers place 5th in Big Ten tournament

By Linnea Coulter · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

After ending the regular season with a loss, the IU wrestling team began postseason play with the Big Ten tournament this weekend after a two-week layoff and finished fifth.

The Oscars: the good, the bad and Jennifer Hudson

By Teri Rosenbaum · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

Last Sunday night, America wasn’t participating in a war or contributing to a debate on gay marriage. America wasn’t feeling the effects of global warming or developing new immigration laws. America wasn’t rallying against abortion or campaigning for its first black president. For one night, America stood united.

Hansbrough injures face in North Carolina win

By Aaron Beard and Joedy McCreary · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Blood poured from his nose and onto his lip, chin and the court. The latest bruised face of college basketball’s nastiest rivalry belongs to North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough.

Only 1 ticket running in RHA elections

By Shannon McEnerney · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

Stay classy, IU. At least, that’s the tag line of Channel 4 News Team – the only ticket running this year in the Residence Halls Association elections.

Slain IU grad remembered at memorial

By Alberto D. Morales · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

Nearly 100 people, all dressed in black, could not hold back tears when a memorial video of Yoon Jang-ho, a 2004 Kelley School graduate who was killed last week in Afghanistan, was shown on a projection screen Friday at a memorial service at the Korean United Methodist Church, 1920 E. Third St.

Wounded Afghans say U.S. forces fired on civilians after suicide bomb

By Abdullah AlShihri and Rahim Faiez · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – A U.S. Marine convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber and militant ambush Sunday on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan, and witnesses said that as the Americans sped away, they opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians. As many as 10 people were killed and 35 were wounded.

Bush gets mixed reactions

By Elizabeth Dilts · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

The No Child Left Behind Act is a success, President Bush said during his visit to Silver Street Elementary School in New Albany, Ind., Friday.

A forced task

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

As many IU students may be aware (even though many are quite unaware) the new IU president was announced Thursday at a press conference at IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis. The IU interim provost, Michael McRobbie, was selected by the board of trustees to be IU’s next leader.

Hoosier seniors say goodbye with blowout victory at home

By Eamonn Brennan · Monday, March 5,2007 12 a.m.

IU’s senior night is expected to be a celebration. On Saturday night, seniors Earl Calloway, Errek Suhr and Rod Wilmont – and the 17,315 at Assembly Hall – turned it into a party.