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BCT hosts fashion show, concert to benefit World Health Organization on Saturday

The Buskirk-Chumley Theater will host a benefit concert Saturday for the World Health Organization headlined by the electronic mash-up music of Girl Talk. The show will also include a presentation of Dorothy Shestak’s senior project for the IU Individualized Major Program in Fashion Design, “d-star Fashion Show.”

Homocus-pocus

Magicians and closeted homosexuals. Both tricksters, both con artists – determined to dupe audiences into believing a grand illusion. Whether it’s white doves or gay love, shiny coins or man loins, each performer’s hidden secret is kept firmly concealed under the giant top hat of social deception.

Broadcasting a revolution

Get in the pit … Comeback Kid is back in action. Following up their uber-successful record Wake the Dead is a difficult task, but Broadcasting..., their third release, is ready to bust some eardrums. Canada may have spawned such trash as Celine Dion and Shania Twain, but these Canadians know how to rock. Winnapeg-core at its finest. Fans will notice the departure of singer Scott Wade, who claims he was "holding the band back," but former Figure Four vocalist Andrew Neufeld steps up to the plate and delivers. Wade thrashes on "Hailing on Me," and his tough-guy hardcore background shines. Hey, he's not a bad singer, either.

ARTiFACTS

What: A portrait skull made by the Iatmul people of Papua New Guinea, dating to the first half of the 20th century.

Inmate tricks woman into helping him escape

An inmate accused of using forged documents to walk out of a state prison apparently duped a woman into helping him, police said.

Sadly, not Kittie's Funeral

Metal, like any other genre, is a complex, multifaceted world inhabited by both passionate artists and leeching fakers alike. There is extremely good metal out there: The fascinating story-telling and epic bass lines from Primus, the infectious high energy of Korn or Disturbed, and Pantera's raw ability to consistently rock your face off, for example. However, there is quite a bit out there touting itself as metal that is just plain awful. Kittie's newest endeavor, Funeral for Yesterday, is of the latter type.

Belly-dancers present performance, workshop

Bloomington’s own belly-dancing community will shine tomorrow evening as it takes the arts community through a second annual eye-opening weekend of dance performance and workshops. ArtsWeek, which ends Saturday, will be capped off with performances from an array of artistic dancers, including special guest the Blue Lotus Tribe of Chicago, the Best of Bloomington Belly Dancers and other local performers.

7:17: Live blog from IUPUI presidential announcement

7:17: We're back in the newsroom. Overall, I'm pretty happy in who I was able to talk with and the answers I was able they gave me.

LIVE FROM THE BEEHIVE

The bulk of students at IU probably don't consider Bloomington an important music city. Sure, a lot of music comes through the Bluebird, they might think. And yeah, bands come and play for Little 500 every year up on the Jordan extension. The average student may even know that a student station that broadcasts on 100.3 FM (ya know, WIUX?) holds shows at the studio pretty regularly. But what every student may not realize is how important Bloomington is to the national music community.

Columnist’s words sound like rape advocation

In his Feb. 22 column, “Oncourse and sex machines,” I understand that Colin Dugdale was perhaps referring to the thrill of romantic pursuit. Depending on the spirit in which this is done, it is not necessarily a bad thing. However, in light of the wording of the actual column, it still warrants pointing out that healthy sexual relationships do not involve physical domination. Other sources of gratification might include intimacy, physical pleasure and even the fulfillment of winning over a partner, without subjugating that person. Moreover, I think most would agree that “deriv(ing) the majority of sexual pleasure from ... the victory of obtaining physical domination” sounds a lot like rape. It is unfortunate that those who share the columnist’s views are inflicted upon their partners. Christy Keele Graduate student

Yellowcard ‘train wreck’ not worthy of Little 500

As a huge fan of the pop-punk music genre, I have to say I was not very happy after reading that Yellowcard was picked by the Alpha Tau Omega and Acacia fraternities to perform during Little 500 weekend (“Fraternities book Yellowcard for Little 500 concert,” Feb. 22). Yellowcard is most known for its album “Ocean Avenue” that was released four years ago , and the band’s most recent album, “Lights and Sounds,” was the second worst album of 2006 according to Jason Tate, the webmaster of AbsolutePunk.net, a leading music webzine, who called it a “train wreck”. I think the fraternities would have been better off bringing an up-and-coming band to Little 500 weekend. Bands like Taking Back Sunday, Brand New and Cartel fit this billing, along with numerous others. The Starting Line recently announced that it is planning a college tour for the spring and wants to go to big college events, but apparently this went unnoticed by everyone at IU. I think Little 500 should be able to bring in better bands than “train wrecks.” Justin Hennis Sophomore

Billy Bob: We have a problem

Maybe Billy Bob was confused. Maybe when the script for "The Astronaut Farmer" was pitched to him, it sounded like he would be playing the role of a space-age farmer, negotiating the elements on Mars while trying to grow space fruit to support his family and fend off alien invaders who try to destroy his crops. But sadly, that's not the plot of this movie. This movie is much worse.

Speaking of freedom

In the Jan. 19 edition of Woodlan Junior-Senior High School’s newspaper, The Tomahawk, Megan Chase, a sophomore at the Fort Wayne school, wrote an editorial urging the acceptance of homosexuals, citing suicide statistics and lack of choice in sexuality as support for acceptance. There was nothing vulgar, hateful or violent about the piece. It was an egalitarian-based appeal for acceptance.

IU Delta Zeta undermines women’s integrity at DePauw

Recently, members of the Delta Zeta sorority at IU significantly undermined the credibility of a sister household in Greencastle, Ind., at DePauw University. Beginning in the fall term of 2006, the Delta Zeta national office began a program to ameliorate what they saw as low recruitment in their respective chapter at DePauw. The New York Times reports that “national representatives took over the house to hold a recruiting event. They asked most members to stay upstairs in their rooms. To welcome freshmen downstairs, they assembled a team that included several of the women eventually asked to stay in the sorority, along with some slender women invited from the sorority’s chapter at Indiana University” (Feb. 25, 2007). The problem here is not that the national office took control of what they saw as a subpar situation – nor is it that members from another sorority were invited to help recruit. The problem with this realized scenario is that, the women of Delta Zeta were apparently seen as a marginal population of “socially awkward” women as compared to others women of other sororities at DePauw and so were isolated during the event. The term “socially awkward” comes from a survey taken by a professor of psychology at that university, essentially taken from the mouths of those surveyed. Apparently, in order to belong to a sorority one most circulate with the in crowd, to not do so is seen as a failure of character and warranting of isolation and rejection in the eyes of Delta Zeta national (in agreement with the seemingly shallow student body). IU women of Delta Zeta on this campus, I think would do well to provide an explanation of their involvement and their stance in regards to a seemingly unethical decision made by the national office. According to the New York Times, several women effectively ousted by the national office have dropped out due to issues of depression, reportedly directly related to the events that have transpired since this fall. As the situation stands, Delta Zeta at IU has not differentiated their views from that of the national office, and so is complicit with any ethical wrongs the national office has committed at DePauw. Jared Pool Senior

IU loses match to DePaul at home, 4-3

The doubles point proved to make all the difference for the No. 68 IU men’s tennis team in its loss to No. 75 DePaul on Wednesday.

Students cast about 1,000 votes in IUSA 36-hour election

A mere 1,042 students voted in this year’s IU Student Association elections, compared to the 7,716 students that voted last year. While Election Commissioner Brad Allen and other officials said the low voter turnout was caused by the lack of competition, students said they didn’t vote because they didn’t even know the election was happening.

Mark from the arc

EVANSTON, Ill. – With seven seconds left in the first half of IU’s 69-65 win Wednesday night, IU senior guard Rod Wilmont officially stole the show.

Exclamation points!

!!! formed in the mid-'90s in Sacramento based on the knowledge that they would be playing an all-night house party. More than a decade later, the party is still going strong. Since that fateful night, the band has alternated between club-hopping and label-hopping with each release, starting with GSL, moving to Touch & Go and now finding their rhythm with Warp Records. To answer the question that is on the tip of your tongue, the band's name can be pronounced by using a series of three one-syllable percussive sounds in succession, but "chk, chk, chk" is typically the "name" chosen by most !!! followers.

A hopeful Hoosier

The outgoing Betsy Henke IU Student Association administration will be a hard act to follow. With successes in the area of student representation and administrative effort, it has proved to be far better than recent administrations. In hopes the executive ticket-elect would be capable of following in those footsteps, the editorial board sat down with the incoming Hoosier party to find out its plans for next year.

Seymour man caught after police chase