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Hoosier golfers travel to Puerto Rico to start spring competitions

By Ari Shifron · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

Playing in their first tournament since Oct. 31, the Hoosiers head to San Juan, Puerto Rico for the Lady Puerto Rico Classic this weekend. The tournament is hosted by rival Purdue and begins today and runs through Sunday.

After renovations, The Pita Pit will replace ice cream shop

By Jessica Andrews · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

A far cry from the indulgent creamery once located at 530 E. Kirkwood Ave., The Pita Pit is set to open in its newest location sometime in early March. The restaurant claims to boast “fresh thinking and healthy eating,” according to its Web site.

Man or miniskirt

By Rachel Fullmer · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

I'm not suggesting I should ever dispense fashion advice – clearly I have none to offer (especially on a campus already up to its visible panty line with Uggs).

My scrotum isn't dirty

By Johnathan P. Rossing and Jonathan P. Rossing · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

Some librarians and teachers are on a crusade this week to ban an award-winning children’s book from their shelves. The 2007 Newbery Medal recipient (the most prestigious award for children’s literature) “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, is under attack because of one word: “scrotum.”

‘Twelfth Night’ opens at Ruth N. Halls theater tonight

By Kelsey Nash · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

Full of mystery, mayhem and mistaken identity, the classic Shakespearean comedy “Twelfth Night” opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.

Junior sprinter readies IU for Big Ten meet

By Ryan Gregg · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

For the men’s track and field team to win the Big Ten indoor championships this weekend, it will need more than talent and a home facility advantage. It will need leadership and motivation. Thankfully the team has been getting these two things in heavy doses all year from not only their coaches, but junior sprinter Doug Dayhoff.

Highly touted freshman duo ready to contribute

By Lee Hurwitz · Friday, Feb. 23,2007 12 a.m.

All it took was one swing of the bat and IU coach Tracy Smith knew he had found something special in Kipp Schutz.

Around the World

Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Britain will withdraw around 1,600 troops from Iraq in the coming months and aims to further cut its 7,100-strong contingent by late summer if Iraqi forces can secure the country’s south, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday.

The other spy movie

By Wes Jakacki · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

In recent years there has been a slew of espionage thrillers. From "The Bourne Identity" to "The Departed," America has had a piqued interest in spy movies in recent history. Along comes "Breach," a cat-and-mouse thriller based on the true story of "the worst spy in American history." Since it's a true story, you know the spy will ultimately be caught as well as knowing the general gist, which restricts the movie from being an astonishing film. However, with Billy Ray at the helm in only his second directorial effort, "Breach" is a well-focused and well-depicted story of one of the most malevolent men in U.S. history and his unlikely demise.

Runway models who handle Oscar’s trophies share their experiences from behind curtain

By Sandy Cohen · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

LOS ANGELES – They’ve held more Oscars than Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson combined, but they never give a speech or take the golden guy home. They aren’t nominees – they’re trophy presenters. The statuesque beauties who accompany Oscar and his winners on and off stage are actually models for hire.

IDS turns 140

By Kacie Foster and Stephen Graham · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Some years ago, Indiana Daily Student editors started scrawling a message on the drawer of Ernie Pyle’s desk on their last night in the newsroom. “Remember freedom also means responsibility,” wrote summer 1996 editor in chief Reid Cox. One editor in chief left her mark in red felt-tip: “To the dream, nightmare, & reality known as the IDS. Love always, Marijke Rowland, EIC spring ’97.” The desk used by the World War II reporter during his time at the IDS has been a fixture in the newsroom for almost a century of the paper’s 140-year history. Ernie Pyle’s old rolltop is just one example of the long and colorful tradition of this newspaper.

Get back with the Police already

By Chris Green , Nick Mills and Nicholas Mills · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

There are many sides to Sting. There's the proto-punk Sting of The Police. There's the tough guy Sting who played in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." There's the solo pop Sting of recent. And now we have Renaissance Sting. Sting jumps in the time machine and takes the works of 17th-century composer John Dowland and puts a new spin on them. Songs from the Labyrinth is Elizabethan music for the 21st century.

Class combines outdoor adventure with classroom instruction

By Joe Jasinski · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

For the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, as well as its Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies, this academic year represents a milestone: 60 years since its establishment at IU. Since its founding in 1946, the school has offered classes, programs and organizations that allow students to live by its motto that a “sound body provides for a sound mind.”

Cigarette break

By Jennifer Miller · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

With presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s new pledge to quit smoking plastering headlines, he has more than his political career on the line.

Tibbs, Hess opinion failures amusing

By Aparna Venkatraman and Mark A. Price · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The recent column by Mr. Hess on the subject of gay adoption (“Fathers and mothers,” Feb. 1) wasn’t half as interesting as the responses. That’s either a reflection of an ill-considered approach to a nuanced topic or a simply a cry for better opinion writing. In the case of the column in question, I’d chose the latter.

Company gives chance to fake your own horrific death

By Alicia Spateo · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

CHARLESTON, Ill. – What’s your favorite scary movie? For roommates Derek Clem and Scott Aigner, the answer was written in the fake blood and man-made intestines staining their clothes – their movie. Clem and Aigner, both Eastern Illinois University graduate students, received the chance to star in their own personally designed horror-slasher scene, making fake death a reality at Eastern’s Tarble Arts Center in Charleston.

African Languages Club to host daylong festival with food, music, dance

By Chelsea Merta · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

After only one semester, the IU African Languages Club boasts 71 members. Students and faculty members holding an interest in African languages responded enthusiastically to the formation of the club, which on Feb. 27 will hold its first event, the Africana Festival. The Africana Festival – a daylong festival featuring dancing, music and food from Africa at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave. – will be held Tuesday, Feb. 27.

The Monroe County Historical Center Museum exhibit features tons of cinematic artifacts from the silent era to modern times. Photo by Ronni Moore

Monroe County boasts its Hollywood connections

By Kristi Oloffson · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The Oscars might feature movie stars who seem to live in a distant world, but Bloomington and Monroe County have so many connections to Hollywood that a local history museum decided to feature them in an exhibit.

DOW CEO should be prohibited from speaking

By Aparna Venkatraman and Suresh Marru · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

When I was looking at the Kelley Business Conference, I have seen that Andrew Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Co., is being invited to talk on Energy and Environment. While I got enthusiastic about the conference outcome, as many leading industrialists will be speaking on their perspectives of energy and environment, I was also annoyed to see that CEO of Dow Chemical will also speak on issues the company never really cared to account for. You might be well aware that Union Carbide (now fully owned by Dow Chemical) was responsible for the world’s worst chemical disaster and killed 22,000 humans, and still many thousands of people are struggling with the aftermath of chemical poisoning in ground water.

Offensive humor can be found at IU

By Aparna Venkatraman and JP Summerlot · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

After reading the editorial titled “No joke” (Feb. 15) about a not-so-funny editorial piece on rape at Central Connecticut State University, I wanted to let you know you don’t have to go that far away to find inappropriate humor. Just turn on IUSTV (or be forced to watch it while waiting for movies to come on Hoosier Cinema on one of the televisions stationed around campus). Tasteless jokes and vague attempts at humor abound on shows such as “F’N Democracy.” I don’t think they’ve tried to be humourous about rape victims, but they have covered victims of molestation. Other topics that are fair game include jokes about people selling their family to play the stock market, making enough money to own slaves and things being “blacker than Flava Flav.” You really should force yourself to watch an episode sometime. I’m sure you’ll find it to be equally lowbrow and to be the bane of those forced to watch it.