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5K raises funds to house homeless

By Elizabeth Peacock · Monday, April 3,2006 1:23 a.m.

About 500 residents, accompanied by several dogs on leashes, walked through the streets of Bloomington on Sunday. Many held brightly colored signs that read "Walk to stop homelessness now" as they participated in Bloomington's fourth annual Homeward Bound walk. Walkers collected donations that will be distributed to several agencies in the Bloomington area, including Hoosier Hills Food Bank, Martha's House, Mental Health Alliance, Middle Way House, Monroe County United Ministries, Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, Shalom Community Center and Youth Services Bureau.

BLOW!

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 3,2006 1:21 a.m.

Senior Ashley Maddox blows bubbles at Relay For Life Saturday at the Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex. Maddox and several friends came together to form a team called "Pink Hearts" and had a tent set up with a Candyland theme.

Conference discusses how skin color, race are viewed

By Savannah Worley · Monday, April 3,2006 1:20 a.m.

The Variations on Blackness conference brought scholars and professors from IU and other universities together to talk about how the issues of race and skin color are viewed in America and all over the world. The conference was a three-day event from Thursday to Saturday, featuring lectures, dialogues and discussion, as well as a dance performance and the opening of an art exhibit at the IU Art Museum.

Where on campus is this?

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 3,2006 1:20 a.m.

See tomorrow's IDS to find out.

Former U.S. Marine seeks end to genocide in Darfur

By Jamie Ward · Monday, April 3,2006 1:17 a.m.

Former Marine Brian Steidle spoke of an ongoing "systematic ethnic cleansing" he witnessed in Darfur, a region in Sudan, while touring Bloomington Thursday and Friday. The events were part of the "Million Voices for Darfur" campaign. "This is a government-sponsored military operation," Steidle said. "At its height, 9,000 to 10,000 people have died in a month and there are now nearly 2.5 to 3 million people in internally displaced persons camps. It's going on right now as we sit in this room. People are dying."

Relay for Life to include benefit concert

By Dana Tesser · Sunday, April 2,2006 2:36 p.m.

This year, IU's Relay for Life teams will not be the only ones at Billy Hayes Track supporting the American Cancer Society. This year there will be a new addition: the IU program's first ever benefit concert.

The Weekly Weird: Indiana teen making money off daylight-saving time

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, April 2,2006 2:36 p.m.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - An industrious teenager is hoping time is money. Eighteen-year-old Evan Kelso is offering to change every digital clock in a customer's home or car after all of Indiana goes to daylight saving time this weekend for the first time in more than 30 years. His fee: $10.

Free dance show features hip-hop, jazz

By Stacey Laskin · Friday, March 31,2006 4:42 p.m.

InMotion Dance Company co-director and junior Justine Menter said style, dance experience and creativity from all over the country will fuse this Saturday evening for a great performance.

Jordan River Forum: Kelvin Sampson edition

By Alyson Brodsy and Jordan River Forum · Friday, March 31,2006 11:35 a.m.

Is Rick Greenspan serious in hiring Kelvin Sampson? What the hell is wrong with IU these days? I cannot believe ol' Rick Greenspan's choice for head of the basketball team that is so dear to all our hearts. I have an idea: let's hire someone plagued with problems and who, in my eyes, is not the caliber coach I feel we were all looking for. I myself would have liked to see Marquette coach Tom Crean here, but I never imagined Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson. Isn't it time we do to ol' Rick what Myles Brand did to Bob Knight (Indiana's lowest point)? I am personally in favor of firing Greenspan.

Go jump in a lake (and take a clock, too)

By Alyson Brodsy and Bethany Bannister-Andrews · Friday, March 31,2006 11:04 a.m.

Prepare to reset your clocks. At 2 a.m. Sunday, Indiana will conform with the majority of the country and begin observing daylight-saving time for the first time since 1970. All political arguments aside, let's get down to the heart of this concept from a cultural level.

Singing Hoosiers to hold spring performance Saturday

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Friday, March 31,2006 12:16 a.m.

More than 100 IU students filed into the Music Annex Monday afternoon to sing their hearts out.

Brand: Violations could follow coach

By Michael Sanserino · Friday, March 31,2006 12:16 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Recent trends suggest new basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and IU could be more likely to receive NCAA sanctions than his former school, the University of Oklahoma, NCAA President Myles Brand said Thursday.

Buzz! Time to change your clocks

By Michael Zennie · Friday, March 31,2006 12:16 a.m.

Not unlike the millennium rollover and the "Y2K" bug, ensuring computer systems across campus correctly make the switch to daylight-saving time Sunday has been a sizable task for University Information Technology Service's User Support Department. UITS has worked since late January to make sure the campus community is prepared to switch to daylight-saving time when it rolls around after 1:59 a.m. Sunday, said User Support Director Sue Workman.

SEC's South Carolina crowned NIT champs

By Alyson Brodsy and Doug Feinberg · Friday, March 31,2006 12:05 a.m.

NEW YORK -- South Carolina certainly didn't begin the season hoping to repeat as NIT champions.

Pacer fans say last goodbye to Reggie

By Alyson Brodsy and Cliff Brunt · Friday, March 31,2006 12:02 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The chant of "Reg-gie! Reg-gie!" filled Conseco Fieldhouse one more time.

Hoosiers continue Big Ten quest after upset win

By Evan Harris · Friday, March 31,2006 12:02 a.m.

Topping their first nationally-ranked opponent of the season could not have come at a better time for IU men's tennis.

IU track teams begin outdoor seasons

By Rick Harker · Friday, March 31,2006 12:01 a.m.

IU women's track took a hiatus that separated the indoor and outdoor seasons, but the Hoosiers are now back to business, preparing for a long outdoor track season.

Miss-N-Out to offer 2nd pre-race competition

By Chris Engel · Friday, March 31,2006 12 a.m.

After taking the top place at the Individual Time Trials, Alpha Tau Omega rider Hans Arnesen and Kappa Kappa Gamma rider Jess Sapp head into Saturday's Miss-N-Out among the favorites to win the second Little 500 series event of the season. Arnesen and Bella Veloce rider Abby Cooper both look to defend their title against a deep and strong field of riders.

Bustin' a bracket

By Alyson Brodsy and Andrew Shaffer · Thursday, March 30,2006 11:59 p.m.

I've never liked brackets. Not in second grade when they split a problem of addition and subtraction. Not in seventh grade when I had to distribute multiple multiplication problems. I didn't like brackets when I was a junior in high school and I slam-dunked a 400 on the math portion of the SAT. And now, shoulder deep into my junior year at IU, I really hate brackets. Who needs them?

Hoosiers continue road trip with conference series

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Thursday, March 30,2006 11:58 p.m.

The IU baseball team has worked toward one thing since the beginning of practice in February -- Big Ten play. All that work culminates today with the conference opener, the first contest of a four-game weekend series against Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich. The Hoosiers (7-11) begin conference play as part of 12 straight road games. IU has used its nonconference schedule as a sort of spring training in an attempt to iron out any problems before conference play begins.