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Can't buy me love (from a vending machine)

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Jan. 20,2006 12:05 a.m.

So, we on the editorial board just read that Northwestern University is starting to offer condoms for sale from the residence hall vending machines. Our response is that this plan should be stopped -- it's clearly a sign of moral degradation on Northwestern's campus, and will promote promiscuity and unnatural sexual behavior outside the bounds of God's law.

Council, mayor vote against controversial telecom bill

By Roy Maurer · Friday, Jan. 20,2006 12:01 a.m.

State Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, led a chorus of voices in an impassioned plea during a Bloomington City Council meeting Wednesday to do all that was in its power to oppose a telecommunications bill currently before the Indiana General Assembly.

Senate passes funeral protest bill 47-1

By Alyson Brodsy and Deanna Martin · Friday, Jan. 20,2006 12 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Senate advanced a bill Thursday intended to prohibit protests within 500 feet of funerals -- legislation that stems from protests by a Kansas-based anti-gay group at Indiana military funerals. The bill, which cleared the Senate 47-1, now moves to the House, where it could face changes because of confusion about what the legislation would actually do.

2 sex-related offenses reported at HPER

By Audrie Garrison · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:55 p.m.

IU Police Department officers responded to two separate nonforcible sex-related offenses Thursday in the shower areas of the men's locker rooms at the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation within two hours of each other.

Web site offers job mentoring, advice to IU graduates

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:54 p.m.

The IU Alumni Association has created a Web site dedicated to helping its members find employment in their field. The Web site, www.IUalumnicareers.com, is meant to provide IU alumni access to career guidance and counseling and can notify registered users of any new listings that have been posted in their fields.

Group assists abuse victims

By Peter Stevenson · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:52 p.m.

In a country where an estimated 4 million women are beaten each year, there is an emerging support structure for domestic abuse victims.

IU group seeks dancers

By Stacey Laskin · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:47 p.m.

Not many artists do their creative work lying on the floor. Still, members of the InMotion Dance Company lay on the floor Wednesday night, brainstorming moves to include in the dance for their upcoming audition.

Alumnus, curator to speak at benefit dinner

By Stacey Laskin · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:46 p.m.

Outside the School of Fine Arts, professors in bright greens and purples smoke cigarettes and watch the students: boys in skinny pants and overpriced loafers, girls with chunky glasses and rainbows for bangs. The smoke clouds drift over their heads and dissipate into the rain and wind. Everything in this building is art: the witchy cackles propelling the steam puffs, the swirls in the commercial carpet and the broken-pencil scent filling the hallways.

After-dinner feast with friends

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:45 p.m.

A dinner with friends often involves a homemade meal, a bottle of wine or two and a hearty round of chuckles before lengthy bouts of chit-chat. If you toss in a moment of man-meets-woman in the name of connivance, man-rids-woman for another in the name of love, and man-and-woman-mate in the name of raging lust, then you have "Dinner with Friends," a play written by Donald Margulies and directed by IU theater professor Bruce Burgun, showing at the John Waldron Arts Center Friday and Saturday.

IU falls to 3-3 in Big Ten play

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 9:23 p.m.

Last Thursday, the IU women's basketball team won its third Big Ten game of the year in a game at Northwestern. After the win, IU coach Sharon Versyp gave her team three days off before they would come back and prepare for their game with No. 7 Ohio State. In the early moments of last night's game with the Buckeyes, it seemed that the extra rest had backfired for Versyp and the Hoosiers as Ohio State jumped out of the gates strong, taking an early 12-2 lead.

Window of opportunity

By Amanda Robert · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 11:27 a.m.

Daisy, a small Latino girl with glossy hair and dark eyes meant for taking in the world, conversed in Spanish with her classmates while creating Play-Doh masterpieces in Pascale Hardy's three- to five-year-olds' evening Head Start class. Moments later, she effortlessly switched to English as she spoke with the class aide. "What's your name?" Daisy asked. "Megan," said the aide.

Hoosiers prepare for 'great challenge' against Buckeyes

By Steve Brennan · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 1:10 a.m.

For many Big Ten teams, winning conference games on the road is difficult. And winning more away games than home games is almost unheard of. Except for the IU women's basketball team. The Hoosiers (9-7, 3-2 Big Ten) have earned all three of their conference victories on the road. However, their two losses have both occurred in Assembly Hall.

Renovation helps drive Coliseum's value

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 1:07 a.m.

FORT WAYNE -- A massive $34.5 million renovation at the Memorial Coliseum has helped the building's value nearly double in four years. A new appraisal released this week shows the arena's value jumped from $36.6 million to $66.6 million. Meanwhile, the value of the Coliseum's property -- including Memorial Stadium and equipment -- climbed from $76.9 million to $121.9 million, assessors told the coliseum's board of trustees Tuesday.

Blue Devils top Tar Heels 3,688 to 3,444; set record

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 1:06 a.m.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Students from Atlantic Coast Conference rivals Duke and North Carolina completed their two-and-a-half day basketball game Monday, finishing with an expected world record for the longest continuous game. The Duke student won 3,688-3,444. The game began at 8 a.m. Saturday and ended at 6 p.m. Monday, marking 58 straight hours in Fetzer Gymnasium on the losers' Chapel Hill campus.

And while my roommate gently weeps ...

By Alyson Brodsy and Andrew Shaffer · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 1:06 a.m.

It's been five days since I have seen my roommate. Seriously. He was last seen Sunday at the RCA Dome. Since the Colts-Steelers game, no one in my house has seen or heard a word from him. He is either dead or waiting in some tall bushes outside Colts' kicker Mike Vanderjagt's house. If you're reading this, Andrew, I finished the entire box of Nilla Wafers in your room. I figured I was doing you a favor. I thought you would be sick and tired of seeing the color yellow. I was going to swing a small yellow towel when you came home.

New services take shape at library

By Stephanie Susman · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 1 a.m.

With the new semester come new, technologically advanced services at the IU libraries. These services are meant not only to help the libraries enter the future, but also to make the lives of faculty members and students just a little easier. Patricia A. Steele, the Ruth Lilly interim dean of University libraries, said she's thinking about the library of the future.

Fraternity recruitment starts Friday

By Ashley Rhodebeck · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 1 a.m.

Now that the post-holiday bargain buys are over, IU men can shift their attention to a different kind of hunt. Men interested in joining a fraternity can browse the selection during Friday's spring recruitment opener, which will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union Frangipani Room. "It's almost like shopping," said Taylor Hougland, Interfraternity Council vice president of recruitment.

Upper-level biotech courses to begin in fall

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 12:59 a.m.

The IU College of Arts and Sciences will offer upper-level courses in biotechnology starting in the fall of 2006. Students have been able to declare the major since the fall of 2004, but advanced courses will be phased into the curriculum for the first time next semester. The program, spearheaded by Biology professor Malcolm Winkler, is a joint effort between the Biology and Chemistry departments. It combines several aspects of life sciences with other disciplines, particularly subjects that graduates should be familiar with in order to obtain jobs in the biotechnology field. For example, students will focus on areas like law and writing as they pertain to biotechnology.

The long gaze backwards

By Adam Sedia · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 12:47 a.m.

Though it seems impossible, Hollywood has stooped to a new low: remaking Wagner operas into movies. The film "Tristan and Isolde," released this past Friday, essentially takes the tragic and groundbreaking Richard Wagner opera and makes it into a travesty approaching soft-core porn, if the trailers are at all reflective of the film's whole.

I choose life

By Matt Peyton · Thursday, Jan. 19,2006 12:46 a.m.

Lately I've started to wonder if my life is too dangerous. I mean, I've managed to steer clear of such dangers as gang violence and crocodile wrestling, but I'm still not sure. The other night I was flipping through the channels when I got stuck on a show called "World's Most Wild Videos Caught on Tape" (or something like that). As it turns out, it was a marathon, which is a dangerous thing on a weekend with nothing to do. Needless to say, it led to a couple hours of must-see TV, reacting with equal amounts of awe and horror.