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Tailgate areas lots a garbage heaven

By Jessica Wolfe · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11:16 a.m.

Fans filling Memorial Stadium and flocking to the grass between the Alumni Center and Indiana Avenue Saturday will have two things on their minds: beating Purdue and having a good time doing it.

IU earns 'A' for diversity in athletics hiring

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11:16 a.m.

While the IU football program might not be making the grade on the field this season, it is certainly making the grade off it.

Students to risk arrest at protest

By Brandon Morley and Brandon S Morley · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11:16 a.m.

Students from the Collins Living-Learning Center and Global Village at Foster Quad are planning to drive to Ft. Benning, Ga., this weekend, risking the possibility of arrest to protest a military-run school located on the 289-square-mile Army base.

BSU soul food dinner hailed a success

By Megan Stuart · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11:05 a.m.

Filled with the Thanksgiving ambiance of laughter, conversations among friends and the aroma of home cooking, the Forest Greenleaf Dinning Room was transformed by the Black Student Union's Annual Soul Food Dinner Thursday night. Members and non-members alike attended the event, drawing a large crowd even before the doors were opened.

After 'hard week' of practice, Hoosiers ready for weekend

By Steve Harris · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11:01 a.m.

The No. 15 IU women's swimming and diving team will play host to the IU Invitational Friday through Sunday at the Councilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. The Hoosiers (4-2) will set out to prove their two-week recess after the Nov. 5 dual meet against Illinois was time well spent.

Hoosiers hope to use IU Invitational as 'tune up'

By Joel Sanders and Joel Sansers · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11:01 a.m.

The No. 10 IU men's swimming and diving team plays host to the IU Invitational at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center this weekend and welcomes the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Arkansas, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Southern Illinois and the University of Louisville.

Aw, just bucket

By Alyson Brodsy and Andrew Shaffer · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 11 a.m.

Has there been a more important game to a more insignificant season of Hoosier football? Not for coach Terry Hoeppner. He has already had his share of perfect Thursdays followed by predictable Saturdays -- mostly resulting in a 1-6 conference record. First, coach Hep wanted YOU. And all you wanted to do was tailgate, shotgun a beer and lick the side of a girl's face.

For Hoeppner, Hoosiers, it comes to one chance

By Eamonn Brennan · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:56 a.m.

Though they may not come out and say it, the Hoosiers know it. Saturday is their one chance. The Hoosiers have one chance to finish two wins better than last year's campaign, one chance to break a five-game losing streak and one chance to salvage their season by capturing one of college football's oldest trophies -- the Old Oaken Bucket -- when they welcome rival Purdue to Memorial Stadium Saturday.

Hoosiers welcome national champion Baylor for opener

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:56 a.m.

To start the season, Big Ten women's basketball teams like No. 10 Michigan State welcomes University of California-Santa Barbara and Western Carolina University. Illinois faces Loyola University Chicago. And Northwestern prepares for Creighton University. Meanwhile, the Hoosiers have the privilege of playing defending national champions Baylor to start their season. IU will tip off the 2005 regular season against the Lady Bears at 6 p.m. Saturday in Assembly Hall.

I'm waiting to be impressed

By Ryan Phillips · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:54 a.m.

I 'm issuing a challenge right now. If the Hoosiers want to impress me in their opening game tonight against Nicholls State, they have to accomplish a few easy tasks. In a matchup like this one, winning simply isn't enough. When you're playing a tiny school that happened to go 6-21 last year while playing in the Southland Conference, you need to make a statement. Nicholls State's football team came to Bloomington in early September and nearly pulled one of the biggest (and most embarrassing) upsets in school history. But luckily you can't run the triple option in basketball, so I think we're OK.

After 2 injury-filled years, Kline ready to make impact

By Brian Janosch · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:53 a.m.

During his freshman year, Sean Kline threw Assembly Hall into a frenzy with a between-the-legs slam that won him the Hoosier Hysteria dunk contest. In his junior year, Kline threw Assembly Hall into a frenzy of a different sort -- one of heckels and boos.

Old Oaken Rivals

By Matt Mattucci · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:52 a.m.

Hoosier fans clad in black and red stormed the rain-soaked Memorial Stadium field after the game. They leapt out of the stands and made their way to one of the goalposts, pushing and tugging away at it in a mass of celebration. With a 13-7 victory, IU was able to weld its bronze block "I" onto the chain of the Old Oaken Bucket. That was four years ago.

Collapse of consensus

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:52 a.m.

The debate surrounding the Bush administration's decision to deliver a decisive and final blow to Saddam Hussein has occasioned many unserious and unfair charges among opponents of that momentous decision. The origins of the Iraq War have been reduced by partisan Democrats to a short narrative. Their theory, crudely stated (how else?), is: sinister neoconservatives persuaded an inexperienced, illegitimate president in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, to "lie us into war."

Boycott of the week

By Alyson Brodsy and Ayesha Awan · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:51 a.m.

It seems America is going through a "Boycott-of-the-Week" phase. Personally, the Abercrombie and Fitch boycott put a smile on my face. I actually did not think it was possible for any mass group of teenagers to go against the (pointlessly) popular Abercrombie. The boycott was a form of protest against shirts that displayed slogans such as "Who Needs Brains When You Have These?" which many young women felt was derogatory and a bad influence on impressionable young girls.

Playing obese

By Alyson Brodsy and Amanda Dorman · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:51 a.m.

Lately, it's not so easy being super model Tyra Banks. Banks, the woman who has made a career out of strutting her stuff on the runway in little else than skimpy lingerie, is used to turning people's heads in admiration. But Nov. 4, heads turned for a completely different reason. This time, there was laughter, stares and blunt comments.

An 'A' for racial diversity

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:50 a.m.

The Black Coache Association recently commended IU with an "A" for its football hiring practices.

Pentagon denies chemical weapons used on civilians

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert Burns · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:50 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Pentagon officials say white phosphorous was used as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November, but deny an Italian television news report that it was used against civilians. Lt. Col. Barry Venable, a Pentagon spokesman, said Tuesday that while white phosphorous is most frequently used to mark targets or obscure a position, it was used at times in Fallujah as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants.

House Democrat calls for withdrawal from Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Liz Sidoti · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:49 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- An influential House Democrat who voted for the Iraq war called Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, another sign of growing unease in Congress about the conflict. "It is time for a change in direction," said Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., one of Congress' most hawkish Democrats. "Our military is suffering, the future of our country is at risk. We cannot continue on the present course. It is evident that continued military action in Iraq is not in the best interests of the United States of America, the Iraqi people or the Persian Gulf region."

Amish, Mennonites begin rebuilding after tornado

By Alyson Brodsy and Charles Wilson · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:47 a.m.

CANNELBURG, Ind. -- Amish and Mennonite volunteers have begun rebuilding houses stripped by a tornado that carved a swath of destruction through rural southern Indiana. Before officials had even completed their damage assessment, hundreds of volunteers from both faiths swarmed the littered hillsides and battered rooftops Wednesday morning.

City allows theater to serve alcohol

By Kelly Ginty · Friday, Nov. 18,2005 10:46 a.m.

Alcohol will continue to be served through special permits at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, despite imminent city ownership. The Bloomington City Council voted 8-0-1, with council member Timothy Mayer absent, to amend a city code that does not allow the consumption of alcohol on city property Wednesday night. The new amendment creates an exception to the rule allowing alcohol at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The Theatre Café inside the theater is run by Bloomingfoods, which obtains temporary permits to sell alcohol at the café several times a year for various events. The only other exception to the rule is the Clubhouse at Cascades Golf Course, which sells beer and wine.