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Colts beat Texans for 9th straight win

By Cordell Eddings and Cordell M. Eddings · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:50 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Super Bowl buzz got a little louder Sunday as the still undefeated Indianapolis Colts, fresh off one of their biggest games of the year, beat the Houston Texans 31-17 Sunday. Still reeling from an emotional Nov. 7 win over the New England Patriots, the Colts were weary of a catastrophic meltdown, especially after what many players described as a "horrible" Wednesday practice, and almost experienced it.

Bears go the distance on 49ers

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:49 a.m.

Bears 17, 49ers 9 Nathan Vasher returned a missed field goal 108 yards for a TD, the longest play in NFL history, and the Chicago Bears won their fifth straight game. When Joe Nedney's 52-yard attempt went wide right in a stiff wind on the final play of the first half, Vasher caught the ball over his shoulder, hesitated momentarily on whether to come out of the end zone, sprinted to the 15, then reversed his field, picking up a convoy of blockers.

Big Ten woes continue for IU

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:45 a.m.

The IU volleyball team's Big Ten woes continued this weekend with losses at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines and the Michigan State Spartans. The pair of losses dropped IU's record to 2-14 in conference play and 9-19 overall. With the pair of losses, the Hoosiers have lost 13 of their last 14 matches, including six in a row.

Team finishes 7th, runners advance

By Ryan Goode · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:43 a.m.

In the final race of an up and down season for the Hoosiers, the IU women's cross country team finished seventh in the Great Lakes Regional. Saturday's IU-hosted event exhibited elements of the team's highs and lows for the year, IU head coach Judy Wilson said. "I thought the lowest that we would place would be seventh," Wilson said. "The best we could have finished would have been third. With Larra (Overton) 100 percent and Kelly (Siefker) 100 percent, we certainly would have been third."

Hoosiers finish just outside top 5

By Rob DeWitte and Rob eWitte · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:42 a.m.

The IU men's cross country team tried to make the most of its opportunity at the Great Lakes Regional Saturday, finishing sixth at home with a final score of 172. With senior All-American John Jefferson and freshman Tim McLeod sidelined with stress fractures, the Hoosiers did everything in their power to advance to Monday's NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, assistant coach Nathan Gooden said.

IU dominates inside and out in exhibition blowout

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:39 a.m.

The IU women's basketball team did something Saturday night it has not done in three years when it eclipsed the century mark in a 114-45 victory against Brescia University. During their final exhibition game, the Hoosiers controlled the tempo from the tip-off and never looked back.

Wasted chances haunt IU in 2nd loss to Nittany Lions

By Chris Engel · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:34 a.m.

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Coming out of halftime with the score tied 0-0, the IU men's soccer team outshot Penn State nine to one in the second half of the Big Ten men's soccer championship Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, one shot was all Penn State needed to win the title 1-0.

Hoosiers fall to Wolverines, end hopes of bowl berth

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:33 a.m.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Somebody will have to cut the bracelet off IU coach Terry Hoeppner's wrist. Last weekend, Hoeppner said he refused to give up on the Hoosiers' chances at a bowl berth. The bracelet, which says "Play 12," was worn by Hoeppner and the entire team as a symbol of IU's season goal.

Hoosiers upset UNC in 1st round, lose to Wake in 2nd

By Jordan Majewski · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:30 a.m.

Just six years ago, during head coach Amy Robertson's first season, the IU field hockey team finished the year with a 1-12 record. Fast forward to 2005, and the Hoosiers have completed the most successful season in program history with a 17-5 record, and one win short of reaching the Final Four.

And the good news?

By Alyson Brodsy and Andrew Shaffer · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:28 a.m.

The good news: IU held Michigan scoreless for the entire second half. The bad news: Michigan scored 41 points in the first half. Michigan had twice as many total offensive yards as IU. Wide receiver Steve Breaston had 201 all-purpose yards, 136 of them coming in the first quarter. And the Hoosiers lost their fifth straight game this season, 41-21. So I guess the question remains: Will D.J. White be healthy before IU plays Duke?

IU looking at graduate dental plan

By Chip Cutter · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:27 a.m.

Health benefits for graduate student employees could change next year, following IU President Adam Herbert's October directive to consider adding dental insurance to the current program. While a decision won't be made until spring, graduate students are currently organizing efforts to promote awareness on the issue, which will be reviewed by the Student Academic Appointee Health Insurance Committee and passed to IU-Bloomington Interim Chancellor Ken Gros Louis for the final decision.

Students feel left out of process

By Hannah Lodge · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:27 a.m.

As faculty criticism of IU President Adam Herbert heats up, most student leaders say they feel like they've been left out in the cold. Many faculty members have been rallying against Herbert since he decided to restart the search for a Bloomington chancellor two weeks ago. Since then, the debate has reoriented itself as a referendum on Herbert's job performance.

Faculty to vote on Herbert review

By Peter Stevenson · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:27 a.m.

The agenda committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council announced a list of resolutions Friday to be considered by the faculty at a mass meeting Tuesday. The most controversial resolutions concern the timely appointment of a new IU-Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs and a review of IU President Adam Herbert by the IU board of trustees.

Hope in Dover

By Alyson Brodsy and Bryan Schmidt · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:15 a.m.

A battle over science is being waged in this country right now. Interestingly, the war rages not in science labs or peer-reviewed scientific journals, but in school boards, the courts and public opinion. The fight concerns intelligent design, which is pushed as an alternative to Darwinian evolution that ought to be taught to impressionable high school students.

Attention, Herbert!

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:12 a.m.

Two years ago, in this very paper, I announced my willingness to serve as chancellor of IU-Bloomington (Indiana Daily Student, Nov. 11, 2003). I still haven't heard back, and given that I'm not invited to Tuesday's special closed-door "general meeting of the Bloomington faculty," I'm probably not being seriously considered for the post. I suspect this is because of the search process places an unhealthy emphasis on "qualifications" and "competence" and "a lack of outstanding warrants for arrest" -- a discriminatory approach that has surely barred many interesting candidates from consideration.

Poultry religion

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Obermeyer · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:09 a.m.

As the idea for this column sprung into my mind, I at first considered not writing it. I knew I would face possible persecution from not one, but two groups. The first is, as always, the right wing, both religious and economic, but it doesn't scare me. The second faction is the poultry-loving hungry college students. They, on the other hand, scare the bejesus out of me.

Open the doors to the public

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:07 a.m.

The mass faculty meeting Tuesday, the first in almost 20 years, will possibly have profound implications for the campus and the University at large. During the meeting, faculty will consider proposed resolutions that aim to secure an IUB chancellor as soon as possible and evaluate the performance of IU President Adam Herbert. This is a rare occurrence. But the meeting will be closed to the public, and for this we must condemn the faculty.

Rice: Democracy in Middle East will be slow, difficult

By Alyson Brodsy and Anne Gearan · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:05 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the Bush administration is under no illusion that democratic change in the Middle East will be neither swift nor easy. "We are not naive about the pace or the difficulty of democratic change," Rice said in remarks prepared for delivery during a memorial forum honoring slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Even so, she said, "We know that the longing for democratic change is deep and urgently felt."

Iraqi woman admits to attempted suicide bomb

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:05 a.m.

AMMAN, Jordan -- Strapped with a disabled explosives belt, an Iraqi woman arrested Sunday confessed on television to trying to blow herself up with her husband in one of three suicide attacks earlier this week that killed 57 people. The 35-year-old woman -- the sister of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's right-hand man who was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq -- appeared on Jordanian state TV hours after she was captured by security forces who were tipped off by an al-Qaida claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in Wednesday's bombings.

Bush adviser: Public not misled about Iraq war

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 14,2005 12:04 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- While admitting "we were wrong" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, President Bush's national security adviser rejected assertions Sunday that the president manipulated intelligence and misled the American people. Bush relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community when he determined that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said.