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Job fair allows students to find local work during summer

By Kacie Foster · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:29 a.m.

There's more to summertime in Bloomington than beautiful weather and ample parking. Students who choose to stay in town can take classes, volunteer and work in a city that takes on a new atmosphere during the warm months. With summer school registration already underway, it's time for several hundred students to find jobs.

The Moroccan experience

By Alyson Brodsy and Jonathan Daugherty · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:26 a.m.

Where can you hear Arabic, Berber, French, Spanish and English from the same mouth? In Morocco, of course. Walking down the street hearing all of these languages is overwhelming, just as all of my experiences in Morocco were.

Launch of 'African Voices' gives attention to continent

By Alyson Brodsy and Donna Bryson · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:25 a.m.

LONDON -- Twenty years after a group of publishers gathered to discuss how to get African ideas on the West's agenda, a gathering at the British Parliament offered a measure of how much they have accomplished.

Plan to raise cigarette, alcohol taxes advances

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Smith · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:23 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Smokers would pay 15 cents more in taxes for a pack of cigarettes, and state taxes on alcohol would be increased for the first time in 24 years under a proposal endorsed Monday by a Senate committee.

House approves moving start of daylight-saving time to next year

By Alyson Brodsy and Deanna Wrenn · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:22 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Legislation that would mandate statewide observance of daylight-saving time would not take effect until next year, and some counties could opt out of it under a change approved Monday by the Indiana House.

Good night, sweet hallucinations

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:18 a.m.

Last week, the National Sleep Foundation released a report claiming that three-fourths of American adults suffer from sleep problems.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:16 a.m.

FORT WAYNE -- When Judi L. Noe was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty but mentally ill for the drowning of her 2-year-old daughter, she joined about 4,500 other Indiana inmates who have mental illnesses, officials said.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:11 a.m.

Columnist Felipe Maya (April 1) tries to make the case that it is America's fault that illegal immigrants are streaming across the U.S. border because Americans are all fat and lazy and won't take a lot of the jobs that the immigrants will take.

E-lot manifesto

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:03 a.m.

I hate trying to park on this campus. Every weekend, it's the same thing: Everyone and their mother with an E pass parks in the 24-hour D pass spots. I am getting pretty tired of it.

Let's get recorded

By Alyson Brodsy and Aubrey Donaldson · Tuesday, April 5,2005 12:02 a.m.

If I'm too wasted to remember doing it, then nobody else will remember me doing it -- right?

Education trumps elitism

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 11:59 p.m.

"Diversity." The word is used liberally throughout every IU orientation brochure as an incentive for attracting prospective students. And it's true; IU's student body contains people from all walks of life.

Journey ends for John Paul II

By Tony Sams · Monday, April 4,2005 1:59 a.m.

By the time Father Dan Atkins took the pulpit for early Sunday mass, everyone knew. By that time, thousands had filled St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, emptied it and filled it again. By that time, there wasn't a television news network that hadn't reported it.

Israelpalooza focuses on culture, music

By Monica Dix · Monday, April 4,2005 1:59 a.m.

Israeli culture came alive along with signs of spring, Sunday afternoon in Dunn Meadow at the third annual Israelpalooza sponsored by the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. Hundreds of people crowded Dunn Meadow in order to celebrate Israeli culture and raise money for the Israeli Red Cross, Magen David Adom.

PAPAL ELECTION: Process to elect new pope set in motion

By Alyson Brodsy and Nicole Winfield · Monday, April 4,2005 1:59 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- The death of Pope John Paul II triggered a carefully scripted ritual that will culminate in the election of a new leader for the world's 1 billion Roman Catholics. Rome's church bells tolled in mourning. Vatican flags were lowered to half staff. Heavy chains blocked the door of the papal palace to signify the interregnum has begun.

5th place women's ITT finisher takes 1st place at Miss-N-Out

By Andy Romey · Monday, April 4,2005 1:38 a.m.

It looked like a pretty typical day Saturday at Miss-N-Out, but all it took was a broken spoke, some gusts of winds and a pair of teammates in the final sprint to get things pretty shaken up.

Hoosiers struggle in opener against MSU

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Monday, April 4,2005 1:37 a.m.

After a grueling early season schedule, the IU softball team played its first Big Ten games of the season this weekend, losing twice to Michigan State. In less than favorable weather conditions, the Hoosiers (10-24 overall, 0-2 in conference) took the field Friday afternoon with junior pitcher Megan Roark on the mound.

Errors plentiful in 2 losses

By Matt Mattucci · Monday, April 4,2005 1:36 a.m.

The IU baseball team's first weekend of Big Ten play was highlighted by diving catches, home runs, errors and heavy winds. Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, not many of these worked in their favor. IU kicked off a four-game series against the Northwestern Wildcats Saturday and began the Big Ten season with a victory. IU coach Bob Morgan said he was pleased with his team's performance but knew the Hoosiers had their work cut out for them.

No. 2 Wildcats deal IU loss; Hoosiers respond with upset

By Andy Romey · Monday, April 4,2005 1:35 a.m.

This weekend's results weren't surprising for the Hoosiers in Bloomington, but the way the results played out might have been, as IU fell to No. 2 Northwestern but upended No. 35 Wisconsin. The biggest match for No. 36 IU (10-8, 4-1 Big Ten) was its second match, Sunday's 5-2 win over the Badgers (10-5, 4-1).

Class project benefits BloomingKids

By Pat Giese · Monday, April 4,2005 1:32 a.m.

An entire semester of preparation came to a close for David Rubinstein's LAMP X333 students over the weekend. Students and parents filed into Assembly Hall to play four square to benefit BloomingKids Saturday afternoon. For a $5 admission fee, participants were entered in a raffle to win one of two iPod Shuffles and gift certificates to various local restaurants, with all proceeds going to BloomingKids.

Library to be named for IU legend Herman B Wells

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Monday, April 4,2005 1:24 a.m.

While plans have been drawn up and the Information Commons and Information Commons 2 have officially opened, two of the biggest steps toward renovating the Main Library were taken Friday. At the IU board of trustees April meeting at IU-South Bend this weekend, the board approved naming the library after former IU President and Chancellor Herman B Wells and were presented renovation plans. Naming the library after Wells was easily approved.