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Student pleads guilty to cocaine charge

By Robert Schmitt · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:20 p.m.

An IU student charged with a felony dealing in cocaine pled guilty in Monroe County Circuit Court May 10. Senior Joseph Miller of Bloomington was arrested and charged May 5 at the Omega Apartments, where he resides.

IU Media Relations to undergo changes

By Adam Aasen · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:19 p.m.

In the latest change to the IU Media Relations department, IU spokeswoman Jane Jankowski will leave IU May 24 to work at an Indianapolis sports publishing company.

IUPD nabs custodian in music school thefts

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:19 p.m.

The IU Police Department arrested a School of Music janitor early Friday morning, ending a months-long investigation into a series of music school thefts.

Second recruit files for NBA

By Matt Glenesk · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:19 p.m.

Incoming basketball recruit Robert Rothbart has entered his name into next month's NBA Draft but will not hire an agent. Rothbart who attended Natomas High School in Sacramento, Calif. becomes the second Hoosier recruit to announce for this year's draft. The other, Josh Smith of Powder Springs, Ga., declared last month and has been mentioned as a possible lottery pick.

Campus reacts to Iraqi prison photographs

By Hina Alam · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:19 p.m.

For the past few weeks, photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners, some hooded, some tied together and piled on top of one another have continued to be the center of media attention.

Potential foundation in question

By Alyson Brodsy and Pete Yost · Sunday, May 16,2004 10:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Iraq prisoner abuse scandal shifted Sunday to the question of whether the Bush administration set up a legal foundation that opened the door for the mistreatment. Within months of the Sept. 11 attacks, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales reportedly wrote President Bush a memo about the terrorism fight and prisoners' rights under the Geneva Conventions.

The toxic Texan's revenge

By Alyson Brodsy and Tyler Bond · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:49 p.m.

Today the U.S. government will begin prosecution for one of the most grievous crimes committed in recent memory -- sailor-mongering. What? You've never heard of sailor-mongering? That's because the last time someone was prosecuted for it was in 1890, according to Reuters. Today, however, the Bush administration will take the organization Greenpeace to trial in federal district court in Miami for sailor-mongering.

Alarm at the gate

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:48 p.m.

I can't believe what is happening at IU. If I had not attended school for three years here already, I wouldn't ever believe this. I have finally come to the conclusion that IU, while integrated racially, doesn't promote diversity interaction.

O little town

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:47 p.m.

There is a 71-year-old man who lives in Triana, a barrio of Seville, Spain, that some consider its own republic. He is a representative for a company that sells "caramellos" (what we might call lozenges). Though that is his title, his passion is for his car. It's an early '80s model Hyundai Accent LS, olive green, splattered with dents and the dropping of pigeons that pass over the skies of Andalucia.

Still separate,still unequal

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:45 p.m.

As same-sex couples in Massachusetts head to the altar today for the first state-recognized gay marriages, we should remember the case that inspired a state supreme court edict that "separate is seldom, if ever, equal." Fifty years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education. Contradicting the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, Chief Justice Earl Warren read aloud the court's unanimous decision which ruled Plessy's "separate but equal" standard "has no place" in public education and was "inherently unfair."

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:45 p.m.

Bennett inks junior college All-American Women's basketball head coach Kathi Bennett announced that junior college forward Joei Clyburn signed a letter-of-intent to play basketball for the Hoosiers this upcoming season.

IUPD Blotter

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:43 p.m.

The IU Police Department reported the following activity: May 13 • Sophomore Grady Randall, 20, resident of Third Street, was arrested on charges of illegal possession of alcohol, operating a vehicle while intoxicated and resisting law enforcement at Third and Indiana Streets. The subject was transported to the Monroe County Jail.

Nation's best prep stars invade Bloomington

By Dan Click · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:43 p.m.

Though basketball season won't start for another six months, recruiting season is heating up as Bloomington played host this weekend to the Adidas May Classic, Friday through Sunday at the Bloomington Sportsplex, both Bloomington high schools and Assembly Hall.

More jobs to be offered to new grads, survey says

By Alyson Brodsy and Susan C. Thomson · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:42 p.m.

The college class of 2004 is somewhat in luck. Employers are expected to hire 11.2 percent more of them than they did from the class of 2003. The projection comes from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which follows job trends for new graduates.

Real world full of financial lessons for recent graduates

By Alyson Brodsy and Ieva M. Augstums · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:40 p.m.

Ricardo Lopez is apprehensive about walking across the stage Saturday to get his industrial engineering degree. The University of Texas at Arlington senior knows what's on the other side: the real world -- financial statements, health insurance, mortgages, taxes.

IU comes up short against Arizona

By Dan Click · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:40 p.m.

The IU women's tennis team (17-8) traveled to Los Angeles looking for its first NCAA tournament win since 1997. Instead, the second seeded Hoosiers were upset by third seeded Arizona (7-13) 4-2, Friday at Marks Tennis Stadium at Southern California.

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:37 p.m.

SOFA shows photos The SOFA Gallery hosts the opening of the Thirteenth Annual Juried Exhibition of the Bloomington Photography Club Tuesday. A large percentage of the club's members are amateur photographers from the Bloomington area. The group is also composed of professional photographers who work locally. In an attempt to get their work seen by the public, 40 Photography Club members submitted over 170 works for acceptance into the exhibition.

'Patty Red Pants' takes on suburban sexuality

By Alyson Brodsy and Jenica Schultz · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:35 p.m.

Little Red Riding Hood becomes more than a story about a girl and a wolf in Trista Baldwin's "Patty Red Pants," which runs for its last weekend at 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m., Sunday at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, 312 S. Washington Street.

Acting classes show off talent

By Jaime Cohen and Jaimie Cohen · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:33 p.m.

For the past eight weeks, local Bloomington elementary students and adults have been participating in the School of Dramatic Arts as part of the education program at the Bloomington Playwrights Project.

Gay couples to wed in Massachusetts

By Alyson Brodsy and David Crary · Sunday, May 16,2004 9:29 p.m.

For better or for worse, depending on which side of the ideological aisle one chooses, a divided America crosses a historic threshold Monday as state-approved marriages of same-sex couples take place for the first time.