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Report states more need-based aid necessary

By -Jenny Kobiela · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:15 p.m.

A new report issued by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a non-partisan research group, and Scholarship America, an organization distributing student financial aid, reports not all qualified high-school students from low-income backgrounds may be able to obtain aid to help them attend college.

Funding distribution questioned

By Aaron Uslan · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:15 p.m.

Controversy has been swirling around IU trustee approved funds, appropriated by IU administrators for the construction of the Simon Hall Multi-Disciplinary Science building.

Jailer to face 2 charges in Taser death

By Cory Schouten · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:15 p.m.

A Monroe County jailer has been charged with two counts of felony battery in the case of a Bedford man who died while being booked into jail. At a hearing Wednesday at the Monroe County Justice Building, Judge Marc Kellams said he found probable cause for the arrest of jailer David Shaw, who used a Taser gun to repeatedly shock James Borden last November.

IU primed for Big Ten battle

By Rob DeWitte and Rob eWitte · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:14 p.m.

The IU men's track and field team travel to Purdue this weekend to compete in the Big Ten outdoor championships. The competition begins at noon Friday and concludes after Sunday's 4x400-meter relay, scheduled for 3:45 p.m. After last year's third-place finish, IU's best since 1992, the Hoosiers have set their sights high this year. "This time of year it's all about business," coach Randy Heisler said. "We have a chance to be very competitive. You never know what will happen in championship meets." A number of athletes are prepared to score big points. Reigning triple and long jump champ, junior Aarik Wilson, currently leads the Big Ten rankings in both events. Freshman Kiwan Lawson is ranked third in the long jump, the same spot he claimed at the Indoor Championships in February.

Choir sings math-inspired music

By Matt McNabb · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:13 p.m.

Math and music are rarely thought to have much in common, but a local choir will hold a program this weekend exploring the links between the two. The Voces Novae choir will perform the program, "Music and Mathematics" 7 p.m., Sunday at the First United Church at 2420 E. Third St. Swaney said mathematics is underneath all of the music we hear, make and appreciate and the group just wants to hold that up and examine the relationship.

Kernan chooses mayor's wife for policy position

By Adam Aasen · Wednesday, May 12,2004 10:04 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Joe Kernan announced Wednesday that Amy Brown Kruzan, wife of Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan, will served as Kernan's new policy director for health issues. She begins her work May 24.

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:50 p.m.

BPP showcases disgruntled heroes in 'Super Lair' The Bloomington Playwrights Project premieres the latest in its Dark Alley Series, "Meanwhile Back at the Super Lair," 11 p.m., Friday, at the Lori Shiner Studio located at 314 S. Washington St. In this play by Greg Kalleres, four neurotic superheroes fight to prevent being downsized when an efficiency expert evaluates if they are earning their salaries.

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:49 p.m.

Muslim Dialog Group to duscuss free will The Bloomington Muslim Dialog Group is holding an open discussion from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday titled "Believing in Divine Determination and Human Free Will" at the Monroe County Library in Room 1A on the first floor. The discussion will cover the way that the Islam religion is affected by free will. Participants are urged to come with questions.

Syria criticizes U.S. sanctions

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:49 p.m.

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria denounced U.S. economic sanctions Wednesday and other Arab countries -- including close U.S. allies joined in the criticism. Europe ignored the penalties by dispatching a trade delegation to Damascus.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:48 p.m.

Borst files for recount in General Assembly primary INDIANAPOLIS -- A Republican who has for three decades held one of the most powerful positions in the General Assembly filed for a recount Tuesday in the primary election he lost by 48 votes.

'Frasier' comes to an end

By Alyson Brodsy and Lynn Elber · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:46 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- When the blue-collar barroom comedy "Cheers" ended its run in 1993, it managed the neat trick of turning beer into champagne. "Frasier," the "Cheers" spinoff about psychiatrist Frasier Crane and his dysfunctional family, became its own vintage blend of sparkling wit and dependably funny highbrow neuroses.

Nigerian rioters rage on for second day

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:46 p.m.

KANO, Nigeria -- Mobs of Muslim men brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets of Kano Wednesday as security forces struggled to quell a two-day rampage to avenge a recent massacre of hundreds of Nigerian Muslims.

IU professor elected to Academy

By Hina Alam · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:33 p.m.

The Biology Department has a long, golden legacy starting with James Watson of the Watson and Crick DNA double helix model and continuing with Loren Rieseberg. On April 30, IU Distinguished Professor of Biology Loren Rieseberg was elected a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

Beer steins and fairy tale castles

By Britany Ausmus and Brittany Ausmus · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:18 p.m.

Bavaria, the largest and arguably best-known state of the German Länder, is seen by many as a microcosm of the country as a whole. The picturesque landscape is dotted by castles, perched precariously on mountains and the towns are full of the traditional cross-timbered houses nestled behind blooming gardens. This is the land of the coocoo clock, the smoke-filled beer hall and the oompah band.

May events celebrate Asian culture

By Steven Chung · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:15 p.m.

Although IU celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in April, it's officially celebrated in May. Several organizations are holding Asian arts events in Bloomington over the next two weeks in the spirit of the month.

Be 'of IU,' not 'at IU'

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:12 p.m.

Nobody assigned me the task of raining on the curious pity party the IDS has been orchestrating this past month, but it looks like my kind of assignment. The party to which I refer is the massive hissy fit you people have thrown over the $30 student athletics fee being assessed to help close the "outrageous athletics budget" (your words, not mine). The me I refer to is Jerry Ruff, an irascible old codger who entered IU as a freshman in 1949, when we had 9300 students, plus Herman Wells on this loveliest of college campuses.

Packing woes and lows

By Alyson Brodsy and Jordan DeLong · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:10 p.m.

Last Friday marked a turning point for me. Sometimes something in your life happens that is so horrible and strenuous, it changes you inside. Some event that makes you take a long look inside your own psyche and scream the question, "What could I have ever done to prevent this?"

Cooks, bakers, war makers

By -Kehla West and Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:09 p.m.

I'm back home, and living is good. I'm sleeping in, eating lots of Popsicles, and because I need money, I'm working at my family's restaurant. For the four years of high school, I was a waitress (a good one, too). But now, they don't need a waitress. They need a cook -- and this has "bad idea" written all over it.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:07 p.m.

Men's golf team headed to NCAAs For the first time since the 1996-97 season and the first time in coach Mike Mayer's six-year tenure, IU has been selected to the NCAA Men's Golf Championships. The Hoosiers will participate in the Central Regionals in West Lafayette next weekend, May 20-22. "We are excited and a little relieved," Mayer said. "We really felt like we deserved this after the good, productive season we had. We beat a lot of good teams. We feel like we can compete, and we're ready to get started."

Prison photos must be seen

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 12,2004 9:06 p.m.

It's probably too soon to tell if the pictures of the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, will be the dominant images we will remember from the war in Iraq in decades to come. But they are certainly dominant images now, played all over the 24-hour news networks, appearing in magazines and newspapers and becoming the topic of conversation all over the country.