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TV Review: Jon Stewart was disappointing host of bland Oscarcast

By Alyson Brodsy and Frazier Moore · Monday, March 6,2006 12:18 a.m.

NEW YORK - You would have been more amused Sunday night if you'd revved up your TiVo and played back an evening's worth of "Daily Show with Jon Stewart" reruns while you tracked Oscar winners on the Web. Stewart, usually a very funny guy, displayed a lack of beginner's luck as first-time host of "The 78th Annual Academy Awards," which ABC aired live from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.

Friday lecture connects human behavior to primates

By Katrina Babin · Monday, March 6,2006 12:17 a.m.

Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal's lecture filled nearly every seat in the Indiana Memorial Union's Whittenberger Auditorium Friday afternoon.

Lee earns best-director honor for cowboy love story `Brokeback Mountain'

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 6,2006 12:15 a.m.

LOS ANGELES - Ang Lee won the Academy Award as best director Sunday for the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," becoming the first Asian to win Hollywood's top honor for filmmakers. Adept at genres from Westerns to historical romance to martial-arts pageants, Lee won his Oscar for a purely American story about two men tragically swept up in a gay romance that they conceal from their families for two decades.

Latino Leadership Conference includes art, poetry

By Michael Sanserino · Monday, March 6,2006 12:13 a.m.

Students at the IU Latino Leadership Conference mixed theater, art and poetry in attempts to become better leaders.

`Crash' pulls off Oscar upset with best-picture win

By Alyson Brodsy and David Germain · Monday, March 6,2006 12:11 a.m.

LOS ANGELES - The ensemble drama "Crash" pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture Sunday over the cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain," which had been the front-runner. "Crash," featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past "Brokeback Mountain," a film that had won most other key Hollywood honors.

Students sculpt peanut butter in Art Olympics

By Rachel Skybetter · Monday, March 6,2006 12:10 a.m.

The athletic action in Turin, Italy, ended last week, but the IU School of Fine Arts held its own version of the Olympics Saturday.

Thumbs up

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 6,2006 12:06 a.m.

Jake Gyllenhaal, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a supporting role for his work in "Brokeback Mountain," arrives for the 78th Academy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles. Check out idsnews.com for more Oscar coverage.

Backstage at the Oscars: Nervous stars, controlled chaos

By Alyson Brodsy and Sandy Cohen · Monday, March 6,2006 12:05 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Despite the glamour and glitz that comes with being a movie star, backstage at the Oscars even the biggest luminaries are human. Prior to going before an audience of their peers -- and potentially hundreds of millions of television viewers -- some of Hollywood's most polished professionals look more like anxious children getting ready for a school play, nervously pacing, mouthing lines and inhaling deeply before heading into the bright lights.

Mathers exhibit celebrates once-lost film

By Ariel Ivas · Monday, March 6,2006 12:04 a.m.

"Silvia the Zulu" was once thought to be completely lost. But the historic film inspired filmmaker and historian Peter Davis, and he refurbished it for modern audiences.

Keira Knightley and Michelle Williams move into fashion's big leagues on Oscar red carpet

By Alyson Brodsy and Samantha Critchell · Sunday, March 5,2006 11:09 p.m.

There's a new young fashion star in Hollywood. Keira Knightley wore a striking wine-colored, one-shoulder gown by Vera Wang to the Oscars Sunday night that hit the right balance between youthful funkiness and movie-star glamour. Knightley wore her strawberry blond hair in a loose ponytail, and she complemented the dress with a one-of-a-kind necklace with emeralds, rubies and diamonds from the Bulgari archives and gold sandals with multiple ankle straps by Jimmy Choo.

Clooney, Weisz win supporting-performer Oscars

By Alyson Brodsy and David Germain · Sunday, March 5,2006 11:08 p.m.

LOS ANGELES - George Clooney won the supporting-actor Academy Award on Sunday for the oil-industry thriller "Syriana," and Rachel Weisz took the supporting-actress prize for another corporate thriller, "The Constant Gardener." The win capped a remarkable year for Clooney, who made Oscar history by becoming the first person nominated for acting in one movie and directing another.

Hoffman wins best-actor Oscar for `Capote'

By Alyson Brodsy and David Germain · Sunday, March 5,2006 11:07 p.m.

LOS ANGELES - Philip Seymour Hoffman won the best-actor Academy Award on Sunday for "Capote," in which he gives a remarkable embodiment of "In Cold Blood" author Truman Capote. "Wow, I'm in a category with some great, great, great actors, fantastic actors, and I'm overwhelmed. Really overwhelmed," said Hoffman, whose performance nimbly straddles the magnetic qualities of raconteur Capote and the effete, off-putting egoism of the gay author.

WEEKEND UPDATE: IU women stun third-seeded Minnesota to advance to Big Ten semifinals

By Steve Brennan · Saturday, March 4,2006 12:33 p.m.

The IU women's basketball team beat Minnesota, the No. 3 seed in the Big Ten tournament. The Hoosiers will face Purdue in the semifinals 3:30 Sunday at Conseco Fieldhouse.

Bank on Kirkwood robbed

By Sarah Core · Friday, March 3,2006 2:50 p.m.

A man robbed the Peoples State Bank at the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and Washington Street Thursday afternoon, according to police.

ONLINE ONLY: Hoosiers claim Big Ten first round

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Friday, March 3,2006 1:37 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Coming off two tough road losses that saw them drop to the sixth seed in conference, the IU women's basketball team wasted no time Thursday night putting those defeats behind it, trouncing 11-seed Michigan 68-52.

IU swim team wins array of awards

By Joel Sanders · Friday, March 3,2006 11:45 a.m.

Throughout their championship season, the Indiana men's swimming and diving team constantly reiterated that it is always about the team, and never the individual. So when the Hoosiers nearly swept the Big Ten end of the year awards given at the finale of the championships Saturday, one should not be surprised to hear them put the team first yet again.

Black Student Union to protest trustee meeting

By Peter Stevenson · Friday, March 3,2006 11:30 a.m.

When members of the IU board of trustees walk into the Indiana Memorial Union Friday morning to convene for their March meeting, they will be met by members of the Black Student Union who want to let the board know they hope more blacks are hired for administrative and other University positions.

Hoosier wins IUSA election

By Stephanie Susman · Friday, March 3,2006 8:36 a.m.

After two days of nonstop campaigning, followed by one day of waiting, the IU Student Association election results are in: Hoosier with 4,505 votes and Red Hot with 3,064. Hoosier also swept congress with every Hoosier candidate winning a seat. Red Hot won two off-campus seats, said Elections Coordinator Keith Johnson. "I'm so excited," said Hoosier President-Elect and junior Betsy Henke. "We're very, very honored to be able to do this and have this opportunity. Our team really stepped up to the plate and did an amazing job. I think that shows in the number of people that voted and stood behind us well."

Football player arrested

By Audrie Garrison · Friday, March 3,2006 12:14 a.m.

IU Police Department officers arrested IU freshman football wide receiver James Bailey early Monday morning under suspicion of trespassing, intimidation and conversion -- a lesser theft charge -- said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from the police report.

The competitive edge

By John Wustrow · Friday, March 3,2006 12:14 a.m.

When the referee lifted IU senior wrestler Joe Dubuque's hand after a 2-0 victory against Kyle Ott of Illinois last March, it wasn't just any victory. The win gave Dubuque a national title in the 125-pound division -- IU's first individual wrestling national championship since 1990.