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Déja Blue

By Brian Janosch · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:35 a.m.

Assembly Hall cleared from another loss to another top-ranked team. In the somber student section, a red-caped gorilla comforted his banana friend whose stem had long since wilted to the left.

Herbert eats with students at Wright

By Peter Stevenson · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:35 a.m.

Balancing a tray loaded with onion rings, a sandwich, soup, chocolate cake and a bottle of water, IU President Adam Herbert made his way through the food court, greeting students.

Hoosiers honor seniors with victory over Boilers

By Joel Sanders and Joel Sansers · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:21 a.m.

The No. 11 IU men's swimming and diving team defeated arch rival No. 14 Purdue on senior day with a 134-108 victory at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center in Bloomington. Prior to the meet, the Hoosiers honored their eight seniors.

Both track teams dominate weekend's Hoosier Relay meet

By Sean O’Bryan · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:18 a.m.

The IU men's and women's track and field teams refused to curb their appetites for success at this weekend's Hoosier Relay, following a strong finish at the Jan. 27 and 28 Indiana Open.

Hoosiers fall to No. 1 Gophers; next meet Friday

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:17 a.m.

Coming into this weekend, the IU wrestling team was determined to rebound from two tough losses at home last weekend. The No. 1- ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers proved to be too much for the No. 15 Hoosiers, who dropped their third straight dual meet 25-13 Sunday. The loss dropped IU to 2-3 on the Big Ten season and 11-3 overall.

Buckeye defense suffocates IU

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:15 a.m.

The IU women's basketball team's struggles with ranked Big Ten opponents continued Sunday in a disappointing 61-45 loss to No. 7 Ohio State. All five of IU's conference losses have been to ranked opponents.

Calloway fuels Hoosiers in 2nd half with up-tempo play

By Andy Romey · Monday, Feb. 6,2006 12:14 a.m.

Junior guard Earl Calloway left the doghouse to become top dog in IU's 80-88 loss to Connecticut Saturday.

Study: Better image leads to higher salaries

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:49 p.m.

The prominence of a business school might determine a graduate's salary more so than the quality of education it offers, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.

Andrew Bird hits Bloomington

By Alyson Brodsy and Nina Mehta · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:46 p.m.

It is surprising the Buskirk-Chumley had room for 600 people and all of Andrew Bird's talent. The singer, songwriter, classical violinist, guitarist, expert whistler and glockenspiel player showcased his instrumental repertoire to an audience familiar with his work.

Testosterone Bowl

By Alyson Brodsy and Amanda Dorman · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:27 p.m.

Between ads showing Fabio posed as a 120-year-old man and model Brooke Burke with her fellow "Whopperettes" dressed as life-size burgers, this year's Super Bowl commercials are bound to stick in the minds of the game's 90 million viewers. But one ad in particular had significant emotional impact.

Nero's Top 40

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:26 p.m.

This Wednesday brings us the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the night the music industry's finest gather together to award each others' sales -- er, work -- and music lovers the world over mass around their TV screens to see whether this year's ceremony is deeply embarrassing, or just simply mediocre.

Crazy Coulter

By Alyson Brodsy and Melanie Sims · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:25 p.m.

Right-wing pundit Ann Coulter is coming. And in the words of hecklers present during Coulter's speech at the University of Connecticut: Boo. Boo to whomever thought Black History Month would be an OK time to feature a lecture from the woman who called Kwanzaa founder Malauna Karenga "a black radical FBI stooge" in her column "Kwanzaa: Holiday from the FBI."

Indiana's clinical error

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:23 p.m.

At the IDS editorial board, we can all agree about the importance of women's health. Unfortunately, the Indiana House of Representatives has taken a good-intentioned bill, designed to aid the regulation of the state's abortion clinics, and subverted it into an under-handed attempt to close down all nine of them.

Suspected USS Cole planner escapes from prison

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:22 p.m.

LYON, France -- A man considered a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in a Yemeni port in 2000 was among 23 people who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday.

Caricature spurs more protests

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:20 p.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Thousands of Muslims rampaged Sunday in Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, burning Danish flags and lobbing stones at a Maronite Catholic church as violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad spread from neighboring Syria.

InVenture starts new business program

By Laura Jane Hyde · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:17 p.m.

South Central Indiana Small Business Development Center and inVenture will partner Feb. 8 to present Genius Groups, a 10-part entrepreneurial development series to help small business owners prosper.

Local officers arrest possible Indy homicide informant

By Audrie Garrison · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:16 p.m.

Bloomington police officers arrested 26-year-old Royal Amos, a "person of interest" in the Marion County double homicide of Keyonia Dunn, 20, and Erika Thornton, 31, early Friday morning in the parking lot of the Jackson Creek Shopping Center.

Libertarians select secretary candidate

By Joseph S. Pete · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:15 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Party officials announced Mike Kole as the de facto Libertarian candidate for the Indiana Secretary of State race before a conference of student activists Saturday.

Hat tradition cherished at Black History Month event

By Ari Shifron · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 10:14 p.m.

About 70 people, some with rather exotic head ornaments, participated in an event Sunday afternoon to praise blacks and their role in society. The Monroe County Library played host to a program called Bloomington-style Crown's Day, part of the month-long black history celebration, cosponsored by Ivy Tech Community College and the Bloomington Black Business Bureau.

Women gather in Spencer for computing conference

By Sonia Rana · Sunday, Feb. 5,2006 9:59 p.m.

More than 130 women from 19 colleges and universities in and nearby Indiana gathered this weekend to discuss significant issues surrounding women in the computing field.