Community Arts

Campus groups match concern with action, donations

Following an IU-held forum on the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia last month, 20 student and community groups held an information session and fund-raising drive Thursday night in the Solarium of the Indiana Memorial Union to solicit donations for the victims of the natural disaster.

The legacy lives on

It's a simple word, but a word that started a revolution. When Rosa Parks said "no," refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. city bus, she attracted nationwide notoriety as well as the attention of the young Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. King organized a yearlong bus boycott that nearly bankrupted the bus company and spurred a movement that changed the country.

Top 25 teams to watch this weekend

Saturday's games:

Moss' playoff mooning triggers 10,000 punishment from league

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Randy Moss trudged out to his truck in the subzero cold, with a huge, black hooded sweat shirt covering almost his entire face.

Colts converting out-of-state students into die-hard fans

Somewhere in IU graduate Max Semenick's Bloomington house there is a monkey locked in a trunk.

A stay of execution

Steve Alford, Rick Majerus, heck what about Isaiah Thomas?

Wrestlers head to Virginia to test unbeaten record

Four highly ranked teams will be among the competition for IU this weekend as the wrestling team travels to Hampton, Virginia.

Pell Grant cuts to decrease student aid

Freshman Alyssa Reed received a $1,300 Pell Grant by simply filling out her annual FAFSA form. Just like that. Under a new reconfiguration of the Pell formula slipped into a congressional bill two days before Christmas and passed into law shortly thereafter, Reed's grant now could decrease. Just like that.

Reaching out

Since the Dec. 26 catastrophe in southeast Asia, thousands of people have opened up their hearts and wallets to tsunami disaster relief funds. But as the tremendous outpour of support continues to come in large sums of money, officials fear history might be repeating itself.

Forum to address tsunami's impact, ways to donate

Although students might feel far removed from the tsunami's impact, it has sparked a longing in the IU community to comprehend the disaster.

supplying creativity

White House halts 2-year search for WMDs in Iraq

WASHINGTON -- The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday. Democrats said Bush owes the country an explanation of why he was so wrong.

Illustrator finds true calling in drawing animals

Lexington, Ill. -- If he never sold another one of his pieces, Ben Mehl would live life happy. That's how much the 29-year-old Lexington native loves his true calling.

Jackie O's paper wedding dress on exhibit

Chicago -- When John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in September 1953, the nation was enchanted by the wedding, the couple and the young bride's off-the-shoulder gown. Now two artists have used paper to replicate the wedding dress in connection with an exhibit of her clothing, "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," currently at Chicago's Field Museum.

Book examines how simplicity can lead to momentous change

NEW YORK -- Malcolm Gladwell, whose best seller "The Tipping Point" explored how minor events can lead to momentous changes, got the idea for his next project simply by letting his hair grow long.

'Cookie cutter' fashion

When Meenal Mistry Fashion editor from Women's Wear Daily, came to visit IU in 2003, she told me she could see there was an aesthetic sense among the students on campus.

Around The Arts

Painter, musician and sculptor Graham Wood will be showing his work from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Textillery Gallery. Wood is a visiting artist from Richmond, Ind. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Let It Snow!

It seems that when it's cold and snowing outside, it's difficult to get motivated for anything more than a DVD rental or a trip to the movies. Luckily, production companies capitalize on this by releasing a barrage of new films over the holiday season. For those who didn't have time to catch these releases over winter break, Weekend has compiled a short list of this season's must-sees, must-hears and must-avoids.

BanishingtheButts

The weather forecast for the city of Bloomington is nonsmoker friendly with smoke-free indoor air aplenty since tobacco addicts are forced to feed their disease on islands within the sea of Bloomington. Smokers are hereby advised -- plan on enduring grave climate inconveniences while huffing and puffing your smoke of choice, shivering a so-called reasonable distance from the exterior of all public buildings, gazing inward toward the yellow glow of florescent lights and the shrill of cackled laughter from nonsmoking families occupying your once arse-imprinted stool, mingling within eyeball reach of a glorious moving image box.

Cheap books: A local library tradition

Bargain books at bargain prices for extraordinary minds with extraordinary amounts of free time can be found at the library this weekend.