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Are you safe?

By Michael Savitt and Mike Savitt · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:55 p.m.

Every new technology emerging in society begets a public concern for security. While the Internet has completely revolutionized the way the world functions in terms of communication, commerce and entertainment, it also has brought security issues to the forefront.

Police identify chair-throwing fan in brawl

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:55 p.m.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Police believe they know the identity of the man who threw a chair in a brawl between players and fans during the Nov. 19 Indiana-Detroit game.

Battered offensive line clears the way

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael Marot · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:55 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Colts offense has been playing at a record-setting pace. Not even a makeshift offensive line has been able to slow them down.

Title hopes slipping for Tigers

By Alyson Brodsy and Ralph D. Russo · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:54 p.m.

If Auburn can't get to the Orange Bowl with a 12-0 record, the Bowl Championship Series has no plans to pair the Tigers with Utah and create a second matchup of unbeaten teams. The Tigers are still stuck behind first-place Southern California and second-place Oklahoma in the BCS standings released Monday.

Aloha, from Maui

By Ryan Phillips · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:52 p.m.

While you were home this past week enjoying Thanksgiving with relatives, I hopped a plane to the south pacific and spent the holiday with my family in the tropical paradise that is Maui.

Students launch hip hop site

By Jorie Slodki · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:52 p.m.

The Internet has been a major force in changing the face of the recording industry. A group of IU students created a Web site that is helping this change along and has garnered positive feedback from all levels of the music world. Senior Soren Packer is the founder and editor in chief of www.soundslam.com, a Web site devoted to bringing hip hop fans the latest news and reviews of the music they love. He started the Web site after completing an internship with Arista Records in New York.

Team signs 5 recruits for 2005

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:51 p.m.

Five prospects have signed NCAA national letters of intent to wear the cream and crimson next season for the IU rowing team.

Freshmen look to boost lineup

By Matt Ostrega · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:51 p.m.

While all of last year's roster is returning to play for IU coach Kathi Bennett and the Hoosiers, there are two new faces for the cream and crimson. Freshmen Nikki Smith and Kelli Agness joined Bennett and her squad for the 2004-05 campaign and hope to make an impact early for IU.

Particles

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:31 p.m.

Plant parasitism a new way to 'trade' genes horizontally Parasites -- those pesky free-loaders most try to destroy -- are the mechanism that makes gene transfer between different plants species even possible, according to a report published by IU biologists in Nov. 8's issue of Nature.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:28 p.m.

Peace means understanding I am deeply disturbed by Edward Delp's column in the Indiana Daily Student (Nov. 17) about Arafat's death, which shows no more compassion than understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Bush picks Commerce Secretary

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:24 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush on Monday chose Carlos Gutierrez, a native of Cuba who rose from truck driver to chief executive officer of Kellogg company, to be Secretary of Commerce.

High court gives prime minister's legal team time to look at evidence

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:24 p.m.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's Supreme Court gave the prime minister's legal team until Tuesday to study evidence of fraud presented by the opposition in last week's presidential election, while outgoing President Leonid Kuchma endorsed the idea of a new vote "to preserve peace" in the bitterly divided former Soviet republic.

NBC executive survives plane crash

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:21 p.m.

MONTROSE, Colo. -- NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and his college-age son emerged from the wreckage of a chartered jet after the plane crashed, but authorities said Monday his 14-year-old son was presumed dead in the wreckage.

Angelic voices kick off Christmas

By Rose Mary Forte · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:21 p.m.

As the city of Bloomington kicked off its pre-Christmas traditions, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater jumped into the mix with a performance by the Vienna Boys Choir on Saturday evening. Their angelic voices seemed to lift the audience off their seats.

When did American girls become easy?

By Andrea Opperman · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:20 p.m.

I must apologize, for I have lied in my column once again. This one isn't about stereotypes, like I promised. Because this is my last article, you can guarantee that I have no more opportunities to lie. Wipe your tears ...

Only in America

By Amanda Trost · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:19 p.m.

Well, I did the unthinkable. I went shopping the day after Thanksgiving. No, I'm not crazy or mentally disturbed or masochistic. See, I had this theory that all the crazies would start shopping at 6 a.m., so if I waited until 3 p.m., the mall would be psycho-free.

Famed Chicago painter dies at 65

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:18 p.m.

CHICAGO -- Painter Ed Paschke, one of Chicago's best-known artists of the past half century, has died at age 65. Paschke died in his sleep on Thanksgiving at the home he shared with his daughter, Sharon, who said heart problems ran in the family and that physicians had noted a murmur in her father's heart.

Getting Fitched out

By Felipe Maya · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:17 p.m.

I wonder if Ernest Hemingway would wear an Abercrombie and Fitch vintage fit T-shirt with a pair of saranac destroyed boot-cut jeans. My guess is he'd be too confused by the name to even try them on. Well, that's OK because the century-old company doesn't clothe scholars like him anymore. They dress college students.

Pride goeth before destruction

By Brett Warnke · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:16 p.m.

After the mournful defeat of the Democrats on Nov. 2, I found myself like 57 million others who shiver at the thought of Inauguration Day: quiet, disillusioned and frozen by the icy ignorance of Christian conservatives.

College freshman wins school board election

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:16 p.m.

CHURUBUSCO, Ind. -- A 19-year-old college student who unseated a longtime incumbent to become one of the youngest members of a school board in Indiana says he used hard work and old-fashioned campaigning to win.

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