Community Arts

IUSA brings national papers to students, faculty

By Brian Janosch · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2004 12:54 a.m.

Beginning Feb. 2, The New York Times, USA Today and The Indianapolis Star will be available to students at eight different campus locations. The IU Student Association is sponsoring the pilot program, making all three papers available to students and staff five days a week. The trial will last until Feb. 27, when a committee of students, faculty and Indiana Daily Student representatives will discuss whether or not to allow the papers to have a permanent presence on campus.

Kerry wins New Hampshire primary, Dean trails in second by 13 percent

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2004 12:40 a.m.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- John Kerry easily won New Hampshire's primary Tuesday, overpowering Howard Dean and other Democratic rivals for a second-straight victory to establish the four-term senator as the party's presidential front-runner.

Tradition-rich Big Ten gives wrestlers experience against top teams

By Colin Burns · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2004 12:33 a.m.

The wrestling legacy of the Big Ten conference speaks for itself. Multiple national championship teams and All-Americans are facts of its history. This season is no different. IU, being part of the wrestling-rich conference, knows this part of the schedule is what the season is geared towards.

How the West was won

By Dan Cohen and Daniel Cohen · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2004 12:32 a.m.

Because the Eastern Conference is so wretched and inferior to the West, the NBA has decided to do something about it. Make it worse?

Collins residents volunteer

By Paige Harden · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2004 12:28 a.m.

Many students from Collins Living Learning Center are giving back to the Bloomington community through a volunteer group called Collinsites Active in Philanthropy. The group meets once a month to discuss various volunteer opportunities both on and off campus. The eight-member group meets twice a week. Senior and CAP director Shannon Henning said CAP members share a desire to better the community.

WEA brings national conference to IMU

By Jacquelyn Janowski · Wednesday, Jan. 28,2004 12:27 a.m.

The 21st Annual National Conference on Outdoor Leadership will be held Feb. 4 through 7 at the Indiana Memorial Union. The theme of this year's conference is "Tools of the Trade." The conference, sponsored by the IMU and hosted by both the Wilderness Education Association and IU Outdoor Adventures, was held at Bradford Woods two years ago.

Busted: Cheating on campus

By Chris Sommerfeld · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:46 p.m.

As stress builds and deadlines approach, some students see cheating as the only viable option to save their endangered GPAs. To students, cheating might seem like a quick and painless way to remedy a study plan gone wrong, but campus officials take a far less forgiving view. They condemn all accounts of academic dishonesty and warn students that they will be caught.

Professional costumers educate design students

By Mallory Zalkin · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:38 p.m.

Costumes are an important element helping define the aura of many successful performances. Each costume provides the audience with insight into the character's personality. Wardrobes might often provoke an audience to subconsciously create a predetermined opinion about the show through the fact that appearances are the first noticed aspect of most commodities. IU has costume design studios in the Theatre and Drama department and in the Musical Arts Center, where students can observe this intense process.

Afro Punk: the black experience

By Olivia Morales · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:37 p.m.

With its grainy images, "AfroPunk: The Rock n' Roll Nigger Experience," which debuted at Boxcar Books Friday, is a documentary in every sense of the word. The film centers around the black experience in the punk scene, placing emphasis on the people in the film and allowing the featured cast to testify to their lifestyle by following them through their everyday lives and observing their worlds. Director James Spooner set out to make a movie emphasizing the black experience in the punk world, and he has succeeded.

Gay marriage bill not likely to pass

By Alyson Brodsy and Deanna Wrenn · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:33 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A proposal to ban gay marriage may not make it past the General Assembly, but advocates on both sides of the debate believe the issue will come up year after year until the state or federal government takes action. State Sen. Brandt Hershman, R-Wheatfield, who is sponsoring a constitutional amendment to make gay marriage illegal, said the issue will be debated as long as special interest groups challenge traditional marriage in courts.

Bloomington groups seek volunteers

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:32 p.m.

Indiana 21st Century Scholars is looking for volunteers to tutor young people in grades seven through 12. The volunteers would tutor in various subjects, but math tutors are especially needed. The minimum age for volunteers is 16. Sessions will take place from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. Tuesdays at Bloomington High School North and from 2:30 until 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Batchelor Middle School.

Coyotes infiltrate Indiana suburbs

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:31 p.m.

MUNCIE -- Nurse Jennifer Price took her four yellow Labrador retriever puppies into the back yard last month. It was about 5 a.m. in Price's suburban, northwest neighborhood. Three of the dogs finished their business and began pawing the door. As soon as she went to let those three indoors, Price heard the fourth dog, named Bear, scream.

Library sale offers bargain books

By Kristin Huett · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 11:30 p.m.

At 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, eager Bloomington residents anxiously wait outside the Monroe County Public Library for the doors to open. The Friends of the Library Foundation puts on the year-round book sale. The sale is held every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the atrium of the library, where shelves upon shelves are found stacked with books.

Requiem for lost passion

By Brian Matzke · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:15 p.m.

It's pretty sad when you start using work (i.e., writing a newspaper column) as an excuse to procrastinate when you've got more pressing work (i.e., writing a paper). But after having cleaned my room, gone out to eat, watched a movie, conversed with my neighbors, gone shopping and made a list of potential future non-paper-writing activities, I have found no further recourse and so have started writing. I have come to the conclusion that, contrary to the popular opinion of those outside of the university system, college destroys an individual's ability to think originally.

Iraq bombing leaves 6 soldiers, 3 residents dead

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:15 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The United Nations agreed Tuesday to send a team to Iraq to help break the impasse over electing a new government, as the deaths of six more American soldiers in roadside bombings underscored concerns about security in the volatile nation. A bomb that exploded south of Baghdad killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded three others Tuesday night, hours after another bombing west of the capital killed three U.S. paratroopers and wounded one, the military said. In addition, two employees of Cable News Network died in a shooting south of Baghdad.

Lets get sexy

By Phil Kijak · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:14 p.m.

Will someone please tell Christina Aguilera she needs to stop dressing like a two-dollar whore? Oh, I forgot ... she's "empowered." My bad.

Uncle Sam, best man

By Chris Hintz · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:13 p.m.

So your time in college is drawing to a close. You've met your soul mate -- the person you want to spend your life with -- and now you're thinking about tying the knot. Lots of people will be involved in your life at this special time. Your prospective spouse and in-laws, your closest friends, the federal government … the federal government?

Resolve to recycle

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:12 p.m.

In an effort to quench growing piles of front-yard waste, the Indiana Public Interest Research Group has proposed "Party Pickup." The team will consist of volunteers who will collect excess bags of cans and bottles left over after weekend parties. Bloomington's five largest apartment complexes (The University Commons, College Mall Apartments, Hoosier Courts, Colonial Crest and Varsity Villas) will be the focal point of the program.

Investigators find no abuses of human rights in legislature

By Alyson Brodsy and Curt Anderson · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:09 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- A Justice Department investigation into possible civil rights and civil liberties abuses under the anti-terrorism USA Patriot Act found no abuses but a few instances of mistreatment of Muslim and Arab people, mainly at U.S. prisons, according to a report released Tuesday.

Debate over controversial Patriot Act continues

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Jan. 27,2004 10:08 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has thrown out a section of the USA Patriot Act that bars giving expert advice or assistance to groups designated foreign terrorist organizations. An attorney who argued the case on behalf of a civil liberties group said the ruling marks the first court decision to declare a part of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. In the ruling handed down late Friday and made available Monday, U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins said the ban is impermissibly vague in its wording.