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IU entomologist recognized for pest prevention project

By Mike Carey · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:40 a.m.

An IU professor and two colleagues were recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency for their environmentally safe pest control model.

INPIRG kicks off fall campus campaigns

By Mallory Simon · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:39 a.m.

Indiana Public Interest Research Group, a student-run volunteer organization, has kicked off its year with the startup of many new public interest projects, as well as the continuation of successful ones from years past.

Trip to Michigan could be very bad

By Alex Hickey · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:39 a.m.

You know what's ironic? If Matt LoVecchio were still at Notre Dame, he'd be starting for them this weekend. Not that the Irish are any good this year. But they are still better than the Hoosiers. And lest we forget, it has been a mere two weeks since Michigan throttled Notre Dame 38-0.

Stung Wolverines prepare to take on Hoosiers at home

By John Rodgers · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:38 a.m.

Based on the history of the IU-Michigan series, there aren't many victories to talk about. IU trails 46-9 in the series against the Wolverines. Michigan owns an 11-game winning streak and has won 26 of the past 27 games. IU last beat Michigan (3-1) in 1987 with a 14-10 victory when Bill Mallory coached IU. The Hoosiers lost 58-0 in Ann Arbor the last time the teams faced off in 2000.

Southern Methodist University halts race-based bake sale

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:36 a.m.

The sign said white males had to pay $1 for a cookie. White women: 75 cents. Hispanics: 50 cents. Blacks: a quarter. The event Tuesday at Southern Methodist University was no PTA bake sale.

Muslim conference comes to IU

Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:35 a.m.

This weekend, IU will host the 32nd annual Association of Muslim Social Scientists conference, which will explore the "Muslim Presence" in American and European societies.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:29 a.m.

Matching your ethnicity with your khakis I get the feeling that the loudest racial critics would have everyone believe that European Americans are the lone source of all bigotry in America, and racist undercurrents saturate everything we say and do.

These kids today...

By Phil Kijak · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:21 a.m.

When you've taken road trips, you've tended to do some strange things to cure boredom. You've played games, noticed obscure billboards or, if you're like my friends and I, you've listened to Radio Disney.

WUSA loses its kick

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:19 a.m.

Sad for some, but true for all Americans, soccer isn't our country's favorite pastime. It's the smell of a worn leather glove and the crack of a bat that are familiar to those in the U.S., not the wear of perfect fitting shin guards or the decision to buy Copa or Beckenbauer cleats.

Metal band Sevendust seeing changes

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:05 a.m.

OLD BRIDGE, N.J. -- Even in the world of heavy metal, Sevendust rocks hard. At a recent live show, the floor vibrated and basslines were so thick they felt physical. By the end of first song, the five band members were covered in sweat and the room felt ten degrees hotter.

Hundreds injured in earthquake in Japan

By Alyson Brodsy and Eric Talmadge · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:05 a.m.

TOKYO -- A strong quake with a magnitude of 8 rocked the northern Japan island of Hokkaido early Friday, injuring more than 160 people, knocking out power, derailing a train and touching off an industrial fire.

C'mon, write some 'Love Letters'

By Olivia Morales · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:04 a.m.

Indiana natives bring romance and life to the stage in Brown County Playhouse's final show of the summer season.This poignant romantic drama chronicles the relationship between a straight-laced lawyer and his artistic and free-spirited lover/best friend Melissa. As time evolves, so does their relationship.

Bush, Dean lead battle for money

By Alyson Brodsy and Sharon Theimer · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:04 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Howard Dean is setting a torrid pace in the contest for dollars in the Democratic presidential campaign but it's still President Bush who is proving to be the superstar in raising campaign cash overall.

The elegance and absurdity of spring

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:03 a.m.

Now that fall is already here, we can get ready for spring. We haven't even fully relaxed into that whole mod London thing designers have bestowed upon us this season, and now here's spring.

East meets West in new opera

By Adam Sedia · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:01 a.m.

It's a Western masterpiece with Eastern flavor. It's a hodgepodge of speech and arias. It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio." Presented tonight by the IU Opera Theatre, the opera features many different theatrical styles and character types. The libretto has elements of vaudeville, opera buffa, pre-romantic ideas and is in many ways an oriental opera, said Stefano Vizioli, guest stage director. Mozart wrote this at 26, during one of the happiest periods in his life -- when he married Constanza Weber (who shares names with this opera's heroine). Critics say Mozart's personal happiness is reflected in the opera.

'Hoosiers Outrun Cancer' this Saturday

By Monica Dix · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 12:55 a.m.

Cancer survivors and supporters of cancer research will come together this weekend to raise money and awareness for a cure.

Walker appears in court to face criminal impersonation charges

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Callahan · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 12:53 a.m.

LEBANON, Ind. -- A woman accused of impersonating an Indiana couple's long-missing daughter was formally charged Thursday with identity deception, hours after her extradition from Kansas. Donna Lynette Walker, 35, listened quietly as a judge read the charges that accuse her of pretending to be the grown child of a divorced couple whose 6-year-old daughter has been missing since 1986. Boone County Superior Court Judge Matthew Kincaid entered an innocent plea for Walker and set a tentative trial date for March 1.

Baghdad hotel bombed, 1 dead

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven R. Hurst · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 12:46 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A bomb exploded outside a Baghdad hotel housing NBC staff, killing a guard and injuring a Canadian sound engineer. Earlier Thursday, Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on Iraq's U.S.-picked Governing Council, died, five days after she was shot by gunmen. The bomb was placed about three feet from the wall of the al-Aike Hotel in south-central Baghdad in a hut that housed the hotel's generator, Iraqi police said. It killed the Somali night watchman as he slept. Lt. Col. Salman Kareem said the damage to the hotel was minimal, involving mainly broken glass. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.

Herbert looks to change positions

By Adam Aasen · Thursday, Sept. 25,2003 2:21 a.m.

Two University administrators are retiring, but IU President Adam Herbert has ordered that there be no search for replacements as he looks at possible administrative restructuring. The retirements of Don Weaver, director of state relations, and Moya Andrews, vice-chancellor for academic affairs and dean of faculties, has prompted Herbert to examine their positions and whether they will exist in the same fashion. "We look at

Law professor helps to revise death penalty on Massachusetts state panel

By Matt Lahr · Thursday, Sept. 25,2003 2:20 a.m.

An IU law professor has been selected co-chairman of a Massachusetts panel that could drastically alter the use of the death penalty in the United States. Joseph Hoffmann, the Harry Pratter IU professor of law, is part of an 11-member council selected by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to develop a bill that would re-institute capital punishment in the state.