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Football players are just as bad

By -Val Tsoutsouris and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:10 a.m.

Why do big-time college basketball programs get into so much more trouble with the NCAA than college football programs?

Freshmen stepping up for Hoosiers

By John Rodgers · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:08 a.m.

It was 2nd and 16 from the Hoosier 20 yard line as Indiana State freshman quarterback Jake Schiff stood at the line looking for a hole in IU's defense to cut into the Hoosier's 16-3 lead. Freshman safety Will Meyers crept closer to the line of scrimmage as Schiff got ready to take the snap. As Schiff dropped back, Meyers blitzed through a wide-open hole in the left side of the ISU line. Schiff never saw Meyers coming as the Chesterfield, Mo., native blind-sided Schiff, forcing a fumble.

Search for Yeagley successor opens

By Dan Cohen and Daniel Cohen · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:07 a.m.

FIFA's World Cup is played every four years. Eight World Cups have been played during Jerry Yeagley's tenure as coach of the IU men's soccer team. After this season, the Hoosiers will play soccer without the legendary coach in control. As difficult of a job it will be to replace Yeagley and his five NCAA championships, 12 Big Ten tournament championships and 31 years of coaching excellence at IU, who better to fill the shoes of the teacher other than the student he respects the most.

IU returns to site of Yeagley's first victory

By Zack Eldridge · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:07 a.m.

Coach Jerry Yeagley returns to the site of his first career coaching victory tonight when the men's soccer team (2-2-2) battles Notre Dame at 7 p.m. in South Bend, Ind., at Alumni Field. Yeagley said he is aware of the challenge the Fighting Irish (2-1-2) present and added IU can't make any blunders against its in-state adversary. "Goals don't come easy against them," Yeagley said. "We're going to have to play close to the vest. It's going to be a chess match. They're good at forcing mistakes. We have to avoid mistakes against them. We can't make mistakes."

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:05 a.m.

Anyone who loves to read can come to the University Club's book discussion group from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. each month. The meetings, the first of which will be held today, meet at different homes each month. The book for the Oct. 17 meeting is "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand. Next month's hostess is Martha Smiley at 1717 Winesap Court.

T.I.S planners not issued this year

By Laura Lacci · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:03 a.m.

When sophomore Kristi Sanborn went to T.I.S. Bookstore to buy her books two weeks ago, she assumed she would be able to get one of the free planners that had been distributed over the past few years. She was wrong.

Kinsey book celebrates 50 years

By Stephanie Susman · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:02 a.m.

Fifty years ago this month, the world learned for the first time that women enjoyed sex in a study from the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. In 1953, former Assistant Professor of Zoology Alfred C. Kinsey published his book "Sexual Behavior of the Human Female," which detailed the innovative research Kinsey conducted.

IU students enrolling in more hours, figures show

By Devon Thomas · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:02 a.m.

Students are taking more credit hours in less time, according to figures released by IU, Wednesday. A total of 99,164 students are enrolled in courses this semester on all eight IU campuses, an increase of 0.5 percent from last year. But the number of credit hours students are enrolled in has grown 1.6 percent, from 1,101,661 in 2002 to 1,119,493 in 2003.

Virginia, Maryland natives anxious about Isabel's outcome

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:01 a.m.

Hurricane Isabel's threat might be more than 750 miles from IU, but the effects will reach close to home today. Junior Lauren Brand is from Virginia Beach, Va. -- one of the cities in the direct path of the hurricane along the eastern seaboard.

Fierce storm closes in on Outer Banks

By Alyson Brodsy and Emery P. Dalesio · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:01 a.m.

NAGS HEAD, N.C. -- Hurricane Isabel closed in on North Carolina's Outer Banks Wednesday with 105 mph winds and the potential for up to a foot of rain, threatening to cause ruinous flooding across a huge swath of the already soggy East. Isabel had weakened to a Category 2 hurricane from a Category 5, 160-mph monster, but was still expected to be dangerous when it hit the barrier islands Thursday morning with a storm surge of up to 11 feet.

University of Washington administrator named graduate studies dean

By Jane Charney · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 2:01 a.m.

A new dean of graduate studies has been named. John T. Slattery, associate dean for academic programs at the Graduate School of the University of Washington in Seattle, will succeed Dean George Walker, University officials announced Wednesday.

Saving diversity one day at a time

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:55 a.m.

A number of students, staff and faculty have suggested in these pages and elsewhere that the University should remove professor Eric Rasmusen's remarks about homosexuals from his personal Web page. In many instances, these comments have been justified by the need to protect "diversity."

Kernan qualified to lead state

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Harper · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:54 a.m.

Less than a week after the death of Gov. Frank O'Bannon, Hoosiers are still grieving. But just as Gov. O'Bannon would want, state leaders must also refocus on strengthening Indiana's future. This tall task falls

Books or bread

By Alyson Brodsy and Lize Kolar · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:53 a.m.

Recent increases in tuition across the nation, coupled with governmental cutbacks for student aid, have added new poignancy to the phrase "impoverished student" with all its colloquial variations. Financial need is the reason most students cannot meet a four-year graduation goal. Economic difficulties force many students to juggle studies with a part-time job. Dr. Maleakal Mathew, a psychiatrist at the I.U. Health Center, offered the explanation that it is the fact that most students need to work to finance their studies that causes higher instances of depression and anxiety on campus, which lead to lowered productivity.

Suggestions defy good logic

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:50 a.m.

Recipe for repetition: one or more independent organizations chartered by Congress; add many tax dollars; thinly spread silly and misconceived solutions to conceal common sense; simmer slowly into the press. Portions for 250 million citizens; but serves nobody. In essence, that describes the latest such governmental snafu, according to a report issued by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council last week on the topic of underage drinking and how it can be curbed successfully.

U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:35 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- Yasser Arafat dismissed the United States' veto of a U.N. resolution against Israel's threats to expel him, saying Wednesday that the step will not "shake us." Arabs expressed anger, saying Israel may see the veto as a green light to move against the Palestinian leader. Washington says it opposes expelling Arafat from the West Bank. But it said the U.N. resolution calling for Israel to halt its threats was "lopsided" and didn't condemn terrorist groups attacking Israel.

Spanish judge indicts bin Laden, terrorists

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:34 a.m.

MADRID, Spain -- A Spanish judge indicted Osama bin Laden and 34 others Wednesday on charges of terrorism, including the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

FDA requires new drug labeling

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Jewell · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:30 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Federal regulators have asked the makers of a widely-used class of six antipsychotic drugs to include labeling language about a possible link with diabetes, Eli Lilly & Co. said Wednesday.

Latino summit held today

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:30 a.m.

The 2003 Latino Summit is being held at St. Paul's Catholic Center, 1413 E. 17th St., today. Mayor John Fernandez and Sergio Aguilera Beteta, the Mexican Consulate from Indianapolis, said a "major announcement" will be made at the event.

Bono has talk with Bush on AIDS funds

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 18,2003 1:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Bono, the Irish rock star and social activist, said Tuesday he had a "good ol' row" with President Bush over global AIDS funding. "He's very passionate about these problems and I believe him," Bono said after their White House meeting. "I just can't agree with the numbers." Bush signed the Global AIDS Act in May that authorized $3 billion to fund global AIDS programs for 2004, but Congress has allocated only $2 billion.