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Thin air, high hopes

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:48 a.m.

In February, Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium played host to the world for the Winter Olympics. On Saturday, it will play host to the Hoosiers (1-0) as they take on the Utes (1-0) at 7 p.m. EST. The long flight out to Salt Lake City will mark IU's furthest westward jaunt since they took on Baylor in the 1991 Copper Bowl in Tucson, Ariz. Senior quarterback Tommy Jones said he doesn't think that being cooped up on a long plane ride will have an effect on the team.

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Corvette or conscience

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:45 a.m.

Let's gather a group of four or five college educated people, and ask them what they would do with $60,000. What ideas would they come up with? Buying a house, dividing the money evenly, donating to the poor or financing grad school, are perhaps some of the possibilities that might come out of such a convocation. Apparently, the IU Student Association executive board didn't pay attention in their respective math classes during their time here at IU. They are planning on wasting $60,000 that would normally go to student organizations, on a Corvette. IUSA only appropriated $10,000 this year for the Grass Roots Initiative Fund, which gives money to politically and religiously affiliated student groups through generated IU credit card revenue. The extra revenue, this $60,000, will pay for the car.

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Happy, um, Labor Day?

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Harper · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:43 a.m.

\"Happy Labor Day" is not a phrase that was spoken with frequency on Monday (yes, I know, "Happy Labor Day" doesn't have quite the ring of "Merry Christmas"). But, I seriously question how many students knew it was Labor Day, and, more significantly, how many thought about the holiday's meaning. Too often, the only discussion of Labor Day at IU consists of complaints about having to attend class on the holiday. "How dare the administration make us go to class on a day that represents … it represents … uh … well, how dare they?" That might be sort of how the refrain goes.

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A synthetic kind of special

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:42 a.m.

Elizabeth grew up in a rather large house with very nice furniture and a purebred dog. But don't be drawn to the obvious conclusion. She was not mainstream. A fiercely original character, standing out amidst the generic run of SUV-driving, Abercrombie-clad products of Nuevo-riche suburbia -- she was different. She spat at mainstream film and music, railed against American foreign policy. Her favorite word was "organic." Her least favorite, "corporate." Yes, indeed, Elizabeth was like no one else I've ever met in college. And while I can't say that I agreed with all of her convictions, she held to them strongly with, well, conviction.

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Before the tarnish

By Alyson Brodsy and JP Benitez · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:41 a.m.

I think we all know that it's nearing a time to remember. Innocence. I think I can picture Sept. 10 like it was almost yesterday. It was still fairly nice out, not too hot, not too cold. The Indiana Indian summer was in full swing, and I was walking home from a class in Ballantine Hall. I was just getting used to seeing the same faces walking to and from my Spanish class -- the ones we never say "hi" to, but notice when they're missing. I remember that then, I had no idea what they were thinking.

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Community board nice idea, wrong reasoning

By Laurent Castelucci · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:30 a.m.

"So in an attempt to improve... we're building a separate staff of seven to construct our opinions." ("New staff, same goals," Aug. 30) I'm sorry, I'm still laughing from that line. Someone (the online edition still doesn't have the name of the writer) has a good future in politics.

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IUSA manipulates meetings for car

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:30 a.m.

The initiative to get students to vote is respectable. Manipulating an emergency meeting to purchase a luxury sports car is just plain stupid. IUSA sponsors a credit card to make a profit to have a large pool of money to spend on improving the quality of life for IU students (plural) and not just one lucky winner.

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Animal rights group plans to use campaign at IU

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:25 a.m.

BLOOMINGTON -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it doesn't plan to ask students at IU if they've "got milk" -- instead it will ask if they've "got beer." "It's a tongue-in-cheek way of getting the attention of college students about the fact that, if they're consuming said PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich. The animal-rights group chose IU along with nine other universities the Princeton Review dubbed the nation's top party schools.

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Survey shows decline in teen drug use

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:24 a.m.

BLOOMINGTON -- Hoosier teens say they are smoking and drinking less and using fewer illegal drugs, but some are turning to a new illicit drug, according to a statewide survey by Indiana University researchers. Nearly one-tenth of high school seniors reported they had used Ecstasy at least once, the Indiana Prevention Resource Center said Wednesday in its annual report. It was the first time the study had asked about use of the drug, which is popular at dance clubs and raves.

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Breast Cancer walk promotes awareness

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:23 a.m.

This week has been a rough one for Bloomington resident Linda Gardino. The mother of two learned that both her mother and sister have been diagnosed with breast cancer. "I'm kind of mad right now at cancer," she said. "It scares me, because my sister is younger than I am, and what if I have it right now?"

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Laundry rooms going online

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:18 a.m.

College students sitting in their dorm rooms will soon get an answer via the Internet to one of life's great unanswered questions: Is there a washer or dryer available in the basement laundry room? IBM and a smaller company named USA Technologies today unfolds "eSuds," a program that will connect 9,000 washers and dryers in college dorms around the country to the Net starting early next year.

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Colleges plagued by housing shortages

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:17 a.m.

MILWAUKEE -- Three's company in many college dormitories this year. A housing shortage at some Milwaukee-area colleges has forced students to accept more roommates than usual, breaking from tradition and introducing a new lifestyle arrangement on campus. Ryan VanDeLoo, a freshman at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis., is sharing his dorm room with two roommates this fall. What's more, all three are stocky college football players.

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Around the campus

Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:11 a.m.

International student reception, IMU happenings, and tickets for "An Evening with Jimmy Fallon"

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Eigenmann rearranged

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 6,2002 1:03 a.m.

As a part of the on-going renovations at Eigenmann Hall, both the dining facility and the convenience store located in the basement will be moved to the former arcade space on the ground floor, making room for projects in the basement area. Renovations initially began on Eigenmann earlier this year, with hopes of retaining upper class students in on-campus housing and improving the quality of life in the dorms, Pat Connor, executive director of Residential Programs and Services, told the IDS in April.

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Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 5,2002 11:47 p.m.

Single tickets go on sale for all IU Auditorium events Sunday, September 8. The IU Auditorium box office will be open from 12-5 p.m. on the 8th.

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Vatican paper decries church abuse film

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 5,2002 11:39 p.m.

VENICE, Italy -- The Vatican newspaper denounced a film at the Venice Film Festival that recounts the story of an abusive Catholic convent, calling "The Magdalene Sisters" an "angry and rancorous provocation."

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Clothing as much about culture as fashion

By Roseanne Hennessey · Thursday, Sept. 5,2002 11:38 p.m.

The message behind Sunni M. Fass's upcoming exhibition is that successful communication requires a shared knowledge of culture, and this shared knowledge comes from an understanding of nonverbal communication in the forms of dress and adornment.

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