Basketball all in the family
New women's basketball coach Kathi Bennett spent her early birthdays in musty, humid gymnasiums across scenic Wisconsin.
New women's basketball coach Kathi Bennett spent her early birthdays in musty, humid gymnasiums across scenic Wisconsin.
Coach Kathi Bennett's stingy defense showed some signs of arriving Friday as IU forced 32 turnovers in overpowering Finnish traveling team, Tapiolan Honka, 87-39.
Junior forward Kirk Haston called it the "Noblesville bounce" that sealed the game. Freshman forward/center George Leach said he was praying as the ball hit the rim. And junior guard Dane Fife called it "the Big Red roll."
Who knew Florida would become the epicenter of this country's biggest election nightmare? Things like this are only supposed to happen in corruption-filled dens of iniquity such as Chicago, where dead people have been known to vote.
We all want this to be over. With the question of who will be the next president of the United States hanging in the balance for almost a full week now, the American people are understandably sick and tired of hearing about unclear ballots and the "fuzzy math" used to count votes in Florida. Some will claim the candidate who loses the Florida recount should concede defeat, instead of miring the nation in ballot and voting technicalities that could end up in court and drag on for months.
Three hundred twenty-seven people might well decide who will succeed President Bill Clinton as commander-in-chief of the United States. That's the number of students on just a few floors of a dorm on this campus. That's the number of people in one Y103, Introduction to American Politics, lecture. That's far fewer than the number of college students the IU College Democrats registered to vote this semester.
Our nation held an election Tuesday. The results showed Texas Gov. George W. Bush was the winner. An unofficial recount total in Florida seems to confirm it.
The election is now a week in the past, and this nation is still waiting for the results. Texas Gov. George W. Bush, Vice President Al Gore and indeed the entire nation are watching Florida as county officials count and recount ballot after ballot.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies David Haberman addressed about 75 people Thursday night in his lecture "River Goddesses and Indian Environmentalism."
Some people, uneducated in the field of wild edibles, might adhere to the old adage, "Leaves of three let 'em be, leaves of four, eat some more." But when stranded in the woods and forced to eat wild plants, one might want to know more about the plant he or she selects for their next meal.
"Islam Awareness Week" sponsored by the Muslim Student Union, came to a close Friday with Imam Abdullah Yusuf Madyun's "Concept of God in Islam" lecture in Kelley School of Business Room 200.
Therapist and consultant Miriam Acevedo-Davis addressed about 20 women Thursday night at the Mathers Museum, touting the importance of education in overcoming cultural boundaries.
The markets this week will again be affected by the presidential election and the guidance companies provide investors toward their future growth.
Napster, the renegade Silicon Valley start-up that brought the music industry to its knees, had its first turncoat Oct. 31. Bertelsmann, a German media conglomerate that started as a Bible publisher in 1835, gave Napster $50 million.
Toronto band Mean Red Spiders will play at 8 p.m. tonight at Secret Sailor Books, 202 N. Walnut St.
It started as a charity event and dance. It ended as a party. Lighthouse was created by the students in X333, Managing Business Functions. The event combined five DJs, two bands and the sweat and brainstorming of about 25 students.
Despite the late start, the audience in the Egyptian Room of the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis Thursday erupted into a bouncing jubilee when the entertainers began their set. Smoked filled the large rectangular room, which was shaking from bass pumped out of the powerful subwoofers aside the stage at the head of the room. The treble was piercingly pushed into my ears which were already losing precision due to the damaging decibels.
The son of a well-off Parisian upholsterer, Moliere seemed destined either to go into his father's trade or embark on a prosperous legal career. But he left all of that behind, abandoning the security of his bourgeois trappings.
Sunday Dec. 7, 1941, Eb Henson, 24, was quietly lying on his back in his bunk at IU trying to memorize lines for a play.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Hoosiers shot the ball more, possessed the ball more and earned more corner kicks than Ohio State Friday in the second round of the Big Ten men\'s soccer tournament.