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Offenders get sobering advice

Last night, the Binford Elementary School auditorium was filled to capacity with drunken driving offenders who had been court-ordered to attend a panel discussion as part of their probation agreement.

Men's soccer team makes tourney -- barely

The men's soccer team usually watches the NCAA tournament draw to see what seed it will get. Or who it will be host to in the first round. Monday, the Hoosiers, NCAA champions the past two seasons, tuned in to the draw to see if they made the tournament at all. They did.

Hockey team ekes out win, then loses second game

The hockey team split its series with Central Michigan University this weekend after two overtime battles. Even though its loss was to one of the top-ranked teams in the country, the Hoosiers (7-2, 6-0 Midwest Collegiate Hockey League) had hoped for a better performance.

Too late to salvage season

From here on out, IU football and my column will be tossed on the backburner. Let me be the first to sigh for relief and throw on a pair of candy cane striped pants because basketball has finally arrived.

Flutie deserves a better situation

After years of success in Canada, Doug Flutie shocked us all, as the 5-foot-10 quarterback came to an aging Buffalo Bills team. Predicted to go nowhere in 1999, the Bills bolted into the playoffs under Flutie's endless fighting and remarkable leadership

Despite losing players, Penn State is upbeat

Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland already had a headache when trying to replace Helen Darling and Andrea Garner, two All-Americans who guided Penn State to the Final Four last season.

Dorm room creativity rewarded

Freshmen Christine Boone and Shanda Sasse are proud of their dorm room. "You have to be in our room to see the ultimate coolness of it," Boone said. The decoration of their room was somewhat of a compromise.

Union Board looking for applicants to fill 16 director positions

Union Board has announced it is taking applications for its 16 directorships until 5 p.m. Wednesday.

National screenwriter to speak at film showing

She lost her job over network television's first interracial kiss. In 1977, nurse Valerie Grant, an African-American character on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," kissed Richard, a white character, causing a deluge of criticism from angry viewers.

La Torre not appetizing

The atmosphere of La Torre is appealing. Decorated with bright paper banners and tiled walls, the interior of the restaurant is deceiving. You might think you're in for a treat, but you'll be wrong.

Exhibits

Palm Beach should not revote

The election results aren't finalized, but voters in Palm Beach, Fla., are demanding a revote, based on an allegedly confusing ballot used in the Nov. 7 election in that county.

Opening the mailbag

It has been a little more than a year since I started writing this thing. In this time I have acquired quite a bit of mail. Since this is more or less my one-year column-writing anniversary, I'd like to acknowledge some of you loyal fans, and those of you nonfans -- whom I can only describe as player haters.

America must educate

Imagine yourself riding on a crowded bus, your face pressed up against some fat guy's armpit. The sweat from his face rolls down onto your shoes. But you can't move, because you're straddling a metal bar while a woman's six kids bite your ankles and draw pictures of Barney on your butt.

A merit badge for voter apathy

So it's all coming down to the Sunshine State. It's very troubling that a few scattered votes might actually determine the next leader of the free world. I have a simple solution, an easy way to avert that -- just sell Florida back to Spain, Bobby Bowden and all. One peninsula is one peninsula too many, as far as I'm concerned.

Oops! The media did it again

The news media's coverage of the 2000 presidential election was and continues to be a comedy of errors and miscues. MSNBC's Brian Williams urged millions of Americans to wake up their children in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 8, assuring them that George W. Bush had just been elected the 43rd president of the United States.

United States not a democracy

Don Evans, chairman of the Bush campaign, has countered Democrats' claims for a justifiable inquiry into Florida's chaotic election mishap by stating that such an investigation would be done only "at the expense of our democracy."

Edwards' column enlightening

Chris Edwards' column, "The wrong president," (Nov. 10) was refreshing, and encouraging to know that common sense can prevail in understanding who the next president of the United States really appears to be -- a fraud.

Edwards' column misleading

After reading Chris Edwards' extremely critical article regarding George W. Bush and his bid for the presidency ("The wrong president, Nov. 10), I, once again, discovered how ignorant some people can be.

Dissents should not be anonymous

This message is in response to the ombudsman article appearing in the Nov. 8 IDS entitled, "Dissents: useful or useless?" in which I am named as making a "personal attack" on Brian Zell.