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Professor studies how online games affect gender views

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:50 p.m.

Everyone knows that totally hot 18-year-old California swimsuit model you met playing the popular online game, "World of Warcraft", is probably a 36-year-old guy living in his parents' basement.

Hand raising for the 21st century

By Carly Dachis · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:49 p.m.

As advancements in technology continue to change the way people act, it now seems the old ritual of students having to raise their hand during class may become obsolete.

Evacuees maintain new lives in Boomington

By Joseph S. Pete · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:45 p.m.

Hurricane Katrina flung many lives and families scattershot around the country.

Dallas Mavericks advance to first NBA Finals

By Aaron Beard and Bob Baum · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:37 p.m.

PHOENIX -- Avery Johnson put the "D" in Dallas. Then the coach put the Mavericks in the NBA finals for the first time in the franchise's 26-year history.

Warren Central sweeps state finals in track

By Hank Lowenkron · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:33 p.m.

Depth paid off for the Warriors of Warren Central as they captured the state boys high school track and field championship without winning an individual event.

Road to the championships

By Ari Shifron · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:28 p.m.

The IU men's and women's track and field teams will send 14 athletes June 7-10 to Sacramento State University for the 2006 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

You're good and smart enough...

By Alyson Brodsy and Jonathan P. Rossing · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:23 p.m.

Last weekend at his first Indy 500, 19-year-old rookie Marco Andretti (grandson of racing great Mario Andretti) finished second -- just six-hundredths of a second behind the winner.

Over-exposed?

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:22 p.m.

Last week, I stumbled across an April 23 New York Times feature titled "The Student Body" -- the focus of which was the possible emergence of a new trend among elite schools: student adult magazines.

Wrong on HIV/AIDS

By Alyson Brodsy and Mark Weinberg · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:22 p.m.

The United Nations held a high level meeting on AIDS last week.

How'd they do that?

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:21 p.m.

A recent controversy at Yale is illustrative of the lack of influence among IU's graduate student organizations -- although, in this case, we're glad that our local groups aren't taking on similar causes.

City Hall debuts 'Carved in Stone' exhibit June 3 - 26

Sunday, June 4,2006 10:19 p.m.

City of Bloomington, the Bloomington Area Arts Council presents "Carved in Stone," an exhibit commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Indiana Limestone Sculpture Symposium.

Brown County Playhouse season starts Thursday

Sunday, June 4,2006 10:19 p.m.

The IU Department of Theater and Drama summer season opens at the Brown County Playhouse in Nashville, Ind. this week.

Blowin' up on MTV

By Sarah Core · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:18 p.m.

Watching actor and comedian Jamie Kennedy in his quest to be a rapper is akin to seeing someone performing a large flip off of the high dive and then belly flopping into the pool, only to rise to the surface and declare, "I meant to do that!"

Police keep tight security on Tiananmen Square

By Abdullah AlShihri and Alexa Olesen · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:08 p.m.

BEIJING -- Chinese police tore up a protester's poster and detained at least two people on Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sunday as the country marked 17 years since local troops crushed a pro-democracy demonstration in the public space.

First troops in Bush's border plan arrive in Arizona

By Abdullah AlShihri and Jacques Billeaud · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:06 p.m.

PHOENIX -- Fifty-five National Guard members from Utah arrived in Yuma on Saturday afternoon -- the first troops to be sent to the Arizona-Mexico border in a new crackdown on illegal immigration.

Democrat convention claim momentum

By Alexandra R. Moses and Mike Smith · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:01 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Democrats from across Indiana rallied at their state convention Saturday, hoping to gain an election-year boost to help them rebound from big losses two years ago when Republicans won the governor's office, regained the Indiana House and defeated a Democrat congressman.

Community mourns Van Ryn

By James Prichard · Sunday, June 4,2006 10:01 p.m.

ADA, Mich. -- Members of Laura VanRyn's church prayed for her and her family Sunday morning as the congregation prepared for a later memorial service for the 22-year-old college student mistakenly believed to have survived a deadly van crash in Indiana.

Indy mass murder suspect turns himself in

By Alexandra R. Moses and Ashley M. Heher · Sunday, June 4,2006 10 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A two-day manhunt for an ex-convict suspected of gunning down seven members of one family ended with the man walking into a fast-food restaurant and surrendering to police.

Appeals Court rules in favor of IU trustees in lingering Knight case

By Trevor brown · Friday, June 2,2006 6 p.m.

The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Friday in favor of the IU board of trustees that Indiana's Open Door Law was not violated in the 2000 firing of former men's basketball coach Bob Knight. The ruling, listing the trustees of IU as the defendants, upheld a May 2005 lower court decision that then-IU President Myles Brand's decision to meet with the trustees in two separate groups to discuss Knight's alleged insubordination and misconduct a day before he was fired was within the bounds of Indiana's laws.

Stills face identity crisis

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Thursday, June 1,2006 12 a.m.

Rarely does a band build on the success of its debut album by completely altering its sound.