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Shops prepare for graduation rush

By Alyson Brodsy and David A. Nosko · Friday, May 5,2006 12:09 a.m.

Whether camping out in the Indiana Memorial Union hotel or sleeping at the Super 9 Motel, families wishing to find some post-commencement food and fun need not look any farther than campus, Kirkwood and downtown Bloomington. Numerous IU beer-guzzling traditions and stomach-filling fare are found in local taverns, restaurants and even the Union.

After four years of IDS success, I graduate

By Steve Slivka · Friday, May 5,2006 12 a.m.

Four years ago, I had never written for a print publication. I wandered into Ernie Pyle Hall 120 during the Indiana Daily Student's Fall 2002 open house looking to start my journalism career at IU. But my media experience was minuscule at best having only worked with Internet radio in high school and job-shadowing briefly for ABC's station in Toledo, Ohio -- my hometown.

Applying for life

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Newkirk · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:39 p.m.

Full Legal Name: Richard Did The Last Four (OK, Five) Years Really Happen Newkirk Age: 23 DOB: Saturday, really Social Security: Not looking good Home Phone: The same one from my childhood. Again.

I see white people

By Alyson Brodsy and Cordell Eddings · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:37 p.m.

I had it figured out coming from my all black high school, and "Chocolate city" of Washington D.C. The white kids, making up 10 percent of my school, hung out with each other, and sat at the "white kid table" at lunch. Here at IU every table is the "white kid" table, minus a few in the Union now and then.

The right decision

By Laura Kruty · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:34 p.m.

I vividly remember driving down to Bloomington from Indianapolis on move-in day my freshman year. All my belongings were packed in my family's minivan.

Artistic relevance questioned by Art Museum, students

By Brandon S Morley and Riaz Khan · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:27 p.m.

When you take college students overwhelmed by a Vanity Fair of electronics, pile on some unusual architecture, followed by an awkward location, you begin to ask yourself the question IU Art Museum Director Heidi Gealt asks herself: how do you get IU students to visit the museum?

"Son of Witch" companion, not sequel, to adventures in Oz

By Kristin Cutler · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:20 p.m.

Gregory Maguire prefers to call "Son of a Witch", his latest novel, a companion book rather than a sequel to Wicked. After success in bookstores and a recent incarnation on Broadway, fans have been anticipating the continuation of Maguire's tale of Oz's famous witches.

Commence the commencement

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:16 p.m.

We don't know about you, but we're totally stoked about graduation. You'd think that after covering them for 139 years, with not a single one disrupted by an earthquake or volcano or dinosaurs, we'd get kind of blasé. But you'd be wrong.

FDA Nutrition Guide

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:14 p.m.

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Farmer's Market produces more than fresh produce

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, May 4,2006 11:11 p.m.

IU students and Bloomington residents have the upper hand in the battle to maintain a healthy diet, thanks to the Bloomington Farmers' Market, offering an array of fresh fruits and vegetables grown by Hoosier farmers. Community members can stock up on cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes and a plethora of palatable treats from 7 a.m. to noon every Saturday from now until September at the Showers Plaza in downtown Bloomington, 401 N. Morton St.

Vatican excommunicates 'illegitimate' Chinese bishops

By Abdullah AlShihri and Alessandra Rizzo · Thursday, May 4,2006 10:42 p.m.

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican declared Thursday that two bishops ordained by China's state-controlled church without papal consent were excommunicated, escalating tensions as the two sides explored preliminary moves toward improving ties.

Reps investigate Exxon Mobil controversy

By Abdullah AlShihri and H. Josef Hebert · Thursday, May 4,2006 10:38 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- A House committee has ask Exxon Mobil Corp. for detailed information about a lucrative retirement package given to its former chairman, Lee Raymond, calling it an "exorbitant payout" when motorists are paying $3 a gallon for gasoline.

Judge sends Moussaoui to prison for life, ending his 2-month trial

By Abdullah AlShihri and Matthew Barakat · Thursday, May 4,2006 10:35 p.m.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life Thursday, to "die with a whimper," for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He declared: "God save Osama bin Laden -- you will never get him."

200 view documentary

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, May 4,2006 5:41 p.m.

About 200 IU students, faculty and guests witnessed a glimpse of the children's plight of daily fear during a viewing of "Invisible Children: Rough Cut," a documentary which chronicles the stories of Northern Ugandan children seeking evening shelter from the genocidal storm raging each night across their country. The film followed three "ignorant" young adult Americans as they journeyed into Darfur, Sudan to document the genocidal civil war that has cost the lives of an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 global citizens and displaced millions more into refugee camps splattered across the countryside in neighboring countries like Uganda and Chad. Finding empty Darfur villages and following fleeing Sudanese villagers, the filmmakers end up in refugee camps in Northern Uganda.

ONLINE ONLY: Today I consider myself…

By Ryan Phillips · Tuesday, May 2,2006 3:52 p.m.

For the past eight months my assignment has been to write columns about Indiana University's basketball team, and let me tell you, it wasn't the cake-walk you all assume it was. I was forced to sit courtside for every home game, eat free food in Assembly Hall's press room, deal with the terminally miss-informed Andy Katz and then spew my opinions onto the pages of America's best college newspaper. Seriously folks, I had it rough.

Hoosiers fall in weekend championship to Bucknell

By Lee Hurwitz · Monday, May 1,2006 1:22 a.m.

Sometimes, storybook endings aren't always meant to happen. For the No. 18 IU water polo team, that was the case as it dropped its first game of the Collegiate Water Polo Association Eastern Championship on Saturday to Bucknell University in the second overtime, 6-5, as the Hoosiers finished fifth in the tournament.

Hoosiers notch many bests at Penn Relays

By Rick Harker · Monday, May 1,2006 1:21 a.m.

The IU women's track and field squad accomplished four personal bests, two NCAA provisional-qualifying marks and one NCAA regional-qualifying mark at the 112th Penn Relays this weekend in Philadelphia.

Boilermakers surprise IU 4-3 in tourney

By Jonathan Hines · Monday, May 1,2006 1:18 a.m.

The No. 4-seeded IU women's tennis team entered its quarterfinal Big Ten Championships match in Champaign, Ill., against No. 5-seed Purdue, the same Purdue team it had defeated at home 5-2 March 24. At the Illini Grove Tennis Courts, however, something different happened.

Hoosiers fall to Michigan for 2nd time in as many weeks

By Evan Harris · Monday, May 1,2006 1:17 a.m.

Revenge just wasn't enough to drive the No. 5-seed IU men's tennis team past the No. 4-seed Michigan Wolverines in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Championships. For the second time in as many weeks, the Hoosiers succumbed to the Wolverines 4-2.

First novice 8 boat wins silver medals

By Jackie Faine and Jacqueline Faine · Monday, May 1,2006 1:16 a.m.

Age is no barrier for setting school records. And that's precisely what IU's first novice 8 boat proved this weekend at the Big Ten Championships in St. Paul, Minn. At the conclusion of its heat, the nine-member crew successfully earned silver medal honors and eclipsed IU's highest previous ranking of fourth in 2004.