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UPDATE: 29 children checked into hospital after school bus crash

By Sarah Core · Tuesday, April 25,2006 10:08 p.m.

Twenty-nine students of Summit Elementary School were sent to the hospital after a pick-up truck crashed into a school bus Tuesday morning. The accident occurred at 8:45 a.m. on Rockport Road, about 145 feet south of Graham Drive. The school bus had stopped and was boarding students when a brown pick-up truck traveling southbound hit the bus head on. "The stop arm was out, and the lights were flashing," said Bloomington Police Department Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from the police report. The 17-year-old driver of the truck said he was attempting to stop for the bus when his wheels slid on the wet pavement, according to the report.

SWIM SEASON

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bracho · Tuesday, April 25,2006 9:04 p.m.

Cool waters and warm sunbeams filled the IU Outdoor Pool as the men's and women's swimming teams dove into the season's first outdoor practice.

IU places 13th at Lady Buckeye Invite

By Sam Story · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:19 a.m.

At the start of the season, the message was simple from IU women's golf coach Clint Wallman. "We just want to score better with every round," he said. While the Hoosiers were steady in their play this weekend at the Lady Buckeye Invitational, there was only so much they could do against the best of the Big Ten and two Southern powerhouses in the University of Florida and Auburn University. The Hoosiers fired rounds of 306, 307 and 308. If a team could shoot as consistently, Wallman would never be convinced of it.

Teams captures 2nd title of season

By Kevin Kane · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:18 a.m.

In its last tournament before the Big Ten Championships, the IU men's golf team won its second title of the season. Defeating runner-up Minnesota by four strokes, IU left East Lansing, Mich., as the 39th winner of the Fossum/Spartan Invitational. The team will now focus on the upcoming conference championship. Eight events into the season, the Hoosiers had not secured a tournament championship. After inclement weather denied the team the chance to play the third round and move up on the leaderboard at Pinehurst, IU has since tallied two championships in the past three events with a second-place finish as well.

IU edges out in-state rival Cardinals 2-0

By Chris Sauer · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:17 a.m.

Playing its fifth game in four days because of a rain out earlier in the season, the IU softball team took on in-state rival Ball State Monday. The Hoosiers won 2-0, improving their record to 25-22 overall. "We did what it took to win," IU coach Stacey Phillips said. "Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win." Senior Megan Roark, pitching for the second consecutive game, pitched a three-hit shutout against the Cardinals with eight strikeouts. Junior Christy Wahl entered the game in relief in the seventh inning and recorded her first save of the season.

Hoosier skipper faces former team for 1st time

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:17 a.m.

When IU baseball coach Tracy Smith glances right from his perch atop the steps of the Hoosier dugout today, he's going to see a team on the visitor's side with which he is very familiar. Scouting reports aside, Smith will know everybody in the Miami of Ohio dugout because he spent nine seasons as the head coach there, compiling a .590 winning percentage and two NCAA tournament appearances as the Redhawks' skipper. Smith took over the IU program after completing the 2005 season with Miami, and while he looks forward to the reunion with his former team, he remains focused on the task at hand on the field.

Void left in School of Music

By Chip Cutter · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:15 a.m.

They graced the stage with their music, spirit and talent. Now Jacobs School of Music officials say they are faced with the task of finding a way to fill the void left by the students who died in a plane crash late Thursday night. "They were extremely visible," said Carmen Helena Téllez, a professor of music in the choral department. "Their profile in the school was very prominent. These people were gifted in many, many, many ways."

Students stay out of court

By Kasey Hawrysz · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:15 a.m.

For about 169 students, Little 500 week ended with four to five hours of picking up trash around campus Sunday to help make restitution for crimes committed during the week, said prosecutor Carl Salzmann. Garbage collection is just one facet of the Defendant Accountability Program, which helps educate students and keeps their cases out of a courtroom. "The program recognizes that we are a university community," Salzmann said. "We've all gone to college and understand that people are testing the social boundaries and norms."

Outbreak of mumps deemed unlikely

By Peter Stevenson · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:11 a.m.

IU Health Center officials said Monday they do not believe an outbreak of mumps is likely on the Bloomington campus. One IU-Bloomington student was diagnosed with the virus April 21, but officials said the student's case had progressed far enough that it was no longer contagious. "The likelihood of additional cases (of mumps at IU) is very slim," said IU Health Center Director Hugh Jessop. "This is taking into consideration that the individual infected would be able to transmit the disease the week before they developed symptoms and two weeks after symptoms appeared. The incubation period for those exposed is up to 18 days after exposure. That window of time will have passed, and no additional cases that we are aware of have been reported in Bloomington."

IU student opening restaurant

By Ryan McLaughlin · Tuesday, April 25,2006 12:09 a.m.

New Jersey native Joshua Gold came to Indiana to study business three years ago. Now the junior is putting school on hold to start his own business -- Mixed Greens Restaurant and Juicery. After working at a small pool cleaning business last summer, Gold decided it was time for him to try his hand in an entrepreneurial role since he had been interested in business for many years. "I decided I was motivated enough and dedicated enough to start my own business," Gold said. "The question was where to start."

Environmentalists push for students learning outdoors

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 24,2006 11:56 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Les Caudill's students used to study weather by lying in the grass and watching the clouds. "It's hard to do that now," said Caudill, a 19-year veteran who teaches seventh grade in Pendleton, Ind. "I have to justify that it fits in with state standards." Some Indiana teachers say state education standards leave too little time for students to study the shapes of leaves or take samples of water from creeks.

Confidence, skill breeds success

By Gavin Lesnick · Monday, April 24,2006 11:56 p.m.

For sophomore Danah Ford, golf is a real family affair. At an early age, Ford's father, a golf professional in Indianapolis, brought his daughter to the course. Now, as Ford prepares for her second season on the Women's Golf team, she hopes to take the interest her father instilled in her to a higher level.

Narcolepsy wake-up drug, modafinil might help fight cocaine addiction

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 24,2006 11:55 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The hottest topic in cocaine addiction is another drug, a medicine already sold to wake up narcoleptics. Hundreds of cocaine users are testing whether that legal pill, called modafinil, could help them kick the addiction, and there's early evidence that it might. In addition to blunting cocaine's notorious cravings, modafinil might also counter the damage that cocaine wreaks on users' brain circuits, damage that in turn fuels the cycle of addiction.

Traditional Indian hair removal technique comes to Bloomington

By Asma Khalid · Monday, April 24,2006 11:54 p.m.

As Bollywood music fills the air, curious passers-by are lured toward Eyebrows Style -- a new salon specializing in threading, a traditional Indian hair removal technique. The process involves holding a piece of thread in the mouth and twisting it to form coils to pull out a row of unwanted hair. This seemingly exotic Indian aesthetic practice was previously limited to the Little Indias of New York and Chicago but has now found a growing market in Midwestern towns like Bloomington. From the Aveda salon on Tenth and College to Eyebrows Style in College Mall, threading has become the fashionable new way to get that perfect eyebrow arch.

Finding a (good) job

By Mike McElroy · Monday, April 24,2006 11:53 p.m.

Graduation is little more than a week away, and for many IU seniors, it's time to find a job. In January, Fortune magazine released its "100 best companies to work for" based on employee ratings. Several IU alumni have found their way to a company on the magazine's list and offered some tips on finding a fun and rewarding career after college. IU alumnus Kara Scrougham is a 1993 telecommunications graduate who now works for No.1-ranked Genentech, a biotechnology company that manufactures pharmaceuticals. She said she believes the cost of recruiting and relocating quality employees encourages companies to keep their workers happy.

4 quick months

By Alyson Brodsy and Jacob Stewart · Monday, April 24,2006 11:50 p.m.

The 2006 spring semester is coming to a close. Final projects will be due. Exams will be taken. Students will freak out from the pressure. A true friend will get them a shot of whiskey to calm them down. We'll cry as we have to part with good friends. Relationships will face the task of long distance. We'll begin internships, work summer jobs or go back home for four months.

Raise gas prices!

By Alyson Brodsy and Peter Chen · Monday, April 24,2006 11:49 p.m.

The next time you go to fill up your car, you will probably gulp at the price. "Three bucks a gallon?! It wasn't that long ago that gas was less than a dollar! This is outrageous!" Some are already crying foul. Blame has been thrust variously upon a host of scapegoats, such as: President Bush's War on Terror, environmental additives and oil companies, our new favorite villain.

Becoming a lawyer

By Alyson Brodsy and Levi Harris · Monday, April 24,2006 11:48 p.m.

As graduation draweth nigh, I've been trying to remember what ever possessed me to want to be a lawyer. At first, I wanted to be a writer. As a child, I wrote several gripping, insightful short stories. During the Panama Crisis in the 1980s, there was "Noriega the Nut." Then in the Gulf War, I wrote "Four Fourth Graders in the Fertile Crescent," a smash hit among my classmates. But as I got older, I realized only a few gifted and tenacious writers can pay the bills that way. So I moved on. During my teens, I wanted to be a minister. I preached at crusades and church camps from northern Illinois to western Kentucky and saw many souls saved.

Patrolling the Web

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 24,2006 11:47 p.m.

The First Amendment is perhaps the greatest accomplishment in American politics to date, and we at the editorial board are willing to bet that it will remain that way for quite awhile. But even we proud journalists are willing to concede that free speech has its limits. While there are many gray areas to these limits, making violent threats clearly crosses this limits. Vikram Buddhi, a Purdue graduate student studying industrial engineering, has been arrested for threatening to kill President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Laura Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and, if that's not enough, all Republicans. A "concerned citizen" contacted the Secret Service after reading his threats on (we're not kidding) a Yahoo Finance Sirius Satellite message board.

They vote; we decide

By Alyson Brodsy and Elisha Sauers · Monday, April 24,2006 11:45 p.m.

The White House goons would like to have us believe the first "democratic" election in Afghanistan proves the people rule; except, here, "the people" means "druglords and warlords," and "rule" means that drug and warlord-ish sort of control.