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Women's race has full field for 1st time

By Michael Sanserino · Friday, April 21,2006 10:38 a.m.

Some names might have graduated, but the story is still the same. More and more women's teams have catapulted themselves into the "favorites" category this year, and many riders believe that will only improve the quality of the Little 500 race at 4 p.m. today.

Rainbow riders

By Andrea Alumbaugh · Friday, April 21,2006 10:37 a.m.

With a reputation for being the greatest college weekend, Little 500 has a way of inspiring people. From race rookies to qualifying 27th for the men's Little 500 race, a little inspiration has brought the four IU seniors of Rainbow Cycling a long way. These athletes, however, have more than mere inspiration pumping their pedals. While a stellar race day performance would be nice, these four men say their biggest priorities are friendship and promoting the idea of diversity. With sponsorship from the IU Office of Diversity Education and from the IU GLBT Office of Student Support Services, Rainbow Cycling is hoping to promote a cause bigger then themselves, bigger then Little 500.

Arrest Fest?

By Peter Stevenson · Friday, April 21,2006 9:25 a.m.

Every year during the week before the Little 500 races, police officers swarm Bloomington.

Police apologize for mistaking man's race

By Sarah Core · Friday, April 21,2006 12:46 a.m.

Police retracted a statement they made Tuesday that a 25-year-old Bloomington man and his wife, who were victims of a hate crime earlier that morning, were black.

Pitch and toss

By Alyson Brodsy and K. A. MacDonald · Friday, April 21,2006 12:23 a.m.

pitch and toss -- Senior Mariangee Bogado pitches against Ohio State at the IU Softball Field March 31. The Hoosiers will face Wisconsin at 3 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday.

Before Big Tens, IU women head to OSU

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, April 21,2006 12:22 a.m.

Senior Shannon Johnson, after a near mistake-free outing at the Lady Illini Invitational, looks to lead the charge this weekend as the Hoosiers head east to Columbus, Ohio, for the Lady Buckeye Invitational. Johnson received Big Ten Women's Player of the Week honors after her play at the Lady Illini.

With Final Four on the line, IU hosts Western tourney

By Lee Hurwitz · Friday, April 21,2006 12:20 a.m.

As postseason play begins Friday for the No. 16 IU water polo team, the Hoosiers have their sights set on something they have only done once before -- compete in the Final Four for the NCAA water polo championship. Before that happens, however, the Hoosiers are going to have to finish in first or second place this weekend at the Collegiate Water Polo Associate Western Division Championship at the Counsilman-Billingsly Aquatic Center, in Bloomington. This is the first time the Hoosiers will play host to the CWPA Western Championship.

Hoosiers pushing for tournament bid

By Kevin Kane · Friday, April 21,2006 12:19 a.m.

With one tournament before the Big Ten Championship, the IU men's golf team is running low on opportunities to better its odds of securing a bid in the NCAA Regionals.

IU welcomes struggling Buckeyes

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Friday, April 21,2006 12:18 a.m.

When the IU baseball team opens up its series against Ohio State, it will face a team that has played similar baseball over the last couple of weeks, as both teams have won their mid-week match ups heading into this weekend, and both teams have split their last 10 games. IU is 5-5 in its last 10 games but has won four of its last six after a split with Purdue last weekend and two victories in its last two mid-week games.

Signing off (almost)

By Alyson Brodsy and Bryan Schmidt · Friday, April 21,2006 12:09 a.m.

I'm so stretched for ideas that I will write my obligatory "goodbye" column a week early. Sure, I will have one more column run next week, but I just can't think of anything else to say right now. I'm also not a senior, but I'm about 99 percent certain I won't be returning to the IDS next year, so I feel entitled to a goodbye. Over the course of writing 29 pieces (30 including this one) for this paper, I learned the following:

I'm too old for this

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Peyton · Friday, April 21,2006 12:07 a.m.

Do you remember when you were little and your family filled a bunch of bright, plastic Easter eggs and hid them around the house (or maybe the yard) and then you and your siblings/cousins/friends ran around trying to find them?

Dead Week murdered

By Alyson Brodsy and Kirk Nathanson · Friday, April 21,2006 12:06 a.m.

The earth-shattering truth I'm about to reveal to you, dear reader, will overwhelm you with grief; your soul will dry out and crumble into thousands of colored crumbs, like Playdough left baking on the back seat of mom's Ford Explorer. The weak of heart are advised to stop here: go read the "Blender Kitty" cartoon, or "Help Me, Harlan!" until you're ready to learn what God himself is afraid to know.

For whom the bong tolls

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, April 21,2006 12:05 a.m.

There is a renewed push afoot to insure that students who have been caught in drug-related crimes are denied financial aid to universities and colleges. The idea originally came from Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., in 1998, when he slipped a stringent no-aid-for-stoners policy into the Higher Education Act. In applications for federal financial aid, students are prompted to check the box that asks if they've ever been caught using or selling illegal drugs. If so, no aid for you.

Moussaoui's lawyers rest their defense as no evidence to 'shoe bomber' found

By Alyson Brodsy and Matthew Barakat · Friday, April 21,2006 12:02 a.m.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Defense lawyers closed their case for sparing Zacarias Moussaoui's life Thursday after the government admitted it had no evidence that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were to have joined in a hijacking as part of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, as Moussaoui claims. Prosecutors then opened their rebuttal case with testimony from psychiatrist Raymond Patterson, who has examined Moussaoui and disputes claims of doctors summoned by the defense that the terrorist conspirator is schizophrenic.

White House hosts Chinese president's 1st visit

By Alyson Brodsy and Martin Crutsinger · Friday, April 21,2006 12:01 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed to cooperate more closely on trade and nuclear tensions over Iran and North Korea but failed to break new ground Thursday toward resolving a host of differences. Their meeting was marred by a protest. No breakthroughs had been expected during Hu's first visit to the White House as the president of China. Both he and Bush acknowledged at a picture-taking session that much work remained to be done and that the two sides would strive for progress in these areas.

Kappa Sigma house razed

By Chip Cutter · Friday, April 21,2006 12 a.m.

Hopes of a future for the abandoned Kappa Sigma fraternity house at 1503 E. Third St. were crushed Thursday as construction crews began demolishing the historic structure.

African concert to benefit Sudanese

By Jamie Ward · Thursday, April 20,2006 11:56 p.m.

African tunes will benefit the Darfur region of Sudan and begin Bloomington's process of humanizing Sudan's civil unrest at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church.

City to recognize gender identity in Bloomington's anti-discrimination code

By Roy Maurer · Thursday, April 20,2006 11:55 p.m.

Applause erupted at Wednesday's Common Council meeting as Bloomington joined 78 other cities and counties nationwide in recognizing "gender identity" as a protected class.

BPD starts motorcycle patrol

By Elizabeth Dilts and Liz Dilts · Thursday, April 20,2006 11:55 p.m.

It's not every day that the Harley-rider, revving his engine and wearing dark-tinted, aviator sunglasses, is a police officer. But this is exactly the type of motorcycle rider the Bloomington Police Department envisions. Mayor Mark Kruzan formally introduced BPD's new Motorcycle Patrol Program at a press conference Thursday in front of city hall.

Group calls for end of rape

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Thursday, April 20,2006 11:52 p.m.

More than 100 students gathered Thursday to demand an end to the "culture of rape" at IU and called on the University to implement a mandatory rape prevention workshop for all incoming students. The demonstration behind Woodburn Hall was the second annual "Stand Up and Be Counted" protest.