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Cubs take final at offensive PNC Park

By Alan Robinson · Monday, April 17,2006 12:23 a.m.

PITTSBURGH -- If a team wants to get its offense going, PNC Park is the place to go. Todd Walker hit a two-run homer in the first inning, Aramis Ramirez added a two-run shot and the Chicago Cubs finished another successful series in Pittsburgh by defeating the Pirates 7-3 Sunday.

Hoosiers fall short against Hawkeyes

By Jonathan Hines · Monday, April 17,2006 12:21 a.m.

Playing outdoors for the first time at home all season, the IU women's tennis team split matches against Big Ten opponents Minnesota and Iowa this weekend. The No. 35 Hoosiers swept the Golden Gophers 7-0 Saturday, but could not overcome the No. 37 Hawkeyes in a tight 4-3 match Sunday. In a four-hour match against Iowa that began indoors because of weather and ended outdoors, IU failed to win the doubles point for the fifth time in 22 matches.

IU struggles in away matches

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 17,2006 12:20 a.m.

For the second consecutive weekend, the Hoosiers lost all their games on the road, falling in two to No. 17 Northwestern and one to Illinois. The final game against Illinois was called because of rain after two innings. With the winless weekend, IU falls to an even record of 20-20-1 for the season with a 3-8 record in Big Ten action.

Dodging destructive tornadoes, IU prevails

By Evan Harris · Monday, April 17,2006 12:09 a.m.

The beginning of the weekend had the No. 64 IU men's tennis team hiding for cover from destructive tornadoes in Iowa City, Iowa. By the end of the weekend, the Hoosiers pulled to .500 in Big Ten play with wins over Iowa and No. 38 Minnesota. For the first time in more than 21 years, IU defeated the Gophers, 5-2, at the Baseline Tennis Center. The last time the Hoosiers won in Minneapolis was April 6, 1985. It also was the first win over Minnesota since a 4-3 victory Feb. 21, 1997, in Bloomington.

November offense in April

By Alyson Brodsy and Ryan Corazza · Monday, April 17,2006 12:08 a.m.

It's hard to glean a lot of insight from the Hoosier football team in one spring game (especially when it's two-hand touch on the quarterbacks and coach Terry Hoeppner called a few penalties himself), but Saturday's Cream and Crimson spring football game gave attending fans one thing to think about after they left Memorial Stadium -- this team can create a lot of offense through the air.

Hoosiers split series

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Monday, April 17,2006 12:07 a.m.

After dropping its first two conference series, the IU baseball team split a four-game set at home against in-state rival Purdue this weekend, winning the first two games of the series before losing the final two. The Hoosiers (12-20, 4-8 Big Ten) won the opening game of the series behind three scoreless innings of relief by sophomore pitcher Doug Fleenor and a potent middle of the order.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 17,2006 12:05 a.m.

As a 1970s IU grad, I was first gladdened, then saddened, when a Google search on Mary Winkler (the Tennessee wife who killed her preacher husband) led me to an IDS column (Amy Obermeyer's "'Foxy' ladies," IDS April 6).

Separation anxiety?

By Melanie Sims · Monday, April 17,2006 12:04 a.m.

Nebraska's only black senator, Ernie Chambers, is fighting to re-segregate Omaha district schools. He might not describe it in those terms exactly, but the legislation he backs is pretty clear. Public schools in Omaha, according to the New York Times, will be divided into three racially distinctive districts -- one largely black, one largely white and one largely Hispanic.

Info overload

By Brian J. McFillen and Brain J. McFillen · Monday, April 17,2006 12:04 a.m.

Didja have a nice Easter weekend? Didja go on an Easter egg hunt? And have Cadbury cream eggs? And sit on the Easter Bunny's lap? And throw Easter grass all around? And break out those Peeps you've been keeping stashed away in the pantry since last Easter, so they'd be nice and crunchy? Well, didja have a good time? Well, didja? Didja? Didja?

A place to call home

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 17,2006 12:03 a.m.

In most situations, April showers bring May flowers. But from the outset, the predicament of the IU American Indian Student Association seems anything but immediately floral.

Formation of new Iraqi government stalled as legislative session delayed

By Alyson Brodsy and Vanessa Arrington · Monday, April 17,2006 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. military said four Marines were killed during combat Saturday in the volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad raising the number of American service members killed so far this month to nearly 50.

Pope focuses on Middle East peace in 1st Easter message

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:59 p.m.

VATICAN CITY -- In his first Easter message as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged nations to use diplomacy to defuse nuclear crises -- a clear reference to worries over Iran -- and prayed that Palestinians would one day have their own state alongside Israel.

Bloomingtoid

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:57 p.m.

Indiana is ranked as the 29th most violent state in the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics. Indiana has about 325 incidences of violence per 100,000 Hoosiers.

Local disc golfers taking sport to next level

By Zack Teibloom · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:57 p.m.

Contrary to popular opinion, "frolf," or sometimes, "frisbee golf," is not just a nonchalant game for hippies to play barefooted. For starters, it's called disc golf and the sport is flourishing in Bloomington, which is home to three courses and an active club, which takes its sport seriously. The Bloomington Disc Golf Club competes in league-play twice a week and holds frequent tournaments, even in the winter.

Volunteers encourage students to donate furniture to charity

By Katrina Babin · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:57 p.m.

Unwanted furniture might be the last thing on the minds of IU's graduating seniors, but Anne Pollard and Ned Wenstrup know from seeing curbside couches the lack of options students have when moving out at the end of the year. Pollard and Wenstrup are volunteers for Bloomington's chapter of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, an international nonprofit charitable organization for the impoverished. For the last 15 years, the Catholic service has collected used furniture from locals to deliver to those in need.

IDS, Arbutus name future publication leaders

By Lee Hurwitz · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:55 p.m.

Friday the student media board announced new editors for the Indiana Daily Student and the Arbutus yearbook. The board named junior Eamonn Brennan the summer editor in chief for the IDS, junior Michael Zennie as fall editor of the IDS and junior Lauren Cooper as the editor in chief of Arbutus.

Black Thursdays organizers out to make awareness fashion

By Dana Tesser · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:55 p.m.

For those having trouble deciding what to wear Thursdays, the choice has been made a little easier by the IU Men's Coalition. The group is encouraging IU community members to wear black every Thursday in April, which is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, as part of the international campaign, "Thursdays in Black."

For some people across the nation, decorating eggs isn't just for Easter

By Alyson Brodsy and F.N. D’Alessio · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:53 p.m.

BELVIDERE, Ill. -- Decorated eggs aren't just for Easter anymore. That was the message Donna Thomas of Belvidere and Julia Smith of Beloit, Wis., conveyed as they set out their "eggery" one early spring morning. They were preparing not for the holiday, but for the 13th annual Rockford Egg Show and Sale, which featured the works of eggshell artists from eight states, including California and Oklahoma.

Saul Williams at IU tomorrow

By Nina Mehta · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:52 p.m.

The famed slam poet and modern-day Renaissance man Saul Williams will perform a free concert 7 p.m. Tuesday as part of the Hip-Hop Awareness Festival, hosted by Union Board. The rapper-poet-writer-actor-singer-preacher will guest perform his spoken-word poetry. Describing Williams as one of the most multi-visioned artists that he knows, senior Alfonso Lerma, Union Board diversity performance director, said he already had Williams in mind last year for this event.

Dance-heavy 'A Chorus Line' on stage now through Saturday

By Brandon S Morley · Sunday, April 16,2006 11:51 p.m.

It was July 25, 1975, when "A Chorus Line" opened on Broadway, letting audiences know there was still life to be lived by big musicals. This big musical paid tribute to the thousands of chorus dancers called "gypsies" roaming New York City's cast calls. The IU Department of Theatre & Drama's season finale is a show about dancers trying to get a job in a dance chorus. The production opened Friday at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre with additional performances to be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.