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'Hey, you there?' Students log onto Instant Messengers

By Jodi Benenson · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:57 a.m.

Does the word "buddy list" play a role in your everyday life? Do you know who SmarterChild is? How does : ) make you feel? If the above characteristics have any sort of significance and meaning to you, it is quite possible you have fallen into the trap of one of the newest crazes and most frequently used forms of modern communication technology today: Instant Messenger.

After 7 years and 4 albums...

By Jamieson Hawkins · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:54 a.m.

With four CDs under their belts, the guys of X-Ray Roger Jimmy have managed to stay together for more than seven years, despite changes in members, the challenges of marketing their original CDs and earning their college degrees. Together, front man Jason Michael Thomas, bassist Andrew Wincek, drummer Brent England and lead guitarist Jeffrey Libey have enabled X-Ray Roger Jimmy to evolve into the competitive regional band it is today.

Lumina project will incorporate service into curriculum

By Adam Aasen · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:52 a.m.

IU will receive $100,000 from the Lumina Foundation to fund service learning projects aimed at reaching first-generation students and students of color. The Lumina Foundation is an Indianapolis based organization, and provides funding for secondary education through grants.

IU professor counts Nobel-winner as friend

By Adam Aasen · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:51 a.m.

Vernon L. Smith, professor of economics and law at George Mason University, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics Wednesday said his "friends, who had been predicting it for 22 years, finally got it right." IU's Economics professor Arlington Williams was one of those friends.

State GOP plans for senior drug benefits

By Alexandra R. Moses and Mike Smith · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:47 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Republicans vying for control of the Indiana House pledged efforts Tuesday to make more seniors eligible for state prescription drug benefits, and help people save more for retirement. Their proposals would expand the number of low-income seniors eligible under the HoosierRx program from an estimated 30,000 to 100,000. The program allows some residents age 65 and older to shave 50 percent off their medication costs up to yearly limits of $500, $750 or $1,000.

Parks program provides children outdoor opportunities

By Lori Geller · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:44 a.m.

The Monroe County Parks and Recreation Department has collaborated with Girls Inc. and the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington to host the VINE program, an outdoor education and adventure course for local children. "The VINE program offers kids the opportunity to participate in outdoor activities which include collecting and matching different types of leaves, arts and crafts projects and examining critters that they find in the dirt and grass," said Cathy Meyer, naturist at the Monroe County Parks and Recreation Department. "It's a chance to appreciate nature, learn what it's like to be excited about the outdoors and become a good observer."

Recipe of a fine, young wine

By Alyson Brodsy and Silvia ten Houten · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:37 a.m.

Most of us students are here at IU to learn and educate ourselves. A lot of hard toil in the books and a bit of partying to refresh and clear the clogged brain. Or a lot of partying (as the IU grapevine proudly revealed to me when I set my flip-flop encased toes on campus dirt) and less striving. To each their own, I say.

Chicago's Anne Heaton to play Bluebird Tuesday

By Colleen Koch and Colleen Star Koch · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:24 a.m.

A Chicago native, Anne Heaton says she has been singing since she was born. "My mom says I was always humming," she says. A precocious child, she asked for piano lessons at the age of three. Her mom complied with the tot's strange request. Heaton took classical piano lessons from then until she went to college, where she traded the piano lessons for singing in a rock band.

Divino delivers delicacies

By Ashley Keen · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:24 a.m.

In Bloomington, where diners tend to be brave and receptive to new flavors, ethnic restaurants have a tremendous opportunity to showcase the cultural roots of their cuisine. But sometimes those restaurants lack courage, choosing to offer flatly American versions of their dishes. Divino, which recently replaced the short-lived L'Opera at 252 N. Walnut, boasts of an authentic Mediterranean menu. My companion and I looked forward to robust, clear flavors, with an emphasis on seafood and vegetables. What we discovered instead was an American menu disguised as ethnic cuisine that placed too much emphasis on beef and too little on seafood.

Former 3LW member sues

Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:22 a.m.

NEWARK, N.J. -- Naturi Naughton, a former member of the platinum-selling teen group 3LW, claims in a lawsuit that she was forced out of the R&B trio because she was not "ghetto enough." Naughton, 18, says she was ousted from the group, whose hits include "Playas Gon Play" and "No More," in August.

Actress announces illness

Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:20 a.m.

NEW YORK -- After nearly 20 years of dealing with the illness, Teri Garr has revealed that she has multiple sclerosis. Garr, who received an Oscar nomination for supporting actress for the 1982 movie "Tootsie," told CNN's Larry King on Tuesday night that she kept the disease secret for years because she "didn't feel it was necessary to tell anybody."

Local artists get their chance

By Lacy Kelly · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:18 a.m.

If you're like Dan Ovando, a high school student from local jazz band Le Petit Combo, "you'll play wherever you can, just for the hell of it." Fortunately, local music venues welcome that attitude. With settings as diverse as the culture and moods that change with the tempo, downtown Bloomington becomes an open forum for musicians and poets alike. It allows free music and poetry to fill its cafes and streets. Not only does it allow appreciation to its viewers but opportunities for artists as well.

Always room for improvement

By Terry Ord · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:13 a.m.

It is pretty easy to make fun of California -- it's, like, totally lala land, a plastic place full of plastic people. Well, that's what I thought, but I came back rather impressed. I spent several days visiting a friend just starting at the University of California, Davis. Being both largely college towns, I couldn't help but draw comparisons between Davis and Bloomington.

Fight for the Von Lee

By Evan Ross · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:13 a.m.

Last Friday, I was doing one of the things I love, and I was doing it for a good cause. I was outside, eating popcorn and saving the Von Lee Theater. For those readers new to town, the Von Lee Theater was one of the city's "art theaters," situated at the end of Kirkwood near the Sample Gates. Built in 1929, the Von Lee is only one of two historic theaters in the Bloomington area, holding foreign films as well as film festivals for the populace of IU. Local ownership of the majestic building ran out in 1976 where it was purchased by the theater giant Kerasotes Corporation. Kerasotes has a "film monopoly" over all of Bloomington, using this sway to ruin the Von Lee. The maintenance of the theater gradually deteriorated under Kerosotes' ownership, and the films shown also lost their high standard until the corporation decided to close the Von Lee last year.

And this fascinates us?

By Silvia ten Houten · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:12 a.m.

It was a horrific photo. The two-tone black and white image of a young man strung up by his ankles. Dead. His bare chest showed the lashings of the torture that he underwent upon being taken for an informant. That story splashed from across the newspaper, spilling over into my conscience that morning and managed to taint the aroma of my morning coffee. Normally I'm good with such pictures. I don't bat an eye-lid.

Focus on education

Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:05 a.m.

College students and their families pay too much for a public education in Indiana. Hoosiers that go to public four-year colleges and universities spend 24 percent of their income on tuition, fees, room and board and other expenses, according to a report released last week by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. The Center's board of directors includes governors, college presidents, professors and prominent business people. It was established in 1998, and the study is its second.

Enamored by indie flicks, IU students pursue their own filmmaking success

By Josh Kastrinsky · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 1:05 a.m.

It is often said that Hollywood ran out of creative ideas years ago. Judging from a lineup for this winter that includes "Jackass: The Movie," "The Santa Clause 2" and "Friday After Next," there's little evidence to discredit that statement. Who wouldn't want to pay $7 and give up two hours of their life to see rehashed jokes from Tim Allen in a fat suit?

Al Qaeda tape genuine

By Abdullah AlShihri and Audrey Woods · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:57 a.m.

LONDON - A voice recording of Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's fugitive second in command, appears to be genuine and to have been recorded in the last few weeks, a U.S. official said Wednesday. In the statement, he threatens new attacks on the United States and its economy. Al-Zawahri probably recorded the statement in the last few weeks, but it could have been made as early as August, the official said, adding that the recording was still being analyzed.

New evidence in sniper shootings

By Abdullah AlShihri and David Dishneau · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:56 a.m.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A tarot card with the words, "Dear policeman, I am God" was found near a bullet casing outside the school where a 13-year-old boy was critically wounded, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. The shell casing was .223-caliber, the same caliber investigators believe was used to kill six people in the Washington area and wound another, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Michael Bouchard said Wednesday.

U.S. Marine killed by gunmen

By Abdullah AlShihri and Diana Elias · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:48 a.m.

KUWAIT -- U.S. officials said Wednesday they were investigating whether al Qaeda had any links to two gunmen who killed a U.S. Marine and wounded a second in Kuwait. Friends and relatives said the attackers had been to Afghanistan and sought to "walk in the footsteps of Osama bin Laden." Kuwait called the shooting a "terrorist act" and detained more than 30 people in a search for the accomplices of the gunmen, who were shot dead by U.S. troops after the attack.