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Police present new theory in Behrman case

By Joseph S. Pete · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:15 a.m.

It's been nearly a year. Nineteen-year-old Jill Behrman, a lifelong Bloomington resident who had just completed her freshman year at IU, went for a bike ride the morning of May 31, 2000. She never returned. Her bicycle was recovered later that day in a cornfield near Ellettsville, miles away from where she was last seen. Since then, police and the FBI have been investigating the presumed abduction.

Faculty honor Gros Louis

By Peter Gelling · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:14 a.m.

Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis presided over every Bloomington Faculty Council meeting for 22 years. His last meeting Monday started as usual. Professor Bob Eno began his presentation on transfer credits until he was interrupted by Council President Jim Sherman.

Hoosiers fall to RedHawks

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:03 a.m.

Wednesday, the baseball team traveled to Oxford, Ohio for a reunion of sorts for with the Miami coaching staff.

'IDS' serves readers, acted correctly

By Jason W. Bennett · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:45 a.m.

Of course the IDS was right to run the Horowitz ad -- as a self-styled public forum, it has no business engaging in content discrimination against paying advertisers. The First Amendment issue is about Horowitz's rights, not the IDS's. Whether pro- or anti-reparation, pro-life or pro-choice, Madalyn Murray O'Hair or Arthur S. DeMoss, NAMBLA or Christian Coalition, the speaker's First Amendment rights are the same, and the IDS acted admirably by not muzzling its advertisers with a speech code.

Advertisement offends intelligence, rewrites history

By Tracy Wise · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:43 a.m.

I am a senior here at IU, and I feel that it was very inconsiderate, insensitive and disrespectful of the IDS to print David Horowitz's ad in the paper April 13, considering all of the racial controversy that has been taking place in other parts of the country, and considering IU's history of racist actions toward minorities on this campus.

Johnson can't wait to race in her first and only Little 500

By Ryan Gunterman · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:42 a.m.

While she was moving from Oklahoma to Washington to southern California and eventually to Indianapolis, Kappa Alpha Theta senior Krissy Johnson never got on a bike, except for a ten-speed she had when she was little. Now Johnson is one of the fastest riders on the Bill Armstrong Stadium track and will be leading the defending Little 500 champions Friday.

Acacia rider makes strides

By Aaron Sharockman · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:41 a.m.

Acacia rider and junior Kevin Vanes realized something after his first Little 500 race last year: "I needed to learn how to ride the bike." As a rookie, Vanes was clueless about many of the intracasies that go along with the 200-lap race around the quarter-mile cinder track in Bill Armstrong Stadium.

'IDS' stood up for what is right

By Karl Born · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:41 a.m.

I want to congratulate the IDS for having the courage to print the ad placed last Friday by David Horowitz, which opposed reparations for slavery. At other schools, the editors of the newspapers were threatened by mobs of intolerant liberal activists who did not want the view supported by the majority of Americans to be heard. Some of the activists called Horowitz, who was an ally of the Black Panthers in his youth, a racist.

Alpha Delta Pi rider hopes to lead team to success

By Ryan Gunterman · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:40 a.m.

Playing on the softball team and performing as captain of her dance team in Newport, N.Y., was the only physical activity that Alpha Delta Pi senior Emily Derkasch said she did in high school. Riding a bike was something she considered a leisure activity. It wasn't until her sophomore year in college that she saw it as something more than a hobby.

Reparations separate, not unite races

By Cherry Blattert and Cherry Coldiron · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:38 a.m.

Years ago, when my ancestors landed in America, this new colony greeted them with poverty, mistreatment and mass unemployment. The vagrant Irish potato farmers crossing over into America were subject to American injustices: prejudice and discrimination. They had to labor hard to overcome looming poverty.

'IDS' letter forum comes too late

By Akesha Horton · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:36 a.m.

In a statement issued by IDS management, the IDS refers to the "reparations" ad as political speech and the opinion of David Horowitz. If one chooses to look at the ad as political speech, then the guidelines the IDS abides by, notably, "The IDS shall be governed by the canons of responsible journalism, such as the avoidance of libel, indecency, undocumented allegations, attacks on personal integrity, and the techniques of harassment and innuendo," have been violated.

Sophomore immersed in tradition, hype of race

By Sara Meinecke and Sarah Meinecke · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:36 a.m.

Sophomore Jenn Wangerin wouldn't have believed it if someone told her a year ago that she would be riding for the Roadrunners in the 2001 women's Little 500. A year ago, she had no idea what the Little 500 was. "Last year I read about the Cutters winning, and I think that was the first time I ever heard about the race," Wangerin said. "I'm from Dyer, Ind., and my coach is from Munster (Ind.), so the local paper had a story about that, too. But that was it."

Burn's fiery personality leads Sigma Alpha Epsilon

By Guy Cipriano · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:35 a.m.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon junior Dan Burns arrived at his team's pit on the north side of Bill Armstrong Stadium after completing a 10-lap set during afternoon practice last week. Burns, who rarely appears tired, yelled at two of his teammates, junior Ryan McBee and senior Will Fife, instead of taking a quick rest.

Blacks, whites must end racism together

By Amanda Smith · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:30 a.m.

I am very unhappy with the ad from David Horowitz that the IDS chose to run April 13. That ad perpetuates and incites racism in a very insidious fashion. As one of the few white attendants at Tuesday night's forum in the Teter formal lounge, I was very frustrated with the virtually non-existent response from other white people on this campus.

Horowitz tries to hide institutional racism

By Daud Malik Watts · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:27 a.m.

All of us know that America has changed dramatically over the past five decades and is continuing to change. Besides the obvious technological innovations (affecting the ways we collect and process knowledge and construct interactions) there have also been shifts in ways we see the direction of contemporary culture heading. The cultural fabric of this nation is undergoing transformations that few of us can clearly see or articulate. One of the things that George Ritzer's theory of "McDonaldization," for example, suggests is that the quest for efficiency, calculability and control in business has created a trend in culture towards sameness, limited choices and dehumanizing robot-like work conditions in many other fields, including education.

Construction will limit campus traffic

Thursday, April 19,2001 12:21 a.m.

A large portion of 10th Street will be closed this summer for utility construction work.

Bus service available for Little 500 weekend

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:19 a.m.

The IU Bus System's late night bus service is available for the upcoming Little 500 weekend.

Ad's timing poor

By Shannon Walden · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:18 a.m.

I would like to say that I thought it was very insensitive of the IDS to print the ad written by David Horowitz two days after the announcement of Gwen Paulk's death. Some of my elders spend their whole lifetimes at institutions like IU to ensure that the misinformed are educated on the true history of African Americans and also to stimulate debate that excites intelligent thinking and opinion. The IDS did not take this into consideration when they printed the full-page ad/endorsement.

Alcohol played role in death of student

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:18 a.m.

Recent autopsy reports indicate alcohol contributed to the death of freshman Berkley Branson Saturday. Branson was fatally injured after reportedly exiting a moving vehicle driven by Matthew Willett of Evansville.

'IDS' should have presented both sides

By Candice Lowe · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:15 a.m.

I am an African American, and I am not sure where I stand on the reparations debate. It is a complex issue, and thus the "answer" is not reducible to a simple "yes" or "no." I was also on the "A Team" that approached the IDS on Sunday night about the Horowitz ad.