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Council approves funding for health care, programs

Bloomington will make it easier for people with disabilities to be involved with recreation activities, educate people about noise disturbances, help the arts thrive and provide health care to employees ' all without a tax increase.

Ignorance knows no boundaries

A couple of years ago, I wrote a column for the IDS in which I satirically applied Religious Right, anti-gay rhetoric to the greek system. I criticized it as a "deviant, so-called alternative lifestyle" and warned against a "Hellenic curriculum" for elementary schools which would attempt to recruit "our children". At the end, I explicitly labeled it as "satire." In reply, I got one threatening anonymous phone call and one letter to the editor from a sorority woman cluelessly dissecting my essay point by point, as though it could have been meant seriously.

Knight deserves proper send-off

President Brand should reinstate Coach Knight, but if he refuses to do so, he should at the very least organize a proper and official send-off for him.

It's college, not basketball camp

It was disheartening and embarrassing to see the 6 p.m. news Sunday. The entire state of Indiana, not to mention the nation, saw thousands of IU students threatening Kent Harvey with "Wanted: Dead" signs and screaming angrily at media crews. These people represented to the world the whole of IU that night, and that representation was one of ignorance and hatred.

'Real world' knows truth about Knight

The students and boosters at IU should be ashamed of themselves. They hang an effigy of the school president; they publish the e-mail address, picture and phone number of the young man who made the dastardly mistake of calling this egomaniac "Knight," with a note that says "Wanted: Dead or Alive." The students riot. Over a basketball coach? Grow up people!

BPD Blotter

University should not expect perfection

The president of IU must be out of his mind if he thinks I will support IU basketball with the unnecessary firing of Coach Knight. This was neither the time or place for this type of sanction.

Correction

IUPD Blotter

Fraternity introduced at inaugural meeting

Communication and culture undergraduates, graduates and professors filled Ashton Center-Mottier, the department's new building, Wednesday afternoon for its 2000 welcome reception. The reception was held to start the new academic year and inform students about what the major has to offer.

Delts dine with 'Playboy' Playmate, encourage new alcohol-free rush

A white limousine pulled up to the house and Playboy playmate Tiffany Taylor, Miss November 1998, walked in. She smiled shyly as fraternity members greeted her.

Ekimae proves Bloomington has decent sushi

Correction

IU basketball secretary Mary Ann Davis said last night she is not filing a grievance against Jeanette Hartgraves, a secretary in the athletic department. In an interview with the IDS Wednesday, former coach Bob Knight said his secretaries were filing a grievance, but it was later clarified that Knight was talking about an event in the past. The IDS regrets this error.

IU spokesman threatened

Christopher Simpson, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said he has been receiving harassing phone calls and e-mails since former coach Bob Knight was fired. Simpson is the spokesperson for the University. "Mr. Simpson is one of the visible people," IU Trustee Dean Hertzler said. "He's the one who everybody sees and people associate him with the decision." Knight was fired as head coach of the basketball team Sunday for violating the University's "zero-tolerance" policy. Knight said Simpson was one of the major contributors in the decision to fire him.

'Godfather II' not Coppola's only great work from 1974

Rarely has a director achieved what Francis Ford Coppola did in 1974 - the direction of two powerful, acclaimed pictures in one year. His "The Godfather: Part II" received the Best Picture Oscar, while "The Conversation," which might just be a better film, won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes and showed the film world that Coppola knew about more than just mafiosos.

Zellweger puts pulse into humorous 'Nurse Betty'

Fort Wayne auteur Neil LaBute's new film "Nurse Betty" has the most original and ingenious premise since last year's "Being John Malkovich." A modern-day "Wizard of Oz" meets "Don Quixote," "Betty" is an outrageous story in which the borderline between fantasy and reality ceases to exist, as the heroine's sheltered world faces the confrontation between romantic illusions and violent reality. The film itself is as sweet and funny as it is unnerving.

'Way of the Gun' heads in a confusing way

Bullets, blood and bag men compete for top billing in the dusty, craggy landscapes of California and Mexico as several equally malevolent criminal factions battle it out in "The Way of the Gun."

'Kings of Comedy' more than the court jester

The title of the movie is pretty sketchy. To call these four men, who went on tour in the winter of 2000 and who have had moderate success on television "The Original Kings of Comedy," is a stretch to say the least. Even if the definition were narrowed to the original kings of black comedy, one wonders who gave them permission to steal the title from Richard Pryor or even Eddie Murphy.

Baring for the Bursar Bill

Shay dances naked in a dark little bar filled with big talk, small talk, smoke and music. It's a place where half-naked women smile at red-faced men. It's a place where money, lots of money, is pushed between boobs, under g-strings and hidden in bras. Some love it, some hate it and a few who work or go there never admit it. Regardless, dancing at Night Moves pays Shay's bursar bill.

Don't Watch

Some people were led to believe from the trailer that Keanu Reeves could actually be decent as the strangling serial killer in "The Watcher." Too bad they were wrong. This movie is so predictable viewers will be wondering where their two hours went, and not the least bit scared.