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Hoosiers slip to 1-5 in Big Ten with weekend losses to Iowa, Minnesota

By Ari Shifron · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:59 a.m.

After taking a step forward last weekend, the IU volleyball team took two steps back this weekend. The step forward – when IU recorded its first Big Ten win against Michigan State and ended the Spartans’ 10-game winning streak Oct. 3. The steps back – this past weekend in its most recent matches, as IU suffered a 3-0 loss to No. 12 Minnesota on Friday and fell to Iowa 3-2 on Saturday. The Iowa match was particularly heart-breaking, as the Hoosiers led 2-1 before losing the final two games. In the fifth game, IU led as late as 11-9 before ultimately losing 15-12. Junior outside hitter Kelsey Hall said the Hoosiers are searching for answers right now.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters and signs autographs following her speech on April 25 at Assembly Hall.

Clinton’s biggest fans prepare to choose ‘between 2 evils’

By Kristi Oloffson · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:56 a.m.

It was just five months ago that graduate student Alicia Keebaugh was a raving Hillary Clinton supporter.She spent hours making fliers, organizing volunteers and convincing voters during the primary season that Clinton not only had strong stances on the issues, but a plan to make them happen. But eventually it became clear that Clinton wouldn’t be on the ballot in November.Now, Keebaugh plans to cast her vote for Republican nominee John McCain.Keebaugh represents a group of IU students who formerly supported Clinton but have somewhat lost interest in an election without her.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

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1st conference win, home win come in 2-1 defeat of Michigan

By Nathan Hart · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:56 a.m.

With two goals in the second half and a defensive effort not seen in previous Big Ten conference games, the IU field hockey team defeated Michigan 2-1 Sunday afternoon in Bloomington. Junior midfielder Meg O’Connell deflected a shot from senior back Dani Castro into the goal midway through the second half to tie the game 1-1. Junior forward Alina Valenti added a goal with eight minutes remaining in the game to give IU (7-6, 1-3) a lead it would not relinquish. “We fought and scratched and clawed our way in that game, and we never gave up,” IU coach Amy Robertson said. “The key element today was our communication. It was really strong on defense and on attack. It was just a full team effort.”

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Hoosiers snap scoreless streak but go 0-2 in weekend’s games

By Brandon Smith · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:55 a.m.

Coming into the weekend’s match-ups with Wisconsin and Northwestern, the IU women’s soccer team was still looking for its first conference win. Without two of their starting forwards, things where complicated for the Hoosiers. Junior Liz Holby, who leads the team in points and goals, and freshman Carly Samp did not play because of injuries.

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Hoosiers swing and miss

By Dave Leno · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:54 a.m.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Not after last season’s mountainous climb to a bowl game. As speedy as the IU football program spiked in 2007, it’s plummeted even faster in 2008.   We lamented on how scrawny, how spare, how sub-par the Hoosiers’ non-conference schedule is. And, while skeptics said early wins were a must, IU’s three straight conference losses proved their theory correct. Michigan State was strike one. Minnesota, strike two. Iowa, strike three. The Hoosiers are out.

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Floundering IU squad shut out in road loss to Spartans

By Greg Rosenstein · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:52 a.m.

Facing the top goal-scorer in the Big Ten, the IU men’s soccer team knew it needed to contain Michigan State senior forward Doug DeMartin from the opening whistle. The Hoosiers held DeMartin in check until the 82nd minute, when he gave the Spartans a late lead. Michigan State freshman midfielder Domenic Barone put the game’s final goal away just 39 seconds later to upset the Hoosiers 2-0 in East Lansing on Sunday. IU coach Mike Freitag said his team’s loss resulted from slow play on the field.

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Lynch: Iowa ‘beat us just about every way’ Saturday

By Ryan Gregg · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:51 a.m.

Following a 45-9 loss to Iowa in Bloomington, IU coach Bill Lynch played it straight. “You have to do something in the kicking game. Go get a turnover, do something offensively” he said. “They beat us just about every way.” It would be hard to disagree. On offense, IU capped off only two drives in a dozen with scores, and the Hoosiers were only in Hawkeye territory five times.

IU senior defensive lineman Arik Wolf takes a moment on the sideline near the end of the Hoosiers 45-9 loss to Iowa on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.

SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS

By Lee Hurwitz · Monday, Oct. 13,2008 12:49 a.m.

Bill Lynch sat at the podium as he began to search for a way to grasp the loss his team just suffered. He didn’t find anything. Last year, playing a team like Iowa was business as usual. But as evidenced by the half-empty Memorial Stadium in the third quarter, the deflated IU sideline and the 45-9 loss on Saturday, the promise the program displayed in 2007 continues to quickly fade away. “We have to play better,” Lynch said. “That’s what we’ll go back to working on.” “You have to do something to turn it. You have to do something in the kicking game, go get a turnover, do something offensively. ... They beat us just about every way.” The boos started to come out as early as the first quarter, and halfway through the third, the fans had had enough. As the game got out of hand, the student section dissipated as quickly as Iowa running backs Shonn Greene and Jewel Hampton hit the gaping holes in the IU defensive line. Greene and Hampton provided the force – the duo ran for 229 yards and four touchdowns – while quarterback Ricky Stanzi picked apart the IU secondary. Stanzi threw for 184 yards and two touchdowns while the Hoosiers displayed a penchant for giving up the big play.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks during a campaign rally on Sunday in downtown Scranton, Pa., as Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. left, and his wife Jill Biden listen.

Clintons begin campaigning for Barack Obama

Sunday, Oct. 12,2008 11:43 p.m.

When Bill and Hillary Clinton took the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race.

Junior Alex Berg goes for the hole Sunday morning at Cascades Golf Course. Berg and many other students participated in the Pi Beta Phi Arrow Open charity event.

3rd annual Arrow Open benefits literacy

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Sunday, Oct. 12,2008 10:57 p.m.

Sporting blue golf polos, straw hats and bags with gorilla head covers, about 300 people came out to have fun and support a good cause Sunday at the Cascades Golf Course. Many fathers and daughters participated in the third annual Arrow Open golf tournament and philanthropy event for Pi Beta Phi, in part benefiting First Book, an organization in Bloomington that is trying to combat illiteracy. The tournament included 220 participants, who each paid $40 to play 18 holes, win prizes and raffle drawings and enjoy a banquet dinner.

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Jazz ensemble kicks off week at MAC

Sunday, Oct. 12,2008 10:45 p.m.

The upcoming “Live and Free at the MAC” schedule has the Jazz Ensemble playing Monday, the Symphonic and Concert Bands on Tuesday and the Philharmonic Orchestra on Thursday. All three performances start at 8 p.m.

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‘Wildermuth’ must go

Sunday, Oct. 12,2008 9:28 p.m.

The All University Committee on Names will recommend in less than two weeks whether the Ora L. Wildermuth Center should be renamed.This move comes more than a year after an Indiana Daily Student columnist reported that Wildermuth, whom the Center is named after, espoused segregationist views.Part of the hand-wringing around renaming the building derives from the dangerous precedent it might set. Terry Clapacs, head of the Committee on Names and IU’s vice president and chief administrative officer, said officials did not want to rush into a name change because of the enormity of the decision.To be sure, a mere disagreement with one’s views does not warrant dissociation from the University. However, members of the Committee on Names must consider whether staying with the name sends an even larger and more dangerous message to the University’s populace, particularly people of color. In order to understand the significance of the Center’s name, one must examine Wildermuth’s well-documented views on race. On Nov. 19, 1945, in a letter to IU comptroller Ward G. Biddle, Wildermuth wrote, “I am and shall always remain absolutely and utterly opposed to social intermingling of the colored race with the white. I belong to the white race and shall remain loyal to it. It always has been the dominant and leading race.”In the summer of 1948, in regards to integration of educational facilities, Wildermuth argued “So few of them (blacks) succeed, and the average of the race as to intelligence, economic status and industry is so far below the white average that it seems to me futile to build up hope for a great future.”

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