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Don't lose 'Hope'

By Craig Shank , Alexandra R. Moses and Deanna Martin · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Sometimes it's difficult to figure out where to look if you're interested in exploring new musical styles. Maybe you'd like a glimpse into something that's full of turntable tricks, samples and great production that pays its respects to the relaxed sounds of France. Well, dear reader, Wax Tailor is for you. Aside from having one of the best pseudonyms imaginable, Wax Tailor (JC Le Saoût) has pieced together a series of slick albums, EPs and singles after breaking away from the French rap group La Formule.

STEMing lack of diversity

By Abra Oliver · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

What makes IU special? Maybe it’s the strong academic record and national recognition of programs such as the Kelley School of Business, the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Jacobs School of Music, to name a few. How about the big red clocks as a measure of IU’s worth? OK, nix that last one.

LIVE FROM THE BEEHIVE

By Zach Pollakoff · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

There are still a certain elite who buy their music today. There is a small demographic who despise mp3 tracks, refuse to deal with digital rights management and absolutely loathe radio dubs. These rare audiophiles also love the packaging, the liner notes and the ritual of placing a brand new album in their CD player or on their turntable. The experience of shopping for new music at a store is unparalleled: schmoozing with the record store clerk, soaking in the multi-colored posters that adorn the walls, the feel of each CD spine on your fingers and the soft click each CD makes as it knocks the one before it.

Cuarón's future is now

By Brian Hettmansperger and John Barnett · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

It's 20 years from today in Alfonso Cuarón's "Children of Men," based on P.D. James' '90s sci-fi novel, and no woman has been able to get pregnant since 2009 nor do they know why. Upon the breaking news that the last baby born has died, the world goes to shit faster than you can say "pigs on the wing." Soon after, we meet Theo, played with a poignant hopelessness by Clive Owen. The scenario requires some disbelief suspension, but doesn't all science-fiction?

Buskirk-Chumley Theater features ‘Amadeus’

Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

The Cardinal Stage Company, which brought “A Year With Frog and Toad” to the Buskirk-Chumley Theater last year, presents the Tony- and Academy Award-winning “Amadeus,” running this week.

Shooting blanks

By Abdullah AlShihri and Muneeza Naqvi · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

In the '90s there was this craze for what I thought of as straight-to-video big-screen movies. They weren't good enough for the big screen, yet somehow made it. Seagal, Van Damme, Stallone and the Governator all made one of those movies at some point (some never made it past those).

Committee gives proposal for ’08, ’09 student fees

By Brian Spegele · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

The student-led Committee for Fee Review released a report Wednesday with recommendations through 2009, focusing heavily on health center and transportation fee increases. Student fees decreased this year, primarily a result of ending a $15 athletics fee. However, under next year’s proposal, they will increase by 5.2 percent and another 3.7 percent in 2009. This follows University trustees relinquishing a student fees increase cap.

The Supreme Court grows a pair

By Thomas Wachtel · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

For the past six years or so, the United States government has been the bane of high school government teachers across the nation.

Iran to release 15 Britons

By Abisalom Omolo and Nasser Karimi · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a surprise move that defused escalating tension in the Middle East, announced the release of 15 captive British sailors and marines Wednesday in what he called an Easter gift to the British people.

The impending doom of my imaginary friends

By Michael Mellini and Whitney Mitchell · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Nearly a month ago, I realized the world was coming to an end. There I was, watching the last episode of "The OC." Julie Cooper went to college, Sandy and Kirsten gave birth to the WASPiest little girl ever, Ryan became an architect (so obvious, how did I not see that coming), and Seth and Summer eventually got married. My best friends were moving on with their lives and abandoning me. A tear rolled down my eye as I realized I would never chill at the Bait Shop, have a bagel in the Cohen kitchen or hide out in Marissa's lifeguard hut ever again. Be strong, I thought to myself, be strong. After all, this wasn't the first time I'd experienced loss. "Arrested Development" was canceled more than a year ago, and so far I've managed to survive. I assured myself I still had other TV friends to keep me company, and as I began to think of them, I realized they soon would be gone, too. I was speechless. Everything I have known and that has made up the last six or so years of my life would soon end. I would be alone in the world.

Myers’ family works on second appeal for convicted killer

By Brian Spegele · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Even as initial efforts to obtain a new trial for convicted murderer John Myers II have failed, his mother Jodie Myers has watched a team of supporters multiply along with a growing national interest.

Obama raises $25 million, rivals Clinton in fundraising

By Abisalom Omolo and Nedra Pickler · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Democrat Barack Obama raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party’s inevitable nominee.

Knight deserves due recognition

By Abra Oliver and Don Ueber · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

As you might imagine, riots followed Bob Knight’s firing. Students stormed all over campus, from Assembly Hall to the president’s office to the stadium (where they tore down the goal posts). As police readied themselves to fight back with force and start making arrests, Knight requested to address the crowd. He sent the crowd home on the promise that he’d speak again later, which he did. Why? Because Robert Montgomery Knight is a class act. If you’ve ever had the misfortune of listening to Dick Vitale commentate an IU or a Texas Tech game, you’ve heard it before: Robert Montgomery Knight Assembly Hall. Perhaps the only intelligent thing to come out of Dicky V’s loud mouth, honoring Bob Knight seems only fair. After all, three of the five red banners hanging at the end of Assembly Hall belong to him. Forget about the chair throw, the Neil Reid “choking” and everything else the media shoves down your throat, and look at everything he’s accomplished. Three NCAA championships, 11 Big Ten conference championships, a four-time National Coach of the Year, 891 career wins. He took Texas Tech, a team with a losing record the prior season, to the NCAA tournament in his first year. He can coach (and his players graduate). As Indiana’s coaching dilemma has come to a close with savior Kelvin Sampson, and Knight’s career nears an end, it seems like an appropriate time to honor the legend and everything he’s done for our program. Other schools haven’t hesitated to honor their coaches. Duke’s court is named “Coach K Court” in honor of Coach Krzyzewski (who, I might add, played under Knight), and he hasn’t even retired yet. Whether you agree with Knight’s methods or not, he wins games. In fact, he’s the winningest coach in the history of men’s college basketball. It’s sad that he wasn’t able to accomplish that feat here at Indiana, where he collected 661 wins (to just 240 losses), but it’s not too late. We still have an opportunity to honor him by renaming Assembly Hall or, at the very least, the court. Don Ueber Sophomore

Anthem for Hot Topic

By Chris Green , Alexandra R. Moses and Deanna Martin · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Well, if anyone was wondering if Good Charlotte still sucks, take one guess. Karma's a bitch, because we're still forced to be subjected to this trash disguised as legitimate music. This is their fourth release in their 11-year existence and it seems like an eternity of headaches. From the get-go, we find the boys trading in pseudo-punk-rock guitars for dance beats that seemed to have been vomited out by a sleazy executive who works at Epic. Well, the pop-punk thing didn't work, so let's try something even worse. The new sound doesn't help their cause. It's the same old manufactured defecation.

‘Lookout’ for your soul

By Abram Hess · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

On Monday in Lookout Mountain, Ga., four activists from the militant homosexual liberties group Soulforce were arrested for trespassing on the campus of Covenant College. They had been participating in an “Equality Ride,” a seven-week tour of demonstrating and pamphleteering at Christian colleges and seminaries, with the intent of undermining those institutions’ commitment to biblical sexuality.

Louisville defeats Hoosiers in close game

By DeAntae Prince · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

In the bottom of the sixth inning with two outs, the IU softball team still had one chance to salvage what looked like another road loss.

Man threatens to cut woman’s tongue

By Michael Reschke · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday after threatening to cut off a woman’s tongue.

Around the World

By Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syria’s leader Wednesday despite White House objections.

Playin’ it Shaffe with the Gotti boys

By Abra Oliver and Ben Kappes · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

In response to “Go to hell, NASCAR (and stay there),” April 3: That’s it, Andrew Shaffer. I am putting my foot down. On a daily basis it becomes ever more excruciatingly painful to hear the opinions of a wannabe, god-awful sportswriter. Thanks for the picture in the IDS, as you appear to be wearing an MLB hat, but I have a gut feeling you never played a sport in your life. Maybe you played intramural basketball where you wore a pink polo shirt, but that doesn’t count. I bet you never ran 25 straight suicides during basketball practice, went through football two-a-days during the scorching months of an Indiana summer or dove for a fly ball. It’s sad to read the work of a sportswriter who received his limited knowledge by reading his old man’s Sports Illustrateds on the john. I sense that you and John Clayton would become fast friends. Andrew Shaffer writing about NASCAR is like Steve Irwin swimming with stingrays; they don’t mix. How the hell does someone from New Jersey even write about NASCAR? Shaffer said NASCAR should go to hell, but 75 million fans would disagree. NASCAR is the fastest growing American sport with drivers who possess the skill and coordination to handle speeds of 190 on 31 degree embankments for four hours. NASCAR is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year business, yet still embodies down-home blue-collar values. Shaffer wouldn’t understand these values, as growing up in New Jersey he probably only ate caviar and filet mignons after riding in his daddy’s Mercedes. He writes about Americans glamorizing the Jiffy Lube guy, but I would bet a good amount of cash he doesn’t talk crap about him when he is changing the oil in the Lexus his parents bought. Thank you, Andrew, for hating NASCAR, as I would never sit by someone at a race who is using hand sanitizer and drinking wine coolers while I’m pounding Budweiser cheering on the No. 8 Chevrolet of Dale Jr. with my shirt off. Andrew, maybe if I come to New Jersey, we can hang out with the Gotti boys and swap G-Unit chains and flat-billed Yankees hats. Ben Kappes Senior

Eric Gordon

By Brian Janosch · Wednesday, April 4,2007 11 a.m.

He’s a son. He’s a brother. He’s ridiculously good at basketball. More than anything, he’s proof that potential comes from somewhere.