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IU Relays canceled due to bad weather

By Aaron Beard · Friday, April 6,2007 12 a.m.

The Indiana Relays track meet scheduled for Friday and Saturday is canceled due to bad weather, according to a news release from the IU Athletics Department.

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Sarah ‘Moe’ shows her ‘many faces’

By Lindsey Landis · Friday, April 6,2007 12 a.m.

Renee’s nasty attitude was finally called out by Tyra herself. The girls were asked to change their names to dreadful things like “Whitelle” and “Wholahay.” Jael took a dive off the deep end after harassing superstar 50 Cent. God, I love this show. The biggest shocker of Wednesday night’s episode of “America’s Next Top Model,” however, was probably the loss of cute, pixieish Sarah. I was expecting Renee, Whitney or even Jael to get the boot. I had a chat with Sarah to ask why she thought she was the latest girl eliminated, to ask her a few lingering questions from previous episodes and to see what she is up to now. The perky girl definitely isn’t too worried about her future. Before the show, Sarah already had a contract with Elite Modeling in Chicago. She works as a fashion and advertising photographer, and her recent undertaking is a new record label. She told me to check out her MySpace page (www.myspace.com/sarahvonderhaar) and listen to some of the Sheryl Crow-esque songs that were inspired by her experiences on the show, and I have to say that this girl has a future. I am not sure what field it will be in, but she is going ... somewhere.

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Middle Way House hosts forum

By Jessica Andrews · Friday, April 6,2007 12 a.m.

The mood was solemn at the Monroe County Public Library on Wednesday night as a panel of representatives from Middle Way House and other groups introduced themselves to the audience and outlined the activities of the evening.

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IU hosts Northwestern for 4-game Big Ten series

By Lee Hurwitz · Friday, April 6,2007 12 a.m.

It looked as if the IU baseball team was on a roll. After winning seven games in a row – the longest winning streak under head coach Tracy Smith – the Hoosiers suffered a setback last weekend in its Big Ten opener against Michigan State.

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Little things should be appreciated

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

I wanted to say a few things in response to Joanna Borns’ column “The little things are overrated” in the IDS on March 28. While I respect her opinion for the point of our creation of artificial value, I’m not sure if Ms. Borns is being completely considerate of the “little things.” What makes little things special is that they don’t take over our life. They are peaceful pauses in all of our busy lives to step back and appreciate something that we often overlook. What makes them special is the personal aspect of each object. My little thing might not mean anything to you, but to me, it’s something great and delicate. You don’t have to let the little things take over, and I agree with Ms. Borns that no one should let them, because then they aren’t little anymore. One of the least attractive parts of the article was the claim that a slippery slope, leading to an allegedly inevitable societal crash, comes with this appreciation. She claimed that “appreciation is just so vague,” but that’s precisely why the little things are great. What I value, you don’t have to, and it won’t lose value. We can’t create a standard of what is valuable because people are different. We individually create this value, but we create it for good reason. Whatever that is, it shouldn’t really matter to anyone other than ourselves. Humans value things based on our emotions, and almost anything that we come into contact with may have some sort of feeling attached to it, whether it’s pleasure, pain or even apathy. The fact is, while these emotions may take us away from our societal duties, as Ms. Borns claims, we’ve also created these duties, and we value these duties in our commitment to participating in them. I think Ms. Borns would have a wonderful experience stopping to smell those roses and think about how our emotions shape our human psyche, and how those little things can mean so much more than just a leaf pressed in a book. Alex Luboff Freshman

Cute animated penguin movie

By Michael Mellini and Jessica Anderson · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

"Happy Feet" is one hell of a visually stunning movie. As a film snob, I occasionally like to complain about every animated movie now being CGI, but when films look this spectacular, there's no complaining necessary. The penguins look great; the arctic scenery is stunning and the fast-paced, soaring cinematography and editing help even more.

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Shaffer couldn’t handle NASCAR

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

I am writing in response to Andrew Shaffer’s column “Go to hell, NASCAR (and stay there)” on April 3. Shaffer’s column poked fun at and downright insulted one of the greatest sports in America. Frankly, all he did with his column was expose his own ignorance and lack of respect for this great American tradition. Everyone has heard the left-turn joke a million times, and most everything in his column was completely played out. Maybe we should put him on a track at 200 miles per hour and see if he can turn left. Jared Tucker Sophomore

Freshman Keeling to leave IU program

By Aaron Beard · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Xavier Keeling, a freshman forward on the men’s basketball team, will be transferring from IU at the end of the semester, the athletics department said in a press release Wednesday morning.

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IUB the obvious flagship campus

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

The staff editorial from Friday, March 30 (“IUPU-whine”), was quite correct in classifying IUPUI as a whiner. However, several reasons why IUB is the flagship campus were not mentioned. If IUPUI questions IUB’s flagship status, it needs a reality check. Here it is. IUB rightly deserves to be the flagship campus because of its incredible history and legacy. After all, as far as I can remember, IUB is the oldest of all IU campuses. Because of its legacy, IUB has always served as a model for the development of all subsequent satellites. This is why other IU campuses are called satellite campuses. A crash course in astronomy: Satellites are small objects that revolve around a big planet. Without the gravitational pull of the massive planet, satellites would not exist. Hey, without Herman B Wells (the greatest president of IU-Bloomington), other campuses might not even exist. Sure, IUPUI might have the medical school, but IUB has the original, nationally acclaimed and unabridged versions of the Kelley School of Business, SPEA, Jacobs School of Music, and IU School of Law. That’s a whole lot more than IUPUI. I have not heard much protest form the graduates of satellite campuses when on commencement day they receive diplomas that state “Indiana University.” If equality is what the satellite campuses want, then it would only be fair to distinguish among the universities based on their location. Though I doubt the graduates would be similarly happy to receive diplomas that say Indiana University-Kokomo, or Fort Wayne, or South Bend – you get the idea. Finally, what about enrollment? More students want to attend the IUB campus than any of the satellites. Further, IUB boasts the greatest amount of donations by alumni. Popular choice by the students and alumni speaks for itself about who’s the true leader. Another testament to IU’s preeminence comes from the mouth of IUPUI itself. IUPUI does have Purdue in its name. The fact that IUPUI whined to IUB, instead of Purdue, is a further testimony to IU’s superiority over Purdue. Alexandra Chtchedrina Junior

Advice for Disney: Stop making animated movies with more than four characters.

Meet the failures

By Brian Hettmansperger and Maria Karapetyan · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

"Meet the Robinsons" is a trifling Disney effort with too many characters to keep track of. While the title suggests a movie about the Robinson Family, it's really about an orphan inventor, Lewis, who creates a memory extractor device so he can remember who is mother is. He unveils his invention at the school science fair when a dangly guy with a Bowler hat, named Bowler Hat Guy, arrives in a time machine from the future to sabotage the science fair and steel Lewis' invention. Wilbur Robinson shows up soon after in another time machine and takes Lewis with him to the future so Lewis can meet the Robinsons and get his invention back. Confused? Me too, and I thought this was a kids' movie!

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Hip-hop IS Dead

By Abra Oliver and Eugene Johnson III · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

I am writing in response to Stefania Marghitu’s April 2 column titled “Hip-Hop Is (not) Dead.” Not only is Ms. Marghitu dead wrong about the current state of hip-hop, but the column is about as consistent as Shaquille O’Neal at the free-throw line. I take offense at Ms. Marghitu’s diss of Indiana hip-hop fans as she states, “As someone who lived in the dirty south of Alabama for 12 years, the first blatant distinction I noticed in Indiana is the lack of hip-hop culture influence in daily life.” Since when is Alabama the mecca of hip-hop culture and influence (or anything else, for that matter)? And what the hell is “ghetto vernacular”? “Crunk”? “Ballin”? Is it just your house? Well, probably yes, because those words (they’re not names) were dumb to begin with and are played-out now. While the “revolutionary impact” of hip-hop was once prevalent in the music and culture, the commercialization and mainstream acceptance of hip-hop has effectively castrated mainstream hip-hop music as a catalyst for knowledge, education and social change. Since an artist like Nas didn’t spend his whole CD rapping about “money, cars, rims, hos and clothes” with an R&B singer on the hook, his CD is a disappointment, right? This mentality is exactly why if hip-hop isn’t dead, it’s damn sure on life support. And finally, please don’t ever mention Rich Boy in a column with the other MCs you named. They all have, at a minimum, one classic album; Rich Boy has one catchy single where he’s talking about selling dope and buying a damn car. If this is hip-hop “thriving,” as Ms. Marghitu states, then I must recant the statement made in my last paragraph. Hip-hop is dead. Eugene Johnson III Graduate student

Pete Stuttgen

Sweet trade

Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Indiana was candy corn, Sweden was chocolate and Alaska was gummy fish. This was the scenario Wednesday morning at Marlin Elementary School when five IU students from the recently established Economics Club developed a lesson to teach more than 20 fourth-graders basic economics.

Fresh Prince gets 'happy'

By Kristi Oloffson · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Though much of the story is filled with heart-wrenching moments, "The Pursuit of Happyness" has found a unique niche in a realm of success stories. It's inspired by the true story of Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith), who is forced to care for his son Christopher (Jaden Smith) when his wife (Thandie Newton) leaves them after months of unpaid rent, long hours at work and little money to get by on. He's living in San Francisco with barely a job -- the salesman sells bone-density scanners when he can convince doctors they're necessary -- and "home" for the pair moves from a dirty apartment to a motel and then to the streets.

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KKK chapter fights for Bloomington rally

By Jill Gingery Jackman · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan formed to fight Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War. Though the controversial group has been known for its racist and sometimes violent past, recently the United Northern and Southern Knights chapter of the KKK says it has shifted its focus to nonviolence, immigration and universal health care.

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Ambassador to U.N. discusses security

By Whitney Wyckoff · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Feisal Istrabadi, Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N and IU graduate, spoke to a packed audience Tuesday night in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union about the state of Iraq and its implications on U.S. security.

In Queen's good graces

By Sam Nissen · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

This effeminate singer comes to us by way of London-from-Paris-from-Beruit, and he brings his worldly understanding of music from his days training under a Russian opera master and classical performances at the Royal Opera House of London. Odd resume for a future pop-star, I know. Maybe not your standard formula for success, but hear Mika pipe out fun falsetto melodies before you judge. This album pops off from the beginning with a bubblegum sound that is as happily annoying as it is impossible to get out of your head. Songs like "Grace Kelly" and "Relax (Take It Easy)" could make Freddie Mercury or Madonna jealous they're so damn catchy.

Will "Anchorman" Ferrell and Jon "Napoleon Dynamite" Heder together in the same flick? It has to be great. Well, maybe not.

Ice skating with the stars

By Zack Teibloom and Andrea Gillman · Thursday, April 5,2007 12 a.m.

Will Ferrell is at his best for much of the movie playing the standard Ferrell role of a guy who is funny because he takes himself more seriously than anyone else does and sees no humor in his garish ways. A solid, quiet performance by Jon Heder and a wide array of interesting cameos help to carry the movie, but a reliance on an endless stream of bad physical humor makes this a renter.

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