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Immigration spurs new culture series

By David Griggs · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 12:29 a.m.

Graduate student Jennie Woolf immigrated to Israel two years ago. Though born and raised a U.S. citizen, Woolf said she never felt American. After graduating from the Kelley School of Business, she took a corporate job in Chicago. "I hated it," Woolf said. "So, I met with an Israeli adviser in regards to volunteer work I could do there, and when I left her office I had decided to immigrate. It wasn't really a planned thing, but it just felt right." To work on her master's degree, Woolf has now returned to Bloomington and is sharing her experience in Israel with students.

UITS offers help for podcast novices

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 12:27 a.m.

Kimberly Ruff, marketing and sponsorship director of Recreational Sports, plans to use podcasts to share tours with prospective students, to demonstrate how to use the different equipment and to share fitness and wellness tips. Play lists or set lists would be ideal for organizing the exercise workouts. All she and her colleagues need to do is learn how to make a podcast.

At the end of the rainbow

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 12:25 a.m.

What is pride? "To me, gay pride is just to go and have a good time with people who are accepting of me and I am accepting of them," said James Cummings, GLBT student support services office assistant. To some people, it is a sense of togetherness. This weekend the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., will offer the opportunity for such camaraderie with the PRIDE Film Festival, a series of 31 films that will run in several areas around Bloomington.

Around the Arts

Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 12:09 a.m.

Black Film Series WHEN: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave. MORE INFORMATION: The Black Film Series educates students and the IU community about the black experience through films, videos, slides and more.

Abducted mom, 4 children found safe near Elkhart home

By Tom Coyne · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:38 p.m.

ELKHART, Ind. -- A tip from a pizza man and a secret message in a phone call helped lead to the arrest of a man accused of abducting his ex-girlfriend and their four children after shooting a man.

City buses end nights early due to lack of funding, resources

By Shannon McEnerney · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:38 p.m.

Junior Kelsey Byers takes out her bus schedule to coordinate her agenda after her class ends at 6:45 p.m. She has 15 minutes to catch the 7 o'clock bus after her class. "After 7, the buses don't run until every 30 minutes (as) opposed to the 15 minutes they usually run," Byers said. "I usually have someone pick me up." If Byers doesn't catch the 7 p.m. bus, she has to wait 40 minutes: 30 for the bus in addition to the 10-minute walk to her stop. "I used to work for Safety Escort and we would pick up people inconvenienced by the bus schedule all time," Byers said.

Bloomington plays host to sweet week of chocolate

By Elizabeth Dilts · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:38 p.m.

The Victorian maxim "moderation in all things" has become a mantra of American culture, being preached by fitness buffs and wellness gurus alike. These people obviously don't understand Bloomington's taste for chocolate.

'The Departed' banned from China

By Min Lee · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:28 p.m.

HONG KONG -- Martin Scorsese's hot crime thriller "The Departed" -- in which Boston gangsters try to sell computer technology to ethnic Chinese villains -- won't be showing in China. A state-run distributor has rejected the film, an industry executive said Thursday

Jordan River Forum

By Aparna Venkatraman · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:18 p.m.

Columnist should concentrate on Planned Parenthood's good qualities In Abram Hess's Jan. 18 column "An easy choice", he describes a discussion with an animal-rights activist and gets her to admit that she would never want to be in the difficult position of whether or not to kill a violent dog, and that is why he is anti-choice. Hess never mentions there is a way to avoid the position of having to choose an abortion -- make contraception more accessible and provide comprehensive sex education in school. Fewer unplanned pregnancies will lead to fewer abortions, which is something that both the pro-life and pro-choice sides can stand behind. Instead of berating Planned Parenthood for "raking in money by the boatload to kill human beings" (a statement incredibly fraught with debate), why not support it for the other important services it provides, including contraception distribution and gynecological care, that prevent an estimated 617,000 unintended pregnancies annually, according to the Planned Parenthood Web site? This will lead to fewer women having to face a difficult choice -- a choice that Hess, as a male, will never have to make.

Killing the messenger

By Thomas Wachtel · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:13 p.m.

Dakota Fanning gets raped in her next movie. Did that get your attention? The film is called "Hounddog," and it will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next week. The movie features Fanning as Lewellen, a young girl who lives in a world dominated by a cycle of violence and abuse.

Film with rape scene featuring 12-year-old actress stirs debate

By Debbie Hummel · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:11 p.m.

PARK CITY, Utah -- At a festival that features several films with sexual content, including full male nudity and a documentary about bestiality, a Southern Gothic tale that includes the rape of a young girl is causing the biggest stir.

Women 'expose' their art

By Michelle Manchir · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:08 p.m.

More than 20 women, both Bloomington residents and IU students, will showcase their artwork at the third annual Women Exposed art exhibition and benefit from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday at the Art Hospital.

Thin is 'out' on the runway

By Katrina Loh · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:07 p.m.

The latest trend gracing the runways this season won't be a new Chanel bag or Dolce & Gabanna jeans, but healthier models.

High cost of low action

By Edward Delp · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:06 p.m.

Illegal immigration is a serious problem. While this might seem like a no-brainer, there are those who don't see the problem. There are even those who argue in favor of rewarding illegal immigration by giving status to those who are here.

Dirty laundry

By Colin Dugdale · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 11:05 p.m.

Chlamydia, scabies, dyslexia, cholera -- you name it, it's growing in my hamper. As a result of laundry procrastination, my closet has become infested with mounds of dirty, diseased clothes. For two months, the garments have accumulated faster than Bette Midler's back hair.

Sampson not so welcome in other Assembly Hall

By Ryan Corazza · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 10:30 p.m.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Not to get all predictably cliche on you here, but Assembly Hall -- the one in Champaign, Ill. -- is quite literally a gladiator's ring.

UPDATE: Jake's cancels 'Girls Gone Wild'

By Mallory Simon · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 7:45 p.m.

Several campus groups have successfully forced the cancellation of the shirt-raising "Girls Gone Wild" event that was scheduled to take place Friday night at Jake's Nightclub. More than 125 members of the Bloomington community, including students, faculty members, administrators and campus groups, signed a petition sent to Jake's owner Dave Kubiak calling for the event to be cancelled, according to an e-mail obtained by the Indiana Daily Student.

Hoosiers hope to get back on track against Ohio State

By John Wustrow · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 7:30 p.m.

First-year IU women's basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack's welcome into the Big Ten has not exactly been easy. So far, in the first seven games of conference play, Legette-Jack has seen two teams -- No. 23 Michigan State and No. 12 Purdue -- that are among the elite in not only the conference, but the nation. And she's had to see them both twice.

Police: Abducted children still alive

By Tom Coyne · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 6:19 p.m.

ELKHART -- Police searching for a woman and four children abducted from their home over the weekend said they believed all five were still alive Monday, but they shed no light on their possible whereabouts.

Hoosiers support cigarette tax hike

By Mike Smith · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 6:19 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Sixty-two percent of Indiana registered voters support increasing the state's cigarette tax by $1 per pack if the money was used to fund health programs and smoking cessation and prevention initiatives, according to a poll released Monday. The statewide telephone survey of 500 people conducted Jan. 10 through Jan. 11 showed that 36 percent opposed a $1 per pack increase.