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ACCIDENT

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:07 a.m.

ACCIDENT -- Kaneka Kidd holds her son Jaylyn Adam Ellis' helmet while sitting outside her home in Gary Tuesday. Jaylyn, 6, was taking turns riding a four-wheel ATV and wearing the helmet when he was killed by a speeding car that veered out of control after an accident on the city's west side Monday.

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Wife of Iraq hostage asks for call

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:05 a.m.

LAPORTE, Ind. -- The wife of Indiana businessman Jeffrey Ake broke the public silence she had kept since he was kidnapped a year ago in Iraq, saying Tuesday she believed he was still alive even though there has been no word about him since days after his abduction.

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State struggles in survey

By Kristi Oloffson · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:02 a.m.

A recent survey ranked each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia by its efforts to prevent unintended pregnancies. Indiana placed 49th, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

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Speaking out for equality in silence

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:59 a.m.

Members of the GLBT community and their straight allies march for the annual National Day of Silence Tuesday. Organizers said the day is intended to bring about awareness of the everyday social oppression experienced by a significant portion of the student body. Participants observed the day by taking vows of silence, participating in scheduled "Kiss-Offs" outside of Woodburn Hall and walking in the hour-long, silent march around campus.

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Speaking out for equality in silence

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:56 a.m.

Senior Nick Connor practices silent activism near Ballentine Hall while gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight couples embrace behind him in observance of the National Day of Silence Tuesday.

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The worst-case scenario

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Newkirk · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:53 a.m.

When you work with the news, your media can sometimes be fickle. On slow news days, we run an entire front page of filler. On other days, like Tuesday's paper, we have to make room for several huge stories at once.

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IMU design students win awards

By Peter Stevenson · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:52 a.m.

Walking through the Indiana Memorial Union, students are bombarded with images. signs, posters and flyers cover the walls in some places. Many of these graphics are designed by the IMU's team of graphic designers, several of whom won awards in last month's Association of College Unions International "Steal This Idea" graphic design competition. 2005 IU graduate Matt Marosz won first place in the two-color brochures (eight panels or less) category for a catalog he designed. Marosz was also an honorable mention in the cards, postcards, and invitations category for his Union Board biennial invitation. Senior Chris Sommerfeld won third place in the Signs category for the signs he designed for Sugar and Spice, which encourage customers to use credit cards as payment.

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Educator joins elite group

By Dana Tesser · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:51 a.m.

George Kuh, director of IU's Center for Postsecondary Research, recently joined an elite group: He is one of only five individuals to ever receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College Personnel Association.

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Market me happy

By Alyson Brodsy and Derek Kagemann · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:46 a.m.

If you're reading this column, then chances are you are a prime demographic, and I've just tapped into the nirvana of corporate marketeering. Your hopes and dreams, insecurities and fears, they are all worth millions -- not to you, but in the boardroom.

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Hip Hop Awareness Festival week aims to change views

By Kristi Oloffson · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12:45 a.m.

A festival this week is using hip-hop as a way to change stereotypes on campus. It will bring people together and transcend gender, age and race, said junior Alex Pyatetsky, president of IU's chapter of Hip Hop Congress. He said hip-hop is a form where different perspectives can come together.

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Where's the beef?

By Kirk Nathanson · Wednesday, April 12,2006 12 a.m.

New York has no reason to be proud of the type of person who comes out of Long Island, nor does the overwhelming number of ignorant rednecks bode well for Indiana's future. The fact of the matter is that neither region makes much of a worthwhile contribution to the common good, but both sides need to recognize that they're not all that dissimilar.

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An Angel Among Us

By Gavin Lesnick · Tuesday, April 11,2006 5:04 p.m.

One year ago today Mary Beth Crouse made two phone calls that she will never forget.

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UPDATE: Police resuscitate IU employee

By Alyson Brodsy and Audrie Garrison · Tuesday, April 11,2006 4:43 p.m.

IU police officers saved an IU employee whose pulse and breathing had stopped Monday, said IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger in a press release. Minger said officers were dispatched to the west side of Wylie Hall at about 6:45 p.m. after Paul Doughman, a 53-year-old hourly employee for the Kelley School of Business stopped breathing. Minger said Doughman also had no pulse.

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Student dies at weekend formal in Louisville

By Audrie Garrison · Tuesday, April 11,2006 8:09 a.m.

Junior Christine Wampler, 21, died at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Ky., Sunday morning, said Robert Fraction, a deputy coroner from the Louisville coroner's office. Louisville Metro Police Officer Dwight Mitchell, who is investigating the death, said the cause of Wampler's death is still unknown. Fraction said an autopsy has been performed, but that officers will wait for the results of a toxicology test to determine the cause of death, which could take six to eight weeks. IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said he had been made aware of the situation and that Wampler had been in Louisville on Saturday night for a formal event Phi Kappa Sigma, the fraternity commonly known as Skulls, was holding. Mitchell said Louisville officers were dispatched to the hospital Sunday morning. He said officers were told that Wampler and her date had been staying in the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville after the formal event. "Apparently she must have had several drinks throughout the night, and when she returned to her room, she complained of being sick," Mitchell said. "Her friend said that when he woke up, he found her in the bathroom, unresponsive."

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Versyp expects to win 'the big one' with Boilermakers

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 11,2006 2:30 a.m.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Sharon Versyp immediately set high expectations on her first day at Mackey Arena as Purdue's new women's basketball coach. Versyp, a four-year starter for the Boilermakers, met Monday with her new team, arriving at Purdue after one year as the head coach at rival Indiana. "We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun," Versyp said. "This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one."

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Attorneys: DNA doesn't match

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, April 11,2006 2:30 a.m.

DURHAM, N.C. -- DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday. Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said the test results prove their clients did not sexually assault and beat a stripper hired to perform at a March 13 team party. No charges have been filed in the case. "No DNA material from any young man was present on the body of this complaining woman," said defense attorney Wade Smith.

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Hoosiers drop 3 of 4 in Evanston to Wildcats

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Tuesday, April 11,2006 2:28 a.m.

Cold and windy conditions kept scoring to a minimum, and the Northwestern pitching staff held down the Hoosier bats in the teams' first game of their weekend series Saturday. Northwestern starting pitcher Ryan Myers gave up six hits, two runs (one earned), over 6 1/3 innings, walking five and striking out seven. Myers out-pitched IU senior starter Josh Lewis (2-5) who gave up six hits and four runs over seven innings, striking out three and walking four.

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