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After leaving high school early, Underwood joins IU

By Dan Click · Wednesday, April 6,2005 4:41 p.m.

While the seniors at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville, Ohio, are busy picking out dresses and tuxes for prom, Dennis Underwood is worrying about shoulder pads and cleats. Underwood, a freshman running back, became the first member of IU football coach Terry Hoeppner's inaugural recruiting class to make it to Bloomington. Underwood decided instead of sticking it out in high school for one more semester, he would join IU and hit the ground running as he enrolled in January.

Following the flush

By Michael Beal · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:55 a.m.

Drinkable Bloomington water is currently receiving a $14.5 million makeover, about $2.5 million less than the Monroe Water Treatment Plant estimated it needed to finish the revised and expanded 2003 city project.

Hamilton discusses role of Congress

By Michael Zennie · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:55 a.m.

Former U.S. Representative for Indiana and 9-11 Commission Vice Chair Lee Hamilton said Congress has ceded too much power to the presidency and needs to reassert some of its fundamental authority in a speech Tuesday in the Moot Court Room of the IU School of Law.

IUPD preps for Little 500 week

By Lori Geller · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:55 a.m.

As Little 500 approaches, the IU Police Department has begun preparations for the week's traditional parties and celebrations, which often result in a spike in alcohol arrests.

IU departments see marrying of minds

By Haley Beck · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:55 a.m.

As the biggest employer in Bloomington, it's no surprise some spouses both end up working for IU. Sharing a common employer makes for some unique circumstances most married couples will never have to navigate. However, many couples say the University offers benefits for those who share a home and a workplace.

Baylor beats Michigan State to capture women's NCAA title

By Alyson Brodsy and Larry Lage · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:31 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Michigan State advanced to its first championship game with a balanced team, getting contributions from up and down the lineup. But with a title on the line, the Spartans became a two-woman show offensively and it wasn't enough.

Miller says goodbye to Madison Square Garden with win

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:30 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Stephen Jackson celebrated his birthday by scoring 33 points and the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 97-79 Tuesday night despite a poor shooting night from Reggie Miller in his final appearance at Madison Square Garden.

IU reaps benefits from cream, crimson emblem

By Cordell Eddings and Cordell M. Eddings · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:25 a.m.

As she walks down the Indiana Memorial Union hallway, no one can see IU senior Beth Levy's blue IU T-shirt, only because it is covered up by her navy blue IU sweatshirt. Like most IU students Levy feeds her fondness for anything IU with merchandise that bears the school letters.

Pulp(science)fiction

By Ryan Corazza · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:23 a.m.

It's a word with two meanings. In the first, halcyon defines itself as another name for the kingfisher bird. But it's the second definition junior Derek Kagemann drew inspiration from in naming his pulp-fiction sci-fi magazine. "The reason why I chose it is because it also means better days," said Kagemann. "People talk about the 'halcyon days of yore,' which means 'back when things were better.'

Official discusses role of U.N.

By David A. Nosko · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:22 a.m.

The United States launched a pre-emptive strike against Iraq in 2002 without the unanimous support or approval of the U.N. Security Council, an international governing body the United States helped to create in 1945. Since then, members of the U.S. government, media outlets and the American public have debated the exact role the United Nations should play in U.S. international affairs.

Seniors lose in final conference game

By Andrew Smith and Drew Smith · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:18 a.m.

Saturday night, with cool winds, a muddy field and competing against the NCAA basketball men's Final Four for spectators, the IU rugby team lost a closer-than-expected match against its strongest rival, Purdue. The match began with two quick tries by Purdue in the first five minutes on turnovers by IU's backfield. IU came back with a try and a field goal by sophomore fullback Ryan Horan.

Hoosiers look for Big Ten win on road trip

By Kevin Dwire · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:17 a.m.

After losing a nail-biting, 3-2 game against Michigan State Saturday, the IU women's softball team will hit the road looking for its first conference victory of the season Friday against Illinois. The Hoosiers' first stop will be today, when they travel to Kentucky to face Louisville in a nonconference game before continuing Big Ten play. The Cardinals have won their last six games, including back-to-back shutouts of Mississippi State University during which the team managed to put up 22 runs on 23 hits.

SAVED BY A SHAVE

By Molly Kravitz · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:06 a.m.

Shortly before sophomore Phil McLaughlin's high school graduation, he decided to stop cutting his hair. For nearly two years, he managed to grow his locks into an afro. However, after an absence of haircuts, McLaughlin bid farewell to the hair March 17, a date that marked St. Baldrick's Day, when many like McLaughlin entered the event with a full mane of hair and left with a clean, shaven head.

Pulitzer prize awarded to poet laureate, screenwriter

By Alyson Brodsy and Hillel Italie · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:05 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Academy Award-winning screenplay writer John Patrick Shanley and the nation's poet laureate, Ted Kooser, were among the winners Monday of Pulitzer Prizes in the arts. Marilynne Robinson received the fiction award for "Gilead," her first novel in more than 20 years.

Ishle Yi Park gives exacting performance

By Joelle Petrus · Wednesday, April 6,2005 1:03 a.m.

Ishle Yi Park knows how to pause. She knows how to enunciate her words and tap into the flow of her own language. Her style is reminiscent of other New York poets and slam fiends, garnished by theatrics and a lot of hand motions. This style would be expected of a Def Poetry Jam poet, and maybe of the Poet Laureate of Queens, N.Y. Park is both.

Widespread support for Panic

By Laura Cooper · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:57 a.m.

The colorful masses descended upon IU early Sunday morning as a steady flow of tie-dye clad "Spreadeads" (as Widespread fans are sometimes called) flocked to the IMU parking lot in their political bumper sticker bearing vans to start the day's pre-show festivities. Trunks opened, beer coolers and grills appeared, and the muffled sounds of bootlegged Widespread Panic songs could be heard floating from various cars; slowly, the aroma of grilled veggies, and bellows of "Beer!

Small Wonder

By Felipe Maya · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:50 a.m.

Walking through the wooden doors of Kilroy's on Kirkwood, vintage rock music mixes with waves of loud voices. The dark, chill atmosphere and assortment of liquor make it a hit on the Bloomington bar scene, a place everyone wants to get into.

21st century relevancy

By John Barnett · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:47 a.m.

Week before last, just in time to coincide with the release of the new Beck album, a friend of mine commented to me as I fawned over Beck's latest material that there had been no truly great records released since the turn of the century. Postulating that the last purely classic record to be released was Radiohead's 1997 opus, OK Computer, he went on to say that he felt bands and artists today weren't even attempting to make great records, and that the music industry would soon violently implode because of this fact.

Phelps begins summer post-trials training

By Alyson Brodsy and Steve Herman · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:47 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Michael Phelps began his post-trials training Tuesday with a series of easy practice swims while his coach considered which events he would enter in this summer's world championships in Montreal.

TiVo: greatest invention since the telephone

By Adam Aasen · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:46 a.m.

Baseball season started off this week with the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. As I watched the sport, I realized something -- I really need TiVo.