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History buff David Pace studies student learning

By Kimberly Laughlin · Monday, April 4,2005 12:57 a.m.

Everyone has had it happen: You sit in class trying to grasp a concept, yet for some reason it simply will not click. Maybe the professor's intelligence level prevents him or her from explaining it well, or maybe the subject matter is so difficult that it is too much to take in all at once.

If I'm wrong, blame my mom

By Matt Glenesk · Monday, April 4,2005 12:57 a.m.

So despite all the upsets, despite all the madness and after all has been said and done, the nation's undisputed top two teams will meet tonight with the national championship on the line. Tonight's title bout portrays the classic contrast of style versus substance, glamour versus grit and all the other cliché sports jargon you can think of.

Driver of van chased by IUPD officers, officially charged with multiple counts

By Rick Newkirk · Monday, April 4,2005 12:56 a.m.

Sophomore Ravi J. Patel, the driver of the van that struck a concrete light pole in the Assembly Hall parking lot Thursday night, was arrested for resisting law enforcement, operating a vehicle while intoxicated resulting in serious injury, reckless driving, criminal recklessness, illegal consumption of alcohol and reckless possession of paraphernalia, according to the IU Police Department.

Illinois vs. North Carolina: NCAA' s latest 1-2 punch

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim O’Connell · Monday, April 4,2005 12:56 a.m.

ST. LOUIS -- It's been 30 years since the top two teams in The Associated Press poll met in college basketball's national championship game. No matter what happens Monday night when top-ranked Illinois faces North Carolina, it won't affect the sport the way the last 1-2 title match-up did. No. 1 UCLA beat Kentucky 92-85 that night in San Diego to give John Wooden his 10th national championship in his final game.

HEAD OF THE PACK

By Steve Slivka · Monday, April 4,2005 12:53 a.m.

If the first two series events are any indication of what is to come on Little 500 race day, fans could be in for quite a ride come April 16. Alpha Tau Omega rider junior Hans Arnesen picked up where he left off from his record-setting day in the Individual Time Trials as he won Saturday's Miss-N-Out competition.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:52 a.m.

Boy drowns after friends dare him to jump into lake EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- A 14-year-old boy who jumped into a chilly lake on a dare apparently drowned after he re-entered the water to retrieve his wallet, police said.

Life in the WAR ZONE

By Matthew Schoettmer · Monday, April 4,2005 12:42 a.m.

I sit in the quarters once reserved for Egyptian officers who came to Al Sahra, the Iraqi Air Force College, to give instruction on their various tactics, techniques and procedures. The base currently bears an American name (which I am unable to disclose) and houses several thousand troops like me.

'Lady From Rwanda' brings story of survival to American stage

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeff Douglas · Monday, April 4,2005 12:41 a.m.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- British playwright Sonja Linden has spent her career bringing horrific subjects to the stage. She dramatized a prison bathing strike and set another play in a concentration camp. Now, the 1994 massacre in Rwanda is the subject of her latest work.

'Alone in the Light' treats issues with comic bite

By Patrick Doolin · Monday, April 4,2005 12:40 a.m.

Bloomington's theater artists have given the community a great deal of original work this season. This burgeoning of new, local work made the Bloomington Playwrights Project "Alone in the Light" all the more exciting and gratifying. The event featured eleven monologues written and performed by BPP ensemble members, who were literally 'alone in the light' of the BPP's Lora Shiner Studio.

Students relive Charlie Chaplin silent films

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:39 a.m.

The name "Charlie Chaplin" can conjure up images of his so-called "Tramp" character, who is light-hearted and fun. Many people have probably seen some of his classic films that made him a star: "The Kid," "Modern Times" and "City Lights," to name a few.

The United Nations, take 3

By Cameron Thibos · Monday, April 4,2005 12:27 a.m.

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is not pleased with his organization, and it is easy to see why. Member states make empty pledges of aid, Annan's own son is at the center of the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, and Libya, of all countries, oversees the U.N. human rights division. Thus, Annan has decided to clean house.

Iraqi officials elect Sunni as speaker

By Alyson Brodsy and Traci Carl · Monday, April 4,2005 12:25 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Lawmakers broke days of rancorous stalemate Sunday and reached out to Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority for their parliament speaker, cutting through ethnic and sectarian barriers that have held up selection of a new government for more than two months since the country's first free elections in 50 years.

Pope John Paul II dies at 84

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Monday, April 4,2005 12:24 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II, a dynamic preacher who traveled the world, battled communism and proclaimed his moral code, set an example of how to live life. In his later years, crushed by sickness that slowed his vigorous gait and silenced his powerful voice, he became an example of how to suffer and how to die.

Indiana time switch federally OK'd

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:18 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The federal agency that oversees the nation's time zones has given Indiana permission to move the state to daylight-saving time in June if state lawmakers still debating the proposal approve the switch.

Torched Holocaust museum reopens

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:16 a.m.

TERRE HAUTE -- A Holocaust museum gutted by a November 2003 arson fire reopened Sunday in an expanded space that includes displays of books and photos charred by the still-unsolved arson. About 500 people attended Sunday afternoon's reopening of the new museum. The 3,700-square-foot building's entrance is flanked by six slender windows that resemble candles and represent the estimated 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Condos offer alternative to renting for students

By Andrew Smith and Drew Smith · Monday, April 4,2005 12:15 a.m.

Every year about this time, IU students think about their next semester in Bloomington. Apartments, greek housing and on-campus residences are usually the normal locations students choose. While those opportunities are convenient for many students, the idea of owning a home has grown for those not interested in typical housing options.

National issues discussed locally Friday

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:15 a.m.

Congressman Mike Sodrel visited Bloomington Friday to share his vision of America's future during an open town-hall style meeting Friday. City residents, students and guests packed the Bloomington Township fire station to hear Sodrel, R-Ind., discuss national preservation, the Iraq war, tax cuts and the environment. Most of the questions, however, concerned Social Security reform.

Over-the-counter alibi

By Evan Ross · Monday, April 4,2005 12:12 a.m.

When I was a kid, I was warned of the dangers of role-playing games. According to Web sites and a lot of parents, a lifetime playing Dungeons and Dragons was a life that lead to drug use, Satanism and eventual suicide via Satanic drug use. Of course, I never took any of this seriously, because I knew that people couldn't be so easily swayed by some twenty-sided dice.

John Paul II, reconciler

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, April 4,2005 12:08 a.m.

The third-longest reigning pope in history, John Paul II, will be remembered not for the length of his papacy or for his final moments in the public eye, but for his willingness to reach beyond the realm of religion and into the world of the political.

Pope John Paul II dies

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Saturday, April 2,2005 3:52 p.m.

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century and became history's most-traveled pope, died Saturday night in his Vatican apartment. He was 84.