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Overlooked IMU dining

By Monica Dix · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:17 a.m.

Stepping into the Tudor Room restaurant on the third floor of the Indiana Memorial Union feels like stepping into a country club. The high ceilings, big open windows and delicate artwork make it easy to forget that the restaurant is located on IU's campus. But don't be fooled. The Tudor Room is rich in IU tradition. The high ceilings are adorned with flags that represent different schools of the University.

Chargers put franchise tag on star quarterback

By Bernie Wilson · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:14 a.m.

SAN DIEGO -- For a guy who wasn't expected to do much last season, Drew Brees sure got a nice raise. The San Diego Chargers used their franchise tag Thursday on Brees and will offer him a one-year contract at just more than $8 million. The quarterback made $1.56 million in base pay last season, when he led the Chargers out of the NFL's basement to the AFC West title at 12-4. The Chargers needed to put the tag on Brees, the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year, to keep him from leaving as an unrestricted free agent.

New service SimpleDine now accessible to IU students

By Sam Nissen · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:13 a.m.

As Web sites like eBay and Froogle supplant shopping malls, a new market for online purchasing is surging. The expansive Internet use by students, coupled with students' tendencies to regularly eat delivery, has invited a new online dining business to IU.

What is liberal?

By George Lyle IV and Stephen Graham · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:12 a.m.

Some of you readers haven't even gotten to this sentence, due to the markedly obvious title of this column. Some of you have read to here, but you read wondering what kind of liberal propaganda I'm about to pour onto this page.

'Our Championship Game'

By Dan Click · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:12 a.m.

The annual IU-Purdue match-up always has a lot at stake -- but the stakes are even higher this year. For the third consecutive year, the Hoosiers will "Pack the Hall" in order break the school's attendance record and raise money for breast cancer research 2 p.m. Sunday at Assembly Hall.

Journalism dean candidates narrowed to 2

By Michael Zennie · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:10 a.m.

The roster of potential replacements for School of Journalism Dean Trevor Brown has been narrowed to two. The journalism dean search committee voted to send the names of Bradley Hamm and Christine Martin to IU-Bloomington Interim Chancellor Ken Gros Louis Feb. 11.

Students gather for 'racist' debate

By Andy Romey · Friday, Feb. 18,2005 12:09 a.m.

About a dozen people gathered at Read's Community leadership and Development Center area Thursday evening to discuss a sensitive subject -- racism.

Humorist writes children's book

By Janet McConnaughey · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:57 p.m.

NEW ORLEANS -- Humorist Dave Barry's daughter, Sophie, has figured out what her dad does for a living. "Of late, she's decided I'm silly, and that's my job -- I'm silly and people laugh," Barry said. True enough. But he can't read his column collections to the youngster. About to turn 5, she's still too young to understand such topics as terrorism, a wrestler's cleavage and the Democratic National Convention.

London fashion reflects international inspiration

By Alyson Brodsy and Catherine McAloon · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:47 p.m.

LONDON -- Flamboyant Welsh designer Julien Macdonald's autumn/winter offerings were the highlight of the first day of London fashion shows, revealing a collection featuring fur and crystals. But the dress that stole Macdonald's show had already had its first outing on the British Academy Film Awards red carpet the previous evening.

Organization shows big cats love

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:46 p.m.

One index finger, one hand, one arm, one rib cage, one leg and one trainer have been broken, punctured or killed in separate incidents of exotic wildlife attacks in Indiana.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:17 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Federal prosecutors have charged an Algerian man with falsely claiming that he knew about an al-Qaida plot to bomb five U.S. cities in an attempt to avoid deportation.

Small-screen Hispanic

By Felipe Maya · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:13 p.m.

Picture it: Gary, Ind., 1991. A cute, big-headed seven-year-old Mexican boy sits on the maroon carpet of the living room in his blue pajamas, red cape wrapped around his neck. He's watching "The Geraldo Rivera Show" with his older siblings on the 30-inch wood-paneled television and dreaming of being on it some day (TV, not Geraldo).

Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi rock garden on display for public

By Alyson Brodsy and Kenji Hall · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:12 p.m.

MURE, Japan -- Inside a sprawling ring built of rough hewn rocks, American sculptor Isamu Noguchi once said he "conversed with stones." Called the "Circle," the dirt yard in the southern Japanese village of Mure served as one of Noguchi's main workshops from the late 1960s. It's now part of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum that was opened to the public in 1999. From the towering, granite trapezoid "Energy Void" to dozens of unfinished works, the museum's 150 sculptures offer a snapshot of Noguchi's art during a period from the late 1960s until his death in 1988 when he made many of his masterpieces. Although its collection can't compare to the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, N.Y., the Mure site attracts Noguchi fans, modern-art buffs and adventurous tourists alike. It's also fascinating for anyone who wants to see Noguchi's works-in-progress, which bear the stamp if not the signature of the artist.

More than just letter and booze

By Adam Sedia · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:11 p.m.

To Aristotle, the only division among people that mattered was between the Greeks and the non-Greeks. Not all that much has changed at IU 2,400 years later, except instead of referring to non-Greeks as "barbarians" (though it sounds nice), we call them GDIs: God-damned independents.

Stars can be sued over indecency, House says

By Alyson Brodsy and Genaro C. Armas · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:10 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Chafing over racy broadcasts like Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl, the House overwhelmingly passed a bill Wednesday authorizing unprecedented fines for indecency.

Music students practice to make perfect

By KhaiErn Ooi · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:09 p.m.

Most non-musicians never really understand why practicing is such a central part of a musician's life. Some musicians can spend almost half the day playing their instruments. This is because musicians are on a quest for perfection, and practicing is the main tool they use to get there.

Freedom pie is bland

By Christopher Collins · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:08 p.m.

I really like the freedom of speech. I am glad it is being put in the care packages that our troops are risking their lives to bring to the Iraqi and Afghan people. It's a main ingredient in the freedom pie Bush wants to bake in the Middle East. Since the founding of our nation, it has worked pretty well for us. Freedom of speech has allowed us to evolve as a nation, to talk about flaws in our democracy and to walk and picket until we change them. Freedom of speech seems to me like a pretty good idea.

Congress called upon for Social Security suggestions

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeannine Aversa · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush appealed to members of Congress to make suggestions of their own for changing Social Security on Thursday, and said they need not fear political retribution. "It used to be in the past people would step up and say, 'Well, here's an interesting idea,'" Bush said at a news conference at the White House. "Then they would take that idea and clobber the person politically."

Class action suits to be heard in federal court

By Alyson Brodsy and Jesse J. Holland · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:07 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Congress on Thursday passed legislation that would transfer most large, multi-state class-action lawsuits to federal court, fulfilling one of President Bush's second-term goals.

Bush: Syria 'out of step' with world

By Alyson Brodsy and Terence Hunt · Thursday, Feb. 17,2005 11:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Thursday said Syria is "out of step" with other nations in the Middle East and that the United States will work with other countries to pressure Damascus to remove its troops from Lebanon.