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Ketchum leads IU in Hoosier Open

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:49 a.m.

In the first indoor meet of the season for the men's track and field team, one Hoosier has already provisionally qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships. Junior Ryan Ketchum hurled the shot put past the NCAA Provisional standard of 17.75 meters to grab first place with a mark of 17.84 meters.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:48 a.m.

Women's track and field begin season The IU women's track and field team opened up its indoor season on a dominating note as the team held its annual Hoosier Open meet. The Hoosiers won 8 out of 19 events and had strong placed finishes in the others.

IU holds double-digit lead for majority of game to upset Wisconsin 74-61 at home

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:42 a.m.

Whatever IU coach Mike Davis put in his Hoosiers' Wheaties this past week worked. Coming off a disappointing and embarrassing 21-point loss at Northwestern in the Big Ten opener Wednesday, IU regrouped and defeated Wisconsin at Assembly Hall 74-61 Saturday night.

Defining an IU surprise

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Glenesk · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:39 a.m.

Surprise: To cause to feel wonder, astonishment or amazement, as at something unanticipated. Hmm, did Webster mean hearing Bloomington got slammed with 20 inches of snow or the rumors that Brad and Jennifer are on the outs?

Unofficial results show Mahmoud Abbas as Arafat's successor

By Alyson Brodsy and Ravi Nessman · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:39 a.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian Authority president by a wide margin Sunday, exit polls showed, giving him a decisive mandate to renew peace talks with Israel, rein in militants and try to end more than four years of Mideast bloodshed.

Lilly Endowment gives IU $53 million grant

By Michael Zennie · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:31 a.m.

The Lilly Endowment gave IU-Bloomington an early Christmas present Dec. 16 -- a grant for $53 million to fund the new Metabolomics and Cytomics Initiative (METACyt), the largest the campus has ever received.

Tears, joy mark end of IU women's rush

By Haley Beck · Monday, Jan. 10,2005 12:30 a.m.

Sunday morning freshman Leslie Jobb had nothing left to do but wait. She made it through 19-, 12-, six- and three-party with only a few minor disappointments and sleepless nights. However, she was in love with one sorority, and by 1 p.m. she would find out if the sisters there felt the same.

Hossler announces decision to resign

By Tony Sams · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:58 p.m.

Donald Hossler, IU vice chancellor for enrollment services, has stepped down from one University administrative position and will step down from another this summer.

Rivers continue to rise, threaten Indiana towns

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Callahan · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:48 p.m.

Rain-swollen rivers continued to rise Saturday in southwestern and south-central Indiana, threatening some communities with the highest floodwaters in nearly a century as soggy towns upstream began cleaning up the watery mess.

Skiers hit slopes close to home with local club

By Jackie Faine and Jacqueline Faine · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:47 p.m.

Speeding through fresh white powder isn't just reserved for those within driving distance of a major mountain range. The Alpine Ski Club of Bloomington offers these thrills and more for city residents and guests wishing to feel the excitement of a brisk winter wind whipping in their face.

Returning students melt 3 weeks of frosty business

By David A. Nosko · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:46 p.m.

IU appreciates the student's brain; Bloomington appreciates the student's wallet. The IU campus community encourages several million dollars' worth of currency exchange between institution patrons and city businesses. Bloomington business owners, as a result, often struggle to keep their shops ship-shape and financially afloat during national holidays and breaks from the rigors of academic study because of the massive migration home of campus-affliated town guests -- the tens of thousands of IU students.

Owner restores Frank Lloyd Wright house for public

By Alyson Brodsy and Joe Milicia · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:44 p.m.

WILLOUGHBY HILLS, Ohio -- If Fallingwater is Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest work, then a house he designed in this Cleveland suburb is one of his most livable. Owner Paul Penfield has opened up the Louis Penfield House to guests after spending four years restoring it to the architect's original vision. The 60-year-old Penfield lived in the house during his teenage years.

China pressured to crack down on piracy

By Alyson Brodsy and Martin Crutsinger · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:42 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration wants China to crack down on the rampant piracy of U.S. movies, music and computer programs and will not be satisfied until copyright violators get stiff prison sentences, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans said. Evans, who on Monday was leaving on his fourth and final trip to China as a member of President Bush's Cabinet, said in an Associated Press interview that he wanted to learn firsthand what China was doing to fulfill promises to better enforce its intellectual property laws.

Reconstruction deconstructed

By Brian McFillen and Brain J. McFillen · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:42 p.m.

Last week, a run-on sentence and a severely mixed metaphor followed by a cascade of dangling participles led to the tragic collapse of this column, afflicting dozens with eye strain and a widespread sense of confusion.

Tides of sympathy

By Melanie Sims · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:40 p.m.

If a brown person is hit by a tsunami, and there's no Swedish vacationer around to hear the storm's roar, will the media still make a sound? In the past few days, I've been analyzing American media's coverage of Dec. 26's tsunami. And I've developed this theory:

U.S. troops kill 5 after bombing wrong house

By Alyson Brodsy and Bassem Mroue · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:40 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- American troops opened fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and three civilians, police said Sunday, a day after the U.S. military acknowledged five people were killed when it bombed the wrong house during a search operation in northern Iraq.

'Julie D.' leaves audience thinking

By Patrick Doolin · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:39 p.m.

Local resident Mike Smith's "Julie D." is rich with allusion, heavy on antithesis and eager to find humor in the dramatic. After an off-off-Broadway run, the play opened this weekend at the John Waldron Arts Center Rose Firebay under the direction of Bloomington Playwrights Project artistic director Richard Perez and co-produced by the BPP and the Bloomington Area Arts Council.

Liberals can be idiots, too

By Daniel Hiester and David Hiester · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:39 p.m.

My New Year's resolution is to stop whining about last year's presidential election. What happened in 2004 should stay in 2004. Instead, I'm going to whine about other people who whine about the election.

Sudanese government reaches peace deal with rebels

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Tomlinson · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:39 p.m.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sudanese leaders signed a peace deal that, if implemented, will end Africa's longest-running conflict and transform politics in a nation that has spent 40 of the last 50 years at war with itself. Turning the incredibly detailed agreement into reality, though, may prove more difficult than the eight years of talks required to draft it.

What's in a name?

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Jan. 9,2005 11:36 p.m.

Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is embroiled in a tussle with the United Daughters of the Confederacy over the name of a residence hall the group helped build. Vanderbilt wants to change the name because of the campus' increasingly diverse student body. The UDC wants to maintain the name because it believes a 1930s contract entitles the group to demand the maintenance of the name.