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Professor pleads for weeds

By David A. Nosko · Monday, Sept. 27,2004 12:11 a.m.

A dandelion is a wildflower by any other name; a weed, the dandelion is not. The 2004 Simply Living Fair kicked off its sixth annual three-day affair Friday in Bloomington. Marti Crouch, a former associate professor of biology at IU, attracted about a hundred people to the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium to hear her keynote address, "Weeds Shall Overcome: Ending Our War on Nature."

Event offers law students guidance

By Kathleen Quilligan and Kathleen Quilligen · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 5:27 p.m.

Dressed in everything from suits to cutoffs, hundreds of students filled Alumni Hall Thursday for Law Day, an annual event that makes admissions officers from across the country easily accessible to students interested in going to law school.

Voter registration falls short

By Tony Sams · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:52 a.m.

More than one third of the nation's colleges give themselves a C or worse when it comes to judging their effectiveness at registering students to vote, according to a study released by Harvard University's Institute of Politics and The Chronicle for Higher Education.

U.S. Marshals celebrate 215 years

By Mike Malik · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:52 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- For many across the nation, the U.S. Marshals are Tommy Lee Jones chasing Harrison Ford down sewers in the movie "The Fugitive," but there's more to the U.S. Marshals than the movies let on. They are the oldest law enforcement agency in the U.S., they arrest more federal fugitives than all the other federal law enforcement agencies combined and today marks their 215th anniversary. The U.S. Marshals gathered Thursday at their office in the U.S.

Rights group navigates IU

By Eric Tash · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:52 a.m.

Students who are facing disciplinary action, academic misconduct or just looking to appeal a grade they received don't have to face the situation alone. The Department of Student Rights offers students guidance and advice on dealing with those issues and problems.

No longer unblemished, champs open Big Ten play

By Steve Slivka · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:49 a.m.

With first-year head coach Mike Freitag's perfect record now lost after dropping two games over the weekend in double-overtime, he looks to put the Hoosiers back on track as they open up their Big Ten schedule Sunday against unranked Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich.

Slow motion for me

By Cory Steger · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:44 a.m.

Think back to all those times when you were watching football and saw something on the TV replay that the officials somehow missed. You wished and swore that someday instant replay would be used in college football. Well, this year you finally got your wish.

Hoosiers prepare for Big Ten action

By Sam Nissen · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:44 a.m.

Last season, the IU women's field hockey program, which had never finished a season with a winning record, entered Big Ten conference play with an eye toward bucking the trend. But the tough Big Ten competition thwarted any Hoosier hopes of finishing the season above .500, as the team finished with an 8-10 record. This year's Hoosier squad enters conference play 6-2 and ready to prove themselves in the Big Ten.

on the SIDELINES

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:42 a.m.

Maddux wins 15th for 17th straight year PITTSBURGH -- Greg Maddux reached 15 wins for a record 17th consecutive season. Getting to 200 innings made him just as happy, "You always have your goals," Maddux said Thursday after leading the Chicago Cubs over the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3. "One of them is always to win 20, but you always have a goal to pitch 200 innings. If you can go out there and get your 200 innings, you have to be doing something right."

Loss to Purdue brings streak to 4

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:41 a.m.

With a four-match losing streak on their backs this weekend, the IU women's volleyball team members travel to Champaign, Ill., to take on the Illinois Fighting Illini.

Spartan Showdown

By Dan Patrick · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:40 a.m.

A new season and a new focus have come for the IU football team as it begins Big Ten action Saturday against the 1-2 Michigan State Spartans. The Hoosiers (2-1) seek to avenge both last week's 51-32 loss against the Kentucky Wildcats and their inability to defeat MSU in the last two seasons.

Road gets tougher for Hoosiers

By John Fischer · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:40 a.m.

The IU women's soccer team is on a Big Ten road trip again this weekend in what will be one of its toughest weekends of competition so far this season.

Away messages give students a way with words

By Ashley Lough · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:25 a.m.

The space stares blankly, stark white, begging for something to be written. Copying off someone else is not an option, but there isn't anything to write.

Authors increasingly publishing online blogs

By Alyson Brodsy and Hillel Italie · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:20 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Jennifer Weiner, author of the best-selling novels "Good in Bed" and "In Her Shoes," likes to spend three to four hours a day working on fiction. When she's done, time and family permitting, she updates her online journal. "When I went on my first book tour (in 2001), I began keeping a Web diary, and every day I would write about the latest indignity I suffered," she says. "And I found I really enjoyed doing it. It's a way for me to keep in touch with my readers."

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:19 a.m.

Soldier from northern Indiana dies in Iraq HIGHLAND, Ind. -- A soldier from northern Indiana died Tuesday in Iraq when his vehicle was struck by a bomb, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Woman damages Nazi art

By Alyson Brodsy and David Rising · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:19 a.m.

BERLIN -- A woman doing handsprings hurled herself into two art installations at the controversial exhibition of a collection belonging to the billionaire heir of a Nazi-era arms supplier, damaging both pieces, organizers said Thursday. The bizarre attack came late Wednesday on the top floor of the Hamburger Bahnhof museum, where Friedrich Christian Flick's collection was opened to the public earlier in the day.

MIME program teaches students new media

By Lyndsay Gilman · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:18 a.m.

In a culture where computer animated films like "Shrek" and "Finding Nemo" earn top spots at the box office, the demand for an education in new media has grown tremendously. Eight years ago, Professor Thom Gillespie decided to meet students' needs and created the master's in immersive mediated environments program, or MIME, through IU's Department of Telecommunications as a way for students to apply their innate creative talents to computer animation.

Event to benefit recovering addicts

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:16 a.m.

The local Amethyst House, 645 N. Walnut St., will host a benefit for substance abuse programs at 8 p.m. Saturday in the John Waldron Arts Center, with doors opening at 7 p.m. The evening will provide a beam of hope for those struggling with substance abuse through dance, public speaking and fund-raising.

Pastrick confident in new East Chicago mayoral race

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:16 a.m.

Mayor Robert Pastrick said Thursday he was confident he would win next month's special Democratic primary despite a boost his main challenger received when another candidate dropped out.

Back to government class

By Alyson Brodsy and Adam Maksl · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:58 a.m.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is more than one political election this November. Now, calm down. I don't want any of you to suffer from a mental overload with this new information. But, I think it is important for you to know.