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Purdue to offer free downloads

By Rick Newkirk · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 1:23 a.m.

Purdue University officials hope to alleviate illegal downloading by students with a new free file-sharing service for students in resident halls. The Ctrax music service, provided by Purdue residence halls, offers free tethered downloads to students on a maximum of three computers. If students choose to burn songs to CDs or move them to another computer, each download will cost 89 cents.

Participants in IU Amateur Radio Club value experience

By Lindsey Jancek and Lindsay Jancek · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 1:23 a.m.

There is a club on IU's campus that allows students to talk to anyone in the world -- for free. The IU Amateur Radio Club has been around for more than 25 years, and its members include students, Bloomington residents, faculty and staff.

Fiji earns recognition, honor

By Cecelia Wolford · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 1:06 a.m.

IU's chapter of Phi Gamma Delta recently received an honorable mention from its national headquarters for top scholarship, fraternity relations and activity involvement. The Cheney Cup is the highest award that can be given within the Fiji fraternities. According to Fiji national representative Melanie Musick, the Cheney Cup represents the best aspects of a fraternity.

Groups register students to vote

By Lori Snow · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 1:03 a.m.

With the deadline for Indiana voter registration of Oct. 4 nearing, students sporting "VOTE" wristbands and "Register to Vote" T-shirts around campus this week will attempt to register new voters as part of the Student Voter Registration Blitz and the New Voters Project.

IU students ready for some football

By Andrew Petersen · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:59 a.m.

With the recent start of both the collegiate and the NFL seasons, the time has come for the annual ritual that goes together with football like peanuts go with beer. Like birds in springtime, students everywhere are flocking to their game consoles to play "Madden 2005."

Hu assumes full leadership in China

By Alyson Brodsy and Audra Ang · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:46 a.m.

BEIJING -- Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era Sunday with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post -- giving a new generation a freer hand to run the world's most populous nation. Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee that ended Sunday.

Video shows execution of American hostage

By Alyson Brodsy and Bassem Mroue · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:45 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A video posted Monday on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American civil engineer Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage -- either an American or a Briton -- would be killed in 24 hours. The grisly decapitation was the latest killing in a particularly violent month in Iraq, with more than 300 people dead in insurgent attacks and U.S. military strikes over the past seven days.

Leaders discuss world poverty at U.N.

By Alyson Brodsy and Edith M. Lederer · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:41 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- Poverty is "the most destructive weapon of mass destruction," Brazil's president said Monday as world leaders spotlighted the growing gap between rich and poor and the often devastating impact of globalization on millions of people trying to eke out a living. More than 50 heads of state and government, including Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Jacques Chirac of France, are in New York on the eve of the annual U.N.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:40 a.m.

GEO doesn't stand for all grad students As a graduate student employee, I would like to express my concern for some of the wording in the Sept. 10 article about graduate students who gathered in Dunn Meadow to protest for dental benefits ("Graduate students fight for insurance"). The article refers to the Graduate Employees Organization as the "current representation for grad student employees." This classification of the GEO is very misleading.

Discriminating against you

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:37 a.m.

A fraternity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is suing the University on the basis that signing UNC's required nondiscrimination policy violates the fraternity's First Amendment rights.

Injury bug strikes with vengeance in Week 2

By Alyson Brodsy and Rob Gloster · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:25 a.m.

The rookie season of Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. might have ended after just two games. The first-round draft pick is among several players who will be sidelined for a few weeks, or more, as a result of injuries in Sunday's games. Others include New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister and Baltimore Ravens tight end Todd Heap, both of whom were knocked out of games with a sprained ankle.

Dennison, Giesler awarded prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships

By Chris Engel · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:23 a.m.

A fundamental goal for the IU athletics department is to have all student athletes earn a degree from IU while being competitive in sports. Recent IU graduates Audrey Giesler and Karen Dennison were recognized for meeting and exceeding this goal.

Reality not what it used to be

By Alyson Brodsy and Amanda Trost · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:21 a.m.

As I slowly approach adulthood, I'm trying to get a handle on what this so-called "real world" is actually like. I'm trying to ascertain what it will be like to live in this new and foreign world.

The Mexican way

By Alyson Brodsy and Felipe Maya · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:20 a.m.

I consider myself a pretty mild-mannered person. I might cuss someone out if they cut me off in traffic, but that's about the extent of my anger. But Mexico has just pissed me off. Don't get me wrong, I love Mexico, sometimes more than here, especially the drinking age. But I digress.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:19 a.m.

The Oct. 2 IU-Michigan football game at Memorial Stadium has been set to kick off at 2:30 p.m. on ABC. The game will be shown regionally. Saturday, IU plays Michigan State at home in a game which will be broadcast on ESPN Plus Local but will not be shown live. It will be shown in tape delay starting at 8 p.m. on WTTV Channel 4. The game will be shown live on ESPN GamePlan.

Bowling for Ballantine

By Alyson Brodsy and Brett Warnke · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:17 a.m.

Last May I found myself walking through white walls of emptiness buried under eight floors of horrific modern architecture; I was in Ballantine Hall. Constructed in 1959, IU's largest academic building was supposed to be a modern marvel, the epicenter of the Bloomington campus. Instead, Ballantine has come to embody the burgeoning cultural crisis currently facing IU.

There's no crying in football

By Matt Mattucci · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:16 a.m.

That's it. I'm done. This columnist needs to go on the injured reserve list. This past weekend I experienced the worst pain known to man. No, it wasn't a million paper cuts on my face nor was it being chewed apart limb by limb at the expense of Jaws himself. I was rushed to the emergency room of the Bloomington Hospital twice with a kidney stone.

Hoosier headman receives acclaim

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 21,2004 12:10 a.m.

For the seventh straight year, the IU men's and women's diving coach Jeff Huber has received the U.S. Diving's National Coach of the Year award. "Winning this award never gets old," Huber said in a statement.

Foster Quad rocks the vote

By Kristin Huett · Monday, Sept. 20,2004 6:09 p.m.

In only 46 days, U.S. citizens 18-years-old and older across the country will flock to local voting polls and exercise their rights as Americans to vote in the fall election. Until Nov. 2, student organizations across IU's campus are doing whatever it takes to get students educated and involved in the elections.

IUSTV to begin 24-hour casts

By Greg Ingram · Monday, Sept. 20,2004 2:28 a.m.

IU Student Television will air 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week on campus television starting Wednesday. "Basically, we will be taking over the programming on campus TV channel 2," said Gauri Sharma, marketing coordinator for the channel. IUSTV is a completely student-run organization. Last semester, more than 120 student volunteers produced, reported, marketed and managed the television station.