The men's cross country team took second place with 81 points in the Big Ten championships behind Wisconsin's 45 points Sunday in Madison, Wis. Penn State finished third with 82 points.
Scrappy. Feisty. Dane Fife. In a three-minute span in the second half of Sunday's annual Red and White intrasquad scrimmage, the 6-foot-4, 200 pound junior guard displayed the character that defines him as a player.
The women's soccer team had not scored a goal in the last seven games before Sunday's match against Kentucky, when the Hoosiers scored three in the first half. Those three goals would be all the Hoosiers needed to dismantle the Wildcats 3-1. Junior midfielder Stacey Peterson wasted no time ending the Hoosiers' scoreless run when she put a shot in the bottom right corner of the net on a feed from sophomore forward Kate Kastl, just 9:32 into the game.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Penn State senior quarterback Rashard Casey didn't want to watch. After Casey marched his team 52 yards in less than two minutes, his teammates' hopes of defeating IU rested on the foot of senior kicker Ryan Primanti.
INDIANAPOLIS -- In four years, he has done a lot of things. He brought in his own players and coaches. He installed a high-powered offense with a talented quarterback. He was able to move a home game to Indianapolis. But coach Cam Cameron hasn't been able to teach his team one crucial aspect of football.
Investors will pay close attention to economic data that will be released this week. The data could provide some insight as to the state of the economy. Reports regarding personal income, consumer confidence, and unemployment are due this week. If investors feel that the economy is slowing down too much, the markets will trade lower.
Finley Campbell, senior professor at Chicago's DeVry Institute of Technology and former Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party, spoke Sunday afternoon on the morality of voting in this year's election. The event was sponsored by the "What Color is Community?" group of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, 2120 N. Fee Lane.
In response to your staff editorial, "Tax-free books lofty goal for IUSA" (Oct. 19), I believe that the goal is not lofty, but realistic, and Legislative Relations Office Director Ben Piper should be applauded for his efforts.
As an IU journalism school graduate, and as a working journalist, may I comment on the Oct. 17 column by your ombudsman, Brian Hartz? What Hartz calls "one of the dirty little secrets of journalism" -- that journalists sometimes receive "perks" ranging from free movie passes to free trips -- is not exactly new. I remember heated debates years ago at the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette on whether it was "ethical" for our sports writers to get free passes to hockey games (this was not too long after Watergate, when many of us eager young journalists were wearing tan corduroy jackets with leather elbow patches in imitation of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post). I do not see the smaller, often innocent, perks as life-or-death matters, so long as the giver does not feel that something is owed in return, and as long as the receiver does not feel indebted. A cup of coffee or a movie pass would fit in this category.
After reading Duncan Teater's column "To Green or not to Green" (Oct. 23), I wonder if he knows anything at all about politics, elections or the media. First, he assumes in his column, which was just one big scare tactic, that Bush is a conservative, pro-lifer, isolationist. Bush is not an isolationist; that is absurd! Bush's Web site states his foreign policy goals would be, "accomplished by concentrating on enduring national interests and by resisting the temptation to withdraw from the world."
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. As a kid, I especially liked it, maybe because it was the one season when the neighbors didn't complain about the decorations we left in the front yard all year.
And now I present to you: A Riff on the Bloody Eighth. Because really, not much is happening on the national scene, except that Al Gore is desperately trying to hire some mafia types to "put the freeze" on Ralph Nader; George W. Bush is basking in the sun lamp he takes with him to Northern Michigan; and the polls continue to tell us nothing of substance about the race.
Middle Way House is in trouble. The primary source of funding for its rape crisis program is about to disappear, and students are not doing what they can to help the situation.
Two E190 Yoga I students have become infected with ringworm this semester. Instructor Freda Love Smith, a junior, said the students suspect their conditions were the result of using the mat in room 095 in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
Screams of terror, eerie music and the sounds of chainsaws filled the chilly night air this weekend. And many people paid for the frights. Delta Chi's haunted house drew big crowds all weekend, and with good cause.
To show her first grade students that characteristics such as ingenuity, determination, courage and cooperation can serve to accomplish almost any dream, local elementary school teacher Andrea Hobson Aufder-Heyde took to Alaska's 1,049 mile-long Iditarod trail two years ago in the annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Wednesday, the University Club hosted Aufder-Heyde, known as Finney, to speak about her experience.
IU's board of trustees convened for their second public meeting of the year Friday. The trustees approved the site for the proposed Multidisciplinary Science Building and a new Bachelor of Science degree in nursing for the Bloomington campus.
The Ray Charles show Friday was a real treat. The kind of treat where audience members just feel privileged to be in the presence of greatness. And Charles wasn't even the only source of greatness, the whole night was full of it.
His voice is unique and unmistakable. His stage presence is energetic and full of life. Introduced to the audience Friday as a "legendary genius of jazz," Ray Charles brought his signature musical artistry to the IU Auditorium.
A traveling rare book exhibit at IU's Main Library showcases more than 30 titles about liberty. "The Wisdom of the Ages," is on loan from The Remnant Trust, a private organization based in Hagerstown, Ind., and will run through the end of the semester.
