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Welcome back, darling readers. I trust all of your winter breaks were full of wonder and delight. But now that we gather back together for a new semester, it's high time we started thinking about the elections.
Welcome back, darling readers. I trust all of your winter breaks were full of wonder and delight. But now that we gather back together for a new semester, it's high time we started thinking about the elections.
Paul Tagliabue really has a good thing going. As commissioner of the National Football League for the past 12 years, Tagliabue has pulled the right strings and made the right changes to shape the NFL into the most exciting sports league in America. Meanwhile, Major League Baseball appears to have taken steps in the wrong direction.
The faces are familiar. The match-ups won't change much. And the Hoosiers and coach Kathi Bennett, hope the result won't change, either. IU looks to complete the season sweep of Minnesota at 7:30 p.m. today in Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers held off the Gophers 79-76 a week ago in Minneapolis.
The Mike Davis era is in its interim phase, but obvious strategic blemishes have tainted what was once thought to be a promising young team. A lack of toughness and effort by the players has made the team vulnerable to increased scrutiny and losing.
Brad Lutsch, the hockey team's all-time leading scorer, made his return to the Frank Southern Center ice January 19, 1999, against Purdue University. In a Hollywood-style climax to his already incredible collegiate career, Lutsch netted a hat trick. Midway through the second period, hit a Purdue player so hard the helpless Boilermaker shattered the glass board and ended up in the second row of the bleachers.
Senior Meredith Suffron, president of IU Student Association, said she adamantly believes in the importance of student input in the hiring of a new athletics director. To that end, she planned and played host to a meeting for the general public Wednesday. The goal was for them to tell her what they think should be considered when choosing a new athletics director.
IU Press employees are planning tentative events to mark the 50-year anniversary of the printing of the organization's first book. Former President Herman B Wells founded IU Press in 1950 to publish scholarly journals and literature, but its first literary work was not printed until 1951.
Today, a judge is expected to set an execution date for convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. If no further appeals are filed, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch, who presided over his sentencing and granted McVeigh's request to waive his right to appeal and expedite his execution, will be rendering the execution date, which could happen within 60 days.