Taming of the Shoe
Freshman quarterback Kellen Lewis hasn't seen anything like what he will face this weekend when the Hoosiers travel to Ohio State.
Freshman quarterback Kellen Lewis hasn't seen anything like what he will face this weekend when the Hoosiers travel to Ohio State.
The seventh annual Jill Behrman Run for the End Zone, held in memory of former IU student Jill Behrman, takes place Saturday. The event features a five-kilometer run and walk and a one-mile "fun walk." All proceeds will assist the Jill Behrman Emerging Leader Scholarship and Jill's House, which will be a temporary home for families of patients receiving care at the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute in Bloomington.
With last weekend's loss to the No. 18 Michigan Wolverines in the Hoosiers' rearview mirror, IU will travel to East Lansing, Mich., to take on the Michigan State Spartans (5-10, 0-4 Big Ten) on Saturday.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Texas Tech coach Bob Knight has agreed to a contract extension that would keep him with the Red Raiders through 2012.
The coxswain and top eight rowers of the IU women's crew team will travel to Boston this weekend to race in the prominent Head of the Charles regatta. Sunday will be the second time that an IU boat has ever raced in the event in its 42-year history, and the Hoosiers intend to make their mark.
We had a difficult decision to make Tuesday night.
After beginning the Big Ten season 10-3 overall and 1-0 in the Big Ten, the IU volleyball squad has dropped seven consecutive matches and is looking to grab a life preserver this weekend.
Following its 1-0 loss last Sunday to Northwestern, the IU women's soccer team was down but not out. "Everyone's working pretty hard and trying to get back," freshman midfielder Christie Kotynski said. "We know we probably could have done better on Sunday. We're trying to work as hard as we can to make up for it this weekend."
The Hoosiers' luck ran out as the cream and crimson recorded a season worst, placing eighth at the Price's "Give 'Em Five Fund" New Mexico State Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. IU coach Clint Wallman was disappointed with the finish but said he will not allow it to get his team down. "We have the talent to compete in any tournament," Wallman said. "Yet, despite a good week of practice, we did not play as well as we would have liked."
When her roommate was reading children's books, junior Meredith Brown was writing nationally published poems. "I was reading Dr. Seuss (back) then, and she was writing poems," said junior forward Kate O' Connell.
Zhiyuan Cong, professor of art at William Paterson University, will lead a lecture and demonstration about calligraphy, the art of ornate writing, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Thomas T. Solley Atrium in the IU Art Museum. The event is free and open to the public.
Move over, "Cats," watch out, "West Side Story." A different kind of musical is taking over. IU Department of Theatre and Drama's "Urinetown: The Musical" opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Wells-Metz Theatre. Based on the premise that "it's a privilege to pee," this production strays from the warmth and slight corniness found in traditional musicals.
After a cancellation last year, the top Tony Award-winning musical in history, "The Producers," is finally here. The traveling cast will perform five shows at IU over the next three days at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Betsy Uschkrat, Jacobs School of Music graduate student and reigning Miss Indiana, will lead the school's production of Jules Massenet's classic opera "Manon" Friday, playing the character bearing the opera's name. "I love the role," said Uschkrat. "I feel like I'm playing two characters." Manon, she explained, begins the opera as a simple, provincial 16-year-old girl who is forced into mature womanhood by the cruel realities of life.
IU is scheduled to hold its first techno academic conference, "Roots of Techno: Black DJs and the Detroit Scene," from 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Willkie Auditorium. Techno is electronically produced music that incorporates drum machines, multitrack mixers, computers and samplers. Most associate techno music with Europe, but black college students initially developed this genre in the late 1970s near Detroit.
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LOS ANGELES -- A Republican congressional candidate said Thursday that he was not personally involved in sending a letter warning Hispanic immigrants they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a mailing that prompted a state investigation.
ROME -- An elderly priest acknowledged Thursday that he was naked in saunas with Mark Foley decades ago when the former congressman was a boy in Florida but denied that the two had sex.
Police are searching for suspects in the break-in and robbery of two east-side businesses.
Police are still looking for two men who robbed a Monroe County convenience store with a gun late Wednesday night.