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Sweaty pie

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:57 p.m.

My eyes produce more eye crust than the average person's -- I could bake pies with the amount I pick from my eyes some mornings.

IU veterans honored during football game

By Peter Stevenson · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:56 p.m.

Rain and wind might have kept some fans away from Sunday's football game against the University of Connecticut, but it did not stop several IU ROTC cadets and cadre members from showing up.

The decline of diversity?

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:56 p.m.

Is IU turning into just another white-dominated institution? A Sept. 15 Indiana Daily Student story concerning a lower amount of black student enrollment this year has people asking whether IU is becoming less diverse. We contend that it is much too early to make any hasty generalizations. At its base, the fact that the black freshman population declined from 412 last year to 345 this year could be alarming. But it is necessary in these instances to step back and take a full view of the situation. Certain questions must be asked.

CLASH

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:53 p.m.

CLASH -- People run past burning debris after clashes between police and protesters who were staging a sit-in Sunday in Copenhagen, Denmark. Police detained more than 200 people Sunday after a youth demonstration in Copenhagen turned violent, with protesters hurling cobblestones, bottles and eggs at officers in riot gear. The demonstrators were protesting a court ruling last month ordering a group of young squatters to leave a downtown building and hand it over to a Christian congregation that bought it five years ago.

Around the Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:52 p.m.

Check out what's going on with the arts around Bloomington.

Democrats attack GOP with intelligence report

By Alyson Brodsy and Nedra Pickler · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:52 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Sunday seized on an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence that Americans should choose new leadership in the November elections.

Iraqi groups agree on federalism debate

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:51 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed Sunday to consider amending the constitution and begin debating legislation to create a federated nation, while the Shiite prime minister appealed for an end to violence during Ramadan.

3 children of slain pregnant woman found dead in Illinois apartment's washer, dryer

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Suhr · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:50 p.m.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Authorities on Sunday were trying to pinpoint who killed three children an investigator says were found decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment home, hours after a woman was accused of killing their pregnant mother and her fetus.

SAILING

By Alyson Brodsy and Ronni Moore · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:45 p.m.

SAILING -- Participants in the Lake Lemon Open Regatta brave the Sunday morning winds during the last competition of the year. The event was sponsored by the Bloomington Yacht Club and is the last racing event of the 2006 season.

Live, laugh, love ... and buy a new

By Alyson Brodsy and Teri Rosenbaum · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:44 p.m.

Every time I head back home to what has inevitably become "my parents' house," I have to face the nightmare of my past: my old bedroom.

Indiana, Kentucky hit hard by storms

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:44 p.m.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More stormy weather was forecast Sunday after two days of high winds, heavy rain and tornadoes were blamed for at least nine deaths in the Midwest and the South.

Only the costumes disappoint in Opera Theater's 'Giovanni' production

By Alyson Brodsy and Paige Ingram · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:42 p.m.

As is the style of many operas, IU Opera Theater's production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" explores the ins and outs of love and relationships through the lens of melodrama. From men as lotharios to identities hidden by makeshift disguises and love portrayed as a casual emotion, the stereotypes abound.

Missing man found in shaft

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:41 p.m.

FORT WAYNE -- A man reported missing by relatives was found more than a day later hiding in a ventilation shaft at Fort Wayne's Shrine Temple.

Company sues Indiana over calling ban

By Alyson Brodsy and Deanna Martin · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:41 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Virginia company that makes automated political phone calls is suing the state of Indiana, saying its ban on such calls violates its right to free speech.

WVHF's 9th District Debate canceled, schedules clash

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 10:40 p.m.

The debate over debates continues in the closely watched 9th District congressional race, with one date now officially cancelled.

War creates loss of culture as well as loss of life

By Nina Mehta · Sunday, Sept. 24,2006 2:22 p.m.

Casualties of war are counted in death tolls, not by looted portraits or lost cultures. Records of war are scripted by treaties. However, there is a muffled outcry reaching beyond these standards of combat.

BCA sees progress in minority hiring practices

By Alyson Brodsy and Ken Kusmer · Saturday, Sept. 23,2006 8:34 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA Division I universities improved this year in considering minority candidates for head football coaches, but more progress is needed and resorting to civil rights laws might be necessary, the Black Coaches Association said Thursday. With only 10 minority head coaches currently among more than 200 Division I-A and I-AA schools that are not historically black institutions, universities must appoint more minority coaches and more diverse search committees for vacant positions. Evidence shows the latter leads to more minority coaches being considered, the BCA said.

UPDATE: UConn shuts down Hoosiers in 14-7 IU loss

By Jacob Brown · Saturday, Sept. 23,2006 7:36 p.m.

With the rain chasing away the home crowd, IU took the field Saturday afternoon with quarterback Blake Powers back at the helm.

IU Art Museum plans $1 million renovation

By Lindsey Landis · Saturday, Sept. 23,2006 7:24 p.m.

The IU Art Museum is working to raise $1 million for the renovation of a gallery that hasn't even seen a new coat of paint in two decades. The third-floor collection of African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian art will be the first room to receive remodeling in a plan to overhaul the layout of the entire museum.

Buskirk-Chumley rolls out red carpet

By Paige Ingram · Friday, Sept. 22,2006 8:26 p.m.

Alison Zook felt like a Barbie doll as she waited backstage at the Buskirk-Chumley Thursday night. "And it smells like an old Barbie doll," she said as she held the black vintage dress to her nose.