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Gunman slays 1, wounds 19 at Montreal college before being killed by police

By Phil Couvrette · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:26 a.m.

MONTREAL -- A young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire Wednesday at a Montreal college, slaying a woman and wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him, witnesses and authorities said.

Haute in here

By Paul Coover · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:19 a.m.

Haute couture is high fashion design. It's known for being expensive and impractical for day-to-day wear.

Hep 'resting comfortably'

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:10 a.m.

IU football coach Terry Hoeppner, who underwent surgery Wednesday for a possible tumor on the right side of his brain, was recovering Wednesday night after a successful procedure, the athletics department said.

Voting machines questioned

By Kristi Oloffson · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:10 a.m.

Democracy is at risk in the state of Indiana, according to Verify the Vote Indiana. The newly formed group cited inaccuracies in the electronic voting system currently being used in Monroe County at a public meeting Wednesday night at the Monroe County Public Library.

myface?

By Eamonn Brennan · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:10 a.m.

IU senior Jesse Masur has two crucial, simple uses for Facebook: damage control and late-night memory recovery. "I check it about once a day, but usually it's just to see if I need to delete inappropriate comments from my wall," he said. "Also, I can piece together long nights out with other peoples' tagged photos of myself."

Bluebird cancels show amid protests

By Sarah Core · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:10 a.m.

After facing harsh criticism from community members and two IU civil rights groups, the Bluebird has canceled tonight's performance by a controversial Jamaican artist.

Some professors doubt credibility of site

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:08 a.m.

With more than 1.3 million articles and counting, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, provides a wealth of information. But because that information can be changed at anytime by anyone, many faculty members believe it has no place in the classroom.

SLIS ranked No. 1 for scholarly productivity

By Ryan McLaughlin · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:04 a.m.

IU's School of Library and Information Science has recently been named the nation's top library and information studies program in terms of faculty and program productivity for the second time in a row.

Search committee meets for the first time

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:04 a.m.

The Presidential Search Committee met for the first time Wednesday on the IU Purdue University-Indianapolis campus. The profiles of potential candidates were discussed and Shelly W. Storbeck, the committee's consultant from Edward W. Kelley and Partners, outlined the search criteria, said Trustee Sue Talbot, who is chairing the committee.

Alumnus tries to take over Internet social networking

By Lee Hurwitz · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12:01 a.m.

Look out, Facebook. Ryan Alovis plans to take over the Internet networking market. With the relaunch of his Web site, www.dirtymascot.com, a week and a half to two weeks away, the IU alumnus hopes to give college students a different way to network online.

After a solid, quiet debut, Bush promises highlights will come

By Brett Martel · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS -- When members of the Archdiocese of New Orleans started referring to him as Saint Reginald, Reggie Bush suspected he was meant to play here -- and play well. So far, so good, and so much more to come, Bush says.

Not worth running to the store for

By Sam Nissen · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

Audioslave and Jadakiss should cut one massive, tepid album together. They'd have plenty of common ground: both talents reel in critical acclaim for obvious skill, yet neither artist has dropped discs to match that skill. The Rage Against The Machine-meets-Soundgarden mash-up wails on both vocals and guitars, but none of the new tracks on Revelations raises my pulse.

Not Idle, nor Wild, just a let down

By C. Warner Sills and Michael Mellini · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

With "Idlewild," popular hip-hop duo Outkast try to reimagine old school gangster films and classic Hollywood musicals by injecting their modern rap style. It's an ambitious task. When it works, it works extremely well, but it often strains to connect the dots from element to element.

IU Tube

By C. Warner Sills and Zack Teibloom · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

YouTube.com features videos of all kinds, from the oddly funny: President Bush drunk and an unbelievable robot dance, to released entertainment like Daily Show clips, The O.K. Go treadmill dance, and anything you can imagine. The only thing you won't be able to find is porn or a video of Steve Irwin's death, though there are a lot of fakes. The free Web site doesn't require a password or fee to peruse the overwhelming amounts of videos. And contrary to Senator Ted Steven's statement, it is not run through a series of tubes. Though there is a hilarious techno remix with a video mocking the Senator's assessment that he "got an internet" through a "series of tubes."

Epic fights can't 'protect' butchered plot

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

When "Ong-Bak" was released last year, it signaled a new era of martial arts by introducing Muay Thai force of nature Tony Jaa. With Jackie Chan now in his 50s and Jet Li done with kung-fu epics, Jaa has taken up the torch -- but with a mess like "The Protector," he may very well fall flat on his face. Where "Ong-Bak" was about one man's quest to recover a stolen Buddha head, "Protector" is the same quest but for an elephant. Jaa plays Kham, the son of a village elder, raised to cherish the precious pachyderms as a symbol of ancient Thai culture. When two elephants are stolen by thugs from Australia, Kham journeys to the land down under to save the noble beasts while demolishing the crime syndicate responsible for his troubles.

A 'Mountain' of rock hits on this new disc

By C. Warner Sills and Brian J. McFillen · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

Let's not beat around the bush: TV on the Radio's "Return to Cookie Mountain" is one of this year's best rock albums. We're not talking "top-10" -- we're talking "top-3" or better. And I say this as a person who is not especially a fan of TVOTR (not that I dislike them), nor really into avant garde music, nor a person who tosses out A's like parade candy. Only time will tell, but "Cookie Mountain" might well be the band's masterpiece -- and if you fancy yourself a devotee of daring and sophisticated rock, you have to get this album.

Keep comin' on down

By C. Warner Sills and AP Reports · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

LOS ANGELES - Television's iron man continues to forge on. Bob Barker will start his 35th season as the host of "The Price Is Right" on Sept. 18. Johnny Carson once held the record for continuous tenure with the same show: 29 years. Barker broke it in 2002. And Merv Griffin's game-show classics "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" are years behind "Price," the longest-running game show in TV history. Barker's approach, like the show's set, has remained essentially unchanged since he arrived Sept. 4, 1972 to host what was then called "The New Price Is Right": wholesome, playful and family friendly.

A night of their own

By C. Warner Sills and Brian Janosch · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

This is me. Relatively normal by most accords, I suppose, but on this night I am learning that normal is in the eye of the beholder, and that every scene has its characters. Some wear pastel colored polos, while others choose grungy concert T-shirts. A character in one scene might recite poetry between drags of a cigarette, while another may thrash, bang and fight in their own. But on this night, my scene is the Axis of Evil. It's a gathering of punks, goths and any other mislabeled misfit desperate for the type of night every college aged person yearns for. A night where they can be themselves.

Schedule a visit to 'Hollywoodland'

By C. Warner Sills and Alyson Brodsky · Thursday, Sept. 14,2006 12 a.m.

How do you turn a truly remarkable, mysterious story into a movie without it losing it to flopville? If you're the average director, you start by having one of Hollywood's top writers write you a script. But if you're director Allen Coulter (known for his work with "The Sopranos"), you may decide to pair up with someone like Paul Bernbaum and hope that, along with an all-star cast, your outcome is the exceptional movie, "Hollywoodland". In this case, your hopes would be justified.

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