Longform

AIs help profs, students learn

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 11:12 p.m.

If it seems like more of your classes are taught by grad students than by full professors, you're not imagining things. It has recently come to light that IU has the most assocciate instructors out of all the Big Ten schools.

House returns for 2nd session with lingering tensions, tough talk

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 11:11 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Democrats returned to the House floor Monday, but there were no signs a five-day break had soothed partisan tensions with Republicans as the second half of the session began. Democrats stayed off the floor all day and night last Tuesday, denying a quorum needed to conduct business and derailing about 130 bills as the deadline for legislation to clear its house of origin passed.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 11:10 p.m.

PORTLAND, Ind. -- A 13-year-old boy's kite became tangled in power lines, causing him to be fatally shocked, authorities said.

Attorney expects no effort to halt execution date set for this week

By Alyson Brodsy and Tom Coyne · Monday, March 7,2005 11:08 p.m.

The defense attorney for convicted killer Donald Ray Wallace Jr. expects him to die by chemical injection early Thursday at the Indiana State Prison. Attorney Sarah Nagy has a 40-page clemency request prepared to file with the state Parole Board, but Wallace won't allow her to file it.

The pains of walking through Madrid

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 10:59 p.m.

According to IU's "Getting Started on Your Program Abroad" handbook, "'Culture shock' is the term used to describe the disorientation that every student experiences to some degree when spending an extended period in a new culture."

Carmel concert hall draws debate

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 10:59 p.m.

CARMEL, Ind. -- The city will soon begin debating whether to build an $80 million concert hall, with some saying the community cannot afford it. The Carmel Performing Arts Center would bill itself as Indiana's only true concert hall, occasionally playing host to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and inviting top acts that do not usually play in the state, The Indianapolis Star reported Sunday.

'Tapestry' a pattern of female voices

By Christine Jang · Monday, March 7,2005 10:56 p.m.

Tapestry of Song, the brainchild of Nasrin Hekmat-Farrokh, is in honor of Women's History Month. "(It is an) overall celebration of womanhood," the press release states, "a concert that brings together the diverse genres of the vocal repertoire performed by woman."

IU sees changes in location, name in 185 years

By Ryne Shadday · Monday, March 7,2005 1:05 a.m.

1820. In this year Edward Bransfield discovered Antarctica, the tomato was proven non-poisonous and the Indiana Seminary School was founded Jan. 20 as the first state seminary school to be located in Bloomington. This established the beginnings of what became IU.

IUSA court denies Kirkwood

By Colleen Corley · Monday, March 7,2005 1:05 a.m.

After a week of petitions and appeals, the Kirkwood ticket's struggle for a run-off election has come to an end. The Student Body Supreme Court denied Kirkwood's appeal Friday on procedural grounds, citing the fact that the ticket submitted its petition past the Feb. 24 deadline. The IU Student Association Elections Commission refused Kirkwood's petition, which was filed Feb. 28, for the same reason.

Residence rates to rise next year

By Tony Sams · Monday, March 7,2005 1:05 a.m.

The cost of Bloomington campus housing is going up again. Concluding its monthly meeting Friday in the Indiana Memorial Union, the IU board of trustees unanimously approved an average increase of 3.55 percent in the cost of all dorms and on-campus apartments for the next school year.

Excise police raid Axis Nightclub

By David A. Nosko · Monday, March 7,2005 1:05 a.m.

With the help of the IU Police Department and Bloomington Police Department, Indiana Excise Police conducted a raid at Axis Nightclub early Friday morning, resulting in 68 alcohol-related citations.

Social Security scrutinized

By Michael Zennie · Monday, March 7,2005 1:05 a.m.

SOUTH BEND -- President Bush pitched his plan to privatize portions of Social Security Friday in Joyce Hall on the University of Notre Dame campus, where he emphasized that allowing workers to set aside portions of their Social Security tax will benefit young Americans.

Syrian pullout to begin today

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 1:04 a.m.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanese officials said Syrian troops will start moving toward eastern Lebanon on Monday in a pullback that will take two or three days, while Syrians -- not unexpectedly -- backed President Bashar Assad's decision and insisted Sunday he was not bowing to international pressure.

IU hockey loses out on national title hopes

By John Wustrow · Monday, March 7,2005 12:42 a.m.

The IU club hockey team ended its run for the team's first-ever national championship with a 3-2 loss to host Oakland University Friday night. The team finished 1-2 in a round-robin tournament in the American Collegiate Hockey Association Div. II National Championship in Rochester, Mich. last weekend, failing to qualify for the semifinals round.

IU falls to No. 3 Illini, defeats Penn State

By Eamonn Brennan · Monday, March 7,2005 12:39 a.m.

The IU men's tennis team couldn't have asked for much more from such a tough Big Ten opening weekend. In their first conference action of the season, the Hoosiers capitalized on some of their best efforts to date en route to splitting their two weekend matches at the IU Tennis Center.

Roark throws 26 innings, strikes out 30 on weekend

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Monday, March 7,2005 12:38 a.m.

Coming off a 1-3 record in Tulsa last weekend, the IU softball team traveled south to Bowling Green for the Western Kentucky Invitational. The Hoosiers started off strong Friday morning against Buffalo, winning 4-0. Junior Megan Roark (4-6) continued her strong pitching of late, throwing seven shutout innings while tying a career-high with 13 strikeouts.

1,000 expected at 'Rock Indiana' counterprotest

By Kelly Ginty · Monday, March 7,2005 12:37 a.m.

Hate, discrimination, intolerance and bigotry. Those are the words IU junior Matt Brunner uses to describe SJR7, Indiana's proposed amendment to ban both same sex marriage and civil unions. "It's just a really bad amendment," he said. "We want to stand up to the hate that it promotes."

IU snags 5th in Big Tens

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 12:36 a.m.

The Hoosiers rolled into Iowa City for the Big Ten Championships Saturday after a two-week layoff. They didn't leave disappointed. The team's overall place of fifth matched IU coach Duane Goldman's previous Big Ten high set in 1994, with seven wrestlers qualifying for the NCAA Tournament in St. Louis two weeks from now. There is a chance that an eighth man could be sent as a wild card.

Wilson leaps to IU record, NCAA lead

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 7,2005 12:17 a.m.

Friday at Notre Dame's Alex Wilson Last-Chance Meet, junior All-American Aarik Wilson soared past IU's fourteen-year old indoor long jump record, set previously by Alan Turner at the NCAA Championships. Wilson's winning leap of 8.12 meters also eclipsed his personal best of 7.88 meters. The jump also serves as a tremendous boost to IU's team chances at the NCAA Indoor Championships, set to begin this Friday at the University of Arkansas.

Xbox console cord causes smoke, sparks in Read Center

By Christina Galoozis · Monday, March 7,2005 12:16 a.m.

The Bloomington Fire Department responded to a call from Read Center at about 1 p.m. Thursday after numerous electrical items, including an Xbox video game console, had been plugged into a power strip and overheated, causing smoke and sparks, according to an IU Police Department report. A dry chemical extinguisher was used prior to the fire department's arrival.