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Hoosiers face top opponents in 2004

By Jeff Fuldauer · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:44 a.m.

Imagine playing a spring schedule which includes six teams ranked among the top 25 in the nation. Now imagine four of the six will be played in hostile road environments. This is the schedule facing IU coach, Lin Loring, and the IU women's tennis team. Only this is just the pre-conference schedule. The Hoosiers play 15 ranked opponents with over half of the matches to be played away from the IU Tennis Center. Duke, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arizona State, Notre Dame and Texas A&M are among the heavy hitters IU meets on their way to the Big Ten Championships. Annual match-ups against Northwestern, Illinois, Michigan and Purdue add to create a stretch of matches where a weak team cannot be found. But the Hoosiers say the scheduling -- however tough -- will be nothing but beneficial when Big Ten play rolls around.

Team hungry for win vs. Lions four games

By Dan Patrick · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:42 a.m.

After suffering three straight losses at the hands of Big Ten opponents, the IU women's basketball team said they are hungry -- hungry for lion. The No. 5 Penn State Lady Lions will prowl into Assembly Hall to take on the Hoosiers at 8 p.m. tonight. The Lady Lions come into the game with an undefeated 9-0 conference record and a 17-3 overall record while the Hoosiers stand at 3-6 in the conference and 10-10 overall. PSU is led by senior Kelly Mazzante, who comes into the game at second in the Big Ten in scoring with a 21.5 average. Mazzante also adds 4.1 rebounds per game and shoots at a .415 clip despite taking 175 shots from behind the arc.

Help me, Harlan!

By Dan Cohen and Daniel Cohen · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:40 a.m.

Dear Harlan, I am 22 years old, single and very desperate. Well, I've only been looking since the Super Bowl, but I plan to continue to look for something exciting in sports until March Madness begins. See, from the conclusion of the Super Bowl until the madness, nothing exciting is taking place in sports. Every major sport is either in its dreadful middle-of-the-season stretch, or simply in the offseason. I apologize Harlan, but my boredom since the conclusion of the Super Bowl has me watching re-runs of "Full House" on Nick at Nite.

21 Hoosiers sign for 2004 season

By John Rodgers · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:31 a.m.

Yesterday, a year-long process culminated. And for 21 future Hoosiers, a new chapter has begun. Wednesday's National Signing Day was the first day a high school football prospect could sign a letter of intent. IU's coach Gerry DiNardo was greeted with 21 signatures highlighted by Illinois' Joliet-Catholic offensive lineman, Jim Jadron, Southfield, Mich., wide receiver, Isaac Price, and two-sport signee, James Hardy, from Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne. The 6-foot-7 Hardy plans to play wide receiver for DiNardo and play basketball for IU coach Mike Davis.

Kerry has dominating day at the primaries

By Rami Chami · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:26 a.m.

As the results of primaries and caucuses held across seven states were tallied up Tuesday evening, Sen. John Kerry came out as the clear winner among the Democratic nominee hopefuls. Kerry received the majority of the votes in five of the seven states. Sen. John Edwards claimed South Carolina and Clark managed a narrow victory in Oklahoma.

Around The Arts

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:13 a.m.

A concert, titled Swingin' With The Big Bands, will feature the music of Glenn Miller, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Barry Manilow, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and more. Featured performers will be vocalists Robert Stright and Sarah Flint. The Stardusters Jazz Orchestra is Central Indiana's premier big band recreating the original sounds of the bands of the "Big Band Era".

Union Board shows student film festival

By Jenica Schultz · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:11 a.m.

From photo montage to live action to computer animation, IU students submitted a variety of films to the Union Board's second annual Student Film Festival. The Union Board will be screening the films 8 p.m. today and Friday in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union.

IU faculty presents dance show

By -Jenny Kobiela · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:11 a.m.

Six IU faculty members will present "An Evening of Contemporary Dance" at 8 p.m. Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Panel to discuss Pulitzer-winning play

By Jennifer Griffin · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:10 a.m.

An amazing discovery is made in the mathematical field. An answer to a seemingly impossible proof has been found by a woman. Upon further scrutiny, it appears she may have completed the work herself. However, women are not able to complete complex mathematical problems, at least according to male mathematicians in the play "Proof".

Best spot for the show

By Jamie Lusk · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12:09 a.m.

Seventh Street is packed with cars as people file into the IU Auditorium. Women's shiny heels click on the pavement while the men's best slacks barely drag in melted ice puddles. They have all come to enjoy the same show; however, once inside, they scatter like oil beads on a hotplate. Some head straight to the orchestra seats, while others trudge upstairs to the balcony to view the show from a further distance.

WORTH THE RISK?

By Tiffany Sanders · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

Imagine this: All of your friends are old enough to hit the bars, but you're not -- so you're left at home alone. So you get a fake ID and join them at the bars every weekend with thousands of other students, partying as a pseudo-21-year-old. Then, during one of your weekend outings, your good time screeches to a halt as you are confronted by undercover off-duty police officers.

'Gospel of John' should pray for forgiveness

By -Jenny Kobiela · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with religious films. Movies like "The Ten Commandments," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "The Prince of Egypt" provide solid adaptations of stories held dear to many faiths. Unfortunately, "The Gospel of John" does not succeed in adapting the biblical story of Jesus' life into anything but a boring, terribly acted waste of celluloid.

'Pearl' proves a real cinematic gem

By by Isaac Edwards and Isaac Edwards · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

Much like Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," a certain shroud of mystery surrounds the subject of what is oft considered Delft artiste Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Painted during the decadence of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer's portrait was and still is starkly minimalistic with a quiet sense of intimacy. Managing to bring the subtle intensity of Vermeer's painting to the silver screen, director Peter Webber adapts Tracy Chevalier's acclaimed novel, making his feature directorial debut with "Girl with a Pearl Earring."

Big themes, small film

By Neal Taflinger · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

America has worked so hard to compress all its disparate elements into a cohesive whole that we have projected our national character onto the consciousness of the globe. America is more than a country, it's an idea. With "In America," Irish-American writer/director Jim Sheridan and his daughters/co-screenwriters Naomi and Kirsten tell a semi-autobiographical story of a family fighting for redemption against the backdrop of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan.

HUNTING HAUNTINGS

By By Ryan Heath and Ryan Heath · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

Out the car window, I can't see much more than moonlight as it flashes between the treetops. The crescent moon is veiled in clouds, creating an eerie, silver glow around it that does little to illuminate the pitch-dark night. We have been driving through the woods for the past 15 minutes, and the road in front of us seems to snake endlessly onward into the dark. It is a storybook night for a ghost hunt.

'Big Bounce' more like 'Big Suck'

By Doug Evans · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

Oftentimes Elmore Leonard novels make smooth transitions to film (i.e. "Jackie Brown" and "Out of Sight"). Sadly, this is not the case with The Big Bounce -- not even a great cast that includes Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen and Willie Nelson can save this dreck.

One flick you'll happily 'Divorce"

By Jennifer Whalen · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

What do you get when you combine a few dangerous affairs, the French language and a mysterious painting? Your answer: the movie, "Le Divorce."

Triple the flavor, triple the Folds

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

Ben Folds fans rejoice! The name and fingers behind rock's greatest three-piece fivesome has returned with a series of three EPs. This, after an all-too-long hiatus following his 2001 solo debut, Rockin' the Suburbs, and his subsequent and wittily titled, Ben Folds Live, which dropped in late 2002.

'Score' likely to make you snore

By -Kehla West · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

How many things can the letters SAT stand for? Suck Ass Test, for one. Stoned And Toasted, for another. But the jokes stop there in MTV's horrible, horrible attempt at moviemaking. Stick to just not showing music videos, MTV.

Look out Below! 'Kamikaze' drops from Chi-town

By -Brandon Tucker · Thursday, Feb. 5,2004 12 a.m.

It's been six years since Twista released an album, posing the question: just what has he been doing all this time? Aside from being featured on various heavyweight CD's including Jay-Z's Blueprint 2.1 and Ludacris' Word of Mouf, he's remained in relative obscurity, all the while riding the wave of his '97 hood classic, Adrenaline Rush.