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IU study finds students smoking less

By Mallory Simon · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:47 a.m.

A survey by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at IU found that Indiana adolescents are smoking less and using fewer drugs than in past years. This year's survey of 140,000 Indiana adolescents in grades 6-12 reports a decrease in tobacco usage since last year, continuing the current downward trend of tobacco usage. The exception to this finding was an increase in tobacco usage among sixth grade students.

Meet "new" people today

By Hisato Kawata · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

How are things at school?" your folks ask, wanting to know whether you are doing OK away from home. There are many things you can tell them about your new life on campus.

Students create neighborhood problems

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

An IDS staff editorial, published Wednesday, declared that the "Rental saga continues," and offered its view that "the Bloomington rental restriction is detrimental and unnecessary." This ignores obvious reasons for the important ordinance and therefore merits our response.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

Dan Gelok maintains ("Neither hating nor fearing homosexuals," Jordan River Forum, IDS, Sept. 30) that to settle the question of whether homosexual activity is immoral, one "simply" needs to determine whether it "is in contradiction to Biblical morality."

Saving lives the hard way

By Cameron Thibos · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

There are more than 40,000 federal and state regulations controlling the average American cheeseburger, according to the book "Keeping the Republic" by IU professor Christine Barbour.

Living wage works

By Alyson Brodsy and Ursula McTaggart · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:43 a.m.

The IDS editorial board warned the city council against "thrusting its fingers into the pie of the Bloomington market" by passing a living wage resolution ("The price of living," Sept. 22).

The new-age nuclear family

By Elisha Sauers · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:43 a.m.

Thanks to the suffragettes and women's rights activists from yesteryear, today's women have greater concerns than tea etiquette and needlepoint. But caught up in the frenzy of equal rights and new-fangled freedoms, did they even stop once to think about the immense burden they would impose upon the future of womankind?

California's Judgment Day

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:42 a.m.

Today the nation waits on pins and needles as the results of the California recall are tabulated and released. This event, this ecstacy of the democratic process, this coming together of the greatest civic minds our country has to offer, will shape the way we understand government forever.

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:40 a.m.

The Biology and Chemistry departments are hosting a career day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the atrium of Jordan Hall.

Target donates $55,000 to support IU programs

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:37 a.m.

Target Corporation presented a gift of $55,000 Sept. 30 to Kelley School of Business Dean Dan Dalton to support the Center for Education and Research in Retailing, undergraduate scholarships, MBA Fellowships and the Minorities in Business Program. Ha-Keem Abdel-Khaliq, College Relations representative at Target presented the gift at a reception held in the Graduate and Executive Education Center.

BrainOrbit secures future

By Lindsay Kaplan · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:36 a.m.

BrainOrbit, LLC was founded in spring 2002, by then 22-year-old MBA accounting student Justin Greis. The company was founded with the idea of helping clients with small-scale enterprise resource planning, creating CD-ROMs, Web sites, training and small business solutions.

Around The World

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:35 a.m.

GROZNY, Russia -- Chechnya's Kremlin-appointed leader was officially declared the winner Monday in a presidential election, a widely expected outcome after his main challengers withdrew or were removed from balloting condemned by critics as a sham but promoted by Moscow as a step toward peace.

Ballantine Hall chair to be decided

By Jess Huffman · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:34 a.m.

Members of the Ballantine Hall Committee are meeting today to elect a new chairman after former chairman Emanuel J. Mickel resigned from his position after a decade's worth of work. But the question of whom to appoint has been a cause for concern for some members.

Smoking policy hit and miss

By Colin Kearns · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:34 a.m.

One month after a University task force approved a new, on-campus smoking policy, students are still lighting up. But while the cigarette butts on the sidewalks haven't left, some say the number of smokers outside the entrances to campus buildings has decreased since the policy was issued.

Judge rules for IU in Knight suit

By Ben Cunnighman and Ben Cunningham · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:34 a.m.

A Monroe County judge has sided with IU in former men's basketball coach Bob Knight's lawsuit over a breach of contract when he was fired three years ago.

Students for Justice in Palestine prepare for convergence in D.C.

By Andrea Minarcek · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:33 a.m.

IU's Students for Justice in Palestine are preparing a campaign to organize students and Bloomington residents to participate in an Oct. 25 mass convergence in Washington, D.C. The rally will call for a peaceful end to U.S. foreign occupation around the world.

93rd-ranked Recht starts season

By Dan Click · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:30 a.m.

After a successful summer that included finishing second in the ITA National Summer Championships, junior Ryan Recht is set to compete in the Icy Hot/ITA Men's All-American Tennis Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn., at the Champions Club. Recht is ranked 93rd in the country.

Freshman makes her mark

By Steve Slivka · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:29 a.m.

When one enters her freshman collegiate cross country season after winning the 1,600 meter run in the Illinois High School State Track Championship and earning All-State honors in track all four years of high school, that freshman is expected to make an instant impact in college.

Limbaugh's comment lands him on the side

By Colin Nowling · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:28 a.m.

As soon as I saw Rush Limbaugh had been hired by ESPN to be on their Sunday NFL Countdown show, I turned to a friend and asked, "Why?" My friend replied with much the same surprise and added how it just gave Limbaugh another chance to assert his opinions on the general public.

Jack Black comedy on top

By Alyson Brodsy and David Germain · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:09 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- "The School of Rock," with Jack Black playing a rocker posing as a substitute teacher to coach fifth graders for a battle-of-the-bands contest, earned top grades from audiences with a $20.2 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.