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Üt Haus Jazz Band releases 2 CDs

By Daven Kolderup and Davin Kolderup · Wednesday, May 23,2001 10:36 p.m.

For some folks, jazz is in the blood. Once it's got you, it doesn't let go easily. You have to hear it, you have to play it. You can't stay away for long. For three high school buddies from central Indiana, that has been the case for more than 30 years. Now, those same old friends, who have been playing together since high school but performing publicly with other local musicians since 1990 as the Üt Haus Jazz Band, are celebrating their past so they can get on with the future. They're releasing their first two CD-Rs this week -- Best of the Basement and alt.basement, a compilation of music recorded in their rehearsal space in 1992.

Around The Region

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 23,2001 10:33 p.m.

Positions Open on Commission on the Status of Black Males Planned Parenthood offers new contraceptive Peoples University seeks instructors for fall classes New court administrator named

Robbers invade local home

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, May 23,2001 10:28 p.m.

A fifty-year-old Monroe County woman was held at gunpoint in her house in southern Monroe County Tuesday while robbers looted her home.

NASA plans commercial spaceflight

By Alexis Silas · Wednesday, May 23,2001 10:25 p.m.

NASA's latest "spacecraft" can do little more than lumber across Earth's highways hitched to a trailer rig. But that doesn't stop space transportation officials from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., from believing that a similar craft will orbit the Earth within the next 40 years, on a highway system in space that resembles the highway systems of Earth.

Seat belt enforcement increases

By Bryan Harris · Wednesday, May 23,2001 10:22 p.m.

For the next week, unbelted and unsafe drivers are in danger of being "blitzed" by the police. The Monroe County Sheriff's Department, the IU Police Department and the Bloomington Police Department, along with 180 police agencies across the state, are participating in Indiana's Operation Pullover Blitz from May 20 to June 2. Thursday's activities will include a seat belt enforcement zone at an undisclosed location on Atwater Avenue.

IU officials donate $50,000 to reward

By Kristen Utrecht · Wednesday, May 23,2001 10:15 p.m.

Five senior IU administrators have donated a total of $50,000 in an effort to jump start the investigation into the disappearance of 20-year-old IU student and Bloomington resident Jill Behrman. The $50,000 donation will increase the reward for information concerning Behrman's case to $100,000. FBI and the Bloomington Police Department have been searching for Berhman since May 31 of last year, when she failed to return home after a routine morning bike ride. Her bicycle was found a few days later in a cornfield about 10 miles from where she was last seen.

Orientation programs get ready for freshman

By Jamie Spencer · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:48 p.m.

The campus orientation programs crew is working hard in anticipation of the influx of incoming freshman who will make their way to Bloomington this summer for Orientation. The team is now packing up and preparing to move to their temporary office in Wright Quad, where space is large enough to accommodate more than 6,300 expected students.

Students hike Great Wall, gain lasting memories

By Cory Schouten · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:45 p.m.

Graduate student Dave Tanner said the fourth day of the School of Health Physical Education and Recreation's five-day walk of China's Great Wall was the most difficult. The group's water was running low, and the day's hike lasted seven hours, Tanner said. The wall narrowed to 12-inches wide in spots. Looming on either side were 20-foot drops. The wind blew at about 30 miles per hour. The previous night, the group had camped out on the Wall, in an old guard tower.

'Angel Eyes': Chick flick for guys?

By Ryan Hildebrandt · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:42 p.m.

Warning: Gentlemen, this movie is a chick-flick. I just want to let you know what you're getting yourself into by going to see this movie. Trailers for "Angel Eyes" lead viewers to believe this movie is about our favorite fly-girl Jennifer Lopez getting involved with a psycho. I was fooled too. I guess I should have taken a look at the director's movie credits first. They include "Message In a Bottle" (starring and sucking with Kevin Costner) and "When a Man Loves a Woman."

Embrace Lacrosse

By Brian Longly · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:31 p.m.

Ahh, Memorial Day Weekend, a magnificent sports weekend if ever there was one. With the added bonus of a Monday off in a three-day weekend, sporting events abound. Sure, there are plenty of baseball games to watch, preferably in person, and there are the playoffs in basketball and hockey as both wind down their seasons. There is also some stupid little car race going on in Indianapolis named after our bike race. Well, I'm not really all that excited for that aspect of the weekend. What I'm really looking forward to is the Final Four of college lacrosse. That's right, lacrosse, baby.

Indy 500 is more than it looks

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:28 p.m.

I'll admit it. I'm not your typical race fan. I don't own stock in Old Milwaukee, and I'm horribly inept with a beer bong. I wear Kenneth Cole heels with jeans and I'm more likely to sport a sundress on race day than the requisite airbrushed Earnhardt commemorative tee. But here it is, kids. I am absolutely, positively and inconceivably enamored of racing. I've watched the Brickyard 400, the Daytona 500 and the infamous Indy races since I was old enough to send my tiny Matchbox #3 racecar flying across the living room.

Which side to believe?

By Alyson Brodsy and Duncan Mitchell · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:13 p.m.

Help! I'm trapped between Scylla and Charybdis, between having to believe a government agency on one hand and a major American political party on the other. It isn't pretty.

Life is short but sweet for certain

By James Boyd · Wednesday, May 23,2001 9:10 p.m.

Three years ago this morning, my life changed in a heartbeat. My mom woke me up to the news that there were two girls standing in our living room, crying. My friends Bonnie and Michelle were there, both with Kleenex in their hands.

Wisconsin wins again

By Bennet Haeberle · Sunday, May 20,2001 10:56 p.m.

With only the 4x400m relay left Sunday, sophomore Contrell Ash was tired. He spent most of the weekend winning. Finishing first in the 100, 200 and 4x100-meter relay, Ash and his IU teammates helped the Hoosiers move to a sixth place finish at the Big Ten Championships this weekend at Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex. In their best showing since 1998, the Hoosiers finished with a point total 81.67 -- their highest since 1993. Wisconsin defended their Big Ten title once again with a point total of 135 points.

Indiana House Speaker decides against running for U.S. Congress

By Joseph S. Pete · Sunday, May 20,2001 10:49 p.m.

After years of coaching his sons' baseball team, Indiana House Speaker John Gregg missed his first practice in April. Gregg, a popular conservative Democrat from Sandborn, found himself too caught up in trying to reach a last-minute budget agreement with Senate Republicans. That's when he made up his mind.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, May 20,2001 10:48 p.m.

St. Clair named to All-Big Ten Cameron to hold camp

Campus, community debate McVeigh

By Carolyn Shel · Sunday, May 20,2001 10:46 p.m.

Timothy McVeigh's planned execution in Terre Haute, Ind. has brought the death penalty debate to the forefront of discussion on campus and in the Bloomington community. Since the FBI recently released thousands of overlooked documents pertinent to McVeigh's case, McVeigh's lethal injection, originally scheduled for Wednesday, May 16 has been postponed until June 11.

Legislation removes restraining order fee

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Sunday, May 20,2001 10:44 p.m.

Mark Pitman's home is warm and inviting. Modestly decorated, it's not in the most wealthy section of town. Yet Pitman is proud of his home and what it's built upon. His tone is affectionate as he describes the principles governing life in his quiet house on the south side of town: love, respect and humility.

Bloomington Playwrights Project puts on annual 'Shorts' festival

By Daven Kolderup and Davin Kolderup · Sunday, May 20,2001 9:36 p.m.

The Bloomington Playwrights Project opened its annual short plays festival "Puttin' On Our Shorts" last Friday. Founded by two IU graduates in 1979, the BPP has for more than 20 years provided Bloomington with an opportunity to see new and experimental theater in an intimate setting, as well as giving budding local playwrights, actors and actresses the chance to hone their skills in a performance setting.

Mamet, Macy make mirthful \'Main\'

By Daven Kolderup and Davin Kolderup · Sunday, May 20,2001 9:33 p.m.

Here's how I imagine the conversation took place at Kerasotes World Headquarters (located on a small asteroid in geosynchronous orbit above the Midwest): Kerasotes Guy #1: "Hey, it's been about four months since "State & Main" got a nationwide release. There haven't been any TV ads for months, and everyone's probably forgotten about it. If we put it in Bloomington this weekend, no one will notice, and it'll be gone in time for "Pearl Harbor". Kerasotes Guy #2 (while stroking his Van Dyke beard): "Excellent."