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Program unites students, kids

Fairview Elementary School's third grade wing bustles with excitement and energy Friday morning. Something is in the air.

Purdue adds gays to anti-harassment policy

After months of pressure from students, faculty and local taxpayers, Purdue University amended its nondiscrimination policy last month to include sexual orientation.

Author Discusses

The sound of familiar but not quite placeable classical music crackles through the speakers at Planned Television Arts, a New York-based promotion company. Minutes tick by as the clock moves closer to 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Relaxing sounds of violins and horns become the background music for an ever-growing number of men and women waiting at the other end of telephone lines. Finally, an overly happy and somewhat artificial-sounding woman delivers an introduction.

IUSA rallies for textbooks without taxes

Picket signs and chants greeted motorists traveling past the Indiana Capitol Tuesday in Indianapolis. As the 5 p.m. rush hour approached, about 40 students representing eight Indiana universities gathered to garner support for tax-free textbooks. State representatives Sheila Klinker and Mark Kruzan recently introduced bills to the Indiana General Assembly exempting students from the 5 percent textbook sales tax, according to the IU Student Association Legislative Relations Office. Coupled with IUSA's fall petition drive, which generated more than 13,000 signatures supporting the exemption, the proposed legislation has buffered support from numerous student government groups statewide.

The Vagina Monologues

Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women -- that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life and that this failing would, if we did not correct it, be the end of us all. -- Eve Ensler, introduction to "The Vagina Monologues."

Hot off the runway

"Good morning, models." "Good morning, Charlie." "Charlie's Angels" is just one of the themed sections of this year's Alpha Kappa Alpha fashion show, 7:30 p.m. today in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.

IU Swing Club offers dance instruction

Monday, Jan. 22, students and community members gathered at the Indiana Memorial Union for the IU Swing Club's Call-Out meeting.

University Theatre to bring 'Oedipus' to life

Twenty-four centuries before Freud developed his theories, the ancient Greeks tapped into human psychology in the most public of places -- the theater. The most popular form of entertainment for the Greeks, playwrights such as Aeschylus, Euripides and Aristophanes brought the human condition to the foreground with their plays about the history and religion of their culture.

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The iron lifestyle

Do you remember how easily the gains came when you first began training?

Legislators fight drunken driving

State Sen. Tom Wyss, R-Fort Wayne, said he would like to see Indiana's standard for drunken driving lowered. He's filed legislation 10 of the past 11 sessions to affect that change. For the first time, that legislation has gotten its feet off the ground.

Senior fights through injury

Next time you roll your ankle, bruise your knee or jamb a finger, remember Hoosier wrestling captain Kevin Stanley.

Knight blasts University officials

Bob Knight has stirred up controversy across the country. In Big Ten arenas. In NCAA Tournament press conferences. On hunting trips. Now, the former IU basketball coach has found a new medium -- Playboy. The interview, Knight's most extensive since appearing on "Larry King Live" last fall, is set to hit newsstands Feb. 5.

Surprises out west shake things up

As the NBA moves past the midway point of the season, the stage appears to be set for an exciting stretch run.

Hard work leads to improvement for junior

Junior guard Heather Cassady arrives an hour before practice begins and hits the basketball court. She works with one of the assistant coaches, who passes her the ball as she runs across the floor. She hits jump shots, lay-ups and free throws.

Finding organs for kids: Local group is saving lives

Garrett Arion had his first liver surgery when he was 8 weeks old to correct a birth defect. When he was 5 months old, doctors in his hometown of Kokomo estimated he had five to seven months to get a liver transplant, or he would die. Fred Carreo, 60, suffered from cirrhosis of the liver for more than 10 years before he was found comatose on the floor of his house in Phoenix and was diagnosed with Hepatitis C.

Leach dominates Buckeye player

Although freshman George Leach scored only two points and played just 10 minutes, teammate Kirk Haston said Leach deserves the MVP award for IU's 70-67 victory against Ohio State.

What a road trip

If looks could kill, Ohio State might have won the ball game. Ken Johnson, the Buckeyes' 6-foot-11 senior center, swatted a shot by sophomore forward Jeffrey Newton and then glared at him.

With Knight out, Nike moves in

Wearing a Nike sweatshirt and Nike sneakers at his weekly press conference, interim head coach Mike Davis said his men's basketball team wanted to wear Nike. After the program's footwear contract with Converse expired at the end of last season, the Hoosiers were ready for a new shoe.

Professor recalls quake's terror

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck El Salvador Jan. 13, killing more than 700 and leaving about one million homeless in the country of about six million people. History professor Jeff Gould was there.