The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance objects to certain statements in Monday’s IDS editorial, “McNutty Security” and the accompanying cartoon.
I take issue with Donnie Morgan’s Nov. 15 response (published in the Jordan River Forum) to Grace Low’s column against the new tobacco policy. Mr. Morgan is offended in particular by Ms. Low’s characterization of the policy as “paternalistic. ” He responds that the policy does not aim to make decisions for people, but merely seeks to protect pedestrians from secondhand smoke.
A “fact” that more than likely is not even true could be the deciding factor in the Democratic presidential nomination process and possibly the presidential race as a whole.
If we want to gauge current attitudes about gender and sexuality we need only to look in our junk e-mail folders. My Gmail filtered 678 spam e-mails.
WASHINGTON – From “Good Vibrations” to “GoodFellas,” Brian Wilson and Martin Scorsese scored. Steve Martin strutted as one of the “wild and crazy guys.” Diana Ross sang to Motown stardom. Pianist Leon Fleisher surmounted a debilitating injury.
The Monroe County man accused of murdering two men is scheduled to have another pretrial hearing in mid-January. Jerry E. Pelfree, 51, was arrested Sept. 14 after authorities stormed his residence and found the remains of two men in 55- and 35-gallon steel drums. Authorities later identified the remains as Everett L. Shaw and Douglas A. Brown.
INDIANAPOLIS – The tax policy leader of the state Senate said Tuesday he has concerns about capping homeowner property bills at 1 percent of the home’s value, suggesting it could be too hard a hit on some local governments.
Two Bloomington residents were arrested Friday afternoon after their newborn baby sustained a skull fracture in mid-November. Mystica Tapp, 19, and Anthony Helmes, 22, were arrested after an on-going investigation by the Bloomington Police Department. Each face preliminary charges of neglect of a dependant resulting in injury.
INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana will nearly double the size of its network of rail-trail corridors with the purchase of more than 150 miles of abandoned rail line, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Monday.
LAPORTE, Ind. – A sheriff’s deputy, who saw two fire trucks leave a station when there wasn’t any fire, caught a teenager who allegedly stole one of the trucks.
IU Police Department officials met with a subject affiliated with the IU Athletics Department Monday morning in reference to a stolen John Deere Gator, according to an IUPD report.
CINCINNATI – Two college students said the high cost of tuition led them to rob a bank. The men pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated robbery and six charges of kidnapping.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Dave Chappelle has broken his own Laugh Factory endurance record.
Tuesday, China said it welcomes journalists covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics, responding to complaints by a media rights group that the Communist regime has decided to clamp down on reporting in the run-up to the games.
The 17-year-old suspect in the death of Sean Taylor was accused Tuesday of firing the shot that killed the Washington Redskins safety. A Miami-Dade grand jury identified Eric Rivera as the gunman in its indictment. Rivera and his three co-defendants were indicted by the grand jury on charges of first-degree felony murder and armed burglary.
While the Boston Red Sox appeared to be closing in on Johan Santana, an even bigger trade emerged Tuesday at the winter meetings: The Detroit Tigers reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis from the Florida Marlins for a package of six players.
The College Football Hall of Fame news conference already started by the time Joe Paterno showed up and grabbed his seat at the end of the dais. “I apologize for being one year and 20 minutes late,” the 80-year-old Penn State coach said.
A new U.S. intelligence review that concludes Iran stopped developing a nuclear weapons program in 2003 is consistent with the U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s own findings
The IU football team paid a price all season, and their reward is a 13th game on New Year’s Eve against Oklahoma State in Tempe, Ariz. Die-hard IU football fans have also paid a price for 14 years, watching team after team fall short of a bowl game before this year’s success. The reward for current IU students is a free ticket to the Insight Bowl. Any IU student can reserve their free ticket by calling 866-IUSPORTS or 812-855-4006. Check out the Under the Rock for more Hoosier insight.
While December usually finds IU students and faculty pushing through crowds to get to their seats at basketball games, this year, several organizations are pushing crowds to take action against genocide in Darfur.
