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Mistakes from stars doom IU

By Matt Dollinger · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:52 p.m.

Remember the New York Yankees blowing the ALCS in 2004? Or how about Chris Webber in the closing seconds of the 1993 NCAA Championship game? Greg Norman’s notable Sunday meltdowns on the golf course? All of the above have had something slip through their hands. The same could be said for the Hoosiers on Saturday. In prime position to beat Penn State for the first time in history, the Hoosiers fumbled – four times, actually – their chances away and lost to the Nittany Lions, 36-31.

Police want teen driver in Gary charged

By Alexandra R. Moses · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:51 p.m.

GARY – Police will ask prosecutors to charge the driver of a car that crashed in September, killing two young men whose bodies were found hours later by the father of one of the victims.

Bilingual school joins international program

By Alexandra R. Moses · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:51 p.m.

FORT WAYNE – An elementary school where students spend half the day speaking Spanish has been invited to join a unique program sponsored by Spain’s government.

Reporters from NBC, ESPN to visit journalism school

By IDS staff and Ab D. Phillip · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:37 p.m.

Two prominent broadcast journalists will visit the School of Journalism this week. “NBC News” correspondent Bob Dotson and ESPN “First Take” host Dana Jacobson will visit a visual storytelling class today before holding separate lectures.

Study links iPod use to surge in robberies

By Ab D. Phillip and Elizabeth Murphy · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:36 p.m.

The popularity of iPods and other brands of MP3 players might be the cause for an increase in violent crime, according to a report issued by the Urban Institute. The report’s authors found that a time period when Apple sold nearly 90 million iPods correlated with the first national crime rate spike in 12 years.

Journalism professor follows Indian migration all over world

By Daniel Robison · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:35 p.m.

Steve Raymer set out to capture two centuries worth of photos all over the world, but only had four years to do it. The associate professor of journalism traveled the world in search of people of Indian origin living away from their homeland for his new book, “Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora,” published by the IU Press.

Around the World

By Associated Press and Arthur H. Rotstein · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:09 p.m.

U.S. and Iraqi forces, backed by Polish army helicopters, swept through Shiite militia strongholds south of Baghdad Saturday, rounding up dozens of militants and killing two.

Wildfire threatens Pepperdine

By Arthur H. Rotstein and Noaki Schwartz · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 10:07 p.m.

MALIBU, Calif. – A wildfire driven by powerful Santa Ana wind threatened a university and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes in the Malibu Hills on Sunday

Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan rocks Assembly Hall

By Nick Mills and Nicholas Mills · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:53 p.m.

With silver buckets of incense burning behind the stage and an elaborate introduction, Bob Dylan took the stage at Assembly Hall on Friday night with his band members – all of whom were dressed in black, with Dylan looking like he was straight from an old Western movie.

Desperately seeking shuteye

By Abby Schwimmer · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:43 p.m.

Have you ever been far away from a loved one? Have you ever missed someone so much that you think about them every minute of the day? Lately, this is how I have been feeling about the backs of my eyelids. Sometimes it’s school, sometimes it’s work and sometimes it’s even hanging out with friends that does it, but suffice it to say that I have been missing out on way too much sleep lately to go on functioning like a semi-normal human being. And judging by the lines at Starbucks this week and the number of Rockstar cans I’ve seen lying around campus, I’m not alone.

Candidate costumes

By Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:39 p.m.

Halloween proper might not be until the middle of next week, but we all know that it’s this weekend that really matters. (It’s a bit difficult to party on a Wednesday. Not that you shouldn’t try – this is IU, after all.) Thus, you should start working on your costume immediately, if you haven’t already. Undoubtedly, some of you topical types are going to want to dress up like the candidates for the 2008 presidential election.

IU College Democrats host candidate forum

By Caitlin Johnston · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:37 p.m.

About 20 individuals chose to spend their afternoon at the City of Bloomington Democratic-candidates forum hosted by the IU College Democrats.

Presidential Prelude

By Michael Reschke · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:37 p.m.

IU is no stranger to change, Michael McRobbie said as he officially became IU’s 18th president Thursday. “Indiana University’s history is a story of change in response to the demands of the time,” McRobbie said to a crowd of about 1,800.

IU men's soccer play to 0-0 tie

By Linnea Coulter · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:36 p.m.

No. 16 Hoosiers earn draw against Ohio State.

Great debate

By Jacob Stewart and Jake Stewart · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:36 p.m.

The controversy in Jena, La., has thrown discrimination back into the limelight of U.S. debate after six black high school students were charged under obviously racist pretenses for attempted murder. With a Capitol Hill hearing, thousands of words of commentary in Internet forums and Facebook activists appearing in droves, the Jena Six have lit a racially charged fuse that has not been seen since the O.J. Simpson murder trial of 1994.

Horses, Marching Hundred lead Homecoming parade

By Shannon Dahmer · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:35 p.m.

Hundreds of students and Bloomington community members lined up along sidewalks from Third Street all the way to the Sample Gates to see Friday’s Homecoming parade, led by IU President Michael McRobbie and his wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie.

Islamo-Fascist follies

Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:34 p.m.

Starting today, a coalition of conservative organizations will be holding “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” at college campuses across the country. Organized by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the event will include demonstrations, petitions, distribution of political materials and speeches by figures such as Horowitz, Ann Coulter and U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who will all confront “the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat.”

3 costly fumbles doom IU vs. Penn State

By Lee Hurwitz · Sunday, Oct. 21,2007 7:31 p.m.

Sophomore quarterback Kellen Lewis threw for 308 yards and three scores and added another on a 56-yard touchdown run, but also committed three costly turnovers - including one that clinched the game for Penn State with under a minute left in the fourth quarter - as the IU football team fell to 5-3, 2-3 in the Big Ten.

Fall from grace

By Michael Sanserino · Friday, Oct. 19,2007 12:32 a.m.

Kelvin Sampson was surrounded by 13,000 of his biggest supporters, but he stood alone at the center of the court at Assembly Hall. For the second year in a row, he had a hard time speaking at Hoosier Hysteria. The crowd wouldn’t give him a chance to talk.

5 arrested in local drug bust

By Alexandra R. Moses · Friday, Oct. 19,2007 12:25 a.m.

After four months of investigation, the Bloomington Police Department arrested five individuals early Thursday on drug charges and removed six children from the suspects’ residence.