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Behrman case still a mystery

IU freshman Jill Behrman went out for a bike ride at 9 a.m. May 31 of 2000 and never made it back. Two years later, she's still missing.

Education intiative expands

Gov. Frank O'Bannon visited Community College of Indiana campuses in Gary and Lafayette Wednesday to kick-off the fall semester.

Hoosiers tie for 5th at Buckeye Invitational

The women's golf team finished in a fifth-place tie this weekend at the 16-team Lady Buckeye Invitational in Columbus, Ohio.

Brehm meets Delts

In her first meeting with a greek organization, Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm spoke with members of the Delta Tau Delta Wednesday on variety of issues. Topics ranged from the current state of the country and the University to issues concerning the campus and student body. The informal question-and-answer session began shortly after dinner. The meeting lasted a little more than an hour, and enabled members of the house to speak about issues concerning them both as students and as members of the greek system. Brehm began the session by introducing herself and explaining her role as both chancellor and vice president for academic affairs.

Display angers, educates

Pictures spoke more than a thousand words Wednesday. Images of aborted fetuses, the Holocaust and animal testing confronted students as they walked by the Sample Gates. Students, faculty and community members made evident their feelings with looks of surprise, disgust, shock and disbelief.

Steps of Passage

While normal conversation was impossible in Alumni Hall, somehow the call and response of Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha was heard above the crowd and the music. Gamma Eta, IU's chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, held its annual step show Saturday night. People swarmed in the doors when they opened shortly after 10:30 until they were closed after midnight because the room was over capacity.

Chancellor Brehm tackles first weeks

For the past nine days, rain or shine, Sharon Brehm has walked the half-mile from her home to her office, moved by the almost "spiritual" effect she claims IU's beauty affords. She's strolled through the Arboretum, pausing to reflect on the aesthetics of the place she now calls home. She's stepped along the footpaths in the Old Crescent area of campus, down Indiana Avenue and past the Sample Gates, into her quiet room in Bryan Hall. Along the way, she doubtlessly calculates the gravity of the responsibilities the coming months and years will bring as she steps in to fill the shoes of retired Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis. She surely anticipates the commencement of the upcoming semester as she assumes her position in a long line of leaders with legacies.

Opera opens this weekend

Though it only played nine performances in its original production in Vienna in 1786, Mozart's opera buffa "The Marriage of Figaro" has become one of the world's most popular and most performed operas.

Letters to the editor

Cost-saving report released

A report on the implementation of cost-saving procedures for non-academic administrative services at IU and IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis was released this week. It marks the completion of the second stage of a long-term project to make IU's administrative services more cost-effective.

Madcap comedy offers a few chuckles

Local ads challenge big cities

This college town is an oasis of liberalism in a resoundingly conservative state, a place where tree sit-ins have become as routine as sign-waving protests against Starbucks and other corporate operations. But in a new effort to attract high-tech businesses and entrepreneurs, the home of Indiana University has turned to an advertising campaign that drops the index finger on the peace sign and gets, well, borderline belligerent.

Former cheerleader to bring anti-drunk driving message to campus

Kelly Craig started her IU career on a positive note. She was a cheerleader for the Hoosiers, and during her freshman year she pledged the Chi Omega sorority. But in the summer of 1999, she was paralyzed from the neck down when a drunken driver hit the car she was driving in with her brother and then-boyfriend Luke Recker. Craig is no longer an IU student, pursuing her education closer to her family.

Hoosiers thrill eager crowd at scrimmage

Men's basketball coach Mike Davis said he wanted to have a good time at Midnight Madness as Friday night turned into Saturday morning at Assembly Hall. Judging by his reactions to his players' loose style of basketball, Davis at least somewhat enjoyed himself.

Making the transition: Prep coaches join IU's staff

Middle school physical education teacher in the mornings and afternoons. College football coach in the late afternoons and early evenings. That was how Ted Huber spent his long work days in the early 1980s when he served as Lee Corso's defensive ends coach at IU. In 1980, Huber left his job as Bloomington South football coach to join Corso's staff. "I had a secret desire to become a college coach," said Huber, who now coaches centers and guards at Ball State. It's easy to forget Huber once coached at IU. Hundreds of players, dozens of assistants and three head coaches have come and gone since the time Huber and Corso left Bloomington.

Coach to meet former team

Tonight's match for the women's volleyball team will present an unfamiliar challenge for the players, but a familiar opponent for head coach Katie Weismiller. Indiana meets St. Louis tonight at the Bauman-Eberhardt Center on the St. Louis campus. This is the first meeting in six years between the two teams, but Weismiller's ties to the Billikens makes this matchup interesting. Weismiller, a native of St. Louis, began her career at SLU as head coach from 1989-1991. SLU won more than 75 percent of their matches under Weismiller, posting a 50-24 record. Weismiller also made an appearance at the Midwestern Collegiate Conference Championship in 1989.

Coaches bring new style to IU

Patrolling the 50-yard line at Memorial Stadium Saturday, coach Gerry DiNardo eyed his football team as it participated in pre-practice stretches. Piercing through the 40-degree wind blowing toward the north end of the stadium was the scratchy, Boston accent of defensive line coach Joe Cullen.

Shelter finds ad offensive

When Hardees executives launched an advertisement that asks customers to "make a homeless person happy," they had no idea how unhappy a Bloomington transitional housing center would be. Shelter Inc., 919 South Rogers St., is demanding an apology for a Hardee's Restaurants ad campaign because shelter officials say it is offensive toward homeless people.

Council passes athletics proposal

IU's faculty unanimously approved a plan Tuesday which puts an emphasis on academics, not athletics. The vote, supported by Athletics Director Michael McNeely and basketball coach Mike Davis, is the first step in a process of overhauling collegiate athletics across the country. The Bloomington Faculty Council passed the intercollegiate athletics resolution after much deliberation and separately added three addendums to the proposal with almost full support from the council.

'Ice Age' best thawed on video