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Chinese spiritual group spreading peace across campus

By Adam Van Osdol · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Mary Lan often thinks about her home in China. Sometimes at night, she can't get to sleep, she is so overcome with longing. She thinks of the river that runs near her parents house. She thinks of her father, who is old and not always well.

Six IU singers take home top awards from vocal competition

By Katie Killebrew · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Voices echoing with operatic arias -- an air or melody in an opera, cantata or oratorio, especially for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment -- rang through the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in the 33rd West Palm Beach Vocal Competition, held this past April in West Palm Beach, Fla. Five of the winners were students from IU and one was an IU alumnus.

Burton grows with race team

By Alyson Brodsy and Jenna Fryer · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Ward Burton will always cherish his win in the Daytona 500, the biggest victory of his career. But when everything that followed was a disaster, it's easy to forget that moment. Week after week after his season-opening victory, Burton fell deeper and deeper into a miserable slump. He had finishes of 21st or worse 11 times, scored just two top-10 finishes and went to New Hampshire International Speedway last weekend stuck in a rut of finishing 33rd of worse in six of the last seven races.

'Halloween' in July?

By Seth Forster · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Jamie Lee Curtis is back once again for the eighth installment of the "Halloween" franchise, but only for a brief while. Michael Myers is as relentless as a Rolling Stones tour manager. It turns out that Laurie Strode (Curtis) had decapitated the wrong guy in a mask in the last episode. Kind of like when you walk into the wrong classroom on the first day of school. So we can all relate, right?

Chinese village voting wins praise

By Martin Fackler · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

QUANWANG, China -- With former President Carter watching, villagers cast ballots Wednesday in a display meant to showcase China's experiment with limited, low-level elections. About 860 voters gathered in the back lot of a silk factory to choose the five-member Quanwang committee, supposed to run daily affairs in this village near Shanghai. Carter called it proof that democracy was spreading, albeit slowly, through China's grass roots.

Let's stop homeland terror

By Cherry Blattert · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Regardless of Washington's best efforts to desist terrorist efforts overseas, nationally, the U.S. has yet to take a united stand against the dangerous cadre of environmental extremists who continue to commit horrendous acts of terrorism against their fellow citizens.

Black history month

By Duncan Teater · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

MLK day is short, celebratory and over before the ice-cream melts. And that's how us white folks like it. But if Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a short-lived celebration, then Black History Month is an unfulfilled commitment. That's right. Black History Month. You know…this month?

Protesters defy everything and accomplish nothing

By Ryan Hildebrandt · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

As a friend of mine drove past a group of protesters on the steps of the Monroe County Justice Building Friday night, he heard them yell at him, "How's your mama?" The group was protesting the arrest of six demonstrators earlier in the day during a cycling activist event. The police arrested some of the riders after they refused to stay in one lane so traffic could pass them.

Ozark folk music from back in the day

By Ryan Whirty · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Lance Randolph did most of his work in other people's kitchens or on other people's porches. The folklore collector spent nearly 50 years recording the music of the Ozark Mountain region, which covers parts of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Nestled in that rugged terrain, Randolph captured Ozark natives as they spilled forth the soul of a culture.

Student names given to FBI

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Complying with a request to colleges and universities nationwide to aid terrorism investigations, records of about 3,200 IU students were released to federal authorities last week. Acting in collaboration with University legal counsel, the Office of International Services released the names of all nonimmigrant students who have taken intensive English-as-a-second-language courses during the past five years, according to OIS Associate Dean and Director Kenneth Rogers. Nonimmigrant students are classified as international students attending school in the United States on "F" or "J" visas.

Summer enrollment on rise

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Summer enrollment at some Indiana colleges is on the rise as summer school students try to get ahead or turn to college because of a slow job market.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Graf column overlooks part of greek life We are writing in response to Bridget Graf's column ("Local bars affected by rules," Jan. 30). We believe Ms. Graf has overlooked some major issues concerning the greek system, the law and the bar culture in Bloomington.

Chaos, fun for race fan

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Okay, so I'm not your typical race fan, to say the least. Try as I may, I just can't do the kegstand thing, and I'd rather wear a skirt and tank than the typically requisite NASCAR vinyl jacket and bikini top. But I'll admit it: I love racing. I spent my formative years at the Haubstadt Motor Speedway a few miles from my hometown of Evansville, smashing Matchbox cars into one another as my father threw back Old Milwaukees while hurling obscenities at rival drivers.

Rematch on the road to Final Four

By Rob Mullally · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

The fourth-seeded men's soccer team continues on its quest for a sixth National Championship this weekend, hosting No. 16 Rutgers in the sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The game will be played 2 p.m. Sunday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The game marks the second meeting of the two schools this season, with IU (15-3-1) defeating host Rutgers (15-6-3) 1-0 Oct. 26. Both teams excelled defensively in the game with IU breaking through on a free kick by All-American junior Pat Noonan.

Senate to reopen college gambling debate

By Laurence Arnold · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Senators reopened work Thursday on a bill to ban betting on college sports, a proposal vigorously opposed by the casino industry as misguided and unfairly targeted at Nevada, the only state that allows such wagering.

Support group offers answers

By Emily Hendricks · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Judy Schroeder was homophobic until 1991, when her son came out of the closet. At first, she thought she did something wrong in raising her son, who is now 30. She had a lot of questions, and she wanted to talk to him about it. But he was struggling with his own issues, she said.

IU loses conference games

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Big Ten Conference play has proven to be a challenge to the women's volleyball team as they lost matches to Wisconsin and Northwestern Friday and Saturday. The Hoosiers began their weekend against Wisconsin, ranked seventh in the NCAA. Junior Laurie Gardner also faced her sister.

Basketball riots spur rule revision

By Josh Sanburn · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

Last spring, the road to the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship trophy sparked riots and destructive behavior not only at IU and Bloomington, but across the nation. The University of Maryland witnessed some of the worst post-game festivities after beating IU in the championship game. The riots caused damage across Maryland's campus and now the university has put into effect policies ordering expulsion as the main punishment for students who participate in post-game rioting across any of the University of Maryland's 13 campuses, causing some universities to look at how they punish their partyers.

Cancer society head to finish series

By Elizabeth Crosbie · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

An international leader in health education and disease prevention will finish on Thursday a series of lectures about cancer. The talk leads up to the second annual "Hoosiers Outrun Cancer" walk and run. John Seffrin, CEO of the American Cancer Society will conduct a lecture on "The Present and Future State of Cancer" at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Indiana Memorial Union's Whittenberger Auditorium. Seffrin will be returning to IU for the lecture after his 13-year term as professor of health education in the school of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and as chairman of the Department of Applied Health Science. The public talk will be the last in the series presented by the HPER.

Lastest release cooked-up leftovers

By -Mitchell Tellstrom · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

The "new" Pixies album is made up of leftovers from The Purple Tape, the infamous first recording session for the Pixies. It consisted of 17 songs, eight of which were chosen for the mini-album Come On, Pilgrim. So the "new" Pixies album is really the oldest Pixies album.