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Class prepares students for elections

Around campus, many students are paying attention -- at least a little -- to the presidential debates and other election coverage in the media. But the students in professor Gerald Wright's Y200 class are absorbed in it.

Rush hour accident leaves student injured in front Business School

A 19-year-old sophomore was hit Thursday afternoon at about 3:50 p.m. by a passing car on 10th Street between the Main Library and the Kelley School of Business.

Golden opportunity

To this point, Minnesota coach Glen Mason has succeeded where IU coach Cam Cameron has failed. Both hired in 1997, Mason has revitalized the once-dormant Gopher program to respectability and has taken his team to a bowl game. Cameron has yet to do either of the two.

Clinton, Lazio throw their best pitches in the other New York rivalry

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat, and Rep. Rick Lazio, R-N.Y., continue to try to break the statistical dead heat of the nation's most high-profile Senate race.

Bands to perform in fraternity contest

Five bands will take part in Alpha Kappa Psi's "Battle of the Bands" Saturday night as a fund-raiser for the Greek letter business fraternity. The event is scheduled to go from 5-10 p.m. in Woodburn room 100 and each band will play a 30-minute set in an effort to prove to the audience they are the best band in the contest.

Dodds Couch-A-Thon to aid Shelter, Inc.

The men of Dodds are couch potatoes, and proud of it. The Doddsmen will sponsor their annual Couch-A-Thon from noon Friday until noon Saturday to raise money for Shelter, Inc., a non-profit emergency and transitional housing service for homeless families.

Endowment dinner honors donors

Wednesday afternoon the IU Auditorium played host to a distinguished set of guests. Members of the IU Foundation Board of Directors, volunteer chairs of the various colleges of IU and IU president Myles Brand, gathered for the yearly national endowment fund dinner. Held every fall, the dinner honors donors to IU and thanks them for their contributions.

Student sells Web site to competitor

Debtforsale.com, an online secondary debt marketplace owned and operated by junior Ryan Pfenninger, joined the growing ranks of consolidating Internet businesses when it was sold last week to its competitor e-debt.com.

Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber comes to town

Norma Desmond, Joseph, Grizabella, Evita, the Phantom and Christine Daae. These and more captivating characters were created by the influence of one man's music. "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber" will bring these characters to life at 8 p.m. tonight at the IU Auditorium.

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Pop star thrives professionally once again

In the 12 years since her breakthrough album Tell it to My Heart skyrocketed Taylor Dayne to pop music stardom, she has parlayed her talents into acting and business ventures, garnered recognition from her peers and performed at sold-out concerts around the globe.

Campaign targets oil drilling

The Indiana Public Interest Research Group is sponsoring an e-mail campaign to prevent oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. President Bill Clinton will decide whether to declare the area a National Monument. The e-mail drive is part of a nationwide action day.

Time to grow up, leave Harveys alone

Let's face it. Everyone screws up. Kent Harvey is no exception. Harvey should have considered the consequences of his actions. Everyone involved in the Knight saga knew that the next big allegation to reach the national media would result in dire consequences. Myles Brand had a long list of infractions against the "zero-tolerance policy" that those on the receiving end of Knight's infamous personality never reported. Harvey said he didn't want to hurt the men's basketball team, but he should have realized the media frenzy that would result from such a serious allegation.

Just don't pass it on

Forwards. They started out innocently enough. A political joke here, a "personal survey" there ... fun ways to fill an empty inbox. When used with care and discretion, a forward can be a helpful thing. How many students have been saved from the embarrassment of having no new mail at a public e-mail station, with 30 irate Hoosiers standing in line, by the ever-present forward?

Women take charge in South Asia

South Asia abounds in possibilities. If you are a female in South Asia, you can face female infanticide, slavery and discrimination. If that doesn't work, how about power, wealth and prestige?

Take control of your Union

Sorry mom. I know I promised you when I decided to write this column that I would not use it as a platform to share family secrets. Today I am forced by the nature of my column to break that promise.

Late professor caring, influential on campus

During my brief tenure in Bloomington, I am often inundated with stories of IU's rich academic tradition and socially progressive history.

'ER' still provides suspense

The season premiere of "ER" tried hard to recapture the show's pressure-cooker aura, showing how people's lives can come unglued. But in order to compete with ABC's \"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,\" the show now has to be more optimistic, undermining its edginess.

Tim Meadows fights the ladies off with a bat in 'Ladies Man'

"The Ladies Man" has broken a stigma among many a Saturday Night Live movie (excluding "Wayne's World") because it doesn't completely and utterly suck.

The 'Secret' is out

"Joe Gould's Secret" is a surprisingly intimate, moving and profound recount of the friendship between two literary legends of mid-1900s New York City. There's Joe Gould, an eccentric panhandler who claimed to have written a million-word account of "The Oral History of Our Time." Then there's Joseph Mitchell, the brilliant New Yorker reporter who profiled Gould.