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Grammy legend to play Auditorium

Bonnie Raitt, one of the music world's most enduring performers, brings her silky syncopations to the IU Auditorium tonight on her most recent concert tour. Raitt, who has been touring in support of her most recent album for more than two years, has been reaching out to new music lovers at smaller venues such as the Auditorium, as well as playing bigger halls to satisfy her most diehard fans.

The women of antiquity

It's hard to believe that the coins used by a woman in ancient Rome to buy groceries for her family are still feeding a Yugoslavian woman and her family today. Once part of the Roman empire, Yugoslavia is rich in hordes of ancient coins, many of which were buried centuries ago by a warrior who went off to battle, never to return. With the breakdown of authority in Yugoslavia, people are trying any method possible to earn income, and selling ancient coins on the art market is one of the clearest ways to do it.

A race rich in stories, memories

The inaugural Hoosiers Outrun Cancer Run/Walk, that aimed to increase awareness of cancer and raise money to fight it, drew about 2,300 participants to campus Saturday.

General Electric layoffs set for Dec. 15

General Electric gave notice last week to 870 workers at its Bloomington factory that they might be laid off just days before Christmas. Dec. 15 will be the first of two scheduled layoffs at the plant. GE announced last December it will eliminate 1,400 of 3,200 jobs at the side-by-side refrigerator plant at 301 N. Curry Pike in two phases.

Mideast peace summit begins

As Israel and Palestine enter today's peace summit in Egypt, unstable leadership and outcry over violence are some of the issues clouding chances of a permanent peace accord.

Uncertain promises

What would you do with $4,561,000,000,000? This is the United States' 10-year projected budget surplus according to the Congressional Budget Office and both presidential candidates want everyone to feel like they'll get a big slice of the pie.

Student faces indictment

An IU graduate student lost her son three years ago -- and she might in turn lose her own life because of it.

Alumni draft petition

A petition drafted by a group of IU alumni is calling for the resignation of IU President Myles Brand, Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations Christopher Simpson, athletics director Clarence Doninger and the entire IU board of trustees.

Around the Game

Senior leads cross country team

Young people are impressionable. So impressionable that when a second grade teacher tells his students to try out for the cross-country team when they reach the sixth grade, they listen. Such is the case with Aaron Gillen, a fifth-year senior.

Weekend sweep boosts Volleyball's Big Ten chances

A stats sheet is a notorious liar. Often its ingredients -- kills, blocks, hitting percentage -- are worth little more than a toss to a trashcan. But anyone keeping tallies of the volleyball team's contests this weekend in an effort to uncover the most tell-tale statistics likely ran out of ink; circling and underlining numbers, which, in this case, told no lies. Instead, the black and white slip of paper turned into the IU volleyball bible for a couple nights in a row. The Hoosiers (12-6, 3-5) used gutsy, consistent play and a solid week of practice to snap a five-game losing streak and turn around their Big Ten season in a heartbeat, pounding Illinois and Purdue.

Cross country team emerges from meet

In a meet like the Pre-NCAA Invitational in Ames, Iowa, Saturday, most teams just try to not get lost in the crowd. The No. 22 men's team emerged from the 53 teams at the meet with a 17th place finish.

Football embarrassed 58-0, Cameron blames self

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- There's a lot of words that can be used to describe what happened to IU Saturday against No. 18 Michigan. The Hoosiers were destroyed, embarrassed and shutout by a Wolverine team determined to erase last weekend's disappointing loss at Purdue. Whatever frustrations the Wolverines' had after their loss to the Boilermakers were let loose in their 58-0 victory against the Hoosiers. And whatever frustrations IU (2-4, 1-2 Big Ten) had after its 52-33 loss at Northwestern only increased after getting hammered on national television and before a Homecoming crowd of 110,909 at Michigan Stadium.

No. 2 Hoosiers knock off Wisconsin

Wisconsin, a team that has knocked off top-25 teams this season, worried Coach Jerry Yeagley. He stressed to his men's soccer team that it needed to capitalize off of corner kicks and free kicks in a game that could determine this year's Big Ten champion.

Stop wasting your time, start supporting soccer

Let me just start by saying I really hoped it wouldn't come down to this. Although the thought has been in the back of my mind for months, I truly hoped I wouldn't have to write this column. With that said, here it goes.... Students of dear old IU... what the heck are you thinking?

Men's soccer team tops Wildcats

Coach Jerry Yeagley knew before his men's soccer team took the field Sunday that it wasn't ready to play Northwestern.

Women's basketball appears in first Midnight Madness

While the men's basketball team waited patiently inside their locker room, much of the women's team hovered around the floor of Assembly Hall waiting for their first official practice to begin.

Fans support team despite Knight's firing

Freshman guard A.J. Moye rolled on the court laughing as junior forward Kirk Haston struggled from the three-point line. Even interim coach Mike Davis had trouble keeping a straight face as his big man competed against junior guard Heather Cassady in the final round of the three-point contest Saturday morning at Midnight Madness, the first official basketball practice of the season. Cassady outshot Haston 17-12.

Hoosiers please crowd at Midnight Madness

The excitement of Midnight Madness concluded with a flurry of fast breaks, alley-oops and 3-point bombs.

McBride adds signature to neoclassical jazz

Jazz -- the unbridled interpretation of emotion through music, invented by former slaves who applied African rhythms to European musical traditions -- is the only purely American art form. Wednesday night, Jazz from Bloomington, the city's jazz society, brought a few of its practitioners, the Barber Brothers Quintet and the Christian McBride Band, to the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.