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11-game losing streak stopped against OSU

By Brian Janosch · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:14 a.m.

The IU women's volleyball team was finally able to snap its 11-game losing streak after defeating Ohio State University Saturday 31-29, 30-18, 14-30, 30-20.

Defensive woes plague IU in loss

By Dan Patrick · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:13 a.m.

The IU women's basketball team started off its preseason with a 82-69 loss at the hands of Athletes in Action Sunday. However, the 13-point loss could have been worse as IU went on a 9-0 run to end the game.

IU pulls off overtime win against tough AIA

By Natalie A. Trout · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:12 a.m.

IU coach Mike Davis said he would have liked to have won by 100 points against Athletes in Action Friday night, but he had to settle for a close overtime win, 70-68.

Colts fall to last place Jags

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:11 a.m.

Jaguars 28, Colts 23 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fred Taylor delivered the punishment he promised and the Jacksonville Jaguars got a win not many people expected. Taylor scored a 32-yard touchdown with 1:08 left Sunday to lift the Jaguars to a surprising 28-23 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.

CLOSED for the season

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:09 a.m.

The air is crisp and the sun is out, hidden only by a few puffy clouds. The leaves on the trees are beginning to turn red, orange and yellow. It's Saturday morning, and fall is in full bloom. But the onset of fall means the end of the Farmer's Market.

Hoosiers snap 11-game Big Ten losing streak

By John Rodgers · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:09 a.m.

It's been an interesting week for junior Matt LoVecchio. Seven days removed from being forced to sit because of lingering effects of a concussion, LoVecchio scrambled for eight yards and dove head first across the goal line with 24 seconds remaining to score the winning touchdown in IU's 17-14 win over Illinois.

Hoosiers go slumpbusting

By Alex Hickey · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:07 a.m.

So, maybe it's understandable that IU's 17-14 win over Illinois didn't cause the Memorial Stadium crowd of 24,102 to charge the field and rip out the goal posts. But for a team that had lost 11 straight in the Big Ten, it must have felt like the weight of the world was lifted from their shoulders.

International students teach about the world

By Matt Lahr · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:04 a.m.

One of the biggest surprises international students might find when they come to the United States is that American citizens generally have little knowledge of countries outside North America.

Kids' art combats local poverty

By Hannah Schroder · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:03 a.m.

The Hoosier Hills Food Bank will be making presentations and accepting artwork from local children throughout November as part of the Children's Art Calendar Project. The calendar is used as an advocacy tool by which food bank administrators hope to raise awareness of childhood hunger.

Lab's audiovisual technology enables 3-D virtual reality

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:03 a.m.

IU's Advanced Visualization Lab has developed and licensed its first eight John-e-Box 3-D stereo display systems. "The John-e-Box is a portable large format display system that allows many people to stand around it at the same time in order to share visual information," said Eric Wernert, senior scientist and manager for the AVL.

Teach for America founder to visit IU

By Jen Gossman · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 1:01 a.m.

The founder and director of Teach for America will visit IU this week. Wendy Kopp will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union about why she created the organization. Teach for America is a program that places college graduates in needy urban and rural public schools for two years. She will also address her own visions for education in the United States.

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:56 a.m.

Knight asks judge to reconsider lawsuit Former IU basketball coach Bob Knight has asked the judge who threw out his breach-of-contract lawsuit against IU to change his mind.

Drinking and lack of diversity related

By Alli Stolper and Writer Alli Stolper · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:48 a.m.

A recent Harvard University study could link two issues many students associate with IU: binge drinking and a lack of diversity. Greater diversity on college campuses significantly lowers rates of binge drinking among high-risk students, according to the study. With The Princeton Review's national ranking of IU as the number three party school, there is no denying that binge drinking is an issue. According to a recent IU student survey, 54 percent of students on the Bloomington campus participate in binge drinking, said Dean of Students Richard McKaig.

Renovated College Mall Road said to be 'accident waiting to happen'

By Mike Malik · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:48 a.m.

With the completion of College Mall Road, traffic has been flowing through the newly constructed intersections. But no one foresaw the traffic hazard that the crossing of College Mall Road and Windermere Road would create.

The walls, they talk

By Anna Dittmer · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:47 a.m.

I wanted to get a sense of what IU students think about, and I wanted to have a little fun. So I went to the bathroom repeatedly.

Attack seen as proof of al Qaeda

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:45 a.m.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudis blamed al Qaeda militants Sunday for the suicide car bombing of a Riyadh housing complex that killed 17 people, declaring it proof of the terror network's willingness to shed Muslim blood in its zeal to bring down the U.S.-linked Saudi monarchy. The attack late Saturday at an upscale compound for foreign workers -- where mostly Arabs lived, also wounded 122 people. The blast, not far from diplomatic quarters and the king's main palace, left piles of rubble, hunks of twisted metal, broken glass and a large crater.

Saving sunken treasures

By Sean Abbott · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:45 a.m.

IU just might have its own Indiana Jones. Except when this archaeological adventurer climbs out of his university office window, he trades in the trusty bull whip and fedora for his Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.

Big Ten season champs

By Dan Cohen and Daniel Cohen · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:44 a.m.

Trailing 2-0 with 25 minutes left in the game most thought IU's 44-game Big Ten unbeaten streak, eight-game win streak and conference championship aspirations would all come crashing down. Most thought that -- except the Hoosiers who, Saturday night, in IU coach Jerry Yeagley's final regular season home game, came roaring back with three straight goals, beating Penn State 3-2 and capturing the Big Ten regular season championship for the eighth-straight season. IU (11-3-4, 5-0-1 Big Ten) earned the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament and will play the winner of Ohio State/Wisconsin 5 p.m., Friday. "There was not a player at halftime on our team that was thinking we couldn't be the Big Ten champs," Yeagley said. "They didn't sit there and mope with their heads down. When we came in at half and the main thing was to get their minds off the first half, we talked about the character we developed over the last eight games, the confidence we developed, and we go out and not try to do it all at once.

What we're reading now

By Paul Musgrave · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:44 a.m.

What you read about, you think about. So a look at America's reading list would reveal much about the preoccupations of the country's literate class. Thanks to Amazon.com, that list is now online.

Truth behind the crime

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 10,2003 12:39 a.m.

On Oct. 28, when the news of the first blitz-rape on the IU campus in 30 years was broken, our community went on alert. We were shocked at the depravity of what we could only imagine occurred that night when an unknown assailant jumped out from the misty shadows and forcibly committed the most heinous of acts upon a young freshman woman walking home from Ballantine Hall. Then we learned the truth. The report was false.