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Problems recognized in department

By Nicholas J. Schmidt and Nick J. Schmidt · Wednesday, July 9,2003 10:10 p.m.

Changes are underway in the African-American and African-Diaspora Studies Department, headed by Chairperson John Stanfield. Since his appointment in July 2002, Stanfield has seen some problems that have been ailing the department, and is slowly trying to fix them, he said in an e-mail sent to the department.

New center to address Latino issues

By Patrice Worthy · Wednesday, July 9,2003 10:10 p.m.

The Latino population is one of the fastest growing population groups in the United States. Latinos are represented everywhere, and here in Bloomington, they are a huge part of the ethnic minority. The Spanish speaking population has grown so rapidly that many organizations have come together in order to help them adjust to living in North America.

A marathon journey

By Zack Eldridge · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:50 p.m.

Not long ago, Amie Dworecki was forced to give up running competitively because of bad knees. Her doctor advised her to stop running long distances.

Three more players verbally commit to IU

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:40 p.m.

Men's basketball coach Mike Davis always has been considered a knowledgeable recruiter. Chances are, he just landed another prized recruit to add to his resume. D.J. White, a 6-foot-7-inch, 233-pound forward from Tuscaloosa, Ala., verbally committed to play for the Hoosiers on Monday. He will begin playing in the 2004-2005 season. White, who made his intentions clear while playing at the Nike All-America Camp in Indianapolis, is considered by many recruiting services to be one of the top 10 players in the class of 2004. White joins Pike's Robert Vaden and Fort Wayne Elmhurst's James Hardy as players who have committed to IU. All three are participating in the Nike Camp, getting the opportunity to play against the country's top 180 high school players. The experience they gain at the Nike Camp will help prepare them not only for their basketball careers, but also for decisions they will face off the court.

Around the Arts

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:36 p.m.

Low-income youth scholarships available The Bloomington Area Arts council has made available 50 scholarships for low income Bloomington residents under the age of 18. These scholarships can be used to enroll in camps, workshops or art classes offered by the John Waldron Arts Center.

Rare Kiron opera to play in N.Y.

By Mike Silverman · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:34 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Valery Gergiev seems to be on a one-man crusade to bring the neglected operas of Sergei Prokofiev before New York audiences.

Baghdads landmark statues falling to looters in postwar lawlessness

By Jim Krane · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:34 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq --The world watched the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue April 9. But few saw the falling of the stately figure of Abdul Muhsin al-Saadoun -- or more than a dozen other landmark bronzes that once watched over this city's squares and boulevards.

Corrections

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:30 p.m.

• In the July 7 issue, Sharon Chandler is misidentified in a photograph for the "Celebrating the Fourth" story.

IUPD Blotter

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:30 p.m.

The IU Police Department reported the following activity. July 1 • Sophomore Kent Roberts reported the theft of his cell phone from the IU Outdoor Pool. Estimated loss is $150.

New visa rules disuade international students

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:29 p.m.

College officials across Indiana fear new visa restrictions adopted in response to the 2001 terrorist attacks could cause many foreign students to miss this year's fall semester.

Hits just keep getting harder to find

By -Val Tsoutsouris · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:18 p.m.

Baseball is one sport people love to over-intellectualize. I've heard fellow Cubs fans tell me that Carlos Zambrano is a better young pitcher than Kerry Wood or Mark Prior. (He's not.) I've heard even non-Cardinals fans tell me that Albert Pujols deserved the 2001 National League Most Valuable Player Award over Barry Bonds because Pujols' team made the playoffs and Bonds' didn't, forgetting that Bonds hit 73 homers. (Nope.) And countless times, I've heard that so and so didn't win not because they lacked better players but because they lacked team "chemistry," whatever that is. (That's preposterous.)

Southern Ind. trustees raise tuition 8 percent

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:17 p.m.

EVANSVILLE -- Trustees at the University of Southern Indiana voted Monday to approve a nearly 8 percent increase in tuition and fees for the 2003-2004 school year. University President H. Ray Hoops said the school's business office will "manage the heck out of the dollars." Tuition for in-state, undergraduate students will be $3,885 a year.

Indiana residents pull together to stop flooding

By Tom Coyne · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:16 p.m.

DECATUR, Ind. -- Strangers and National Guardsmen joined together Wednesday in an effort to save homes surrounded by flood waters brought on by days of thunderstorms. The St. Marys River in northeastern Indiana remained at record levels and several hundred homes around Decatur had been flooded or were being threatened by high water.

Singapore mourns twins' death

Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:15 p.m.

SINGAPORE -- Fighting back tears and reading from the Quran, dozens of mourners Wednesday prayed as they prepared the bodies of two Iranian twins who died during separation surgery for the long journey home.

BPP, Community Kitchen to band together against hunger

By Liv Cole · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:13 p.m.

Most people know that the Bloomington Playwrights Project is a great place to find innovative theatre, but few realize how this organization benefits the community outside of the artistic sphere. One of the many ways the BPP gives to the community is with the Acting Against Hunger Benefit in conjunction with the Community Kitchen of Monroe County. The Second Annual Acting Against Hunger Benefit will be at 6 p.m. Sunday at the BPP office, 312 S. Washington St. The cost is $30 a person and because of limited seating, reservations must be made by Friday.

Sodomy laws past their time

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Harper · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:04 p.m.

In 1986, the Supreme Court ruled that states can make private sexual behavior illegal. This case, Bowers v. Hardwick, has been held over the heads of homosexual couples since that time by those who consider homosexuality deviant and immoral.

An American columnist in France

By Brian McFillen and Brain J. McFillen · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:03 p.m.

If there were such a thing as an architectural crime against humanity, Paris' Charles De Gaulle Airport would be one. After struggling through the bottleneck-plagued circular check-in room, you take a moving walkway through a plastic tube the color and texture of a giant intestine to a floor of insipid duty-free shops.

A fifty year success

By Brad Fletcher · Wednesday, July 9,2003 9:01 p.m.

From the day we take our first breath to the day we take our last, one thing controls our life more than anything else -- love. Whether it is love of God, love of country or love of another person, it is an emotion we can't escape and can't live without.

Quiet Riot?

Wednesday, July 9,2003 8:59 p.m.

Imagine having to tell your parents you got expelled from school because you couldn't walk fast enough. That's just what college students in Ohio might have to do.

Indiana soldier killed in Iraq

Wednesday, July 9,2003 8:53 p.m.

BATESVILLE, Ind. -- A roadside bomb exploded in Iraq as an American military convoy rolled past, killing a soldier from Indiana.