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Clapacs named athletic director

By Josh Weinfuss · Tuesday, April 8,2003 2 a.m.

The Hoosiers' troubles with the athletic department began to improve yesterday when newly minted Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Terry Clapacs was given permanence to his position. Clapacs assumed the role of interim athletic director on Nov. 8, taking the reigns from former director Michael McNeely.

Fashion expert visits IU

By Alyson Brodsy and Patrice Worthy · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:58 a.m.

Out of the 80 or so protesters who arrived in attempts to disrupt the commemoration of an Abraham Lincoln statue in Richmond, Va., I wonder: How many actually fought in the Civil War? The statue is intended to recognize Lincoln's trip to the once-confederate state in 1865, at the beginning of reconstruction. Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have decried the statue as honoring an invader rather than a friend. To those people, we say, "Get over it."

Proton therapy facility opens to showcase technology

By Obaid Khawaja · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:55 a.m.

The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute held an open house at IU's cyclotron facility Monday. The event gave the public an opportunity to tour the facility and witness first hand how the cyclotron is being used for both research and proton radiotherapy.

Polish ambassador speaks on campus

By Matt Lahr · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:55 a.m.

One of Poland's most distinguished political leaders made an important visit to IU Monday.

Palaces infiltrated

Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:55 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- American troops and tanks bore down on Baghdad with unstoppable force Monday, seizing two of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and bombing a building where the Iraqi leader and other regime officials were believed to be staying.

IU grad schools rank among best

By Adam Aasen · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:55 a.m.

This month IU is receiving considerable attention at the newstand. The U.S. News and World Report's 2004 edition of "America's Best Graduate Schools," ranked IU's graduate programs at the schools of law, business, fine arts, medicine, nursing and education among the nation's best. The April issue of Entrepreneur magazine also named the Kelley School of Business' entrepreneur program one of the twelve best in the country.

Bulls' GM Krause resigns, citing health problems

By Nancy Armour · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:43 a.m.

Deerfield, Ill. -- Jerry Krause had a rare eye for talent, assembling two very different supporting casts for Michael Jordan and laying the foundation for the Chicago Bulls' decade of dominance.

Senior safety ready to return

By Natalie A. Trout · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:41 a.m.

IU safety senior Joe Gonzalez spent his first Halloween dressed as a San Francisco 49ers football player. His father played at Michigan in the 1970s, and his cousin later played at Ohio State. Football has always been a big part of Gonzalez's life, but he won't be the last in the family to continue the football tradition.

Senior boosts moral with fast return

By Mark Carlson · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:40 a.m.

The IU women's tennis team has been missing something lately. It isn't determination or hard work. The team is missing something more tangible. When senior Karie Schlukebir returned last Saturday against Michigan State, it was evident what the team had been lacking leadership.

Shortstop plays taller than odds

By Daniel Cohen · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:39 a.m.

The second shortest player on the IU softball team stands just five-feet three-inches tall, but yet is still a towering six inches taller than senior shortstop Heather Suca.

Program jumps to next level

By Matt Glenesk · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:39 a.m.

The IU women's golf program has been a dominant force in the Big Ten since the conference's first official championship team in 1982. That first year IU finished seventh, but since then has finished out of the top three just twice.

Orangemen squeeze Jayhawks, 81-78

By Eddie Pells · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:38 a.m.

New Orleans -- The Syracuse Orangemen were playground players early, a bundle of nerves late. They juked, jammed and barely held on for a victory that gave coach Jim Boeheim his long-awaited championship.

Around the Campus

Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:06 a.m.

College athletics will be diagnosed at 7 p.m. tonight in the Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union by Dean of Students Richard McKaig, IU men's basketball television broadcaster John Laskowski, English professor Murray Sperber and assistant athletics director Jennifer Brinegar.

CNN analyst to offer views on war

By Colin Kearns · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:06 a.m.

CNN political analyst Tucker Carlson is scheduled to discuss his views and insights on national politics during a lecture at 7:30 p.m., April 15, in the IU Auditorium. Union Board is sponsoring the lecture, which is free and open to the public.

Afghan languages taught for first time

By Katie Lombardi · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:05 a.m.

IU will now be offering three new languages for students through SWSEEL, an intensive summer workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages. This summer Tajik, Pashto, (a language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan) and Uyghur (a language spoken in China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) will be offered to students.

House committee endorses newspaper tax

By Shannon Dininny · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:03 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A House committee on Monday endorsed a bill that would impose a fee on some daily newspapers published or distributed in Indiana. The bill would impose a $2 fee on each metric ton of paper used to publish a daily newspaper with a circulation of at least 12,500 in Indiana. It also would impose a 1-cent fee for each newspaper published outside Indiana but distributed inside the state.

Around the Region

Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:02 a.m.

Man dispels rumors about anti-patriotism in local business PLYMOUTH, Ind. -- The head of the local chamber of commerce patronized a business while wearing a U.S. flag-embroidered sweater to dispel a rumor that anyone wearing patriotic apparel would be kicked out.

Firearm safety is a 'duty'

By Shannon Dininny · Tuesday, April 8,2003 1 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Gun owners have a responsibility to the public to exercise "reasonable care" in the safe storage of firearms, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Funeral held for soldier

By Mark Jewell · Tuesday, April 8,2003 12:59 a.m.

HOBART, Ind. -- About 100 youngsters lined a street holding American flags as the hearse carrying the coffin of a 19-year-old tank gunner killed in Iraq left a church Monday after his funeral. The children from St. Bridget Catholic School joined about 500 mourners who attended the funeral Mass at the neighboring church for Army Cpl. Greg Sanders.

US workers concerned with war

By Margery Beck · Tuesday, April 8,2003 12:53 a.m.

OMAHA, Neb. -- Kris Sands often slips away to the break room at work to watch TV for developments in Iraq that could affect her stepson stationed in Kuwait. "I always look to see if it's his unit on television," she said Monday from the Principal Financial Group offices in Grand Island.