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Hoosiers host weekend matches

By Tyler Rainey · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:17 a.m.

The IU women's tennis team (5-6, 0-2 Big Ten), that is currently on a four-game losing streak, gets somewhat of a break in its brutal schedule this weekend when they host the No. 75 DePaul Blue Demons and intra-state rival Butler. All six of IU's losses this season have been to teams ranked in the top 35 of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll (including a 7-0 loss to now No. 1 Duke).

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Team readies for championships

By Steve Hinson · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:14 a.m.

This weekend the No. 20 men's indoor track and field team faces the pinnacle of its season as they travel to Champaign, Ill., for the Big Ten Championship meet. In almost every event, this year's conference meet offers the most challenging competition in recent times. The Hoosiers will have to scrape for every point they can get.

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Jumper looks to help team at Big Tens

By Steve Hinson · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:13 a.m.

Confidence has never been a problem for sophomore high jumper Noah Shelton. Even this weekend when facing one of the top high jumpers in the nation in senior Shaun Guice from Purdue at the Big Ten Championships, Shelton said he knows what he needs to do.

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IU baseball heads South

By John Rodgers · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:12 a.m.

As Mother Nature continues to reign supreme in the Midwest, the IU baseball team decided to seek sunnier skies following the cancellation of this weekend's Governor's Cup tournament in Evansville. Coach Bob Morgan's 20th Hoosier squad will finally start its season in Bradenton, Fla., playing four games in four days.

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Women's swim back in action

Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:10 a.m.

The IU women's swim and diving team is back in the pool, not one week after winning the Big Ten Championship. The Hoosiers, who completed their best season since 1981, have begun their training for the NCAA Nationals meet, which begins on March 20 in Auburn, Ala.

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Team ready to win title

By Kristin Louderback · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:08 a.m.

Many question marks exist as to what this weekend's Big Ten Championships will bring for the women's track and field team, but coach Randy Heisler is confident of one thing.

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IU's season rests in final games

By Matt Pera · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:07 a.m.

At halftime of the Hoosiers' game against the Iowa Hawkeyes Saturday night, IU's 1953 National Champion basketball team will be honored in a ceremony commemorating their 50th anniversary.

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DeMuth shines in bad defeat

By Zack Eldridge · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 1:06 a.m.

WEST LAFAYETTE -- One IU player who will never give up regardless of the score is sophomore guard/forward Jenny DeMuth. Even though the IU women's basketball team (11-14, 4-11 Big Ten) dropped a 74-48 game against Purdue (22-5, 11-4) on Thursday in West Lafayette, DeMuth again displayed her determination and never say die attitude.

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Group holds coffee hour

By Jackie Walker · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 12:15 a.m.

The aroma of freshly-brewed coffee fills the air above the inviting maroon couches of the Leo R. Dowling International Center. Students softly converse with one another, discussing the week that has passed and their plans for the weekend. This is what most would expect to see at a traditional coffee hour.

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RHA elections begin Tuesday

By Katie Merida · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 12:15 a.m.

Senior Eric Hafner enjoys standing up for students' rights and being the students' voice on campus. "I really have a passion for RHA and letting the organization and any other organization know what the students want," Hafner said.

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IU community welcomes Bepko

By Adam Aasen · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 12:14 a.m.

Surrounded by trays of h'ors d'oevres and walls adorned with oil paintings, the IU board of trustees held a warm reception for Interim President Gerald Bepko at the IU Art Museum Thursday to officially welcome the new leader to campus.

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Correction

Friday, Feb. 28,2003 12:14 a.m.

In Thursday's issue of the IDS, upcoming IU Auditorium performances were misidentified. "West Side Story" is an upcoming IU Opera Theater production. The IU Auditorium will host "Cinderella" April 23 and 24, followed by "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk," on April 29 and 30.

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Unity proposes new IUSA budget

By Matt Conn · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 12:13 a.m.

The IU Student Association's Unity ticket is at work on a new IUSA budget to reduce the cost of overhead, which they see as taking money away from students.

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IU 'neighbors' react to death of Mister Rogers

By Elisha Sauers · Friday, Feb. 28,2003 12:12 a.m.

To millions of today's children and older generations, Fred Rogers will be remembered not as a TV star but as a teacher, a confidante, and most of all, a neighbor. Rogers died Thursday morning in his Pittsburgh home, leaving a wife, two sons, and two grandsons, after an arduous battle with stomach cancer. He was 74-years-old.

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Bring back beginning bass

By Bonnie Real · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 11:28 p.m.

I don't know what happened to me last summer. Maybe that Hot Water Music album was just too genius. Maybe that Strokes song was just too catchy. Whatever it was, it consumed me.

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The trolley stopped

By Joe Grace · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 11:26 p.m.

When the Columbia broke apart during reentry, I didn't cry. When hundreds died in a Chinese earthquake this week, I didn't cry. When Mr. Rogers died Thursday morning, I cried for this man I've never even met.

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Heroes or Villains?

By Matthew Murray · Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 11:25 p.m.

We honor the men that died to free the slaves and maintain the Union that we enjoy today, but should we include men like Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, James Longstreet and Robert E. Lee on our list of heroes?

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Send child abusers to the dog house

Thursday, Feb. 27,2003 11:23 p.m.

Texas prosecutors have created a plea deal that may be more effective in causing child abusers to think twice about their choices before acting. Curtis Robin, Sr. was detained for whipping his stepson with a car antenna.

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