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'Jeppe / The Cruel Comedy'

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:55 a.m.

This Friday the roof will cave in at the IU Musical Arts Center. One of the most modern operas composed will be making its U.S. premiere, and it isn't to be taken lightly.

In a photo caption in Wednesday's paper, the Student Alumni Career Day was identified as an event sponsored by the IU Student Association. The event was sponsored by the IU Student Alumni Association. The man speaking in the picture was also misidentified. The man is Tom Hirons

ZBT faces judicial process

By Jess Huffman · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:36 a.m.

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity members will face the campus judicial process after the IU Police Department found a variety of drugs and alcohol in the house last weekend. Although the University is not counting out any future action against the fraternity, at this point only the individuals involved in the bust are being held accountable.

IU exhausts trademark violations

Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:35 a.m.

IU will not pursue any further action concerning trademark violations in the pornographic video filmed in Teter Quad last October. IU spokeswoman Jane Jankowski said the University has exhausted any action against the Shane World's adult film "Campus Invasion" for trademark violations and has decided to not take any further action.

'IDS' employee injured

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:34 a.m.

Early Thursday morning, Indiana Daily Student photographer and creative/marketing team member, senior Melinda Fryman was involved in a serious car accident that has left her in critical condition at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, said a hospital spokeswoman.

Resources help graduates

By Stacy Ellis · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:32 a.m.

The thought of college graduation unleashes a multitude of anticipations, anxieties, and new opportunities. The expanse of options that college graduation grants ranges from the typical emancipation of a career or graduate school, to the not-so-typical options like joining the Peace Corps, Teach for America, working and studying abroad, just to name a few.

Alpha Kappa Alpha hosts first fashion event of the season

By Patrice Worthy · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:30 a.m.

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority hosted their annual Fashion Show at Willkie Auditorium Wednesday night. It was a unique collection of the best clothes on and off stage, the best Hip Hop and IU's socialites decked out in the latest fashion. Many said it was one of the best fashion shows AKA has hosted in years.

This page reserved for arguments

By George Lyle IV · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:16 a.m.

Three nights ago, it was the assistant opinion editor's turn to finish the page for publication. The next morning when I opened up the newspaper and saw the comic, I was aghast -- the display of insensitivity to nuances in race relations was apparent in the artwork of Dan Carino, a cartoonist for the Daily Aztec based out of San Diego State University.

Call me crazy, not racist

By J.P. Benitez and JP Benitez · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:14 a.m.

As assistant editor of the op-ed page, I was given authority to choose and run the Carino political cartoon Wednesday. Is it controversial? Yes. Does it express an opinion shared by others in America and on campus? Yes. Is it racist? No.

White House poetry slam?

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:13 a.m.

First lady Laura Bush was all set to receive some of the nation's top poets at the White House last week. The symposium was one event in a series of White House literary events, which were set up to recognize great American literature. This specific event was also to honor Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:09 a.m.

Educated populace needs better comics; attention to detail

Racy play opens today

By Adam Sedia · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:06 a.m.

Today, a very unique twist on a very old play opens at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. It is Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata," an ancient Greek classic about Athenian women who refuse to sleep with their husbands until they stop fighting a war with the Spartans. The Theatre and Drama Department presents the play at 8 p.m. today, Saturday and Feb. 10 through 15. Tickets are $15 for general public and $13 for students and seniors. They are available at the IU Auditorium Box Office and by phone or online from Ticketmaster.

Photo exhibit highlights the news

By Anne Gill and Annie Gill · Friday, Feb. 7,2003 12:05 a.m.

We all remember pictures of Monica Lewinsky during the infamous trial with President Clinton -- Lewinsky in the crowd, vying for a chance to speak to the president, or Lewinsky running away from the paparazzi and frenzied press that pursued her for weeks. But photojournalist David Burnett presented a different view of Lewinsky in his photograph, when he captured her from the side, sipping a Cosmopolitan martini.

Prison guard paralyzes teenage inmate

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 11:40 p.m.

PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- A guard at a juvenile prison beat an inmate so severely the teenager was paralyzed, prosecutors said.

Bloomington City Council passes resolution against war

By Micah Maidenberg · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 11:38 p.m.

Bloomington joined a growing number of cities across the country Wednesday when City Council members voted eight to zero in favor of a resolution opposing a war with Iraq.

Congress debates North Korea

By Ron Fournier · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 11:36 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The United States has "robust plans for any contingencies" involving North Korea, including military action, the White House said Thursday amid a flurry of criticism from Democrats and talk of war from Pyongyang.

Hail to the chief's perks

By Cory Schouten · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 6:13 p.m.

IU Student Association president Bill Gray was golfing with his grandma in Chicago this summer when the phone rang. It was then-IU President Myles Brand, and he was not happy. "These bastards named us the No. 1 party school," Gray recalls Brand saying, as he embarked on an angry explanation of the Princeton Review finding.

Iraq says scientist allows private interview with inspectors

By Hamza Hendawi · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 2:17 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi arms expert submitted to a private interview with U.N. weapons inspectors Thursday, a top Iraqi official said hours after the top U.N. nuclear inspector demanded a "drastic change" to improve Iraq's cooperation.

Powell pressures UN, says Iraq hasn't disarmed

By Alyson Brodsy and Edith M. Lederer · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 2:17 p.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, relying on a stream of U.S. intelligence, urged the U.N. Security Council Wednesday to move against Saddam Hussein because Iraq has failed to disarm, harbors terrorists and hides behind a "web of lies."

The nightshift

By Colin Kearns · Thursday, Feb. 6,2003 2:16 p.m.

IU police officers begin their weekend nightshift lounging and joking with one another inside the police department, waiting for their assignments. As Mirantha Wilson gets ready for her shift, Scott Dunning motions a sign of the cross and asks for mercy on the unlucky students who will have to answer to her,