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An evening of corndogs, stuffed frogs and bumper cars

Where else do people opt for a corndog dinner with a lemonade shake-up and an elephant ear on the side? It's the same place where young and old anxiously wait to hop on their favorite rides. Four carnival tickets to make their stomachs flip, three to make their hearts jump and four more to make their heads spin.

IU student killed in one-car accident

A 19-year-old IU student was killed in a one-car accident Thursday evening. Sophomore Meaghan Buis was on her way to work in Eminence, Ind. when she lost control of her car on a rural road in northwest Morgan County. She was pronounced dead on the scene. Morgan County Sheriff's Sgt. Robert Brown said Buis was on her way to work when her car drifted across the center line. Police said she may have over-corrected the vehicle and lost control at that point. Her vehicle flipped over in a ditch and landed on the roof, Brown said. The force of the accident threw her partially out of the vehicle.

Around The Game

Davis to be honored at annual luncheon Sophomore Jeffries withdraws from Team USA Volleyball adds local standout Cameron to speak at South Bend luncheon series

Hoosiers tie for 4th place at Northern Invitational

After having their first tournament canceled following the terrorist attacks on the United States, the women's golf team finally had their chance to compete. They tied for fourth place in the Northern Invitational in Champaign, Ill., with an 898 cumulative score.

Guiding Principles

In her first months in her new Bryan Hall office, Sharon Brehm has stood with the IU community and watched the shape of the world change. Wednesday, as she was formally installed as the new Bloomington chancellor, Brehm said the Sept. 11 attacks, though life-altering, have not changed the University's principles of education, but reaffirmed them.

Blue cheese: Moldy oldy but goody

"Mold" and "delicious" are rarely used in the same sentence. In an age of anti-bacterial obsession, blue cheese is the delightful exception. Hardcore blue cheese afficionados think that Swiss, Cheddar and Jack cheeses are for wimps -- if the cheese cannot be smelled from ten feet away, forget it.

This column has no point

We are starving here in Paris, my friend and I. We have not left our flat all day, in catastrophic fear that, if we do, we will embark on a disastrous spree of spending money we don't have. What we do have is this: a carton of Lucky Strikes, a jar of instant coffee, and a galaxy of Karma to burn. He is stone broke and I am skidding turbulently in that same direction. It is only a matter of time before I too am side-swiped with poverty. Cover your eyes children, the collision is bound to make priests wince with contempt and spur parents into rowdy protest as they pound on the doors of decency.

That's disgusting: Freddy Got Fingered

Grilling a perennial favorite

We live in an age of ever-increasing efficiency, when a five-minute wait at the nearest drive-through is considered four minutes too long.

Farewell to the 'Yanks'

So it's finally arrived. I'm almost done here, and it's become a time for reflection. I've began to realize the inevitable, I have to go home soon. I've found myself in a bizarre situation. I'm excited about the prospect of going home to all of my friends and family but at the same time I've experienced so much here and made so many great friends that I'm reluctant to leave it all behind.

War of future is virtual

The nature of how our military engages in war is changing, Michael Ignatieff convincingly argues in his book "Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond" (Metropolitan Books: New York, 2000, $23). For all the talk we hear about investing in new technology and weapons by military brass and the Bush Administration, the 78-day NATO bombing campaign waged against Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia during the Clinton years showed just how questionable such seemingly victorious action can be.

New theaters welcome addition

Five rows of bleacher-like seats, upholstered with red material comprise the seating of tiny T300 theatre, which senior Sara Bancroft, production manager of "Much Ado About Nothing," described as a "black box."

Cyclists prepare for time trials

Qualifications are finished and Little 500 weekend is 23 days away, but that doesn't mean the pre-race competition is on hold. Men's and women's individual time trials, one of the three spring series events, will be contested from 4 to 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. "I think the series events are cool," Sigma Alpha Epsilon junior Dan Burns said. "They are something that gets people enthusiastic about the race and build spirit."

Don't subsidize abortion

This time of year in Bloomington has lately been the resuscitator for that much avoided, contorted abortion debate. For the last couple of years, the Bloomington city council members have voted to give the local chapter of Planned Parenthood a tax subsidy through their Social Services fund. The money, usually a couple thousand dollars a year, goes to an organization that performs abortions every Thursday and has already received over $8,000 in Bloomington tax money. This isn't just about a subsidy.

Beginning a life of opportunity

Charleston Sanders, a masters student, recently said, "The best job in the world is doing something you love and being able to pay the bills doing it. I want to make a difference in people's lives, and music will be one of the avenues through which I can make that difference."

Day off should still be day on

President's Day was high school. Students don't get the day off for Columbus, either.

Scrimmage begins season

The men's and women's swimming teams have their season openers this weekend with a scrimmage today and a meet with Evansville Saturday. Both events are at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center, with the scrimmage starting at 3 p.m. today and the meet beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday. The men's team holds a 2-0 overall advantage against the Aces while the women defeated Evansville 186-108 in last year's opener. The women's squad is returning 15 letter winners while the men have 12 returning.

Cameron goes crazy

When a sports fan hears the term "Cameron Crazy", one thinks of college basketball and the Duke University fans who overflow Cameron Indoor Stadium to chant epithets -- to them, really clever epithets -- at the visiting team prior to an inevitable loss.

Think globally, spin locally

While searching for topics for my column, I have asked the Editor In Chief several questions about the content and quality of the newspaper. Many times, when I ask why a particular improvement hasn't been made, I get the response, "We just don't have enough staff for that." Now, this does not mean that the IDS doesn't have enough people to be a good twice-a-week newspaper. It does mean however, that it is lacking enough people to be a truly exceptional summer paper.

Community supporting activist in tree sit

"Dolphin" sits high above the ground, far from any ocean, perched near the top of a large red oak. "You learn to be really aware of your surroundings when you're up in a tree," Dolphin says. "You can hear every step in the woods." Tracy "Dolphin" McNeely lives on a tree platform as part of what Earth First! says is Indiana's first tree sit. Her goal is to avert development of 54 acres of woods on Bloomington's west side.