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State judge and alumni leader dies

Former Indiana Supreme Court Justice Paul George Jasper, an IU alumnus from the class of 1932, died Tuesday. He was 92. Jasper served as IU Alumni Foundation president from 1960-1961, and was to be inducted into the Law School's Academy of Law Alumni Fellows next week, said Lynn Lewis, chairwoman of the IU Alumni Foundation's board of managers. He will now receive the honor posthumously, she said.

Search for new leader begins

A 10-member committee began its search Wednesday for a new IU Alumni Association president. The committee will replace Jerry Tardy, who led the Association for 14 years before his death Sept. 7. The committee hopes to find someone with connections to IU and a great love for the University, said J. Terry Clapacs, vice president and chief administrative officer and the chair of the committee. The committee hopes to complete its work by January, Clapacs said.

Original musical premieres

This weekend, a world premiere musical written by an IU student and her husband will open at the John Waldron Arts Center at 122 S. Walnut. Senior Catherine Peterson-Smith wrote the book and lyrics; Koven Smith wrote the music.

Vacant Von Lee's fate still under construction

It has been dark inside the Von Lee Theater for more than a year. The screens have been pulled down and the seats torn up, as the fate of one of Bloomington's oldest theaters is still in question.

A 'Potpourri' of Expression

A yearly tradition will be renewed this weekend when IU's African-American Arts Institute performs its annual "Potpourri of Arts in the African-American Tradition." The theme for this year's production is "Ancestral Dedications." The event was established in 1993 to demonstrate the varieties of African-American tradition through the arts. The groups say they reach out to people of all ages, social, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds with music.

Powerful play falters in production

If "Noises Off" was the IU Theatre & Drama Department's jovial answer to the uneasy feelings shared by many Americans in this time of crisis, their latest production, "God's Country," is a more sober answer to the Sept. 11 attacks. "God's Country" is a docu-drama exploring the events that led to the assassination by a white supremacist of left-wing radio personality Alan Berg, powerfully played by graduate student José Antonio Garcia.

Bike path plan moves ahead

The City of Bloomington took one step forward in developing itslong-awaited alternative transportation plan last night, getting preliminary approval to go ahead with the project. The city council voted 7-0-1 to pass the ordinance, with council member David Sabbagh passing on the vote, and council member Jason Banach was absent.

IU employees deserve praise

I know in my last few columns I have taken shots at the University administration for being inept, corrupt and possibly fraudulent criminals. I do not apologize for those remarks because I believe many of the upper level administrators fit the description like the word "Machiavellian" fit Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. But there is another side to IU that is also kind, helpful and devoted to students.

Quit while you're ahead

I stayed up way too late Sunday night, but I really couldn't help it. TBS started showing "The Breakfast Club" at about 1:30 a.m. The movie is the Achilles heel of every American who went to high school during the 1980s. We have to watch it. It's a biological imperative. Dogs chase cars. Cats cough up hairballs. We watch Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson.

Hats off to Dancers

It's been a tough year for fundraising. Many people have been emptying their pocketbooks for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks or donating time to rescue efforts.

Afghan tribal leaders discuss conflict

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Invoking tradition to resolve a modern dispute, more than 1,000 Afghans meeting in Pakistan on Thursday called on Afghanistan's former king to help form a multiethnic government. They also demanded that "those foreigners who add more to our miseries" leave the country, a reference to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and the mostly Arab members of the al-Qaida terrorist group hiding in Afghanistan.

2 men report armed robberies

Two students reported being robbed at gunpoint near Ballantine Hall on Tuesday night, the IU Police Department said. At 9:30 p.m., a 21-year-old male student reported that he had been robbed of money at gunpoint between Ballantine Hall and the Chemistry Building, IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger said. About 30 minutes later IUPD received a 911 call from a Woodburn Hall pay phone, Minger said. The male caller refused to identify himself but said two men had stopped him on the south side of Woodburn Hall and told him that they wanted his money, Minger said.

Students ride out wet weather

Members from the Indiana Public Interest Group and other students weathered the severe thunderstorm and slept in a fort structure made out of cardboard boxes and plastic tarp early Tuesday in Dunn Meadow. Wednesday morning, the students cooked a hot breakfast at the Shalom Community Center in the First United Methodist Church. INPIRG is a student organization whose mission is to create a better society while protecting the public interest and guaranteeing that student's voices are heard, members said.

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Religious value, declaration should be commended

I would just like to say thank you to Mr. Cutrera for writing his columns about Good and Evil. When I read the first one, I thought it sounded suspiciously like the opening theological arguments often used in preparation for teaching about Jesus. But I was sure that no one in such a public forum would make such an open declaration of his faith and carry to his readers the challenge of the message of Christ. Much to my delighted surprise, he did indeed follow through.

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