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Fall tennis season a time of improvement, fine tuning

As the fall tournament season has reached the midway point for the men's tennis team, players have been able to work on their games at several individual tournaments and have shown signs of improvement already, their coach said.

Shades of Mellencamp

He could have just as easily been Johnny Indiana. How about Johnny Puma, Impala or Mustang? It really didn't matter. Introduced to the nation in 1976, Johnny Cougar, a commercial product, was destined to bomb. As a youth, Mellencamp had an unmistakable identity, one he'd chosen for himself. He was the rebel every mother warned her children about. Every small town had one, and Seymour, Ind., was no different.

Around the game

Senior outside hitter Amanda Welter didn't get her wish to beat No.13 Penn State. The volleyball team fell to the Nittany Lions in three games last night at State College (7-15, 10-15, 9-15). The Hoosiers fell to 12-7, 3-6 in league play, while Penn State improved to 17-4, 6-3.

Soccer: Hoosiers beat Kentucky in physical match

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Three IU soccer players sat on the bench after the Hoosiers' 2-0 win against Kentucky Wednesday night. Vapor rose from their moist jerseys as they took their time drinking from Gatorade cups and resting after a highly physical match that had eight yellow cards and a red card.

Taiwan faces unstable future

After Taiwan Premier Tang Fei's sudden resignation earlier this month, experts say the political situation in the island country is unstable.

Letter

Choosing the least worst

The editors of IDS Weekend have stong ethical and moral ideals to live up to. There is a proud tradition to uphold and a yet to be printed mission statement to follow, all with the sole purpose of providing you, the reader, with heartfelt, emotion-filled features and the best CD and movie reviews. Also included is an opinion page, where columnists get to spout off anything and everything that's happening in the entertainment world.

Local band fights red tape, continues to rock

An experiment almost three years in the making, Drowse has been around Bloomington for a long time. But its growth into recognition as one of the town's established acts has been slow and painful.

The week in music

Tax-free books lofty goal for IUSA

Every politician makes campaign promises to get elected and some wind up being enacted, but for the most part, a lot never make it past the beginning stages. This unfortunately seems to be the case with the IU Student Association. For the third consecutive year, IUSA is promising to tax-free textbooks. During the election season this past winter, several IUSA tickets made this issue a campaign promise and pledged to enact it in the near future. But this is not a new concept. Of course everyone would be ecstatic about the possibility of tax- free textbooks. But before we start counting our extra money, we have to ask ourselves: Is this ever going to become a reality?

Gore more conservative than he shows

Lately I've discovered that some Republicans are unhappy with their party's Presidential candidate, George W. Bush. Although I am a Nader supporter, I sympathize with their frustration and would like to offer a solution: Vote for Al Gore.

High schoolers need guidance

Raise your hand if you've shown up to school drunk, lied to a teacher or cheated on a test. Accomplishing all of these might fall into the realm of impossible, but a study shows that most high school kids are giving it the old college try.

Ameritech and me

For the two and a quarter years that I have lived in Bloomington, I have restrained myself from complaining about Ameritech.

Scaring up the perfect costume

It's the one night of the year you can let your inner princess out. Or hip-swiveling Elvis or kinky french maid. Whether you choose to be a sword-wielding, swashbuckling pirate or wear nothing but a loin cloth, it\'s up to you to decide who gets your business this Halloween. Read on to make up your mind about where to shop this Halloween.

Chicago film festival highlights world\'s finest

Chicago -- One hundred five feature films from 31 countries screened in two weeks. This is the insane reality of the oldest competitive international film festival in North America -- the Chicago International Film Festival. Its 36th incarnation began with a jam-packed Chicago Theatre applauding the American premiere of Robert Altman's "Dr. T & the Women, " starring Richard Gere, Oct. 6 and concluded Oct. 8.

'Souls' lost

Remember the bookend scenes of "Edward Scissorhands" where Winona Ryder, then 19 years old, attempted a falsetto accent underneath mounds of latex? Her voice still had a youthful vigor that made this portrayal seem awkward. 10 years later, she stars in "Lost Souls" as a teacher who battles Satan's human host. This time her tone of voice suits the wary dimensions of the role, even if it does not validate her choice of scripts.

Surreal message comes through in \'Los Olvidados\'

Also known as "The Young and the Damned," this film's canvas is filled with the depressing brushstrokes of a juvenile named Pedro, who transforms from delinquent into an accessory for murder in an impoverished hell in Mexico. A far cry from Luis Bunuel's famed comedies, "Los Olvidados" earned Bunuel the best director prize at Cannes.

Richard Gere stands out in 'Dr. T and the Women'

At 75 years young, Robert Altman has been a Hollywood maverick for three decades and counting, which is still apparent in his latest effort, "Dr. T & the Women," a heartfelt and amusing parable about the absurd existence of a gynecologist.

Variety the spice of Portuguese band's style

Cut in with moving bass line. Then layer vocals and drums with syncopated rhythm, and Primitive Reason breaks into the U.S. airwaves for the first time. Primitive Reason's domestic debut, Some of Us, marks the band's third sum effort.

Scaring up the perfect costume

It's the one night of the year you can let your inner princess out. Or hip-swiveling Elvis or kinky french maid. Whether you choose to be a sword-wielding, swashbuckling pirate or wear nothing but a loin cloth, it\'s up to you to decide who gets your business this Halloween. Read on to make up your mind about where to shop this Halloween.