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33 teams fight for annual Cardboard Boat Regatta crown

By Nick O'Neill · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 11:25 p.m.

Hundreds crowded the IU Outdoor Pool Friday Afternoon to test their sailing skills by launching small homemade boats to see which craft could best endure the pool's waters.

Ashton's 'Cinderella' has 1st American performance

By Alyson Brodsy and Tara Burghart · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:43 p.m.

CHICAGO -- Wendy Ellis Somes is explaining to a ballerina portraying the Summer Fairy in "Cinderella" how to capture the languid essence of her solo: Think of how caramel would react on a steamy Chicago day, she suggests.

Stores sell Amish clothing for those who don't sew

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:42 p.m.

MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio -- It was recently Fashion Week in New York City, with plenty of lights, cameras and action on the runways.

I'll rock your (North) face off

By Alyson Brodsy and Teri Rosenbaum · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:40 p.m.

Brrrr. This weekend was cold. So cold, in fact, that I saw girls wearing warm Ugg boots with their miniskirts and belted tanks at every party I went to.

'Ugly Betty' on ABC is television season's top-rated new series so far

By Alyson Brodsy and David Bauder · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:39 p.m.

NEW YORK -- America might be falling for America Ferrera, the star of ABC's "Ugly Betty," an underdog that has become the most-watched new series of the fall television season so far.

Symposium shows off experiments in new media, technology

By Lindsey Landis · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:37 p.m.

Juniors Tyler King and Jason Nelson were on their way to Roots Juice Bar on Saturday morning when they stopped dead in their tracks to gawk at the sight before them. Artist Robert Derr donned a suit covered in shiny disks and a neckpiece composed of four cameras. He was walking down Kirkwood Avenue.

Democrats, White House call for investigation into e-mail scandal

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:31 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Democrats demanded Sunday that House Republicans keep them in the loop and thoroughly investigate former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy. The White House went further, suggesting the need for a criminal probe.

Tropical storm Xangsane batters central Vietnam; 6 dead, hundreds injured

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:30 p.m.

DANANG, Vietnam -- Tropical storm Xangsane barreled across central Vietnam on Sunday, leaving at least six people dead, hundreds injured and tens of thousands of homes damaged, officials said.

Upcoming events around city still need volunteers

By Whitney Wyckoff · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:29 p.m.

Several charity organizations around Bloomington are in need of volunteers and the Bloomington Volunteer Network is asking college students to donate a little time to the community. Some opportunities around the city only require a few hours of students' time and are offering free gifts as an extra incentive.

2 Sept. 11 hijackers appear in 2000 video posted on British newspaper Web site

By Alyson Brodsy and Beth Gardiner · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:29 p.m.

LONDON -- Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, smiles and jokes with another hijacker before the two turn serious and speak intently to a camera in a video posted Sunday on a British newspaper's Web site.

Religious organization hosts global warming discussion

By Roy Maurer · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:27 p.m.

The It's Easy Being Green Festival didn't start off with the blue skies and shining sun pictured in the event's posters. Instead, a massive rain cloud threatened to wash out IU student Carlton Glassford's plans for this first annual concert for vegetarianism and biodiesel awareness.

Weekend festival brings musical tribute to vegetarianism

By Emily Cohen · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:27 p.m.

The It's Easy Being Green Festival didn't start off with the blue skies and shining sun pictured in the event's posters. Instead, a massive rain cloud threatened to wash out IU student Carlton Glassford's plans for this first annual concert for vegetarianism and biodiesel awareness.

Lack of donations hurt Hoosier Hills food bank

By Roy Maurer · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:26 p.m.

Hordes of food rise to the ceiling at the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Distribution trucks sit outside the squat yellow building near the corner of 11th and Fairview. Volunteers and staff are ready for the responsibility each day brings.

Apathy's toll

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:25 p.m.

A woman bludgeons her pregnant friend, rips the fetus from the womb with scissors, kidnaps her other three children, drowns them and leaves their corpses to rot in the washer and dryer. A man uses MySpace to stalk six high school girls, takes them hostage in their school and proceeds to sexually assault each of them, before shooting one in the head and committing suicide. If these events in the past week haven't stopped you in your tracks and made you question your comfortable niche in the world, then you're either inhuman or numb.

Postmodernism vs. principle

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:24 p.m.

The renowned essayist Christopher Hitchens delivered a spirited barrage of arrows in the direction of those "easily offended fascists" for whom "everything that is not absolutely compulsory is absolutely forbidden." A solitary clap rang out from Alumni Hall. "A rather tentative beginning to the defense of civilization," Hitchens replied.

Multicultural Festival attracts more than 600 people

By Michael Reschke · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:23 p.m.

Bloomington resident Erich Nolan said he feels that culture in America can be lacking at times. He believes it's important to experience people, music and art traditions from around the world.

Wtf ppl?

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:23 p.m.

Hi. Hey. Sup? Not too much, you? Not a lot. Thanks to AOL Instant Messenger, AIM, if you will, probably the vast majority of us -- college students, adolescents of the '90s -- have had conversations beginning similarly, if not exactly, to that above.

The ailing Illini

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:22 p.m.

The Daily Illini, an "independent student news agency" for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has recently decided to halt its opinion page's staff editorial until further notice. Sitting with our own editorial board here at the Indiana Daily Student, it was difficult to fathom what went wrong to force a paper much like our own to take such drastic measures. An open forum without an editorial? Unthinkable.

IU first American university to teach Kurdish dialect

By Christina Stigliani · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 3:52 p.m.

IU, famed since the early days of the Cold War for its language programs, is now the only university in North America to offer the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. "IU has a long tradition of exotic languages, and deans approached about new language courses tend to be sympathetic," said John Walbridge, chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic studies program at IU.

UPDATE:Wisconsin downs IU 52-17 in conference opener

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Saturday, Sept. 30,2006 10:50 p.m.

With a disappointing non-conference schedule behind them, the IU football team kicked off the Big Ten season Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. The Hoosiers were unable to snap a two-game losing streak, falling to Wisconsin 52-17.