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Multi-million dollar contract given to IU to provide network-wide support

By Michael Zennie · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 11:49 p.m.

IU is now closer to developing the "next big thing" in technology. The National LambdaRail networking services, a unique research network, announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement with IU's University Information Technology Services last month.

Health Center offers tips for fighting stress

By Sarah Core · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 11:47 p.m.

Walking through the IU Health Center, it's hard to tell who is sick and who is just the sick patient's driver. All the students here are bedraggled, shuffling through the center's efficient system with baggy pajama pants, droopy shoulders and red-tipped noses.

O.A.R. tickets on sale today

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 11:43 p.m.

Tickets for the Union Board-sponsored O.A.R. (... of a revolution) concert Feb. 19 at the IU Auditorium go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

Rare IU film collection digitized

By Jordan Majewski · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 11:42 p.m.

With the digitization of 129 rare and out-of-print films from the Lilly Library's David S. Bradley Film Collection, IU students, faculty and cinephiles have received an early holiday gift.

Author tells women to reach pre-marital potential

By Kacie Foster · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 11:40 p.m.

Every time a woman in junior Julie Liebenthal's sorority becomes engaged, the members hold a candlelight ceremony and pass a lit candle around the room. Upon receiving the candle, the newly-engaged member blows it out, revealing the news to her sisters.

Congress reaches Patriot Act extension agreement to extend Patriot Act

By Alyson Brodsy and David Espo · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 10:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Key Republicans from the House and Senate reached a White House-backed compromise Thursday to renew the broad powers granted to law enforcement agencies in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil. GOP leaders pledged to pass the Patriot Act extension for President Bush's signature by the holidays, although bipartisan criticism flared. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., threatened to filibuster a bill he said lacked adequate safeguards to protect constitutional freedoms.

Iraqi suicide bomber strikes bus headed for Shiite city

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert H. Reid · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 10:05 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a packed bus bound for a southern Shiite city, killing 32 people and wounding 44, police said. The blast pushed the three-day death toll from suicide attacks in the capital to at least 75. Meanwhile, a statement posted on the Internet in the name of the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have killed an American hostage. The statement did not name the hostage or provide photos, but the group earlier identified its captive as Ronald Alan Schulz and threatened to kill him unless all prisoners in Iraq were released.

Fight for Christmas

By Ayesha Awan · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 9:05 p.m.

I love Christmas. Yes, there have been a couple of columns in the Indiana Daily Student about loving Christmas. But mine is unique. Want to know why? I am not Christian and neither I nor my family members celebrate Christmas. But I still love Christmas. We've all read the stories that declare Americans some of the busiest and most stressed people in the world. Hey, I'd believe it.

A woman's world

By Amanda Dorman · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 9:03 p.m.

In her latest book, Maureen Dowd asks the question: "Are men necessary?" This question stems from the belief that men have come to serve an "ornamental" purpose in the same way women once did. Plainly stated, men function merely as a woman's guilty pleasure.

Give war a chance

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 8:56 p.m.

The government-marked car was speeding out of the imperial capital when it was stopped by a motorcyclist; word had just arrived that the Luftwaffe was headed to London. The prime minister ordered the car to turn around, for as biographer William Manchester explains in "The Last Lion," "He wanted to be wherever the bombs were falling."

Oral arguments

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 8:55 p.m.

School board members and parents in Columbus, Ind., have had mixed reactions regarding a controversial newspaper spread about oral sex in the Columbus North High School newspaper. We say bravo to the newspaper staff for publishing such an article.

Modern boxing, going down for the count

By Alyson Brodsy and Shaan Joshi · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 11:58 a.m.

Saturday marked the last important fight in the boxing world this year. The rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor, every bit the old assassin taking a last stand against the upcoming swashbuckler, was chockfull of good story. It turned out to be the most important fight of the year, but it was definitely not the best (that goes to Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo). The rematch between the two lasted 12 rounds, much like the first fight and, in the end, Taylor took it by one round again. It left me wondering what the hell "B-HOP" was doing in the 11th round, and why I had to pay $50 to watch a boxing match.

Trustees to meet with faculty groups

By Peter Stevenson · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12:06 a.m.

IU President Adam Herbert will face a new kind of scrutiny today when the IU board of trustees meets with several faculty groups. The board will listen to complaints and allegations about Herbert's performance as president, and get input from the groups about a faculty resolution asking for a special midterm review of Herbert. "At this point we'll hear from various groups, and based upon what we hear, we may take (the resolution) under advisement," said board of trustees President Stephen Ferguson.

Brehm named president of APA

By Michael Zennie · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12:06 a.m.

A published psychology professor and former IU-Bloomington chancellor was named the newest president of the American Psychological Association Wednesday. Sharon Brehm will join the ranks of former IU president William Lowe Bryan in 2007 when she becomes head of the oldest organization representing psychology in the United States. Brehm was elected by a majority vote from the 150,000 members of the APA, the largest association of psychologists in the world.

Ashton razing awaits approval

By Trevor brown · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12:06 a.m.

A proposal to demolish Ashton Center and a request for a $1.8 million renovation of the law school will be voted on by the IU board of trustees when it assembles Thursday and Friday. In their third meeting of the school year, the trustees will convene at IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis. The board will also look at a plan to evaluate more than 40 parcels of real estate that fall outside the University's master plan.

Air marshal kills passenger in confrontation

By Alyson Brodsy and John Pain · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12:05 a.m.

MIAMI -- A passenger who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday on a Jetway to an American Airlines plane that had arrived from Colombia, officials said. Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said the dead passenger was a 44-year-old U.S. citizen.

What's left

By -Kehla West and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12 a.m.

All semester, I've had a bunch of half-baked column ideas floating around in my head. None were long enough to develop into proper columns, so I'm just going to thrown then all out there in this, the last issue of the semester. 1. American Express Commercials -- Every time I see one of the new American Express commercials, I feel really cheated. They start off really cool, smoothly move into shots of American Express-using celebrities, and then -- and only then -- do I realize that I'm watching a commercial.

WISHLIST

By Rebecca Price · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12 a.m.

Great news: after scavenging the streets of Kirkwood and the stores in The College Mall, the best holiday gifts have finally been discovered (and their top secret locations revealed). Feel free to brush that gift-buying stress right off your shoulders and let the enlightenment begin.

One arduous 'March'

By C. Warner Sills and Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12 a.m.

On the surface, "March of the Penguins" is a simple documentary about Antarctic Emperor penguins, in the style of just about everything shown on Animal Planet and The Discovery Channel. After viewing, however, this film comes across more as a touching story about love, survival, and the harsh road these simple creatures take to create a family.

Charlize quite 'Flux'able

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert O'Connor · Thursday, Dec. 8,2005 12 a.m.

"Aeon Flux" was never, by any stretch of the imagination, popular, but it did garner a sort of cult following of fans who enjoyed the show's overt sexuality, raging violence and baffling abundance of codpieces. That's why it is so surprising that this bizarre show, with its scantily clad heroine, would be turned into a major motion picture, almost 15 years after it first appeared and disappeared into relative obscurity on MTV's short lived animation showcase, "Liquid Television."