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Badgered and Beaten

By Matt Mattucci · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 1:03 a.m.

MADISON, Wis. -- Going into Saturday's game with Wisconsin, IU's focus centered on stopping Badger running back Brian Calhoun. Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, Wisconsin proved it has just as much talent at wideout as it does in the backfield. Receivers Brandon Williams and Jonathan Orr combined for 10 receptions, 241 yards and three touchdowns in the Badgers' 41-24 win Saturday over IU. "We came out with a good game plan, and we were able to stop the run, but you have to do it both ways or they will exploit you," senior defensive lineman Russ Richardson said. "We lost focus on the pass game, but we'll come back and do it next week."

Manning-Harrison tie Young-Rice for most TDs

By Alyson Brodsy and Teresa M. Walker · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:59 a.m.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison tied Steve Young and Jerry Rice for the NFL record of most touchdown passes between a quarterback and a receiver with their 85th connection Sunday. The only question left now for the Indianapolis duo is what the final records will be when they quit playing. "It kind of hits me knowing the fact it's still early in both our careers," Harrison said after the Colts beat Tennessee 31-10.

Boat carrying tourists capsizes in N.Y., 21 dead

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:53 a.m.

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. -- A boat carrying tourists on a senior citizens' cruise overturned Sunday on a lake in upstate New York, killing at least 21 people and sending more than two dozen others to a hospital. Authorities were investigating whether a large passing tour boat created a wake that caused the accident, Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said. The 40-foot, glass-enclosed Ethan Allen capsized about 3 p.m. on Lake George about 50 miles north of Albany in the Adirondack Mountains. The accident apparently happened so fast that none of the passengers were able to put on a life jacket, Cleveland said.

Bush considering nominees for 2nd high court vacancy

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:51 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush is watching his first Supreme Court nominee, Chief Justice John Roberts, take the helm of the high court Monday while weighing his options for nominating a second justice who also could shape the bench for years to come. "He's still working," White House chief of staff Andy Card said Sunday about the president's effort to choose a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "Still considering lots of options."

Displaced DeLay pledges active role in House leadership, Republican agenda

By Alyson Brodsy and Hope Yen · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:49 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A defiant Tom DeLay, removed as House majority leader because of a criminal indictment, said Sunday he can do his job even without the title and pledged to continue his close partnership with House Speaker Dennis Hastert in pushing the GOP's agenda. The Texas Republican known for keeping colleagues in line and raising prodigious amounts of cash to help elect GOP candidates said he is only guilty of working to defeat Democrats. "But that's not illegal," he said. Yet some House Republicans said the fund-raising conspiracy case in Texas has plunged DeLay back into the GOP pack.

Suicide attacks kill 26, injure 101 in Indonesia

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:46 a.m.

BALI, Indonesia -- Police raised the alert level for Indonesia's capital and the president warned of more attacks Sunday as a chilling video shot the day before showed a suspected bomber clutching a backpack and strolling past diners moments before one of three suicide bombings killed 26 people on Bali. The near-simultaneous bombings on the resort island also injured 101 people, including six Americans. The attacks apparently were planned by Southeast Asia's two most-wanted men, who are believed to be connected to an al-Qaida-linked group, said Maj. Gen. Ansyaad Mbai, a top Indonesian anti-terror official.

Scaring up customers

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:39 a.m.

I hope you have everything set for Halloween. After all, you only have ... What? There are still 28 days left?!! Nevertheless, costumes, props, decorator items and CANDY, CANDY, CANDY appeared at the start of September. Fellow connoisseurs of the local Wal-Mart might have observed the room normally dedicated to gardening supplies is already filled with equipment for celebrating the holiday on a monumental scale: giant inflatable grim reapers, fog machines, Christmas lights rigged with black light bulbs, animatronic dancing pirates and more. It's an old joke that stores bring out Christmas stuff earlier and earlier -- but, there's an economic reason: the Thanksgiving-to-New Year's period sees the year's greatest amount of consumer spending. Sales during this period are critical to many industries: jewelry, for example. No wonder stores want us in the spirit early.

Hit-and-run with deputy sheriff leads to 1 arrest

By Gavin Lesnick · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:38 a.m.

A 40-year-old Bloomington resident was arrested Saturday evening after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident, according to the Bloomington Police Department report. Donald Hobbs, the alleged offender, probably couldn't have picked a worse car to hit. BPD Officer John Kovach responded to a call from a driver who said he was rear-ended by a vehicle at a traffic light on West Third Street. The victim, police said, turned out to be an off-duty Monroe County deputy sheriff who had a detailed description of what happened, the license plate and Hobbs' physical features.

Walk offers food, fun for animals, owners

By Laura Kruty · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:36 a.m.

Mason, a 4-year-old English Sheepdog lying among bright green tennis balls, just couldn't bring himself to leave the wading pool on a warm October afternoon. But at the 10th annual Walk for the Animals Sunday at Third Street Park, there were plenty of other activities in which Mason and other dogs could participate. Four-legged participants of all shapes and sizes led their owners around to various events, including an agility area where dogs could weave through poles, climb on a seesaw and jump over a hurdle, the "Doggie Dash" obstacle course and a walk to downtown Bloomington. Several local organizations set up informational booths for human participants. Leslie Ems, founder of Flying Paws Agility, opened her business just last month. She said she hoped to generate more awareness for Flying Paws and increase the regular class attendance to five or six dogs. "I'm doing it because I enjoy it," she said. "I'm trying to get more people involved."

Event at Bluebird to benefit paralyzed man

By Nate Gowdy · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:35 a.m.

Local bands 40% Steve and the Vivid Curve will headline an event at 10 p.m. tonight at The Bluebird to benefit Fort Wayne resident Dustin Smith, who was involved in a diving accident over the summer that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Ever since the incident, Smith, 26, and his family, including his fiancee and their two children, have been doing all they can to reorganize their lives to accommodate his disability.

Wolfgang snoozefest

By Alyson Brodsy and Colin Dugdale · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:35 a.m.

Last Saturday, I canceled my colonoscopy appointment to go to the opera "Così Fan Tutte." Big mistake. Going to the opera is like taking musical Dimetapp. Side effects might include vomiting, pale stools and losing the will to live. Before the show started, while watching the vast majority of people roll into the building, I probably should have anticipated boredom. The bipedal slice of the opera's mobility pie could have easily been defined as "sliver."

Judging Tom DeLay

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:30 a.m.

Did Rep. Tom DeLay do something legally wrong? I have no idea. My sneaking suspicion is yes, but I also doubt he's the only one doing it; he just got caught. Still, his political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, seems to have been involved in some shady dealing. And it was pretty suspicious when, in April, the House tried to pass a bill to make it more difficult to proceed with an ethics investigation. In short, DeLay hasn't come across as an innocent man. If he really wanted to do himself a favor, he and his Republican cronies would shut up and let the courts do their job. Unfortunately for him, he seems too stubborn to realize that now is not the best time to be slinging mud. There hasn't been a shortage of Republicans willing to stand up and say, as DeLay did, that the case is a result of an "unabashed partisan zealot." However, Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor in DeLay's case and a known Democrat, has indicted four times more Democrats than Republicans, and once indicted himself for missing the campaign finance reporting deadline by one day. I don't know him personally, but right now, his credibility as an honest politician seems a little better than Tom DeLay's.

Hillel gives students feel of home during Rosh Hashana

By Kacie Foster · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:29 a.m.

For sophomore Rachel Kaplan, the most memorable part of Rosh Hashana is about being with family. Originally from a suburb of Chicago where public schools are closed on Jewish holidays, Kaplan now has to celebrate the Jewish New Year at IU. "It's hard to be here, because it's not the same without family traditions," she said.

5th annual boat regatta draws pirate ships, banana floats

By Katie Sellers · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:26 a.m.

Willkie Quad residents discovered another thing to add to the infinite use of duct tape: construct an 8-foot-long yellow banana boat for the fifth annual Cardboard Boat Regatta held by The Council for Advancing Student Leadership. "It's laid back in Willkie, so we got started with Banana Boat sunscreen and went from there," Willkie Wonders co-captain and junior Matt Skiba explained.

Cutting down bureaucratic ineffiencies

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:23 a.m.

We are under the impression that the IU Student Association is supposed to train the leaders of tomorrow. However, when we look at the IUSA budget passed last week, we find ourselves wondering what exactly our alleged student leaders are learning. What are they gaining by passing a budget where 70 percent is dedicated to operating expenses, save lessons in bureaucratic inefficiency?

'Star Wars' draws residents, alumni

By Gavin Lesnick · Monday, Oct. 3,2005 12:01 a.m.

Every time IU graduate George Starkey sits down for a cup of coffee at the Starbucks in Broad Ripple, a neighborhood on the north side of Indianapolis, someone wants to know. It happens so often that Starkey even has a name for it: He gets "Lucas-ized." "First someone turns around, and then you can start hearing necks snapping," said Starkey, who learned as a teenager of his uncanny resemblance to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas. "People say, 'Are you him?' I say, 'Just call me George.'"

Soviet Union art comes to Midwest

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 2,2005 11:54 p.m.

PEORIA, Ill. -- Call it a glimpse of a lost world, a world that never was but remains still, preserved in oil and canvas -- a world of workers united and equal, struggling to build a new society of justice and peace. Such was the Soviet Union's official view of itself in state-sanctioned artwork created between 1917 and 1991, a selection of which goes on display in "Behind the Iron Curtain: Russian Impressionism," which opened recently at Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences. The exhibit is testimony to the power of art -- and the eagerness of revolutionary leaders to use that power to help build a new kind of society. It is also testimony to the resilience of the artists themselves, who managed to create notable work even within the rigid strictures of a totalitarian state that banned abstraction and other forms of nonrepresentational 20th century art.

Kinsey Confidential

Friday, Sept. 30,2005 6:05 p.m.

Q: How many, on average, relationships are men (women) involved in before marriage?

Mind your manners at Fashion Week

By Patrice Worthy · Friday, Sept. 30,2005 2:39 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Anyone who knows anything about the fashion industry knows that fashion people have a certain way of doing things. We tend to follow social rules not written in any book or pamphlet, but rules that have been passed down to us through years of training.

ROBERTS CONFIRMED

By Michael Sanserino · Friday, Sept. 30,2005 2:29 p.m.

In a 78-22 Senate vote Thursday morning, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was confirmed as the 17th chief justice of the United States. Roberts was sworn in at the White House Thursday afternoon by Justice John Paul Stevens, acting chief justice since the death of William Rehnquist earlier this month.