Women's Golf

Why I'm single

By Judd Arnold · Monday, March 29,2004 11:28 p.m.

Thursday during a lecture highlighting the differences between the sexes, Dr. Lori Hart Ebert proclaimed to the audience: "We are here tonight because … men and women are truly different. Men are simple creatures. Women, we are complicated, and that drives men crazy."

Love and Larry

By Dan Cohen and Daniel Cohen · Monday, March 29,2004 11:26 p.m.

My vote for NCAA basketball coach of the year? It goes to man who did not coach one game this year. To a man, who until last week, didn't even have a job. I vote for Larry Eustachy. Why? Because I'm voting for a man who loves the game so much he cleaned up to get a second chance in life and in coaching. Last year, pictures surfaced of Eustachy hugging and kissing college girls at a party after a road game. Eustachy was fired.

Jewel on the spree

By Britany Ausmus and Brittany Ausmus · Monday, March 29,2004 11:25 p.m.

As I stepped out of the U-Bahn station at Unter den Linden, I remembered how wonderful Berlin really is. There is an energy pulsing through the city with an unrivaled atmosphere. The German capital, once divided by the world's powers, now stands for the progress of the German people as a major European metropolis. The modern architecture is a reminder of the total devastation the city faced during the World War II -- Berlin, at the war's end, was reduced to rubble.

From DC to D.C.

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian McFillen · Monday, March 29,2004 11:24 p.m.

According to an article published this weekend by Reuters, with yet seven months to go before anyone does any voting, Americans are already being turned off by the negative tone of the 2004 presidential campaign. Journalist John Whitesides reports the effect is bipartisan. The Democratic consultants, Democracy Corps, report a 10 percent increase in negative assessments of John Kerry, while polls from Ipsos, Fox News and Newsweek all show declines in support for George Bush (Reuters, March 28).

'Gypsy Spirit: Journey of the Roma' breaks stereotypes

By Claire Blaustein · Monday, March 29,2004 11:21 p.m.

The image of the Gypsy is held as part of our popular culture -- a view of people in peasant skirts and vests traveling around the eastern European countryside in brightly painted wagons.

Transfers provide spark for IU

By Dan Click · Monday, March 29,2004 11:21 p.m.

Coming off a season in which they finished 12-11 and returned only four players, the Hoosiers were looking for a spark from their newcomers. IU has gotten just that from its three transfer players -- sophomores Dmytro Ishtuganov and Neil Kenner and junior Ryan McCarthy. With their help, the Hoosiers are ranked No. 70 in the country, working toward a NCAA tournament berth and improving as the season progresses. With transferring comes challenges, including getting used to a new campus, new classes and a new team.

Senior back in rotation

By Alex Witteveld · Monday, March 29,2004 11:20 p.m.

Tommy John. This name evokes memories of a great baseball player, a dominating major league pitcher who played for 26 years and ended his career with 288 wins. But for today's amateur and professional ballplayers, this name has become synonymous with months of rehab and a highly-feared surgery. For IU pitcher Nick Vitielliss, this is exactly what Tommy John meant.

Downsides to downloading

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 29,2004 11:19 p.m.

For months, we've all been either crossing our fingers or shaking our fingers -- depending on the position we take on file-sharing. We've known from the beginning file-sharing was illegal, even if it was in the same category as speeding and jaywalking -- we all know it's wrong, we all do it and we all hate it when we actually get caught. But now the Recording Industry of America Association is filing 89 lawsuits at 21 universities. The average "John Doe" defendant has 800 songs on his or her computer, meaning the student had, on average, 800 chances to realize his or her actions were illegal and stop.

Award nominee at IU

By Stacey Laskin · Monday, March 29,2004 11:17 p.m.

The day Samrat Upadhyah, an IU creative writing professor, discovered he did not win the 2004 Kiriyama Prize, he sat at a desk in his Ballantine Hall office writing. "It's fine," he said. "I'm just honored to be even nominated."

On to the Alamo

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 29,2004 1:09 a.m.

ST. LOUIS -- When the final buzzer sounded, the entire Georgia Tech team rushed together to pile into a group hug on the floor. How fitting. With top-scorer B.J. Elder hobbled by a badly sprained ankle, someone else had to step up. Jarrett Jack and the rest of the Yellow Jackets did better than that, beating Kansas 79-71 in overtime Sunday to advance to their first Final Four since 1990. "A lot was on the line," said Jack, who scored eight of his career-high 29 points in overtime. "B.J. being out, we all knew we had to step up. I just really got it going and kept attacking until the game was over." No team had more tight games on its road to the Final Four than the third-seeded Yellow Jackets. Their first three games in the St. Louis Regional were decided by a total of 13 points.

Survey: single women don't vote

By Maria Fragnoli · Monday, March 29,2004 1:04 a.m.

If you are a single woman, political candidates need you, according to a new survey. new study released by the non-partisan group Women's Voices, Women Vote states close to 22 million unmarried women were eligible to vote in 2000 but did not. The study also pointed out that if unmarried women voted at the same rate as married women, there would have been 6 million more voters in the last presidential election.

Skilled in fashion

By Jaime Cohen and Jaimie Cohen · Monday, March 29,2004 1:03 a.m.

The Coquette fashion show held Friday night at the Indiana Memorial Union was met with excitement, compliments and much success. Months of hard work paid off for Collins resident Ruth Vaca, Union Board committee head Markeyta Martin and all of the student designers involved. The show, sponsored by Collins Living Learning Center, the Union Board and PEOPLE magazine, was a chance for student designers who were not part of the fashion design program to show off their talent in front of seven judges and more than 100 audience members. Five finalists' designs were chosen for the runway show. The student designers had to make all of the clothes themselves without using name brand clothing in their designs. This year's first place winner was Katie Dombek.

Students named 'Mr. and Miss Asia'

By Steven Chung · Monday, March 29,2004 1:02 a.m.

Junior David Wong didn't think he and his partner, sophomore Nur Bahiyah Mohamad Akip, had much chance of winning anything at the second annual Mr. and Miss Asia pageant Friday night. He joked about taking the consolation prize. "I didn't know how to dance at all," Wong said. But, as it turned out, he danced well enough. He and Mohamad Akip won not only the award for the best talent show performance, but also the overall titles of Mr. and Miss Asia. The near-capacity crowd at the 600-seat Buskirk-Chumley Theater laughed and screamed throughout the night as ten couples, all representing different Asian student organizations, competed in a group hip-hop dance, a question-answer session, a catwalk and a talent show, the main event of the program.

The field is set

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

It's amazing the difference two-tenths of a second can make. For Team Major Taylor and Sigma Nu, the small fraction of seconds was the factor in determining which team would be awarded the coveted pole position for the 2004 Men's Little 500.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

IU coach Randy Heisler sent his distance runners to the Stanford Invitational and the jumpers, sprinters and throwers to the Florida Relays this past weekend. In the Stanford Invitational, IU sophomore Kelly Siefker and senior Audrey Giesler ran NCAA Regional qualifying standards in the 3,000-meter steeple chase. Siefker cut 13 seconds off her personal record in the 3,000-meter steeple chase, running 10:28.86 -- good for fourth-place -- and Giesler finished eighth with a time of 10:36.18. The distance runners were not the only athletes that set NCAA regional qualifying marks, as IU senior Lauren Chesnut jumped 12.44 meters in the triple jump at the Florida Relays, good for fifth place. IU freshman Jennifer Cobbina finished seventh in the long jump with a distance of 5.87 meters. Junior Christina Archibald cleared 1.68 meters in the high jump, .05 meters off the NCAA Regional qualifying standard. IU returns to competition Friday for the two-day Texas Relays in Austin, Texas. The men's track team split the weekend between the Stanford Invitational and the Florida Relays. A number of Hoosiers posted NCAA Regional qualifying marks. In Gainesville, Fla., freshman All-American David Neville won the 200-meters in 20.83 and placed seventh in the 400-meters, winning his heat handidly in 47.16. Junior All-American Aarik Wilson returned to competition with a win in the triple jump with 16.42 meters -- placing him atop the collegiate rankings. At Stanford, sophomore All-American Sean Jefferson took the national lead in the 1,500-meters, placing first among collegians and third overall in 3:42, a personal best. Senior Nathan Purcell finished just behind Kruse in a season-best 3:54. Senior All-American Chris Powers set an outdoor personal best in the 5,000-meters, finishing eighth among collegians (14th overall) in 14:00.83, an NCAA Regional qualifying mark. IU travels next weekend to Austin, Texas, to compete in the prestigious Texas Relays. The No. 11 Hoosier women's water polo team picked up five victories this weekend in Grove City and Slippery Rock, Penn. With the clean sweep, IU improves to 7-1 in conference play and 15-6 for the season. IU dominated its opposition in each match, scoring an impressive 79 goals while allowing only 13. In addition to their lopsided victories this weekend, the Hoosiers set three school records. In the opening match Saturday, the Hoosiers dominated Salem International, tallying a school record 21 goals. Freshman Kara Woolley played solidly throughout the weekend for the Hoosiers. She led the way on the offensive end Saturday with 12 goals along with five assists, tying a school-record. Woolley and her teammates also had themselves a field day on the defensive end Saturday night, as they set yet another school record with 26 steals against a depleted PBSU squad. Sunday afternoon, IU wrapped up the weekend with an 11-5 win over Gannon in Slippery Rock, Penn. The victory moves IU into second place in the CWPA-Western Division behind the No. 8 Michigan Wolverines. Hitting the road for its first two Big Ten matches, the IU women's tennis team defeated Wisconsin in a hard fought 5-2 match before falling to No. 6 powerhouse Northwestern 6-1. Saturday, the Hoosiers struck first, stealing the doubles point and the momentum from the home standing Badgers. Senior Linda Tran and sophomore Sarah Batty battled to an 8-4 win over Wisconsin's No. 1 duo, while senior Karie Schlukebir and junior Dora Vastag secured the point in getting an 8-4 win in the No. 3 position. The Hoosiers then worked their way through singles play, taking four of six matches en route to their first conference road win. No. 39-ranked Vastag captured a three-set win against Wisconsin's only ranked player. Vastag led the Hoosiers from her No. 1 spot, downing No. 58 Katie McGaffigan, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1. The doubles duo of Schlukebir and freshman Cecile Perton won the Hoosiers' only doubles match 8-4 in the No. 3 position. Schlukebir was also the only Hoosier to net a singles win, as the Wildcats took five of six matches on the afternoon. Schlukebir defeated Ruth Barnes 6-2, 6-1. The split on the weekend moves IU to 9-6 (1-1 Big Ten) as they return home to play host to Ohio State and Penn State April 3 and 4. The IU rowing team opened up its 2004 spring season with a weekend road trip to Lake Wheeler in Raleigh, N.C., competing in five races against the University of North Carolina and Georgetown. The team returned home with one first place finish and four second place finishes. The Hoosiers' only victory came in the last event -- the Varsity Eight. The crew rowed with a time of 6:37.50, less than two seconds faster then second place UNC. Competing for the Varsity Eight was senior Line Espedal, junior coxswain Sarah Meyer, juniors Amanda Walker and Kelly Schuiling and sophomores Lauren Anderson, Ashley Airis, Carly Schilling, Laura Lazaridis and Elisabeth Benoit. "The Varsity Eight won a great race," IU coach Steve Peterson said. "It is a huge step forward for them because they were forced to overcome a tremendous amount of obstacles and rowed a gutsy race." In other events, the Novice Four boat finished 20 seconds behind UNC with a time of 8:19.78. The Varsity Four squad came up short by just a second-and-a-half behind Georgetown for a time of 7:54.42. The Novice Eight rowed a second place time of 7:07.52, and the second Varsity Eight crew finished 10 seconds behind UNC, which had a time of 6:59.46.

Community discusses 'Laramie Project' at panel

By Ashley Rhodebeck · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

Several years ago, doctoral candidate Sean McLennan would have been happy with the "live and let live" attitude toward gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Now, he sees it as segregation. Senior Jada Barbry agrees that despite the compassion gays and lesbians receive from the Bloomington community, many straight people distance themselves from homosexuals.

Kappa breaks quals track record 1 hour and 45 mins. after AGD breaks record

By Josh Weinfus and Josh Weinfuss · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

Within an hour and 45 minutes, a 15-year-old record was broken -- twice. When the cinder cleared and the Mongooses stopped rolling, Kappa Kappa Gamma ended qualifications holding not only the pole position for the 2004 Women's Little 500 race, but the new qualifications track record with a time of 2:37.5, breaking a newly-minted record.

IUPD nabs thief at School of Music

By Mallory Simon · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

Former School of Music student Carl Iriel St. Jacques, 24, was arrested by an IU Police Department officer in the act of stealing a hand-held computer Thursday at Merrill Hall, and police have linked him to approximately four other thefts at the School of Music IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said St. Jacques was extremely cooperative and was arrested for larceny on the spot. During interviews, St. Jacques confessed committing other larcenies at the School of Music to police.

Bloomington beers it up

By Stephanie Frasco · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

At 6 p.m. Sunday night, beer flowed like water at the Monroe County Convention Center. Over 200 people showed up throughout the night at the 11th annual Beer Festival hosted by Big Red Liquors.

Lawsuits affect student sharing

By Cecelia Wolford · Monday, March 29,2004 12:54 a.m.

Freshman Allie Krueger legally downloads music using Apple's iTunes software, a program offering thousands of downloadable songs for 99 cents each. Krueger said she is willing to pay if it means avoiding a thousand-dollar lawsuit.