Piazza to extend rehab assignment NORFOLK, Va. -- Mike Piazza might extend his minor league rehabilitation assignment.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Michael Phelps set another world record, punched the air several times and pointed to his head, an unusual show of emotion from the 18-year-old Baltimore native.
The International Tennis Association National Collegiate Summer Circuit Championships began competition Saturday. The winners from the event will earn wild card invitationals into the first national tournaments of the 2003-04 collegiate tennis season -- the Icy Hot/ITA Men's and Riviera/ITA Women's All-American championships.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The Americans closed the Pan American Games track and field competition in style Saturday night, grabbing four medals, including three in the relays, Which helped make up for the women's basketball team loss in the gold medal game to Cuba hours after it survived a protest by Brazil.
Three highly decorated IU athletes will add a 2002-03 IU Student-Athletes of the Year award to their list of accolades. Olympic diver Sara Hildebrand and 2003 NCAA Javelin Champion Irina Kharun share the Female Athlete of the Year award, while Soccer National Player of the Year Pat Noonan took the men's award.
I am sure I'm not the only person in Bloomington who circled Oct. 25 on their calendar. On that afternoon, the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes come to Bloomington to take on our Hoosiers. Not many will give IU a chance in the game, and while the chance for a monumental upset will draw some to Memorial Stadium (which looks really nice with the new turf and the new state logo at the 50 yard line), the main draw was to be Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett.
LEWISBURG, W.Va. -- A sheriff's deputy pulled over a double-homicide suspect during a traffic stop and was shot in the chest -- but still managed to chase the gunman while relaying information to police. John Richard Mayhew Jr., 35, was captured Saturday night, but not before he fatally shot his 18-year-old daughter, Christina McKibben, and turned the gun on himself, police said. Mayhew had been on the run since late Thursday.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Well, maybe there aren't any bears at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center at 2221 E. Ashboro Rd. in Center Point, Ind., but there are plenty of lions, tigers and other exotic felines. Plenty of felines also means plenty of cleaning, which means the center has plenty of volunteers. One of these is IU quarterback Graeme McFarland, who is used to working on the football field but now is cleaning up exotic cat cages.
It is the Saturday afternoon before finals and several international students have chosen to spend it with one another scattered between the two floors of the Leo R. Dowling International Center. In an environment where they both struggle and thrive, being an international student is the common trait that links them all together.
This summer, IU scientists helped to install the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team camera on the 48-inch Oschin Schmidt Telescope at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology near Pasadena, Calif. The QUEST camera is the largest astronomical camera in the world. It was designed and developed by a team of scientists from IU working in conjunction with scientists from Yale University.
An amendment to IU's 1993 smoking policy is scheduled to be presented to the chancellor's office as early as today. The creators of the amendment want to restrict smoking to a certain distance away from doorways, windows and building ventilation systems around the IU campus. The current policy bans smoking in all IU buildings and University-owned vehicles.
Lisa Pratt feels like she has it all. Geologist, mother and wife, she's made it into the elite of her profession while still making time to have a family. Some would say Pratt's success is a sure sign that women are now welcome in the world of science. But Pratt doesn't say that. In fact, she says her success is a matter of luck.
Those were the days It would be refreshing to see reminders to those who pontificate upon inclusion and diaspora studies that racism is not wholly an issue for Caucasians to address, and that painting those of differing opinions upon the efficacy of inclusion as "Archie and Susie Bunkers" is a simplistic retort, unworthy of anyone who claims that liberal education sets one free from such assumptions.
I've always wondered what happened to fireflies after the summer. Nature's little flashlights just seem to vanish as August drifts into fall. Do they migrate? Do they die off? Do they magically transform into Christmas lights? I've always kind of hoped lightning bugs hibernate through winter. You know ... like grizzly bears.
Dating is tricky. In my first year of college, RAs in my dorm tried hard to impart upon the freshmen the painfully learned rules of dating (such as don't get involved with people on your floor) -- all to be disregarded by us. As life progressed, dating did not become any simpler.
The appointment of the first openly gay bishop to the United States' Episcopal Church has sparked controversy and dissent among many of its members. The Episcopal Church is a branch of the 77 million-member Anglican Communion, which now is threatened by a rift over the new appointment. On Tuesday, Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elevated to bishop-elect status, and the next day, Episcopal conservatives protested the election by walking off the floor of their national legislative meeting.
PARIS -- Melting Alpine glaciers unleashed a cascade of rocks, London choked in a record 100-degree temperatures and with wildfires raging in seven countries, the Pope urged people to pray for rain.
Federal aid granted to flood victims KOKOMO -- Federal and state officials said Friday they have approved more than $15.5 million in aid to about 5,000 victims of last month's flooding and storms across Indiana.
French director Jacques Deray dies at 74 in Paris PARIS -- French director Jacques Deray, known for classic thrillers and police movies, died at home in a Paris suburb, his family said Sunday. He was 74. Deray made nine films starring actor Alain Delon, notably "La Piscine," (The Swimming Pool), a 1968 psychological drama set in a villa in the beach resort of Saint-Tropez. Austrian actress Romy Schneider also appeared in it.
MONROVIA, Liberia -- In a farewell address to his war-torn nation, President Charles Taylor declared Sunday he would "sacrifice my presidency" to stop bloodshed in Liberia.
