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Miami teammates among five for Heisman

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:34 a.m.

New York -- Top-ranked Miami players Ken Dorsey and Willis McGahee are Heisman Trophy finalists. This is the first time since 1994 that teammates were among the top five in the voting. Iowa quarterback Brad Banks, Penn State running back Larry Johnson and Southern California quarterback Carson Palmer also were invited Wednesday for the award's presentation.

Freshman quickly becoming a leader

By Charlie Cunningham and Charlie Gillingham · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:32 a.m.

When you look at the Hoosier wrestling roster and see that Greg Schaefer is the only eligible senior, you realize that IU wrestling may be heading for the dreaded "rebuilding year," but the Hoosiers are not worried.

English folkster disappoints fans

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:32 a.m.

David Gray, a longtime musical mainstay in the United Kingdom, maintained relative obscurity among United States fans. That is, until the release of his 1999 album White Ladder, an instant classic that justifiably went double-platinum stateside. White Ladder is that rare breed of rock album that is predominantly entertaining from start to finish, propelled by the lovely balladry of "Please Forgive Me," "Babylon" (immensely overplayed, but nonetheless very good), "My Oh My," "This Years Love," "Sail Away" and "Say Hello Wave Goodbye."

Junior class standouts lead the way for No. 13 IU

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeff Fuldauer · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:32 a.m.

The success of the No. 13 ranked Hoosier IU women's swim team has been the result of off-season improvement and consistency from experienced swimmers. Leading the charge for the team has been the performance of standout juniors Meghan Medendorp and Brooke Taflinger.

Toughest portion of schedule still remains

By Lisa Kates and Lisa Marie Kates · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:31 a.m.

After finals wrap up next week, most IU students will be heading home to their families for a few weeks to relax and take a break from all the hustle and bustle of school. But for the men's swimming and diving team, they will have about a week break and then will return to school on Dec. 28 to begin training for the toughest part of the season.

2002 season 'just the beginning'

By Dan Patrick · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:30 a.m.

Coming off of a dismal 8-20 last season and a ninth place finish in the Big Ten, the Hoosier volleyball squad had a lot of rebuilding to do. Yet 20 wins, three All-Big Ten team members and a NCAA Tournament bid later, the IU reconstruction came through with flying colors.

Parity improves professional sports

By Benjy Ekhaus · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:27 a.m.

Since I began writing this column in the winter of 2001, I have been an adamant supporter of higher degrees of competition in professional sports. Coming off of a decade driven by dynasties in the NFL (Dallas Cowboys), the NBA (Chicago Bulls) and MLB (New York Yankees), being a sports fan in other cities was becoming a useless activity.

Great Beatle still shines today

By Seth Forster · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:26 a.m.

It would be easy with all the commercialism and Beatle propaganda spewed by the media throughout my life to dismiss a new album of live material as nothing more than an attempt by Paul McCartney to feel important again. After all, the idea of the Beatles is so large that it almost dehumanizes as much as it deifies them, even the one who was responsible for Wings (not a horrible band, but in comparison to the Beatles...). Back in the U. S. isn't just McCartney reminding us that he was one of the most important rockers and songwriters of all time as much as the fact that he still is that important. It's a two-disc set that spans his entire career by including a number of his and John Lennon's Beatles songs, a handful from Wings and much of his solo career. The disc flows seamlessly from one song to the next, thanks to McCartney's performances. The band is prime and never comes off as a cover band or carbon copy. Even for late-blooming Beatle/McCartney fans who came around about 25 years after the fact, there is a sense of nostalgia due to the energy of these performances and an outstanding set list. If saying this about his music seems too obvious to anyone, then I suspect they've been fans longer than I've been alive or haven't ever listened to much else.

Season not a total loss for IU

By Aarno Retherford and Aaron Retherford · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:23 a.m.

Entering this season, IU (15-3-3) had high hopes of returning to the National Championship and winning the game they lost last year. But these hopes were dashed when they played University of Connecticut in the third round of the NCAA tournament.

Harrison shines on his last album

By K James Sward and Kelsey Beltramea · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:21 a.m.

The quiet one. The shy one. The spiritual one. These were some of the monikers that came with Beatle George Harrison. When I heard about Harrison succumbing to cancer last November, I remembered listening to Beatles songs on various Chicago oldies stations and loving them all. As I grew older, my taste in music changed. What happened to my appreciation for good ol' rock and roll? Harrison's posthumous Brainwashed brings about a resurgence in my love for rock and roll. This album contains strength, vulnerability, rich emotions and a strong sense of spirituality. In essence, it brings out Harrison's personality.

Women snap Green streak

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:21 a.m.

The IU women's basketball team continued their cross-country game play Wednesday night when they played North Texas (4-3) at the Super Pit in Denton, Texas. They ended the 15 game home winning streak for North Texas by defeating them 51-43.

Roots at their best as a live band

By Ryan Whirty · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:20 a.m.

A few months ago, the Roots played a blistering set at Summer Stages, the Indianapolis music festival. The intense, high-energy show proved that, at its best, modern hip hop is not just a studio phenomenon. It also showed that the Roots are perhaps the premier practitioners of honest-to-goodness live hip hop, a band that does not depend on producers and studio tricks to display its greatness. While they tried admirably, the Roots fail to capture that live magic on their oft-delayed, highly anticipated latest studio release, Phrenology. Named after a long-discredited and often-racist brand of science that attempted to measure mental ability through the study of the shape and irregularities of the skull, the album presents the band members trying to match the brilliance of 1999's Things Fall Apart. Phrenology features a few changes to the group's line-up after the recent, tension-filled departure of rapper Malik B. and the arrival of rock guitarist Ben Kenney. With its latest release, the band has produced a sprawling, intensely personal work containing several hits but also a few misses.

Audioslave CD some real rock

By Jessica Halverson · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:18 a.m.

When Zach de la Rocha left Rage Against the Machine, I was depressed. The band singlehandedly saved me in high school, gave me hope that there was something beyond alt-rock and that someone cared about what was going on in the world. Tom Morello blew me away (still does) with his crazy technique. Together, De la Rocha, Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford were tight and inspired me to keep at least getting on with life and high school when I hated it. Then I got to college and Zach left the band. So you can imagine my hesitation when I heard Chris Cornell was to front the new Rage. Nothing against Soundgarden or anything, but grunge rock is just not "Take the Power Back" or "Killing in the Name Of" or Battle of Los Angeles.

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:15 a.m.

Fraternity presents Christmas entertainment and food Depression support group now offering free meetings

Forget any other scary movies

By Brian Haney · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:14 a.m.

Forget any of the other scary movies of the year -- grotesque Internet sites, dastardly murderers, ghosts on boats and wicked videotapes aren't half as scary as a good old horror film about monsters that live under the bed -- or in the closet -- and terrorize children at night. Some of the children in "They" get taken away when they're young, but some aren't taken until they're older and more ripe for the plucking. The opening scene sets the mood for the entire film, when a little boy screams to his mom during a thunderstorm. His mom calmly reassures him that there's nothing to be afraid of and the monsters are all in his head, then leaves him and walks downstairs. But they're not in his head, they're under his bed. Nineteen years after the chilling opening scene, the audience follows Julia (Laura Regan), a graduate student with a promising career and a devoted boyfriend. Julia transforms from a distant and unemotional student to a raging lunatic suffering from "night terrors." Of course, no one believes they're real, not her idiot boyfriend, her less-than-apathetic psychologist, and, eventually, not even herself. The death/suicide of her childhood friend introduces her to the only two people who believe her because they have the terrors too. Well, let's just say they aren't friends for long.

Students unite to spread holiday spirit of giving

By Jamie Lusk · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:13 a.m.

It's that time of the year. Christmas lights sprinkle the town. Rosy-cheeked shoppers buy gifts for friends and families. Children walk starry-eyed through overflowing toy stores. But not all of those children will get what they want for Christmas. Some of them don't even get what they need. In fact, over 300 children in the local area are in need.

'Empire' squanders serious potential

By by Isaac Edwards and Isaac Edwards · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:12 a.m.

Arenas Entertainment is the new Universal production company that is aimed primarily at a Latino audience. I don't have a Latin bone in my white-boy body, but even I feel a little offended when the first film from Arenas is such a ham-handed morality tale that smacks of cliché and stereotypes that squander serious potential for an excellent film. "Empire," the new film from Arenas, is little less than a crumbling kingdom that is defeated by its own vices and devices. John Leguizamo plays self-ascribed "street pharmacist" Vic Rosa, a Latino drug dealer working in the South Bronx. Vic is a self-made man, one who sees himself as the street-wise Rockefeller or Bill Gates. When introduced to young Wall-Street guru Jack (Peter Sarsgaard), Vic decides it's time to go legit, laundering his money through the Market in hopes of coming out clean and starting over. If you've ever once, in your entire life, seen a movie where a man tries to simply run away from his past and start all over, you should know exactly where this film is going. Franc. (notice the trendy twist with the period!) Reyes both wrote and directed 'Empire.' My advice to Franc. should he have to pick between the two: go for directing. Visually and stylistically, 'Empire' is rich in color and fluid camera shots. Granted, a lot of the time the film feels like the love-child of Santana and Snoop-Dogg, but it fits the world in which it comes from. What should have fit that world, but instead becomes biting self-parody, is the ridiculously brassy Latino score from Reuben Blades. Blades's soundtrack manages to turn the tired stereotype of Latin passion into nothing short of sheer laughable melodrama, more than once sinking 'Empire' like a soggy soap-opera.

Extreme-sports flick does a face-plant

By -Paul Straw · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:11 a.m.

"Extreme Ops" is a movie about a film crew of extreme-sports enthusiasts filming a commercial in the Austrian Alps. They stay at the top of a mountain in a not-yet-finished resort. Also inhabiting this resort is Slobodan Pavle, a Serbian terrorist who was thought to have been killed in a plane crash. While trying to film the terrorist's girlfriend getting undressed, the snowboarders accidentally film Pavle as well. The terrorists discover this and try to kill the film crew. A chase ensues, with the crew jumping out of a cable car and skiing down the mountain pursued by a helicopter.

Dance troupe gives fall studio concert

By Alyson Brodsy and Ronni Moore · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:11 a.m.

The African-American Dance Company and special guests will be holding its annual Fall Studio Concert at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. The dance concert was scheduled for Dec. 5, but it was postponed because of a flooding problem in Willkie Auditorium.

Surprise! Schneider plays a loser

By -Paul Straw · Thursday, Dec. 12,2002 12:09 a.m.

Rob Schneider plays a loser. Always, in all of his movies, Schneider is a loser, and "The Hot Chick" is no exception. Only differing in each movie is what kind of loser he is. In "The Hot Chick," Schneider plays Jessica Spencer, whose body, due to magical earrings, was switched with a lowly street criminal. Now the one-time prom queen candidate/head cheerleader is getting a lesson in humility by looking like an ugly man. In order to get her body back, Jessica must now apologize and befriend those people she has hurt over the years. Jessica must also help her parents get back together, win the cheerleading competition and help her friends with boy troubles.