Women's Golf

Conference Outlook: Indiana

Wednesday, Nov. 6,2002 1:36 a.m.

The Hoosiers will look to continue their magical run from last season. They will have to replace Jill Chapman and Heather Cassady, team leaders from last season who graduated. Looked upon for the job will be sophomore guard Jenny DeMuth, seniors Kristen Bodine, Allison Skapin, and Jill Hartman. Last season, IU made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1994-1995. They open the regular season versus Wofford in the Hampton Inn/Fazoli's Classic on Friday Nov. 22 at 6 p.m.

Send snipers to death

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2002 1:01 a.m.

If convicted of the 10 sniper murders in Maryland and Virginia between Oct. 2-22 and slaying a woman in Montgomery, Ala. on Sept. 21, John Allen Williams and Lee Malvo must die. Americans believe they have the right to live as they wish, within the law, without interference from others or the government. The belief is more than 22 decades old and written in a contract called the Constitution, which includes a Bill of Rights. It was written to guarantee freedoms including "life, liberty," and "the equal protection of the laws," as outlined in the 14th Amendment.

I don't want to become my mom

By Joe Grace · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2002 1 a.m.

I'm becoming my mother. I never thought this could happen to me. I always thought the old adage that you become your parents was an elaborate ruse to scare kids into teenage rebellion thus leading to an extreme loss of brain cells and ensuring the dominance of the old folks. Teenage rebellion. Sigh. Those were the good old days. Coming home 15 minutes after curfew. Skipping Sunday night church. Eating my dessert before my dinner. Okay, so maybe I wasn't much of a rebel.

A personal reflection

By Gerald L. Bepko · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2002 1 a.m.

As most readers of the IDS know, last Friday at the meeting of the IU Trustees in Fort Wayne, I was appointed Interim President, effective Jan. 1, 2003, the date on which our President, Myles Brand, will take his new position at the head of the NCAA. It's a bit early to write about plans for the interim administration. For the time being, I'll be listening to students, faculty, staff, alumni and other constituencies of the University. As a result, I hope your readers won't mind a more personal reflection.

Biking for the students

By Cherry Blattert · Wednesday, Nov. 6,2002 12:59 a.m.

Thank you, Mr. Hennessy! Dave Hennessy, as you may have read in Jackie Corgan's IDS article, "Pedaling across state to protest tuition hikes" last Friday, is a 71-year old Hoosier who bike-rides to universities across the state, drawing attention to the problem of costly tuition.

Make snipers pay, live

By Ryan Gunterman · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:29 p.m.

Linda Franklin, a native of nearby Columbus, Ind., was in a Home Depot parking garage in Falls Church, Va. when she was shot and killed by the snipers who have been linked to nearly 20 nationwide shootings to date. Her husband watched her die. Franklin survived breast cancer and worked for the FBI in the Cyber Division at the National Infrastructure Protection Center. But in one cruel, unforgiving moment, the cancer that had inhabited her body and the dangers associated with one of the world's most prestigious law enforcement agencies didn't matter.

Dorm Make Over

By Jackie Corgan · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:25 p.m.

Now their room is called the "athletic room" of Briscoe-Gucker 3. With bright yellow walls, green lockers for a new television stand and brand new red comforters and mattress covers, the boys were pretty stunned with their room's transformation. "I'm not quite pleased with the colors," Davis said while he sat in his new red tractor-seat desk chair. "The walls are a little flamboyant, and I don't understand how the carpet goes with anything in the room," he said pointing to the tan mat in the middle of the floor.

Thousands mourn DJ Jam Master Jay

By Brett Martel and Michael Weissenstein · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:20 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay, his killer still at large six days after he was shot in his recording studio, was mourned at his funeral Tuesday as "the embodiment of hip-hop." A fleet of white stretch limousines was parked outside the Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Queens, the borough where the rapper, whose real name was Jason Mizell, first met up with his bandmates, Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels. "Jam Master Jay was not a thug," McDaniels told the overflow crowd inside the church.

Sharon Osbourne rethinks MTV show

By Brett Martel and David Baulder · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:20 p.m.

NEW YORK -- If she had to do it over again, Sharon Osbourne says she wouldn't have invited MTV's cameras into her home. At least, that's what the cancer-stricken matriarch of television's favorite dysfunctional family told ABC's Barbara Walters when she talked to her earlier this fall. Osbourne said, in an interview to air on a special "20/20'' edition Wednesday, that she's calling it quits after an upcoming, 10-episode season is through. "We can't do it anymore," she said.

Simple symphonies are stressful

By Lee Ann Chan · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:14 p.m.

While many of us are cracking the books for history, biology or business exams, the students in the music school are preparing for their big recitals. The amount of rehearsal time and effort they put into their recitals is immeasurable. Almost any student can perform a recital, but it must be done with the approval of the major professor. Most students are required to do a recital in both their junior and senior year for the undergraduate degree in music, but they must first pass a recital "hearing" where teachers from their department listen to the song excerpts for the recital.

Sharon dissolves Israeli parliament

By Aida Sultanova and Laurie Copans · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:07 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- In a surprise move, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday dissolved parliament and called elections early next year after he failed to rebuild his crumbling government. Sharon's challenger in upcoming primaries for leadership of the Likud party, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then announced he would serve as Sharon's foreign minister until the election.

Political parties ally in Pakistan

By Aida Sultanova and Munir Ahmad · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:07 p.m.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Hardline Islamic parties and a pro-democracy block in Pakistan agreed to join forces Tuesday, giving them the parliamentary majority needed to form a coalition government and possibly choose a pro-Taliban cleric as prime minister. Political allies of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf refused to concede defeat and said they were also working to form a majority. In Pakistani politics, positions can be fluid and coalitions short-lived.

Missle strike kills al Qaeda operative

By Aida Sultanova and Josh L. Lumpkin · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Opening up a new front in the war on terror, U.S. forces launched a pinpoint missile strike in Yemen, killing a top al Qaeda operative in his car in the first such overt attack outside of Afghanistan, a U.S. official said. The strike, conducted by a CIA drone aircraft, killed Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. U.S. counterterrorism officials say al-Harethi was al Qaeda's chief operative in Yemen and a suspect in the October 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole.

Cinderella season: Team recalls run to title game

By Sara Meinecke and Sarah Meinecke · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:05 p.m.

By the time the IU basketball team started the Big Ten season last year, the Hoosiers were 7-5, and drawing critical responses from their fans.

Supreme Court denies request ot fast-track suit

By Becky Bartindale · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:03 p.m.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by a group of minority students to fast-track a suit filed against the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions system. The high court's ruling Monday on procedure in the closely watched case will delay the court's review by about two weeks, according to lawyers on both sides.

Spending spree catching up with Loyola

By Becky Bartindale · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:02 p.m.

CHICAGO -- Loyola University, which has been plagued by financial woes, burned through $143 million of its endowment over the past eight years to erect buildings and plug a series of annual budget deficits, a university official said. Loyola pursued the unusual course of spending its unrestricted reserves during the 1990s, when the stock market carried most university endowments around the nation to record levels. Loyola's endowment dropped to $282 million last year from a high of $425 million in 1993.

Southern Illinois contract battles proceed

By Becky Bartindale · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:02 p.m.

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Southern Illinois University officials filed a complaint against the University's faculty Monday with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, the latest punch in a bitter fight over a new contract. SIU officials say the faculty's 688-member union is not bargaining in good faith, is bringing up old and settled issues and is threatening to strike over issues not on the bargaining table, SIU lawyer Mark Brittingham said Monday. Union officials did not immediately return a telephone messages left by The Associated Press.

Virginia under crunch to develop alert system

By Becky Bartindale and Beverly N. Williams · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11:01 p.m.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Virginia stands to lose more than $1.1 million in federal criminal justice grants if it doesn't develop a system in the next year to inform people about sex offenders attending or working at colleges and universities in the state. Only California, Tennessee, Utah, Iowa, Colorado, South Carolina, Michigan and Florida met the deadline to adopt campus sex offender registries Monday. Tennessee's law took effect this week and California's began Monday.

Student sought for trustee board

By Josh Sanburn · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 11 p.m.

The position for the next student to sit on the IU board of trustees is up for grabs to almost any full-time student willing to fill out an application. The applications are now available in the office of the trustees in room M005 in the Indiana Memorial Union. The chosen student will take the place of Sacha Willsey, the current student representative on the board. The IU board of trustees has nine members, six who are appointed by the governor and three that are elected by alumni.

Review process needs to be altered.

By Benjy Ekhaus · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2002 10:55 p.m.

The newest edition of Instant Replay in the NFL has been intact now for three and a half seasons, and made officiating much better than in its absence. But, there are certain areas where the system needs to be…overturned, if you will. League officials need to look back to why they reinstated instant replay in the first place -- it was an opportunity to assure that the correct call was being made by the referees on the field. There are instances, however, even in the new system where that is simply impossible.