Women's Golf

American bombers strike

SURMAD, Afghanistan -- U.S. bombers pounded al Qaeda and Taliban positions in the eastern mountains of Afghanistan on Sunday after a 1,500-strong coalition ground attack the day before failed to dislodge the well-armed fighters.

Free speech does prevail

Last week, after a long legal battle and a controversy that divided the campus, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and IU Students for Life finally brought the Genocide Awareness Project to campus. Set up near the Sample Gates, the GAP display featured large photographs of aborted fetuses alongside images of the Holocaust and racial lynchings from America's past -- images that the people behind GAP wanted to equate with abortion.

Smile, you're on my camera

I went home to Evansville last weekend to attend the wedding of two friends I went to high school with. It was a very nice wedding overall. But my favorite part is when you get to throw rice at the bride and groom as they're leaving the church. I never take the rice out of the little bag before I throw it directly at the groom. I do this because I'm kind. I know how much of a mess it is to get rice out of the hair. The reception was a lot of fun, too. I even got to be the kind of, sort of, semi-official video camera guy for the first half of it because the guy who was supposed to do it mysteriously disappeared. I blame the dingoes. These are a few of the things I learned while holding the camera: For some strange reason, people don't like it when you film them eating. Especially if they're sinking their teeth into a big piece of juicy fried chicken and you zoom in on the grease floating down their cheek. And then you comment to them how disgusting this looks on videotape. They really hate that. I just don't get it. No matter how cool you may think it will look on screen, putting the camera directly in the way of a cork about to be popped from a champagne bottle is a very bad idea. Trust me on this.

Fees are justified

Using RecSports facilities -- including the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and the Student Recreational Sports Center -- is a privilege for students and should be paid for, especially during the summer sessions.

RPS mulls ending rate freeze; IUSA opposes proposal

After hours of discussion, the IU Student Association passed a resolution Thursday to oppose a controversial option on the table for Residential Programs and Services -- ending the rate freeze for students returning to IU residence halls.

City growth plan approved approved

The procedures for consideration of Bloomington's Growth Policies Plan were approved by the city council Wednesday night. The procedures outline when the meetings will take place, how amending the full plan will take place and other organizational procedures the council will follow as they consider adopting or rejecting the GPP.

McVeigh put to death

TERRE HAUTE -- At about 7:20 a.m. today, Timothy McVeigh will taste rubber. His body will tingle with a cool sensation. Then he'll sputter and draw his last gasp of air. McVeigh, convicted of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in a 1995 blast that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more, will be the first person executed by the federal government in 38 years.

The difference of 1 year

Almost a year ago to the date, some students on the Bloomington campus were caught up in violent protests and destruction because Bob Knight had been fired. At the time, I thought how lucky my son was that our country was at peace with the world and that he did not have to protest against a war or other horrible acts -- only against a fired basketball coach.

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe returns to Bloomington

For most people, college is a major turning point in their lives, a time to determine one's occupational destiny. Music fans everywhere can thank their lucky stars that jazz musician Karl Denson chose his wisely. At age 20, he put down a stethoscope and picked up the sax for good, switching from veterinary school to music composition while a student at Cal State Long Beach. "It just made sense," said Denson. At 7:30 p.m., he will bring his own blend of hypnotic jazz and infectious funk to the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., in a Union Board-sponsored concert.

Can you believe those Hoosiers?

In my first two years as a student at IU, I watched the Hoosiers get battered by Pepperdine and outplayed by Kent State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Early this season, the Hoosiers' record was a miserable 7-5 after a loss to Butler, and conference season had not begun. It had been 10 years since the team had reached the Final Four, and with the direction the program seemed to be heading, the team wouldn't go back until players such as Tom Coverdale were being pushed around in wheel chairs. Sure enough, Saturday night, because of severely spraining his chronically weak left ankle, Coverdale was wheeled around Rupp arena wearing a 2002 South regional championship T-shirt. Meanwhile, head coach Mike Davis climbed a 10-foot high aluminum ladder and cut down the net in celebration of his first ever Final Four appearance as a head coach.

Hoosier great still on court

Great players have come and gone in the history of IU basketball. Some are remembered and some are not. Brian Evans, who started at IU from 1993-1996, is one who will likely be remembered for a long time. The forward's accomplishments at IU put him in close contention for IU's All-Century Team, and his talent has continued after his time on McCracken Court in Assembly Hall.

RHA elections today

Residential Halls Association elections are being held today. The three tickets are Fusion, Amplify and K.I.S.S. Students may vote for the candidates within their respective living centers. Voters will receive paper ballots and must vote between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. today at their residence hall, Fusion presidential-candidate Erin Ransford said.

Letters to the editor

Dunn Meadow camp has already made its point Everyone realizes that at a campus like IU, the freedom to use the campus to inform and voice opinions by students and others is very important. Student organizations know this, and so does everyone from "The Ad Sheet" to "Brother Dan". But they aren't setting up tents and taking up residence for weeks in what becomes a favorite spot for many students during the warmer months of the year.

Israel strikes building in Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel deployed fighter jets over the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday and fired missiles at a building, destroying it and injuring about 10 Palestinians, witnesses and hospital officials said. In the pandemonium that ensued, a Palestinian man on trial for allegedly collaborating with Israel to kill Palestinians was shot and killed by militants, a judge said.

A great movie, but a poor DVD

Ideologies clash over continued protests of war

Members of the peace camp in Dunn Meadow said they won't end their call for peace until U.S. military forces leave Afghanistan. But an investment banker in New York whose brother-in-law died in the World Trade Center said he wants them to change their minds. John Ubaldo, who works for H.C. Wainwright & Co. Inc., said he became outraged when he saw the peace camp at Dunn Meadow on national television.

'iicons' a new age of Nature

Fiji's new Prime Minister sworn in

SUVA, Fiji -- Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, a banker installed by the army as Fiji's caretaker premier following last year's nationalist coup, was sworn in Monday, returning the ethnically divided nation to democratic rule, symbolizing a return of political power to indigenous Fijians. Fiji's former prime minister insisted Monday on a role in the new government, throwing into question the nation's chances for political stability hours after it returned to democratic rule. Under Fiji's constitution, any party with more than eight seats must be invited to take part in government.

The brains behind the brew

The secret's out: 'Ya-Ya' just so so