Women's Golf

Team to play crucial series

Friday, April 20,2001 12:57 a.m.

The softball squad will be in Chicago today for a doubleheader against Northwestern that could turn out to be one of the most crucial series of the year. With a pair of wins today, the Hoosiers (3-9) could move past the Wildcats (4-6) in the Big Ten standings. IU is tied with Minnesota for 10th in the conference.

Alumnus celebrates Little 500 on film

By Guy Cipriano · Friday, April 20,2001 12:55 a.m.

Not all the activities during this year's Little 500 weekend will occur on the track. Producer Kendall Harnett's documentary about the history of the race, "Free Wheels: The Fifty Year History of the Little 500," is scheduled to premiere Saturday, before and after the men's race.

State to close developmental center, relocate its residents

Friday, April 20,2001 12:20 a.m.

The state plans to close the troubled Muscatatuck State Developmental Center by December 2003 and transfer its remaining 279 residents elsewhere. The administration of Gov. Frank O'Bannon also said it was freezing all new admissions to Madison State Hospital while officials work on a downsizing plan there.

An explanation of 'IDS' policy

Friday, April 20,2001 12:15 a.m.

Last week, the IDS ran an ad paid for by conservative activist David Horowitz titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations are Wrong -- and Racist Too." The ad listed Horowitz's reasons why the government should not pay reparations to the descendants of slaves.

Festival to promote music, legalization

By Christopher Ensminger · Friday, April 20,2001 12:10 a.m.

The Citizens' Alliance for the Legalization of Marijuana will offer an alternative to Little 500 events this weekend with its fifth annual Calmfest Saturday in Dunn Meadow. The goal of the festival is to unite music, community and social action.

Nelly concert short but sweet

By Mo'sha Lackey and Desiree Lestingi · Friday, April 20,2001 12:08 a.m.

Thousands of students went to the IU Auditorium Wednesday to see rapper Nelly perform. Union Board brought the concert to the student body as part of MTV's Campus Invasion. The sold-out concert featured four other bands that played before Nelly took the stage. "I have been rapping for years and have even released a previous album," said Alley Life, a solo artist who opened for Nelly. "I was on a small local label and it was not very successful, but now I'm on Interscope Records, and this is the new me."

Please, Kirk, don't go

By Rob Gubitz and Ron Gubitz · Thursday, April 19,2001 11:56 p.m.

Dear Kirk Haston, You haven't made an official decision regarding your future at IU. I know you have goals and dreams to fulfill, and the NBA is probably at the forefront of your mind. But please don't go, Kirk. I know you were redshirted, and next year would be your fifth on campus. I know you only need eight hours of classes until you graduate. I know you will do well in the NBA. I know you don't need to stay at IU for another year.

Horowitz manipulates, distorts in ad

By Tyrone Simpson · Thursday, April 19,2001 11:54 p.m.

Acutely aware of the artist's responsibility to edify society, black poet/scholar Audre Lorde has used the following insight as both inspiration and to guide: "To survive in the mouth of the dragon we call America, we have had to learn that we were never meant to survive. Not as human beings." Her observation, contrary to what men such as David Horowitz are prone to believe, was not a product of rabid, wild-eyed black separatism or her own demagogic ambitions.

Religion should include tolerance

By Michael Moy · Thursday, April 19,2001 11:51 p.m.

A visit to my roommate's church this weekend did not convert me into a religious person. In fact, my venture into the church was eerily similar to the three or four visits I'd had in the past. It just made me wonder.

Mini trikers to take to track tonight

Thursday, April 19,2001 1:18 a.m.

Last year "Neil Reed" and "Luke Recker" made an appearance in Assembly Hall during the Mini 500 race, so who might show up this year is anybody's guess. "The neatest thing about the Mini 500 is that it is a way for students that aren't able to get into the bike race for whatever reason to get involved in the weekend in another way," said Jonathan Purvis of the IU Student Foundation.

Bus tour protests sanctions

By Jennie Arnold · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:17 a.m.

A group of fasting students and activists met Wednesday in Dunn Meadow to inform people of the effects of U.S.-United Nations sanctions against Iraq. The group will return to the meadow today. The Bloomington Coalition for Peace is sponsoring the bus tour, "Remembering Omran," which tries to educate the public about the effects of the sanctions.

Police present new theory in Behrman case

By Joseph S. Pete · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:15 a.m.

It's been nearly a year. Nineteen-year-old Jill Behrman, a lifelong Bloomington resident who had just completed her freshman year at IU, went for a bike ride the morning of May 31, 2000. She never returned. Her bicycle was recovered later that day in a cornfield near Ellettsville, miles away from where she was last seen. Since then, police and the FBI have been investigating the presumed abduction.

Faculty honor Gros Louis

By Peter Gelling · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:14 a.m.

Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis presided over every Bloomington Faculty Council meeting for 22 years. His last meeting Monday started as usual. Professor Bob Eno began his presentation on transfer credits until he was interrupted by Council President Jim Sherman.

Hoosiers fall to RedHawks

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 19,2001 1:03 a.m.

Wednesday, the baseball team traveled to Oxford, Ohio for a reunion of sorts for with the Miami coaching staff.

'IDS' serves readers, acted correctly

By Jason W. Bennett · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:45 a.m.

Of course the IDS was right to run the Horowitz ad -- as a self-styled public forum, it has no business engaging in content discrimination against paying advertisers. The First Amendment issue is about Horowitz's rights, not the IDS's. Whether pro- or anti-reparation, pro-life or pro-choice, Madalyn Murray O'Hair or Arthur S. DeMoss, NAMBLA or Christian Coalition, the speaker's First Amendment rights are the same, and the IDS acted admirably by not muzzling its advertisers with a speech code.

Advertisement offends intelligence, rewrites history

By Tracy Wise · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:43 a.m.

I am a senior here at IU, and I feel that it was very inconsiderate, insensitive and disrespectful of the IDS to print David Horowitz's ad in the paper April 13, considering all of the racial controversy that has been taking place in other parts of the country, and considering IU's history of racist actions toward minorities on this campus.

Johnson can't wait to race in her first and only Little 500

By Ryan Gunterman · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:42 a.m.

While she was moving from Oklahoma to Washington to southern California and eventually to Indianapolis, Kappa Alpha Theta senior Krissy Johnson never got on a bike, except for a ten-speed she had when she was little. Now Johnson is one of the fastest riders on the Bill Armstrong Stadium track and will be leading the defending Little 500 champions Friday.

Acacia rider makes strides

By Aaron Sharockman · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:41 a.m.

Acacia rider and junior Kevin Vanes realized something after his first Little 500 race last year: "I needed to learn how to ride the bike." As a rookie, Vanes was clueless about many of the intracasies that go along with the 200-lap race around the quarter-mile cinder track in Bill Armstrong Stadium.

'IDS' stood up for what is right

By Karl Born · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:41 a.m.

I want to congratulate the IDS for having the courage to print the ad placed last Friday by David Horowitz, which opposed reparations for slavery. At other schools, the editors of the newspapers were threatened by mobs of intolerant liberal activists who did not want the view supported by the majority of Americans to be heard. Some of the activists called Horowitz, who was an ally of the Black Panthers in his youth, a racist.

Alpha Delta Pi rider hopes to lead team to success

By Ryan Gunterman · Thursday, April 19,2001 12:40 a.m.

Playing on the softball team and performing as captain of her dance team in Newport, N.Y., was the only physical activity that Alpha Delta Pi senior Emily Derkasch said she did in high school. Riding a bike was something she considered a leisure activity. It wasn't until her sophomore year in college that she saw it as something more than a hobby.