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Don't 'Duet'

By Kate Lewis · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 8:47 p.m.

There are some fads in popular culture that, while they may be fun in practice, should never be put onto the big screen. You can add karaoke to that list. In "Duets,'' six lost souls come together to find solace in the microphone, and boy is it off-key.

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Buskirk on the brink

By Joseph S. Pete · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 8:33 p.m.

Mayor John Fernandez has said the Buskirk-Chumley is "more than just a theater." Judging from Saturday evening's Leo Kottke concert, he'd be right. With tickets going at $17 a pop, the virtuoso folk guitarist packed the house.

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'Momma' a washout

By Chris Sikich and Jim Poeppelman · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 8:31 p.m.

ANNOUNCER: Greetings ladies and gents to yet another fine column of "The Continuing Misadventures of the Calamitous Critics at Large." Today our special guests are William Butler Whitman, an upper-class bourgeois expatriate from the Solomon Islands, and Andy Sidares, a video store clerk from Peoria, Illinois. The fine specimen of celluloid sewage to be examined is "Big Momma's House," starring Sir Martin Lawrence and a ton o' make up. Andy Sidares: Waz' up?!?

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Two strikes: you're out

By Rachel Kipp · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 7:49 p.m.

Having trouble waiting out the Olympics for the beginning of the fall TV season? Just wait until next year. Wish all entertainment could be real like "Survivor" and "Big Brother"? Well, you just might get your wish. According to a recent report from Entertainment Weekly, the Writers Guild of America plans to go on strike May 2, 2001. What that means is that next May every writer of film and television screenplays will cease working on current projects and refuse to market anything new.

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Pumpkins, Offspring surprise industry

By Jeff Piniak and Jeremy Piniak · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 7:43 p.m.

Like a quick one-two combination from a championship boxer, the recording industry was left stunned the past two weeks. First, The Smashing Pumpkins unleashed its final album on an unsuspecting public Sept. 5, but don't start scouring record stores for Machina II/The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music. The album was pressed onto two vinyl LPs and three 10-inch singles and given to 25 friends of the band, with the intention of distributing it for free on the Internet.

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'Sopranos' should have Emmys whacked

By Jeff Schogol · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 7:16 p.m.

I can proclaim without hyperbole that "The Sopranos" is man's greatest achievement since fire. Yet once again, the show got robbed at this year's Emmy Awards, winning only one award for best actor in a drama series. It's an outrage!

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Students work for rape prevention education

By Ben Lincoln · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 3:23 p.m.

Students gathered beneath the Sample Gates Tuesday, in protest of what they call the administration's lack of effort to prevent sexual assault on campus, alleging that 400 rapes occur at IU annually.

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Shattering the walls of silence

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 2:39 a.m.

It took Jimmanee Spears years to see that being sexually abused was not her fault. Spears, a senior from Indianapolis, has since drawn from her experiences to help others. She is an organizer on the Take Back the Night planning committee. Take Back the Night, which kicks off 7 p.m. today with a candlelight vigil at Showalter Fountain, is an annual rally and march to fight rape and sexual abuse. There is also a speak-out, during which anyone can get up in front of a crowd and talk.

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Environmental activists claim responsibility for arson

Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 2:11 a.m.

The Earth Liberation Front, an environmental activist group, claimed responsibility Sept. 9 for the fire set at the Monroe County Republican Headquarters. In a statement released Monday, the organization said it set the fire in protest of Interstate 69. "I-69 is just one example of the willingness of the rich to bleed the Earth and the working class to fulfill their money lust," according its statement. Monroe County Republican Chairman Pat Salzmann said she was somewhat surprised by ELF's statement.

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President emphasizes IU's future

By David Uchiyama · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 2:06 a.m.

With the national spotlight fading on from, president Myles Brand wants to make sure everyone knows he is focusing on the future instead of the past and academics instead of athletics.

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Price of oil riles Europe

By Troy Barratt · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 1:59 a.m.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries stranglehold on the world's oil supply has sent waves of distress across the world, reminiscent of those from the oil crisis in 1979.

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Official says IU violated spirit of law

By David Uchiyama · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 1:27 a.m.

The board of trustees used an intimate knowledge of state laws to narrowly avoid breaking Indiana's Open Door laws Sept. 9, one day before President Myles Brand announced basketball coach Bob Knight's release.

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Comedy Caravan brings laughs

By Leah Michelsen · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 1:18 a.m.

A sold-out Comedy Caravan show on a Monday night at Bear's Place, 1316 E. 3rd St., is not an unusual phenomenon.Audience members usually have to reserve tickets for the occasion early in the day, and evening finds them crowded into the small back room of the pizza parlor, sipping "Hairy Bears" (a mixed drink involving much whiskey and some fruit juice) and draft beer.

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'Big Red Reg' registers new voters

By Michael Stanley · Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 12:46 a.m.

"Big Red Reg 2000," a comprehensive campus-wide voter registration program, is looking for new registrants and volunteers alike. The program, in its third year, was instituted by the Indiana Public Interest Research Group.

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Faculty Council makes statements on Knight firing, civility

Wednesday, Sept. 20,2000 12:40 a.m.

At its first meeting of the semester Tuesday, Bloomington Faculty Council passed resolutions making a statement about the Sept. 11 firing of former head basketball coach Bob Knight and reasserting the importance of civility among members of the University community.

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