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Vladlena Kedrova admits
she was very nervous about leaving her native Russia and coming to America as a
high school exchange student. Having applied to her country’s foreign exchange
program, she was assigned a local family to live with while attending Cannelton High School
this semester.
Although she could speak
English, she worried that she would have a hard time fitting in with American
students; after all, she was coming from a poor country where the per capita
income is a fraction of that in the U.S.
and America
is known as the land of milk and honey.
A 38 year-old Indianapolis
man is suing the Women’s National Basketball Association for the league’s
refusal to allow him to tryout for the Indiana Fever, the league’s
Indianapolis-based franchise.
John Massie, a forklift
driver for a local Home Depot, claims his civil rights were violated when the
WNBA refused him a tryout. David Isaacs, Massie’s lawyer, says the refusal is a
violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Section 703 of the act states it is
against the law to fail or refuse to hire an individual because of his or her
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The only reason Mr. Massie was
refused a tryout was because of his sex. The WNBA clearly violated Mr. Massie’s
rights, and if they do not allow a tryout, they can expect to pay him a
considerable settlement.”
In the early 1920s,
Indiana was a hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity. The KKK had hundreds of
thousands of members that helped get Ed Jackson elected as governor in 1925. It
was not uncommon for the Klan to gather over 100,000 supporters at a rally in
places like Kokomo or Evansville.
In the past two decades,
the KKK has been a complete joke.
When football practice
officially begins in Indiana tomorrow, Tonya Ludlow wants to be treated like one
anyone else on the team.
A senior member of the
National Honor Society and editor of the school newspaper, Ludlow wants to prove
a point: women can compete with men on any field of endeavor.
A 65 year old Bloomfield woman lost a toe when a pop-bottle rocket fired by her
grandson exploded on her foot Sunday at his family’s annual Fourth of July
picnic.
Jonathan L. Reed, a 15 year old honor student and wrestler at Greene County
High School, and several friends were firing pop-bottle rockets into the air on
Sunday when they decided to play an impromptu game of dodgeball, substituting
the fireworks for the traditional rubber or foam ball.
Every February, struggling football schools around the country sign a new class
of recruits with the hope that they will be the ones to turn the program around
and bring respect back to the university’s athletic department.
It is unlikely that the Indiana Hoosiers, who haven’t had a winning season in a
coon’s age, will be able to end their bowl drought with this year’s recruits.
CollegeFootballNews.com ranked IU’s recruiting class 10th in the Big Ten,
with only Northwestern putting together a weaker group of prospective players.
Sure, Indiana got a few really solid players, but they did not get the quality
athletes needed to compete with the likes of Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin.
Cody Nettle has always
looked up to his older brother Kevin, a three-sport athlete in high school who
graduated from Indianapolis Cathedral high school in 1997 with a 4.0 GPA and in
2001 with honors from Purdue University
with a degree in mechanical engineering.
To Cody, it seemed like
Kevin was Superman—he could accomplish anything he set his mind to through hard
work and unbending determination. That is why it was a shock to Cody when Kevin
asked him if he would be willing to be a sperm donor so that Kevin’s wife
Adrienne could conceive.
A five-year study run by
Indiana University’s
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction proves what many
in the scientific community have always suspected: having children significantly
lowers the IQ of both male and female parents.
Researchers at the Kinsey
Institute began their study in 1999 by giving 200 married couples who were
planning on starting families within the next four years Intelligence Quotient
(IQ) tests. By 2003, all but 27 of these couples had conceived.
Moviegoers at Country
Cinemas in Evansville attending a showing of “Passion of the Christ” got more
than they bargained for Saturday night.
They were greeted in the
lobby of the theater by a man wearing a ‘red devil’ costume. Tyler Wendell, a
19 year old freshman at the University of Southern Indiana,
caused quite a ruckus with his get-up. The audience, many who were part of
church groups, was visibly upset by the antics of Wendell.
Until last Saturday, 2004 had been the worst year of Randy Fletcher’s life.
On a cold mid-January day, the 29 year old Brownstown resident took a half-day
off of work due to a severe case of diarrhea, only to find his wife of four
years, Tara, in bed with a neighbor.
John Hostettler, the
Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been
convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that
would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding
number.
There are plans to extend
the interstate from Indianapolis through southwestern Indiana all the way
through Texas into Mexico in the coming years. While most believe this highway
will be good for the state’s economy, religious conservatives believe “I-69”
sounds too risqué and want to change the interstate’s number.
