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The top Hoosier Gazette stories of 2004 By Melvin
Flener, THG News
The following are the top Hoosier Gazette news stories of 2004 ranked by popularity (click headline to read full article):
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THG readers
sound off on I-69, Cannelton We at THG appreciate feedback from our readers, so we have decided to post some recent comments sent in to us. We left in all spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors to preserve authenticity. These are actual comments, not works of fiction like most of our material.
13. Vincennes Lincoln tops the list of Indiana’s best high school nicknames By John Beeler, THG Sports The top 15 Indiana high school nicknames based on a recent HoosierGazette.com poll:
12. Roselawn hosts annual Nudes-A-Poppin Festival Sunday By John Hayes, THG Features
11. Russian exchange student feels right at home in Cannelton By Edward Seelbach, THG Features 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.
10. Man denied tryout with WNBA’s Fever sues league By Jed Wilcox, THG Sports 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.”
9. Indiana’s Grand Wizard creating a kinder, gentler KKK By Ryan Polk, THG Features 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.
8. Sullivan High School senior working to be first female offensive line starter in Indiana history By Jessica Winters, THG Sports August 1, 2004 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.
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Fourth of July pop-bottle rocket dodgeball game ends in tragedy
6. University’s co-eds to blame for Hoosiers’ football woes By Larry Houchen, THG Sports
5. 15 year-old sperm donor happy to come to brother’s rescue by Lee Morehouse, THG News 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.
4. Indiana University study: having children significantly lowers parents’ IQs By Mike Gaddis, THG News 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.
3. Man dressed as the devil disrupts ‘Passion’ movie By Bill Dinkel, THG News 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.
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Man wins
Hoosier Lotto jackpot two days after divorce from cheating wife finalized
1. Hostettler mounting campaign to change the name of Interstate 69 By August Wayne, THG News 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.
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