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■ A'Lclia Bundles, talks about her own life, as well as her inspiration to write a second biography on Madam C J. Walker.
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Armed man robs nurse, student in IUPUI lots
■ Campus police have yet to determine if same suspect robbed both victims March 4.
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Neither victim was injured.
A male armed with a 9 mm semi
automatic pistol approached both victims and demanded their wallets, police reports indicate.
The two victims described the suspect as a black male.with a dark complexion 6 feet 2 inches tall 185 to 200 pounds, and was last seen running south through lot 58. the first E lot in front of the Lecture Hall on New York Street.
Police are still investigating w hether or not the suspect was the robber in both instances.
Earl Gard, a fourth-year profes
sional student at the School of Dentistry, was walking to his car in lot 69. behind University Place Hotel and Conference Center, when he was robbed.
Gard told police that as he opened his d riv er-ftk door, he saw the reflection of the suspect behind him.
As he turned around, the man point
ed a semi-automatic handgun at him and demanded his wallet. Gard complied, and the man told him to hand over his watch, valued at S200.
The robber then ran westbound toward University Hospital.
Student loans fac overhaul
■ Lending offices to face possible restructuring after recent fiscal analysis.
A cloud of uncertainty bangs <
1U employees as they await final ommendations from a group of cost
Under the guidance of Juditl Palmer. IU vice president and chic financial officer, the Arthur Andenei has been evaluating the fiscal health oc IU operations since last year.
On March 2. IU President Myles Brand released via the Internet the team’s 27-page report, which included preliminary recommendations for restructuring within the university.
One recommendation suggested requiring all IU campuses to ir-align current financial aid programs to Of (he right campuses, only IU- Bloomington and IU-South Bend use the Direct Lending program: all others use the Family Federal Education Loan Program. Direct Lending and FFELP loans we identical in terms of student borrowing limits, deferments and interest rates.
The report suggests that using only one of these programs statewide will result in significant yet unspecified, savings.
Any large-scale restructuring pro
posal might cause employees to worry i version of the report
The flag waving in the sunny afternoon breeze casts a moving shadow over the parking lot. ^Vhcn the mother wheels her can out of the supermarket and parks it by her grape-toned van. she puts h$r little girl in first before the brown bags, the milk or the oranges.
The mother lifts the child into a car seat and buckles her in securely . The next two mothers do the same: kids in first, buckled up.
Despite the ingrained buckle-up habit o f these Indiana mothers, however. National Safe Kids Campaign recently gave Indiana an
“F~ rating on child safety restraint law.
Keisha Nickolson. state coordina
tor for Indiana Safe Kids, attribute»
the low rating to the wording of state law. which says that from infancy to age 4 children must ride in car seats. Children age 4 to 12.
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■ Critics say low rating may be a result of poor wording in Indiana state law.
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■ State boasts 23 wineries, competes in quality, price with California. French wines.
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sance in an industry few Hoosicrs even knew existed in the state - wine.
Throughout the Midwest, people are making more wine than they have in year?, particularly in Indiana.
yean the number of Indiana wineries has more than doubled.
Across the country, demand for quality wine has reached an all-time high as 49 stales now have wineries.
On average, every American buys 14 bottles of wine each year, said Jill Ditmire. producer and host of a local
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By JJtL Brown U uitNo Eorrm , As a brisk February wind „whistle**.!
dow n Illinois Street, spits of cold rain lightly dampen the gold tassels dangling from the hotel doorman’s finely pressed burgundy jacket.
If the rain lets up soon, the dimly lit lounge of the unabashedly blueblood Canterbury Hotel will be brimming with couples toasting over fine champagne and plated cheese.
As only lovers could find promise on this dreary Valentine's Day afternoon, a labor of lov e is indeed what beckons author and news woman A’Lelia Bundles from her room upstairs. She glides gracefully into the empty lounge for a quick chat about her muse, cosmetics maven Madam C J. Walker, her great-great-grand- mother.
Having given up her job as deputy bureau chief for ABC News in Washington to become a full time author and public speaker in 1999.
Bundles is visiting her childhood home of Indianapolis to promote her second book about Walker.
Titled “On Her Own Ground. The Life and Times of Madam C J . Walker.” the biography paints Walker not just as a w asherwoman turned millionaire entre
preneur but also as a powerful philan
thropist who fought tirelessly for and gave generously to the civil rights causes of the early 1900s.
Walker would revel in the irony that, in the city where she built a manufactur
ing plant and a reputation for possessing keen business savvy, her Harvard-educat
ed great-great-granddaughter is sitting in
the bar of the most exclusive hotel.
With its dark wooden paneling, forest green drapes and bow-tie appointed wait
ers. the Canterbury 's bar smacks of an early 1900s bunt club, the kind designed back then for white bankers whose big
otry and old money recked worse than their pipe smoke
Wearing a sharp black pantsuit and even sharper short coif. Bundles sips from a glass of St. Supcry merlot and is a pleasant contrast to her stuffy sur
roundings.
If she weren't on a grueling nationwide book tour. Bundles, 48. ordinarily would spend Valentine’s Day sharing a quiet dinner with her companion, attorney F i® Cooke, near her home in the Washington bedroom community of Alexandria. Va.
After mentioning the dozen races Cooke sent her just two hours earlier.
Bundies reclines in a cream-colored chair, and like most jour
nalists. is prepared to talk less about her
self and more about her work.
While she finds it meaningless to com- * pare her achievements as an author and Emmy-winning producer for ABC News to those o f her famous relative, it is irre
sistible to imagine bow thrilled the prin
cipled and driven Walker would be with her equally determined descendant.
An honor roll student who would later become known in high school as some
what of a subversive. Bundles had her first story published when she was 8. Her virgin piece about a ride to the moon in a spaceship was published in the annual new sletter of Jack and Jill, a social group for middle-class African-American
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Continuad from Paga 1 Gard went in search of Minutes later. Daniel Walker, a traveling nurse working at IU Hospital, was walking to his car in lot 58 after work when he was approached by the suspect and asked for his wallet.
Walker handed his wallet over, and the armedirohher ran toward W. New) York Street.
Walker returned to the hos
pital and contacted police.
Armed robberies have occurred on campus three times this year.
Bill Abston. Security Coordinator and Public Information Officer for the IUPUI Police Department said he always tries to encourage the Campus Watch program, which is the IUPUI police version of Crime
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■ Renowned English professor shares new book with students.
Gocdicke shared excerpts beings arc related.** said from her newest book. As the Gocdickc. “Poems are music, Earth Begins to End. and and what I want, what I hope, talked about w hat some of her is that people will be able to poems tried to evoke — a sense hear even a little bit of w hat I Stur WkiTti
A softly lit stage draws the audience’s attention to a small woman with dark hair standing at the podium. She reads her poetry w ith a passion echoed in the expressions of those listen
ing.
Patricia Gocdicke is an English professor from Montana University who teaches creative writing and has published 12 esteemed books o f poetry. Karen Kovacik. coordinator of the Rufus Rciberg Reading Series, invited Goedicke to speak at IUPUI March 7 and 8 in the Ruth Lilly Auditorium.
“I think that there’s some
thing so wonderfully alive about her language, a real sort of intensity of image that rever-
of what’s going on inside peo
ple’s minds when they think.
Goedicke dedicated this hook
“This new book of mine springs not just from the increasing illness and eventual death of Leonard." Goedicke said, “hut from the love that burned between us all during the time that I have to call our 30-year love affair." .
She writes as one w ho .has masterfully accomplished the la n g u ag e
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alert to the mysteries o f life.
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death: this is a contrast that gives her poems both electrici
ty and dignity.
“All my life I’ve been fasci
nated by the interconnected
ness of mind and body, and try
ing to understand and express how intimately both sides of our experiences as human
hear when l write poetry."
Even though her poetry may seem to focus on death, accord
ing to Goedicke. it also repre
sents the way sadness is fell by those who have loved and lott.
“Art is meant to awe, not inform. And if you read Patricia’s poetry from that standpoint, then you can sec that it's touching, it's leaves us in awe. and it doesn’t answer near as many questions as it provokes" said Dr. David
Wchlagc.
Assistant professor of former psy
chologist for the School of Medicine and longtime cor
r e s p o n d e n t and friend of Gocdicke. “There’s always a tension; you never walk away in peace alter reading or hear
ing her poetry, but you’re alw ays thinking a little bit deeper than when you came in " h e said.
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Wine
Continuad from Paga 1 food and wine show on public television. She contends that figure will increase to 17 bot
tles by next year.
Although the numbers seem promising tor the state's wine industry, establishing a com
petitive vineyard is an inten
sive process. Growing grapes is expensive, and the return on the investment is delayed until the grapes mature, which typi
cally takes three or more years after initial planting.
But with commodity prices down and domestic wine con
sumption up, Midwestern winemaking has become increasingly popular, especial
ly in its hilly southern regions.
Much growth in the Indiana wine industry can he credited to the state-run Indiana Wine Grape Council. Since it started in 1989. the council has offered considerable support to Indiana wineries.
The council estimates each winery in Indiana receives more than $15.000 in support every year through state-spon
sored research, education and marketing.
“The Indiana Wine Grape Council will do everything in their power to make wineries competitive and successful."
Dinner said. “Indiana is lucky in this respect because many stales don't have this type of support."
Through the council, profes
sional grape growers and wine makers in the agricultural and food science departments at Purdue University give techni
cal and educational assistance to growers and vintners.
“Indiana is the envy of every*
developing wine state in our country." said Richard Vine, a wine specialist at Purdue, offers direct industry
•f ofC u L tht )uica of tocmanting graphs.
support to each winery that is unmatched in any other state."
According to the Wine Grope Council. Indiana wines: arc moderately priced, withj the average bottle marked at S8.
Ditmire contends the boom in the wine industry also can he attributed to these moderate prices and an increase in younger consumers.
“The typical wine consumer is becoming younger and younger." Ditmire said.
“Wineries have recently made many more wines affordable and have marketed them to a younger crowd,"
W'alhcrry sees the growing industry a hit differently.
“It’s not that w ine consumers are gelling younger, hut Generation X is finding wine much earlier than most genera
tions." said WaJhcrry. "Most generations start finding wine in their 30s. where Generation X has found the wine lifestyle in their 2 0 s "
Along with the Indiana Wine Grape Council and efforts to attract younger consumers, many wine enthusiasts point to a strong economy and emerg
ing health benefits associated with drinking wine, such as
lowered cholesterol, that have led to its increased consump
tion.
Last year. Indiana wineries took in S8.9 million, up from
$7.2 million the year before.
The variety of grape growing in California. France or Italy doesn’t grow well in the cooler Midwest. According to Ditmire. this has left a niche for Indiana w ines that are typi
cally more fruity and sweet.
Nearly 60 percent of all Indiana wine is white or derived from fruit.
“Indiana wines tend to he more palatable." Walbcrry said. “They have fewer harsh grape qualities and showcase more of their semi-sweet and sweet qualities."
As many state wineries have discovered, printing the name Indiana on a bottle of wine is no longer a liability.
“The state is creating a qual
ity w ine that is just as good as the California or French wines." Ditmire said. “Indiana wines have outperformed their foreign counterparts on many occasions."
Matthew Davis is advertising director for The Sagamore.
B riefs
■ Clothing drive March 10 through 23 Phi Mu Sorority is sponsoring a clothing drive to ben
efit the Julian Center. Donations of clothing and toi
letries can be left in boxes at CA. UC. Science Building.
Ball Residence Hall, and the Nursing Building.
■ Middle East docum entary
The film. Why the Xtolence in the Middle East? will be presented by the IUPUI Muslim Student Association from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m March 20 in the UL Auditorium.
Safety
Continuad from Paga 1 Ilo however, only a wear seat belts.
The national campaign seeks legislation requiring children up to age 8 to ride in car scats or booster seats.
“Since the law doesn't back up the age 8 requirements, parents don't have to com
ply." said Nickolson. “Thus, Indiana got an F."
At the state level, Nickolson provides support and leadership for 23 local coalitions and seven local chapters. Safe Kids volun
teers include doctors, nurses, police officers, fire fighters and social serv ice agents.
Funded by grams from the national organization, state chapter workers distribute discounted safety equipment such as bike helmets and smoke detectors, or they gath
er data on childhood injuries from health departments, hos-J pitals and police.
State-by-siate ratings pub
lished in the report were based solely on the wording of individual stale laws, and d o n 't" address grassroots efforts to improve safety.
^'N tbkolson and volunteers give car seal vouchers to police departments, encour
aging officers to distribute them during traffic stops.
Safe Kids volunteers in Indiana also conduct car scat clinics at businesses such as Wal-Mart. Target or Babies R Us. Parents meet with a certi
fied car seat technician to assess the fitness of their
child's safety seat.
According to the National Safe Kids Campaign, nearly 1,800 children under the age of 14 died in motor vehicle crashes in 1998. Whether slates that rated an “A" or a
“B" in child safety restraint law can claim lower child fatality rates than “F" states remains unknown.
Critics doubt new child restraint laws are necessary.
“American society as a whole wants to he blame free." said Brad Klopfenstein.
executive director of the Indiana Libertarian Party who sees seat belt use as a person
al issue not a legal one.
“On such a common-sense issue, people should be able to make their own decisions."
he said.
But. says Nickolson. “if we don’t have strict enough laws on the books, then you'll always have a loophole there.
You'll always have a gap."
Nickolson will soon send a letter to Indiana lawmakers explaining the “F* rating and Safe Kids' goals. Two years ago. the legislature extended the required age for child car seat use from 3 to 4.
“But we still want to look at those 4 to 8 year olds because they're just as valuable as on infant and toddler*", says Nickolson. "And so we need to make sure that w e're put
ting them in booster seats.
“We can't just sit on an 'F and think that’s OK." she con
tinued. “Even if we don’t think it’s an *F.* Even though we know personally that we're doing what we can in each community."
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“As early as third grade memory of writing and being turned on by being able to create a scene and an emotion.” says Bundles« who tried out for Westlane Junior High School's student newspaper and later served as its editor.
Little A'Lelia impressed her first boss. James Gascho. who taught journalism at the school and advised the young reporter.
'‘She’s a great gal.” says Gascho. 72, who retired after 18 years of teaching and now lives in Noblcsvillc. "She just called a couple of months ago to check up on me."
Gascho remembers well that Bundles was a taskmaster who won several awards, and he was so proud when The Indianapolis Star invited his young pupil to journalism camp.
“As a student, she’s one of the best I’ve ever had,” says Gascho. who was "a newspaper man”
for nine years before taking up teaching. “She worked very hard; when she started a task, she finished it.”
The memory he will always cherish when be thinks of Bundies is the day in ninth grade when she was crowned with an outstanding student award.
“She came down off the stage and gave me a big hug.” says Gascho. with a giggle. ••She would have done well anywhere.”
Entering North Central High School would test Gascho’s prediction.
On April 4. 1968, in her junior year. Bundles was elected vice
president of student council, a victory she was told caused some parents to threaten school officials with pulling their children out of North Central if a black girl \vas allowed to serve in student government.
Later that day, her resolve was strengthened when she heard the dev
astating news: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot that afternoon in Memphis, and the fight had to go on.
She ran for president the next year in a hotly contested race against the principal's son. who she quickly points out had no experience in stu
dent government.
Bundles says 1968 and ‘69 were “radicaliz
ing.” and she was nearly expelled for wearing an armband to school on moratorium day. “Here I was a perfect student, in ihe top five percent of my class, accepted at Harvard, and people were going to mess with me in this way.”
She lost the election, but just by a few o f votes, she quickly clarifies.
Walk*r*s shadow
"I don't compare myself to (Madam Walker) in terms of accomplishments,” says Bundles. “I also owe that to my mother because she never set up any standards so that Madam was a larger- than-life figure to emulate.
“I look at Madam as a most unusual person - a special person whose example can motivate,”
says the younger Bundles, who has never been married and has no children. “But I don't know if there could ever be another Madam Walker.”
If there were to be. however. Bundles was on the right track after high school.
She was accepted at Radcliffe College, a school that served as the entry point for women into Harvard University, where sl)e found a much more racially tolerant atmosphere.
Upon graduating with a liberal a m degree and experience as a disc jockey. Bundles returned to Indianapolis to anchor WTLC-FM’s news cast.
Her love for TV blossomed during graduate school classes at Columbia University and a fel
lowship with NBC.
"I don't know how I got it,” she says of the early NBC experience, “because I still thought print was more serious and substantive, and TV wasn't.”
Two internships were offered to her after she earned her second degree: three months at The Washington Post or a year at NBC News in New York. She chose NBC for two explicit reasons.
"I had a boyfriend in Washington at the time who wasn’t nearly encouraging enough about me coming to Washington.” she said. “And the New York job was longer, not just three months.”
It was at NBC that she met TV news veteran Carole Simpson, and forged an intimate 20-year friendship based on a shared mission: to air groundbreaking stories that shed a ray of light on very dark and sensitive subjects.
Simpson had moved to ABC and was anchor
ing the American Agenda series, which explored the horrors of everyday life in the most down
trodden and afflicted sectors of American socie
ty. Bundles jumped from NBC to produce the series for Simpsoo.
Together, Bundles and Simpson traveled the nation documenting dark tales of child abuse, crack-addicted babies, and rape - a kind o f gritty realism Simpson says she and Bundles knew Americans needed so desperately to understand.
“People don’t often want to see hardships,”
says Simpson, who anchors ABC’s World News Tonight on Sunday evenings. "You have to shake them up sometimes.”
In spite of the grim seriousness that accompa
nied America Agenda's brand of fiery journal
ism, she and Bundles had a lot of fun.
“We had to let it out and laugh.” Simpson says. •‘She and I were a good match because we had a passion for telling people what they should have wanted to hear but didn't.”
A tireless warrior for better representation of African-American women in the white male- dominated world of network news, Simpson found an ally in Bundles, who also produced for Peter Jennings on World News Tonight.
“I thought by 2001 we wouldn't have a prob
lem.” says Simpson, who has resigned h enelf to accelerating the snail's pace at which ABC and other major networks are tackling the lack of racial and gender diversity in their newsrooms.
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Bundles admits she tires on occasion of talking about race and gender as it pertains to her work - instead of just talking about the work.
"H's a teachable moment; I don't mind that because people need to hear it,” -says Bundles, the fourth generation in her family to go to col
lege. "I’m not the first generation smart enough to work in a major corporation or go to Harvard.
T h o s e other three generations were smart, but they didn't have opportunity. So when people oppose affirmative action. I have to shake my head because maybe I mean something different than they mean.”
Simpson points to her friend’s work #ith young African-American writers as evidence of her true commitment to fostering opportunity for the next generation of American Agenda setters.
"She's a brilliant woman, a fantastic woman.”
says Simpson. “I love her very much.”
One of those stu
dents Bundles took under her wing was Nekisha Mohan, an ambitious young reporter who was the first person in her family to graduate from college.
Mohan adopted Bundles as a mentor after a 1992 visit Bundles made to M ohan's class at University of Maryland- College Park. Bundles helped Mohan score an entry-level slot at ABC in Washington, and more importantly let Mohan take a peek inside her world.
Bundles invited Mohan to be her guest at a book signing for Bundles’ Tint book on Walker.
“Here was A'Lelia, an Ivy League-educated network producer who was so dow n to earth that she let me take a glimpse into her life.” says Mohan, a reporter in Los Angeles. “I marveled at bow poised, intelligent and well respected she was, and I knew I wanted to be just like her.”
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If only Walker had been as well loved by her contemporaries.
In her book. Bundles tells how Walker fought tooth-and-nail to gain the resoect of the black establishment in the early 20“ * Century, even confronting Booker T. Washington once at a con
vention he’d organized for black leaders and pleaded her case to be recognized as his peer.
After she had established herself as a commu
nity leader and successful businesswoman.
Walker concentrated her energy on helping African-American youth, donating SI000 toward the construction of a YMCA in Indianapolis - a donation the size few other black professionals coulcf afford nearly 100 years ago.
“S ie realized the symbolism of a woman who was the daughter of former slaves and had been a washerwoman and now capable of giving money.” Bundles says. “It made it very difficult for other people, who had more advantages than she did. not to feel that they could both succeed but also that they had an obligation to give back and help the community.”
Walker’s benevolence w as certainly one reason for Bundles to consider her a role model, but Bundles says her distant relative’s well-fabled life had no direct influence on her during her formative years.
Although her thoughts about writing Walker’s full story’ date back to her 20s. her most direct influences came from her parents.
"I'm really glad I wasn’t overshadowed by her.” says Bundles, who laughs before continu
ing. “You know, I'm really glad that I had my own identity and my ow n'eareer before this came along because I think there’s nothing more pitiful than the offspring of a famous person who has no accomplishments of their own.”
She thinks that statement may have been too harsh but doesn't retract it. No. the Walker women tell it like it is.
Bundles will tell Walker's full story on tour through mid-May, making her final stops in New York City, where Walker lived for a brief sunt before building a gigantic mansion upstate.
Today, however, she’s here in the Circle City on this miserably cold February afternoon, the very week. 89 years ago that Walker first stepped off a train in Indianapolis and chose the city for her manufacturing site.
As Walker was just beginning her illustrious new journey, so loo is A’Lelia Bundles, who will return to ABC News after her book tour to accept her next assignment.
The bar at the Canterbury is beginning to fill up w ith a happy hour cocktail crowd and couples sipping their way through the first course of Valentine's Day eve.
A driver is waiting patiently outside to whisk Bundles away to a book signing in the artsy vil
lage o f Broad Ripple. She gathers her belong
ings. no doubt worried she’s revealed tpo much about herself and not said enough about Walker.
Nonetheless, she takes a final sip of merlot, and forges ahead to the next teachable moment in her life, which sounds suspiciously like what Walker might do.
“A'Lelia is a beautiful woman who is comfort
able with who she is and what her mission is in life,” says Mohan, the young reporter who cher
ishes Bundles as a friend and mentor. "Her ancestors are smiling down on her.”
"She and I were a good match because we had a passion fo r telling people what they should have wanted to hear but didn V. ”
http7Avww.indiana.edu/fesourve s/admieview/ - is accompanied by a list of frequently asked ques
tions, one of which is. “Will I lose my job?”
The answer to that question is unclear.
Brand explains that the review
“recommends in broad terms functions that may be restruc
tured, combined or eliminated, but it is still too early to say any
thing definitively”
In one of the many appendices, however, the report explains that fewer people would be required to operate student loan programs if the restructuring is implement
ed.
Barbara Thompson, director of financial aid for IUPUl. agreed
¡hat making predictions now could be a bit premature.
“Even if a lot of the functional
ity is moved away from IUPUl, I
can’t see people losing their jobs.
Their jobs very well may change, the staff of the financial aid office may be supporting admissions, for instance .. I just personally don’t sec anyone losing their jobs; it would not be politically correct,” Thompson said.
She did. however, express other concerns.
“A major ramification at IUPUl. if the decision is made to go with the Direct Lending pro
gram. is that we would lose lender support for many of our (financial aid) publications and most of our Financial Aid Awareness Month initiatives.”
Thompson said.
She added that her office would continue with awareness month initiatives, but. without lender support, the burden of funding activities would fall upon that office.
Thompson also said the report is innacurate in slating IUPUl sends loan checks to
Bloomington for processing.
"We don’t deal with checks;
the financial aid office authorizes awards and then all the disburse
ments are made through the bur
sar (at IUPUl).” she said.
Barbara Bright, director of financial aid for IU-B. was con
tacted for comment but said she was unable to answer any ques
tions and forwarded inquiries to Palmer, who was out of town at the time.
Susan Dillman. director of media relations for IU, explained that the university was not trying to hide information, but that Palmer was the one to decide how information should be released. Dillman told The Sagamore she would attempt to arrange a phone interview with Palmer and would tell the paper
“one way or the other” if the interview w as possible - she did not call back before publication deadline.
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■ Local rock V roll band Edinburgh is set lo take off with a series of chan toppers on music websites and a recent rtdording deal.
Edinburgh hungry for rock stardom
found a home ai an east side club. The Volcano Room. On this particular night. Feb. 23.
Walker s wife Sarah, the key
boardist. Justin Williams and Ryan Me New who were com
mitted to Sling Shot 9 at the time, joined Edinburgh on a
mporary basis.
The first show was a local -A lot of
wr were . "but our turn-over rate for musicians was tremendous, it almost caused a break-up/*
The disintegration would have begun in March 2000.
but Tyler Moore was added on guitar and McNew came back Slingshot 9.
The fans lingering i the back o f The Volcano Room are
*7/ Bruce Springsteen and Huey
Lewis were to h a w bands right now, they would sound like us. ”neath the guitar. They have heard this song before. . ‘ '•
Edinburgh explodes into
“What’s New. New ShoesT : sound off of
room. It leaks out o f the venue and into the parking kit.
The fans love it.
“This show is much better than last night's!" Annette Vazquez, the band's photogra
pher say s. ‘T h e stage they played on last night was too
Evan Ennis, lead singer for Edinburgh and IUPUl educa-
and leaning back on his knees, wailed the last of the lyrics.
to today's radio tunes. It isp’t melodic — it's raw and slight
ly out of tune.
The five-piece band exhibits full and layered compositions that start out with an “out-of- space" fed . like Illinois band Hum. Their music then kicks in with heavy guitar and fast i of
spawned from a band of Ferry Meridian High School teenagers. Edinburgh started in early 1999 with drummer Ennis.
Walker and Ennis, both for
mer members of Next In Line.
as a permanent future.
According to Ennis, the band has been going strung ever since. They base released three singles: “I'll Be Thinking." “Laughing Contagious." and “We Play Baseball Too."
The hand has made it lo No.
I on mp3.com*s EMO chart, and rode the No. 3 spot on the
“punk“ chan fur a week.
With a gnm ing popularity evident from such chan stand
ings. it’s no surprise Edinburgh has been signed to Close to Nothing Records, an independent record label based out of Chicago.
Ennis could not hide his excitement about Edinburgh’s mounting success, and the upcoming tour.
“Music has always been in me, I wanna be a ruck star."
Ennis said with a smile. He leaned back in his seal and finished, “hubif it doesn't work out. I'll he a school teacher."
Edinburgh's next show is March 21 at The Volcano Room in Tw in Air Plaza. For
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Editoi n 1993 director Lasse Malstrom landed onI
the touching film What 's Eating Gilbert Grape. More of a video store discovery than a film attended by masses upon theatrical release. Gilbert is an artistic pieces* and continues to be an interesting watch mainly because of performances by Johnny Depp and a young Leonardo DiCapno.Six years later Miramax bought Hallstrom a 1999 Oscar nomination for his overrated
previously unreleased music.
Edinburgh will be one of sev
eral bands featured along with The Anniversary, a band fea
tured in the January issue of The Alternative Press as one of the “ 100 bands You Need to Know About in 2001 "
“Justin actually wants us to tour with The Anniversary. He says we a have similar
Edinburgh crafts its sound after the traditional American rock hand, trying to get back to the roots of rock, and then add a twist. Two of their influ- --- cnees are Wcc/er and
Third Eye Blind.
“ If Bruce Springsteen and Huey Lew is w ert to have bonds right now they would sound like us,"
Ennis admitted.
^ ___ Edinburgh'* cvnent plans Include recording at Full Sail Studio *A\ in Orlando, the same studio the band Creed recorded in. Then they are off to Washington lo have J. Robins, who is famous for working with up-and-com
ing bands, master the album.
Next. Edinburgh will road trip to New York for a photo shoot with Bill Dublin who has worked w ith Jimmy Eats World, yet another Edinburgh influence.
Edinburgh's summer tour ignites in June with friends Slingshot 9. They will play 30 shows in 38 days. The tour kicks off in Indianapolis and coven the Midwest, though all the destinations have not
attempt The Cider House Rules. It had its moments, mainly those with Charlize Theruo and Tobey Maguire, but by no suetch of the imagi
nation did Hallstrom’s cine
matic sap deserv e to be posi
tioned among films like The insider or even the suspect w inner American Beauty .
A year later Hallstrom.
Miramax and the Academy are.
at it again. Ignoring a slew of films that have received far more popular as well as critical praise, the gouge-your-eyes- out boring Chocolat is among this year's Oscar nominees in five categories for no support
able reason.
The film is shot with a charming peacefulness that is in no way offensive or irritat
ing, but simply dull and mind-
A community rejects the for
ward-thinking woman. The woman stands confidently and precariously on her own two feet in the face of social and religious oppression until a scruffy, but intensely sexual and world-weary man comes
It draws its characters from a fast growing art house fantasy«
land where a roguish man-of- t he-earth invades civilization and liberates the free-spirited woman of the tow n.
The rogue in this case is the liant Johnny Depp as a pirate or something like that, and the loose* woman is Juliette Binoche as a chocolate shop owner and a single moth
er.
It's a story anyone who has gone to a movie in the past 10 years has seen before, only executed w ith less style and imagination.
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By the end of the film h er arch nemesis, the town priest, has succumbed to Binoche’*
chocolate treats. She wins.
The audience learns all of this through the most tired and contrived technique in recent
* history : the young child's look hack at her angelic parent.
Again, boring.
The only notable and admirable aspect o f Chocolat is Depp’s performance, and he is only in the film for a mere 45 minutes, if that.
At some point in recent his- tory, Depp has become one o f the most popular sex symbols
in the world.
It would be hard to argue against Depp's charisma, and even more challenging to con
tend his talent, but to say that a film is best picture quality and not nominate the one individ
ual who makes the piece inter
esting is insulting both to the public and the performer. **
Receiving nominations for best actress (Binoche), sup
porting actress (Judi Dench), score (Rachel Port man), adapt
ed screenplay (Robert Nelson Jacobs) and picture (David Brown. Kit Golden and Leslie Hollenin). Chocoiat is a testa
ment to everything that is wrung w ith the awards process today. The one actor who make* the piece worth seeing is ignored while Binoche, who has made a career out of play
ing the "dark and mysterious European." is being lauded.
What a joke.
As the Academy Award*
draw nearer, more people will be lifting themselves out of their easy chain and forking over their crispy dollars to see what all the fuss is about. One ..
cunaut eniphasi/c enough the lengths moviegoer* should fo to in avoiding Chocohr Unless people happen to he die-hard Depp fan* and absolutely roust see him on the big screen, they should stay aw ay from Chocolat. The movie is liable to rot not only
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■ New releases front Pearl Jam and a bang-up show hv Matchbox Twenty. Everclear and Lifehouse bring much needed aural relief to
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The lour arrived in Indy March 6 at the Conseco Fieldbouse. It was a spectac
ular night of rock that also featured alternative rock favorites Everclear and fresh new faces Lifehouse.
Matchbox Twenty is a sur
prisingly impressive act live.
The group makes a genuine attempt to deliver hits, which many critics argue are largely indistinguishable, while still keeping things interesting.
Particularly notable was the band's unique lighting set up. It was a 1
At
“Last Beautiful Girl“ in particular stood out as a win
ner. with its great mid-tempo melody. “Bent“ was the highlight, with its intermit
tent moments of aggression mixed with another of the band's familiar brand of pas
sionate pop chorus. “Black
& While People“ made for an excellent closer, ending the night on a positive note, following the requisite read
ing of mega-hit “Push “ Along with Matchbox Twenty. Ev erclear is touring in support of two brilliant
Mine” was a surging power
house. The poignancy and strength of “Wonderful"
translated especially well to the stage. Set-closer “Santa Monica“ is still likahk and may be Everclear's best- known song, but is inferior to much o f its recent work.
“Songs From An American Movie“ were
mobile rig that constantly changed the mood of the stage. This combined with a giant projector screen to make for an unexpectedly satisfying visual affair.
The band al*o seems quite its I live, employing a keyboard player and bom section to fill out the sound. The effort was quite successful.
Matchbox Twenty's music may be strictly middle-of- the-road. but the Rand's tal
ent is undeniable. The one hour and forty-five minute set featured hits such as
“Real World“ and “3 a.m.,“
and nearly all the tracks
“Mad Season“
last year have been unjustly ignored by much of the record buying public and should be visited immediate-
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Lifehouse provided a
highlights a different side of the band.
The performance was great, marred only by a mere 45 minutes on stage, a poor testament to the band’s talents. It is shocking this great hand is not headlining a tour o f their own.
Three other musicians joined Art Alcxakis and the band oh stage, help
ing the band to duplicate both the power o f its
early work and the complex- potent opening set. The ities of some later tracks. band’s first single “Hanging With such a meager amount By a Moment,” from the o f lime on stage, the band power trio’s quite good stuck primarily to its biggest debut album “No Name
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ence for someone only 20- ycarvold. This is a hungry group, eager to shine in a coveted opening slot.
Lifehouse made the most of the opportunity with a five-song set that was far too brief, hut quite strong. First song “Cling and Clatter“
was tight and catchy, while
“Quasimodo” had a refresh
ing. unforced swagger.
Closing with a breakout hit.
Lifehouse made a great impression on the audience.
Current hit “A.M. Radio”
was a buoyant and bouncy winner, while “Father of
Face.“ is a big hit on rock radio, and deserv edly so.
Jason Wade leads the band on guitar and vocals, and he
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eattle’s Pearl Jam remains one of rock’s best-loved bands years after the grunge phenomenon reached its inevitable end.Over the course of a tour, the bond trots out nearly ill of its the set list every nigA. This, combined with the band’s pas
sion and chops, arguably
potent this night, while “Do the Evolution“ remains a pow
erful rave-up against intoler
ance and bigotry. A cover of Neil Young’s classic “Rockin’
in the Free World” makes for a triumphant closer to a strong set. This collection makes a great addition to any Pearl Jam fan's collection, particularly ones w ho attended and want to relive the show.
Eddie Vcdder’s voice on the recording is stunning. He is
makes Pearl Jam today’s finest live band.
Last year. Pearl Jam took the unprecedented and highly suc
cessful step o f releasing its entire European tour on high- quality, low-price, 2-CD sets.
This year. Pearl Jam continues this effort to provide an alter
native to expensive, poorly produced bootlegs by releasing
able to convey more emotion through the course of one song than many singers do in a career. Man Cameron is a dominant presence on the Gossard and Mike McCready
Most students cannot afford to shell out the cash for dqgens of 2-CD sets, even if they are similar sets. The first leg of the
lour is already out. with the second coming on March 27.
These set* are quite special, made for lovers o f the band rather than casual fans. The cover artwork is plain and min
imal, tike The Who’s “Live At Leeds.“ AU of the band’s hits are not featured every show, although each contains gems.
The sets retail for around
$!5,w hich is astoundingly
twenty-five songs.
Local fans may be particu
larly interested in the recording of the Aug. 18 show in Indianapolis at the Deer Creek M usk Center. It was a greai show, and the CD set brings it all rushing back.
can visit www.pearijam.com.
however, and select a few favorite tracks. This should ^ give listeners a good grasp on the tour as a whole, and will be well worth a consumer's effort.
Even more good news for Pearl Jam fans: On April 10, the band releases its first DVD, featuring footage frrim many show's on the tour. U also fca*
Pearl Jam show from his point of view. It should be a great collection, particularly for
There is also serious talk from band manager Kelly Curtis of releasing a rarities collection CD. possibly featur
ing some previously released of rarities: the explosive “State
of Love and Trust“ and melan
choly “Crazy Mary.”
”Rearvicwminor“ was searing and “Given to Fly“ as majestic as ever. The throbbing bass line of “Go” was particularly
unavailable on the regular stu- Peaxi Jam is reportedly tak
ing the year off, with plans to reassemble early next year to record a new album.
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■ Both teams fall to eventual Mid-Con Tourney runners-up in semifinal games.
IUPUI opened the second half with a pair of Don Carlisle free throws to cut the lead to one, but the Crusaders wouldn't relinquish the lead.
Grafs scored on the Crusaders' next possession.
Despite both the men's and worn tallying their fust ever Mid-Continent both teams found the semifinals to be a
to six.
The Jags cut the lead back to two with 16:09 to play, hut Valpo answered with a 13-3 run to put
IUPUI away. v
-We played hard and kept fighting." Hujiter said. -We learned a lot. and we will get better
IUPU1 men’s basketball coach Ron Hunter knew what was in store for his team.
He knew for his team to advance to the Mid- Con championship, it would have to knock off Valparaiso, and having beaten them earlier in the
“I think we made some people mad.” Hunter said, referring to his team’s regular season win at Valpo. -Homer (Drew) usually gives me a big hug before the game, and he didn't give me one Despite falling in the early minutes. Drew’s team look an early 9-7 lead behind the strong play o f sophomore center Raids Grafs, and it never looked back.
The Jaguars hung d o se thanks to some solid play off the bench.
Junior forward Ltibos Barton drilled a three but Taj Hawkins
lead,” Drew said. -I f it was four, five, six or whatever.”
The Jaguars kept within sinking distance when Josh Fitzwater hit his only field goal of the game, a 22-footer from the top of the key to d o se the
With the score 37-34 at the half. Valpo knew the them.”
ft's hard to beat a team that only commits one turnover in the second half and can dominate from the perimeter or paint.
-One of the keys to our success has been our inside-outside play, and Lubos and Raids have been a big part of that.” Drew said.
Barton finished with 13 points, eight assists and seven rebounds while Grafs led Valpo with 19 points and 13 rebounds.
Grafs set the tone early by scoring three easy layups, blocking a shot and altering two more.
-Usually when I score the first couple of bas
kets. I fed good, and I feel like I can continue doing that the whole game.'* Grafs said.
Many of the Jaguars appeared overmatched by the Crusaders’ front line, and no Jaguar starter Hermes led IUPUI with 16 points while Hawkins added 12.
Carlisle scored nine points and grabbed five rebounds in his final carter game. The Crusaders limited him to just four shot attempts in the loss.
Despite losing three seniors. Hunter thinks the future looks bright for the IUPUI men’s basket-
"I am very proud of Don Carlisle and Matt Hermes. They gave us a whole lo t” Hunter said.
-They took a leap of faith and helped build our now have a program because of
would be to put them away.
MAt halftime, we talked about raising our level of intensity,” Valpo guard Dwayne Toatley said.
knew what they are capable of."
IUPUI finished at 11-18 overall.
The Oakland University Golden Grizzlies women’s basketball team look a page out of the IUPUI book to get an 80-73 win over the Jaguars.
OU connected on 27 o f 32 free throw attempts, including 23 o f 26 in the final nine minutes of the game.
”1 am very glad we can shoot free throws.” OU head coach Beckie Francis said. T h e y turned it into a posscsstoo-by-possession game, and in the end our team was the one that got the job done.”
It appeared as though the Jaguars were read) to fold at the 11:47 m arl when Sarah Judd connect
ed for a conventional three-point play to give OU a 10-point lead.
IUPUI center Jama Gilmore missed a pair of free thrown on the Jaguars' ensuing possession, but Angie Wan tracked down the offensive
freshman point guard Amy Muchlhauscn tallied a career-high 13 points, all in the first half.
Being the lone senior. Wan knows that expecta
tions will he high for her teammates next season.
-W e’ve finally gotten the players we needed to get the job done and next year they are going to have everyone back but me,” Wan said. T h e y are going to be very good again.”
Francis thinks that because of their hard-nosed siy k of play, the Jaguars will be among the Mid- Con’s elite next season.
-IUPUI is a really scrappy team and has the most guts of any team in the league,” she said.
With the loss, IUPUI d osed the season with an 11-18 record while OU moved to 20-9 with the
Mid-Con intangibles
Then the Jaguars went to one of their strengths
— shooting beyond the arc.
Amy Frey got the ball rolling w iih a bomb from the right wing. Senior Ahgic Wait connected pair of threes to cut iKi OU lead to one. Frey capped a 12-0 run with another three, hut the Golden Grizzlies kept their composure.
T knew thev were going to make a run at us.”
OU senior Beth Zcooc said. *We just had to hold them off when the right lime came. I wasn’t nerv
ous at all, and we remained focused and played through it.”
Three minutes later after a pair of Judd free throws, OU had a lead they would never relin
quish en route to the win,
*X)ur kids never quit,” IUPUI head coach Kris Simpson said. “We kept coming hack but could
for a big game ¿gainst the Jaguars. She totaled 25 points. 10 rebounds and two blocks off the bench, and made all nine of her free throw attempts.
Judd's aggressiveness gave the IUPUI I defease fits. She overpowered redshin freshman Natalie Hendricks before fouling out w ith 11:47 remain
ing. and was too quick for Gilmore out on the floor.
- | think we can stop her. but you have to remember they still have Katie Wolfe and Beth Zepoe,” Simpson said. -You can’t just concen
trate on one kid, you have to worry about Wolfe and Zeone.”
Wolfe and Zcooc combined for 26 points on just 8 6f 20 from the field
Wan led IUPUI wuh 22 points in her final game.
Sophomore Tiffany Kyser added a double-dou
ble with 13 points and 14 rebounds while rrdshirt
