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Address change deadline nears\nMay 8 is the last day for students to submit changes in their permanent home addresses to the Office of the Registrar for mailing of second semester grades. Students can also update their address online at www.insite.indiana.edu. Changes made online must be completed by May 9 to guarantee mailing to the new address.\nFinal grades are scheduled to be mailed by 5 p.m. May 11. Grades are mailed only to the permanent home address on file in the registrar's office. Grades are not delivered to non-U.S. addresses. International students have the option of changing their permanent address to a domestic listing.\nThe Office of the Registrar is located in Franklin Hall, Room 100, and is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. \nUniversity begins cultural exchange\nWhen about 40 students, faculty, staff and administrators travel to China with the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, they will also donate playground equipment.\nThe 11-day cultural exchange between IU and the Beijing University of Physical Education begins May 6.\nMuch of the hiking will take place on the closed sections of the Great Wall, making it the first official international hike allowed in the closed areas. The trip was arranged to honor a decade of cooperation.\nHiking will take place about five to eight hours a day, and there will be banquets, cultural events and daily activities focusing on health, fitness, sport, recreation and leisure.\nGraduate student wins scholarship\nGraduate student Nikolas Heynen was awarded the second annual Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship.\nThe scholarship was first established in 1999 to honor the memory of Won-Joon Yoon, a graduate student from Korea who was shot and killed in Bloomington in 1999 by a white supremacist. The $2,500 scholarship was created to provide financial assistance for students and to recognize their commitment to the values of diversity through service, personal commitment and academic achievement.\nHonorable mention certificates and $250 scholarships were awarded to graduate student Daisy Pama Rodriguez and junior Mary Smith-Forrest.\nHeynen, who is pursuing his doctoral studies in geography, is focusing his research on social justice as it relates to minority and environmental relations. He is a co-convener of the faculty/staff issues committee of the IU Commission on Multicultural Understanding, is a member of the campus planning committee for the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration and has served as a mentor for freshmen under the Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence program. Heynen also currently serves as Political Action Committee chairperson for the Monroe County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People.