Associate dean gives advice
Associate Dean of Students Damon Sims was the featured speaker at Thursday's IUSA's meeting. Sims said his office is "charged with the general welfare of students on campus. Sims has been working for the University since 1981.\n"They keep giving me new titles, but I do the same job," Sims said. "That's the way they do it at the University."\nSims apologized to IUSA members for the inaccessibility of administrators to IUSA and all student leaders. \n"We don't collaborate with you the way we should," Sims said. "And we don't bring you in the way we should."\nHe also gave some advice to the group, telling them that they were at times not aggressive enough toward the administration. \n"You don't pick your fights very well," Sims said.
Program focuses on real world
USA Today was present to talk to the members about the College Readership Program. This is a program that provides three national newspapers to students every weekday. \nThe goal of the program is make students' college education more tangible and real world based. The group is looking to start up the program in the Indiana Memorial Union and from the success of that would expand across campus in order to reach all students. The program costs $10 per student per semester, and the group is hoping to receive the funding from the IU Foundation.
