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CAMPUS QUIZ

Answer: Stained glass window in the Kelley School of Business

Showalter Fountain is not the only place on campus students can look to see Venus swimming with fish. \nFaculty, students and visitors of the Kelley School of Business' undergraduate wing are greeted by a stained glass depiction of "The Birth of Venus," a sculpture created by former IU professor Robert Laurent for Showalter Fountain. \nThe stained glass window, located in the main entrance to the business school, was given to the University decades ago, although few people are aware of the piece's origins. \nPaul Robins, executive director of administration for the Kelley School, said the gift was donated by the Graduate school of Savings and Loan program, which was run through the executive education program. An inscription beneath the glass said it was donated in 1982. \nFacilities Manager of the Kelley School Allan Headley said the stained glass piece was the last gift given to the University by the program, as it ended shortly after. \n"They would give us a gift every year," he said. "The intent was to fill those six windows (in the entrance of the business school) with a different stained glass scene, and that was the last year, and then that industry went belly-up." \nRoberta Aubin, program coordinator for Kelley Direct Online Programs, said the Savings and Loan program, which was one of the school's first executive education programs, brought between 200 and 300 students to campus during the summer. \n"It was a three-week-long program, and I think they came back three years in a row, the same students," she said. "And as a class project they would donate something to the school, and one class wanted to commission someone to do the stained glass ... I think that was probably the last thing we received from them"

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