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College students who graduated in 2013 had an average student loan debt of $28,400, according to a press release from the Institute of College Access and Success’ Project on Student Debt.
College students who graduated in 2013 had an average student loan debt of $28,400, according to a press release from the Institute of College Access and Success’ Project on Student Debt.
Whether you’re a vegetarian, a meat-lover, or somewhere in between, tofu is an awesome and versatile source of protein that often gets overlooked.
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College students who graduated in 2013 had an average student loan debt of $33,000, according to edvisors.com.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Kris Bentley and Nick Jamerson of Sundy Best will take the stage Tonight at The Bluebird Nightclub.The two-man band has been together since their elementary school days, and their music video recently premiered on Country Music Television.The IDS had a chance to talk to Bentley about the band’s roots and what he and Jamerson like most about performing together.IDS So you guys (Bentley and Jamerson) are originally from Kentucky. How has growing up there influenced your music today?Bentley Really the only outlet for anyone music-wise was in church. I played drums in church, and my older brother played drums, too. When he left for college, I took over and played drums. My dad led the worship team. I would say seven out of 10 people in that area can probably play an instrument or sing. Coming from a small town in a really close-knit community has influenced our song writing. IDS Your new album is coming out this March. What can fans expect from you guys on the new album?Bentley I think from the first, just a lot of growth and maturity. Lyrically, it’s a little more grown up and relatable on the big scheme of things. Some of these songs we’ve had sitting around for a while, so we’re really excited to get them recorded and have everyone hear them. We’ve been jumping at the bit to get this new album released.IDS Is there anything specific that served as huge inspiration for the upcoming album?Bentley I think just everyday life and relationships. Some big inspirations behind the new record are timeless artists like Bob Segar, Tom Petty and the Eagles. A lot of music that’s out there today won’t be relevant the year after. The music I’m talking about has been around for 30 years. We want to create music that means something to people now and will still mean something down the road.IDS Where has been your favorite venue so far? Do you have one or two shows that are more memorable than other shows you’ve had?Bentley The first time we got to play in a big arena in Pikeville. We were just starting out, and we just got our first record done. Almost 2,000 people showed up, and we were expecting 500. This summer, we got to play at an Atlanta Braves game at Turner Field. There were about 35,000 people there. When we finished playing, they had a huge fireworks show, and we were down on the field for it. IDS Do you have any crazy fan stories?Bentley We’re really involved in interacting with the people who are on social media. Yesterday, we got a message on Facebook from a girl who asked us if we would ever Facetime her. She gave us her number and promised to do something really good on the other end of the line. I’m all for people speaking their mind, but it’s just funny. IDS What do you love the most about performing with each other? Bentley It’s the most therapeutic fun we can have. We’re getting to do what we love to do for a living. Doing it with someone who has been your friend for the most part of your life is really special. No matter what is going on in our lives, when we get on stage and start to play a show, everything is forgotten about.Follow reporter Alexis Benveniste on Twitter @apbenven.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Jiangmei Wu is an IU professor of apparel merchandising and interior design. But when she’s not teaching, she’s designing intricate, artistic light fixtures. The IDS had the chance to speak with Wu about her artistic inspiration and her folded light art exhibit, currently on display at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center.IDS What impact do you feel that your work has here at IU?Wu I often tell my students that career path for design has become broader in recent years. Design can be applied to a wide range of services in our society, from business development to strategic planning. The key here is design thinking, which emphasizes on the process rather than the product. I look at my work as a process to understand the meaning of my work in relationship to the outside world.IDS How do you integrate Chinese influences into your work?Wu I grew up in China during the time when resources were extremely scarce. Most of the Chinese children at that time didn’t have toys — we played with simple things we made with our hands. We played games with shuttlecocks made of feathers and bottle caps, slingshots made of rubber bands and wooden sticks and of course, airplanes and balloons made of paper. Indeed, we made all sorts of objects from paper: balls, baskets, dollhouses, bird figurines and other objects. Paper was a common commodity, but it was not abundant and cheap during that time. We would fold and make objects using all kinds of paper from old newspapers, old magazines and used notebooks. When I was a child, I learned many of origami models from my mother instead of from books. When my son was younger, he and I used to fold a lot together. For us, folding is almost a Zen-like activity and its kind of therapeutic — your hands are busy, but your mind is focusing on the moments that are taken over by the wonders transformed by your hands. IDS Are you working on any pieces right now that you’re really excited about?Wu I would like to experiment with 3D printing technology. By using the origami techniques, an object potentially can be printed small and folded using a 3D printer and then be deployed into a three dimensional object that is larger. I would also like to experiment with ways to change the properties of large scale structures, not using a clever new material, but using a standard material with folded texturing on its surface, such as paper, sheet metal, polypropylene or any other foldable materials. IDS What advice would you give to someone who wants to work in the same artistic context?Wu It is a very exciting new field that allows one to work in increasingly ambiguous space between art, design, engineering and science. In most recent years, scientists are beginning to use the analogies of the origami crease patterns to analyze and classify natural phenomenon, from the folding and self-assembly of amino acids, the unfurling of new leaves, to the tessellated formation of cosmic structures by the force of gravity. For some scientists, the universe, at both the macroscopic and microscopic scales, ‘folds’ rather than ‘builds.’ There is also a wide range of origami applications in both engineering and design. For example, engineers are using the art of paper folding to understand how to manufacture the nanostructured materials that can be used for flexible electronic devices, etc. On the opposite scale of nanostructures, they are also working on foldability of large solar-powered structures. Designers have applied origami principles to various design disciplines such as jewelry design, product design, architectural and interior design, and have created origami inspired objects, not necessarily in paper. Perhaps the most well-known designer is Issey Miyake, who designed fashion and lighting that can be folded flat and be deployed into three dimensional objects.IDS What is your favorite part of the artistic process?Wu The dramatic transformation of the paper after it is folded. I often began with the systematic exploration of folding schemes, but I was soon taken over by the magic transformation which was beyond I could visualize at the beginning of the process. In this way, I finished my work in wonder, in curiosity and in awe of the power of mysterious creative force.Follow reporter Alexis Benveniste on Twitter @apbenven.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU Progressive Faculty and Staff Caucus organized a read-in Tuesday to protest the Former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ attempted censorship of late historian Howard Zinn’s work.Students, faculty and locals gathered in the Fine Arts building for a “Zinn-In,” in which excerpts from Zinn’s works were read out loud. Five members of the caucus led the 50-minute session in professor Alex Lichtenstein’s American History II class. Daniels, current president of Purdue University, tried to ban Zinn’s book, “A People’s History of the United States,” in Indiana schools in 2010, calling it “anti-American.” The Associated Press broke the news after obtaining several emails between Daniels and officials such as then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett.Daniels suggested discussion of Zinn’s work be banned from Indiana schools, but the legislation did not pass. Tuesday’s read-in was organized to commemorate academic freedom and the legislation’s failure, according to a press release. Other Indiana universities such as Purdue and IUPUI organized similar events.An abolitionist and bombardier in World War II, Zinn was an advisor to the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee at Spellman College in Atlanta, where he worked as a professor.Isabel Piedmont-Smith, department administrator of the Department of French and Italian, read Zinn’s work at the read-in and said she has always been a fan of Zinn. “It’s a tremendous contrast between what I had read in Zinn’s works and what most high school textbooks include or exclude,” she said.She said Zinn’s book is a great way to supplement what standard history textbooks provide.Lichtenstein was the last one to read the text, reciting from “Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam.” He finished with a profound line from Zinn’s work: “Patriotism may require opposing the government at certain times.”Reverend Bill Breeden of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington provided the closing remarks for the read-in. Breeden first met Zinn in 1981, and Zinn gave him a first edition copy of “A People’s History of the United States.”The reverend said Zinn affirmed that an education means you learn how to think, not what to think,” Breeden said. “Howard Zinn is somewhere laughing his butt off. He knows that banning books doesn’t work. He knows that people always want to be free, and people always want to seek new knowledge.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Comedian Paul Reiser will be performing at the Comedy Attic Friday and Saturday.Tickets cost $34.50 and can be purchased on the Comedy Attic’s website. Reiser is known for co-creating and starring in the NBC sitcom, “Mad About You.”He has also appeared in the 1982 film “Diner” and is included in Comedy Central’s list of 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.Before Reiser’s Bloomington shows, the IDS spoke to him about his love of comedy and the highlights of his career.IDS Have you always loved comedy? What inspired you to pursue it as a career?Paul Reiser I always loved comedy, even as a kid, but I didn’t know that it was something you could actually do.I just thought those guys I was enjoying on TV were just appointed or something.But when I was in college, comedy clubs in New York City were suddenly the focal point, a place where you could go and learn the craft. Really just by going up and doing it.But the timing of it was perfect. It was just when I really began to focus on comedy, I suddenly had a place to go.IDS So you’ve done TV, writing and performances with live audiences on stage. Which do you prefer and why?Reiser I actually love doing stand-up the most because it’s the most pure. There’s no waiting, there’s no needing to get approval from networks, studios or funding, or test groups.You think of something you think is funny, and you go tell it on stage. The audience will tell you right then and there if it’s funny.And also, it’s such an elusive thing. It changes from night to night, audience to audience.IDS What is your favorite thing that you’ve done in your career thus far?Reiser Well, certainly the seven years of “Mad About You” were something that happens once in a lifetime, if you’re lucky.That was a wonderful thing, to be in that many people’s homes and lives for that long.The other thrill was making the movie called “The Thing About My Folks” with the late, great Peter Falk.It was a movie I wrote for him, and I was thrilled just that he said yes, but making it was a joy.IDS What is the weirdest/funniest thing that has happened to you during a show?Reiser I honestly couldn’t say. My hunch is it’s going to happen this weekend in Bloomington.Follow reporter Alexis Benveniste on Twitter @apbenven.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Director Joe Swanberg will be at the IU Cinema today to promote his latest film, “Drinking Buddies.” Starring Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson Ron Livingston and Anna Kendrick, the film tells the story of two friends who own a craft brewery together and their personal relationships. The film will screen at 6:30 p.m. today, 9:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $3 for students and $6 for the general public and can be purchased at the IU Auditorium Box Office or at the IU Cinema 30 minutes prior to the showing. Swanberg talked to the IDS about his career, including his fascination with craft beer and how his movies act as snapshots of his life. IDS You are often described as a “mumblecore” director. What does that mean to you and your career, and what is it like to be a part of that community?Joe Swanberg It’s great to be a part of the community.That’s always been the natural organic part of it. We all discovered that we like each other’s film and we like working with each other.Sometimes it’s used positively, and sometimes it’s used negatively. At this point, I’ve resigned to the label of being a mumblecore director. IDS What movie/project are you most proud of and why?Swanberg I’m always the most excited about the new ones.“Drinking Buddies” is the one that I’m most proud of at the moment because it feels the most current, and it feels like the best reflection of who I am right now.IDS Olivia, Jake, Anna and Ron play such different roles in the shows and movies they’ve been in. What was the chemistry like on set, and what was it like working with them as a team?Swanberg I had a lot of fun working with all four of them on the movie. The chemistry was great.It’s tricky because they didn’t have a lot of time to get to know each other, so they really dove in and built that chemistry almost right away.IDS How would you describe your filmmaking style?Swanberg I think thus far, it’s been naturalistic and almost documentary-like in its attempt to portray relationships.I think that relationships and technology have been the two themes I keep going back to and often the way that technology effects communication in relationships. IDS Are there any upcoming films or projects you have in the works that you’re super excited about right now?Swanberg I’m finishing up a movie now called “Happy Christmas” that I made after “Drinking Buddies.”It stars Lena Dunham, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey and Mark Webber.Follow reporter Alexis Benveniste on Twitter @apbenven.