Letter from Provost Lauren Robel
Welcome to Indiana University Bloomington!
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Welcome to Indiana University Bloomington!
I was disappointed that Kilroy’s decided to move forward with a facility built on the dubious premise that students need to be in proximity to a bar to enjoy an evening with friends in a place as culturally rich as Bloomington, and I expressed those concerns to the owner over the summer.
Last week, the conservative author and American Enterprise Institute Scholar Charles Murray spoke on campus about his 2012 book, “Coming Apart: The State of White American 1960-2010.” The book looks at a demographic that is widely viewed as having swung the last election in President Trump’s favor: working class whites. It caught early a zeitgeist that has been endlessly explored by pundits since the election, and Murray has spoken at numerous campuses since his book came out. An op-ed this weekend in the New York Times by two Cornell professors found that most college professors who were asked to rate the politics of the talk Murray gave at Middlebury College on the book (without knowing the author’s identity) rated it middle-of-the-road.
Welcome to Indiana University-Bloomington!