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(11/29/11 2:45am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Mathers Museum of World Cultures is currently displaying an exhibit by former IU student Erika Brown titled “Blended Harmonies: Music and Religion in Nepal.” The exhibit opened in May during Brown’s senior year and was the result of a semester-long project she had completed for a museum practicum course. It will stay open until later this semester when an exhibit from another student who has completed the course takes its place.With a focus on Nepal, which is not well-known or understood by the general public, the exhibit offers visitors a chance to explore the unique religious situations in Nepal, Brown said. She added that the exhibit specifically details the blending of these religious practices through music.Though the exhibit doesn’t include music samples, “the artifacts from and images of life in Nepal illustrate the finer details of the Nepalese religious experience,” Brown said.“The exhibit is a student endeavor, meaning it is necessarily small,” Brown said. “However, I find its brevity to be an advantage — you can come to the museum on a lunch break or ... while walking home from class and learn something fascinating about Nepal.”The Mathers Museum is located at 416 N. Indiana Ave. across from Dunn Meadow.
(10/20/11 3:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Love. Hysteria. Vibrators.These are three common themes of the IU Department of Theater & Drama’s newest production.“In the Next Room, or the vibrator play,” is a comedy written by Sarah Ruhl. The show will open 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Wells-Metz Theatre. Set in 1875 during the expansion of electricity to homes and residences, the play revolves around the use of a vibrator as treatment for “female hysteria.”An “illness” common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, “female hysteria” was widely diagnosed by the medical community of the time, according to an article in the New York Times. Symptoms included anxiety, irritability, nervousness and erotic fantasy, and it was common for women of this period to receive medical treatment in the form of sexual stimulation from the treating physician. The vibrator, which was invented in the late 1800s, was created to make administration of the treatment easier, the article said. Though eventually removed from medical books, the diagnosis and treatment of this illness creates universal themes that are relevant in 2011, said Dale McFadden, director and IU theater faculty member.“I think the play shows that sex is one thing, but intimacy is its own scarier entity that requires a certain kind of bravery to achieve,” said junior Jacque Emord-Netzley, who portrays Ms. Daldry in the production. Love is also an important element of the play, and the search for it is a catalyst for the characters’ actions, McFadden said.“Any relationship that is based on love requires a leap of faith,” McFadden said. “Ultimately, it’s a love story that goes right, not wrong.”Still, given the ready supply of humor found in such a subject, it was important to keep that humor from becoming cheap, McFadden said.“Laughs come from a moment of insight,” he added. The show show offers reality-based humor, and characters find themselves in situations in which they must deal with serious issues. The production pairs this deeper humor with a realistic point of view.“The play, though it is a sex-comedy, is much more poignant than its title would suggest,” Emord-Netzley said. “It deals with love and intimacy and what it means to have a lack of them.”In the end, a key lesson of the play is to take responsibility for your own happiness, McFadden said.“No one can cure you of your troubles,” he said. “The best way to find out who you are is through your relationships with other people.”
(03/11/11 3:02am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Four faculty members from the IU Department of Biology were elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which ties the department’s record for most inductees in a single year.Lynda Delph, Roger Hangarter, Roger Innes and Rudy Raff were joined by IU Rudy Professor of political science Edward Carmines and more than 500 other individuals honored in Washington, D.C., for their work.This is the second consecutive year that list included at least one faculty member from IU. Innes is the chairman of the IU Department of Biology and was honored for his study of the molecular mechanisms by which plants detect pathogens. He said the inductions will bring more recognition to the department.“Ever since I joined this department in 1991 I have known it was an outstanding department, but I also felt we were underappreciated by our peers on the West and East Coasts,” he said. “This type of recognition helps to alleviate that issue.”The addition of this year’s class brings the total number of inductees from the Department of Biology to 19. Innes said 14 AAAS members are active and that almost 25 percent of the department’s current faculty has been inducted.Raff, distinguished professor of biology, whose research focused on the developmental processes in the evolution of species and the fossilization of marine animal soft tissue, said the quality of the faculty has made his time as a professor and researcher more enjoyable.“I’ve been here for 40 years now, and I haven’t really wanted to go away anywhere,” he said. “It’s really a very good environment if you’re doing science and if you’re a faculty member.”Raff said the department’s emphasis on research has also provided undergraduate students with an opportunity to work in a faculty member’s lab while receiving class credit.This experience can prove invaluable for undergraduate students who are interested in attending graduate school, he said.Innes said faculty members are chosen “primarily based on their outstanding track record in research.” As chairman, Innes said his job is to ensure that the department can provide the resources necessary for success.“Indiana University has invested heavily in providing state-of-the-art facilities such as microscopes and supercomputers, thus providing a conducive environment for research,” he said. “With our combination of outstanding junior faculty and outstanding infrastructure, I expect the department will continue to add to those 19 AAAS fellows at a steady clip.”
(02/01/11 4:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The average law school graduate owes $100,000 in student loans, according to Forbes Magazine.Such a number would seem daunting in a healthy economy, but at a time when the 2010 national unemployment rate was nearly 10 percent, that much debt becomes even more frightening, according to the United States Department of Labor.The law class of 2009 has an employment rate greater than 88 percent, according to a survey done by The National Association for Law Placement. What appears to be a testament to the law profession might actually be the result of what law professor William Henderson and Val Nolan, faculty fellow at IU’s Maurer School of Law, described in an interview with the New York Times as “Enron-type accounting.”Law schools are ranked “based entirely on unaudited surveys conducted by each law school, using questions devised by the American Bar Association and the National Association for Law Placement,” according to the New York Times article. The results of this survey are then published by U.S. News.Henderson said since employment statistics figure into the ranking system and because the system has no oversight, it pays for schools to use disreputable numbers.Henderson said the result is that employment statistics on a law school’s website might not match reality.“Bar passage is about 84 percent, employed at nine months about 93 percent,” he said. “Anybody can do the math and realize that there is a bunch of people who are employed that haven’t passed the bar yet.” Henderson said when a prospective student is making a decision on whether to attend law school, it’s imperative that law schools accurately represent their employment numbers.Though for some law students, job placement numbers aren’t the deciding factor in where to attend school. Noah Pinegar, who graduated from the IU Maurer School of Law in May 2010, said he didn’t focus too much on the job placement statistics. Rather, he said he was more concerned with the location of his future job.“In settling on IU, I saw a place where I could focus and a school with a strong alumni base in D.C.,” he said.Pinegar, who is currently employed at the law offices of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Washington D.C., said his professors at the Maurer School of Law told him how tough the job environment would be. He said the school was honest about the slowing down of the industry and stressed hard work and networking as essential to landing a job after graduation.Gavin Ferlic, who also graduated in May 2010 from the IU Maurer School of Law, said the job placement numbers didn’t play too big a role in his decision to attend law school either. It was the faculty, Ferlic said, that ultimately convinced him to attend IU, specifically the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic. Currently working as an independent business consultant, Ferlic said the law degree he received from IU has afforded him the flexibility to re-enter the legal field if he chose to at a later time. However, he said he loves working in the business world and does not see a career change as likely.It’s this passion, Henderson said, that prospective law students need to focus on when deciding where to attend law school.“The great misunderstanding of every prospective law student is they separate out what’s prestigious, what will make them a lot of money with what they’re really passionate about,” Henderson said. “It’s awfully expensive to go to law school ... if you’re not sure it’s going to be for you.” Both Ferlic and Pinegar said they were pleased with the education and opportunities they received from the IU Maurer School of Law and would make the same choice again if given the chance.“I am fortunate to be doing exactly what I want to be doing in the place where I want to do it, and I am extremely grateful to Maurer ... for giving me these opportunities,” Ferlic said.
(04/22/10 4:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Today is the 40th anniversary of the first official Earth Day. To celebrate, the IU Environmental Management Association organized a panel discussion and cookbook sale.SPEA graduate student Matt Patterson said the connection of food with the environment and its impact on sustainable projects makes the panel an eco-friendly endeavor. “Besides walking on the ground, food is the most basic connection we have with the Earth,” Patterson said. “Almost anything from a sustainability standpoint is tied into the food system.” The food panel also highlights the sale of IUEMA’s cookbook, EMA Cooks, which has been available for sale in the SPEA atrium this week. The cookbook was created in honor of past SPEA student Scott Chilcote, who died in 2008. Seventy-five percent of the proceeds generated from the book will go to the Scott Chilcote Scholarship for students within the SPEA graduate program with leadership skills and passionate for the environment.Several of Chilcote’s own recipes are included in the cookbook, such as his “Three Kings Tuna” previously published in Dine Magazine. More than 90 recipes were submitted by SPEA students, faculty and Chilcote’s family.The cookbook contains recipes for soup, salad and chili, among other dishes, and sport creative titles such as “Ramen Tuna Noodle Casserole, Sort of.” “It goes from something you can use with a microwave, to something you need a kitchen to do,” said Patterson, who designed the cookbook.Patterson said most of the recipes in the book can be made with ingredients purchased from local produce stands.