Women’s lacrosse club plays for missing student Lauren Spierer
Lauren Spierer was chosen to play for her high school varsity lacrosse team as a freshman, but she had to quit when she was diagnosed with a heart condition.
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Lauren Spierer was chosen to play for her high school varsity lacrosse team as a freshman, but she had to quit when she was diagnosed with a heart condition.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU Alumni Association announced Jan. 28 that it will be giving out 33 $1,000 scholarships through the IUAA Scholars program this year.The scholarships are open to undergraduate students who have a parent who is a member of the IU Alumni Association. Financial need and academic achievement will also be considered when the Office of Student Enrollment Services chooses the recipients. Scholarships will be given to two people at each of the IU campuses, and the additional 17 will be given to students at any IU location. “Preference will be given to students who have not received a scholarship in prior years,” according to a press release.The money for these scholarships was made possible through revenue from the IU Collegiate License Plate Program. The IUAA Scholars program has been around for 18 years, and during those years it has awarded $278,000, IUAA Deputy Executive Director Deborah Lemon said.“When IU Collegiate License Plate Program was established in 1991, the IU Alumni Association wished to expand its offerings of scholarships,” Lemon said. “We felt that by using a portion of the funding from the sales of IU license plates for scholarships, we were aligning the support of IU through license plates purchases with additional scholarship opportunities for IU students around the state.” The Association offers more than one hundred different scholarships. Lemon said between 2009 and 2010 the IUAA gave more than $200,000 in scholarships. “We encourage students to not only apply for our IUAA Scholars program but visit our website and find a wide array of other scholarship offerings that are supported by our volunteers and members,” Lemon said.Students can check the IUAA membership status of their parents by calling membership assistant Lisa Howell at 800-824-3044. Applications for the scholarship are due April 1. The applications can be found online at alumni.indiana.edu/services/scholarships/iuaascholars.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“What are the moral imperatives of our time? What’s our responsibility to future generations? What’s crazy? Is doing nothing just as crazy as doing something extreme? How far are you willing to follow through with ‘I’d do anything for my child?’” Professor Kenneth Weitzman said these questions are addressed in his new play “Fire in the Garden,” which will be performed at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis this month.The show will be featured in the theater’s “Going Solo Festival,” a series of one-member-cast productions, along with “Neat” by Charlayne Woodard and “In Acting Shakespeare” by James DeVita.Weitzman has been a faculty member at IU for three years. He has written more than a dozen plays, his latest being “Fire in the Garden.”Weitzman started off as an actor, but he made the jump to writing.“The writing part was much more satisfying than the performing part,” he said.Weitzman went to the University of Michigan, where he received a B.A. in American studies. After that, he attended the University of California at San Diego, where he received an M.F.A. in playwriting. During his senior year at University of Michigan, Weitzman wrote his first play, “S.N.A.G (Sensitive New Age Guy),” a one-man play about manhood. Since then, Weitzman’s plays have all been multi-character productions. Weitzman said “Fire in the Garden” is a semi-autobiographical play that takes a comical look at fatherhood. It is about a man who is about to be a father and becomes fascinated with the story of Norman Morrison. Morrison was a man who, in 1965, lit himself on fire as an act of protest while holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms. His daughter survived, but Morrison did not. The play looks at difficult parenting questions that the Morrison case arouses, questions Weitzman himself said he struggled with before the birth of his oldest son. “Ultimately I think it’s about being a parent in this day and age, specifically a father, and the question of how far you will go to assure your children will have a better life than you did and whether that’s even possible,” “Fire in the Garden” director Larissa Kokernot said.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU School of Education is continuing a tradition of educating and involving young students in the arts and sciences.Saturday Science and the Saturday Art School are two programs offered by the school to introduce kids to the fun of learning.Saturday Science began in 1990 after a million dollar grant was given to the school by the National Science Foundation. The program has sessions in the fall and spring, each costing $65. Each session consists of five consecutive Saturdays where kids from kindergarten through eighth grade are able to learn about science.“It’s a fun, hands-on kind of thing. There’s no grade. They have a good time with it,” said Lisa Baer, the Saturday Science graduate student coordinator . “The kids like it because they form friendships. They may not go to school together, but they go to Saturday Science together.”The program goes from 9:30 a.m. to noon each Saturday. During this time, the students typically watch videos that introduce the day’s topic, do a science investigation and have snacks. Sometimes the students do outdoor activities or go on field trips around the IU campus.“The kids are actually engaging in science themselves. It definitely supports young children in science,” said Valarie Akerson, Saturday Science fall coordinator, Ph.D.During these sessions, the children are split into groups of kindergarten through second grade, third through fourth grade and fifth through eighth grade. By doing this, the program leaders are able to cater their lessons to each age group. In the fall session, the program is taught by doctoral students, while pre-service teachers help and observe. In the spring session, students in Q405: Integrated Sciences for Science Education are able to teach and lead the classes as a part of the lab for their class.Similarly, students in M330: Foundations of Art Education and Methods 1 teach both the fall and spring sessions of the Saturday Art School. This program is open to students from kindergarten through sixth grade and costs $35. It takes place from 10:30 a.m. to noon on six consecutive Saturdays, the final class being an open house and exhibit of the children’s artwork.“In the schools, there are not always areas for show, and it’s cool for them to see their work behind the glass with a spotlight on it,” said Dianna Huxhold, Saturday Art School associate instructor.On a typical Saturday, students in the program start in their sketchbooks, see a demonstration and then start on their project. For some of these projects, the students make objects from clay or paper maché, while other weeks the kids paint or make collages.Through the program, the IU students are able to gain experience for the future, and the students in the program are able to learn about art. “I think it’s important for the pre-service teachers to have some experience prior to teaching. It’s also important for the students to explore art in different venues. It gives them an extra area for creativity and opportunities they wouldn’t have in the classroom,” Huxhold said.