Don’t be a helicopter parent
College allows a lot of freedom compared to high school. But before freshmen can get used to curfew-free lives, they have the freedom to decide how much access to give their parents to their college lives.
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College allows a lot of freedom compared to high school. But before freshmen can get used to curfew-free lives, they have the freedom to decide how much access to give their parents to their college lives.
While former IU student David Kerner watched hippopotamuses on a camping safari in Botswana, he didn’t know he would be awoken by one outside his tent at 4 a.m.
How men make decisions about sexual partners, how mood affects sexual arousal in women and what prevents couples from using condoms are only some of the topics on sex being researched at IU’s ground-breaking Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Suzanne Phillips is the director of the Parents Association, an organization meant to connect parents to IU. We spoke to her about what this important resource can do for parents of IU freshmen.Indiana Daily Student: What is the Parents Association?Suzanne Phillips: It’s an affiliate group of the Alumni Association and is a non-dues-paying association that links parents to the campus. We hold the Freshman Family Weekend and Parents Weekend in the fall, too. There’s a parent board representing 25 families that meets twice a year, and parents are automatically members when their kids go to IU.IDS: How does a parent join?SP: All parents are automatic members. We used to send out a letter but had to stop last year because of costs, so now we do email. The problem is, we don’t get the parents’ email, so they should give us their email so they can get the newsletter, Campus Link. They can email mykidis@indiana.edu, which will get to me, with their information.IDS: Why should parents join?SP: They can email mykidis@indiana.edu with any questions they have, and we’re looking to be on Twitter and Facebook soon. Those will actually go to me, and I’ll be the one answering.IDS: Does the association offer anything special for parents of freshmen?SP: The Freshman Family weekend will be the weekend of Sept. 20. The tentative schedule can be found online at studentaffairs.iub.edu/parents, and there will be a tailgate tent before the game.IDS: What events should parents look forward to through the association?SP: We host the Freshman Family Weekend and also the Parents Weekend for all other parents, and that will be the weekend of Nov. 8. The tentative schedule for that weekend is also online, and a tailgate tent will offer refreshments before that game, too.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>College allows a lot of freedom compared to high school. But before freshmen can get used to curfew-free lives, they have the freedom of deciding how much access to give their parents to their college lives. OneStart has a third-party access setting that students can assign to any person, such as a parent or guardian. It grants that person access to the student’s information including grades, unofficial transcripts, class schedules and personal information such as addresses and phone numbers. Students can assign third-party access to as many people as they wish so both Mom and Dad can keep tabs on their child’s grades. But some students might choose not to allow third-party access to anyone — and that can create tension.Environmental science major Kate Drass said her parents left the decision to her, and while she allowed them access she kept her grades private.“With grades specifically, it’s about letting go of control,” she said. “It’s the kid’s responsibility now.”Drass said keeping that information inaccessible to her parents has actually helped with communication about academics.“They’ll ask, but we have that communication that I can say I might not be doing so well in one class,” she said. “I feel more willing to talk about it with them. If we have that communication rather than them having direct access to my grades, it’s better for us.”Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has similar advice for parents when dealing with letting go of complete access to their child’s life.Regular communication about expectations can make it easier to avoid tension with your child, according to the CAPS website.If parents assume their child will want to give them access to every financial and academic detail but their child assumed that access stopped at high school graduation, communicating why each party felt that way can help.“Parents need to realize their kids are in college now,” Drass said. “It’s all about growing up and becoming responsible.”At IU, career counselors contend the trend of helicopter parents is far from the norm. Still, some departments now offer online resources especially tailored for parents wanting extra information.In the Kelley School of Business, the Undergraduate Career Services Office has added a parents’ page to the website that lists frequently asked questions and gives a timetable that shows a student’s career path. It’s very similar to the Career Development Center, which also added a page for parents with tips on how they can help their children from a safe distance.Jan Nickless, senior associate director at the Career Development Center, said that while parents are more involved today, she says parent involvement can be a positive aspect for students.“If parents can just provide the support while the student is getting a degree and provide information and help build the student up and help them gain their own confidence and their own independence, in the end that’s the role of the parent,” she said.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>How men make decisions about sexual partners, how mood affects sexual arousal in women and what prevents couples from using condoms are only some of the topics on sex being researched at IU’s groundbreaking Kinsey Institute. The Institute has been a source of research and information about issues in sex, gender and reproduction since 1947.The Institute is named for IU’s Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey famously gathered histories of sexual behavior in thousands of interviews, which culminated in his book “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” published in 1948.This was followed by his “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” in 1953. The volume “surprised everyone when it became a bestseller,” according to the Kinsey website.The Kinsey Institute offers a library, art collections, events, an active research program and the Kinsey Confidential Website. For example, the Kinsey Institute has 250 original prints by Wilhelm von Gloeden, who is known as the first photographer of the male nude.Open Monday through Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the Gallery showcases select pieces from the Institute’s collection of art, artifacts and photography.Guided public tours are offered on certain Fridays. Reservations are required for public tours and can be made by calling 812-855-7686 or emailing kinsey@indiana.edu.Have questions about birth control, sexual dysfunction, condoms, orgasm or sexual assault? Kinsey Confidential is a blog and podcast website from The Kinsey Institute that provides information on sexual issues for college students.Questions can be submitted anonymously at kinseyconfidential.org.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When former IU student David Kerner was watching hippopotamuses on a camping safari in Botswana, he didn’t know he would be woken by one outside his tent at 4 a.m. one day. Kerner went on this camping safari and other trips while studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa.The IU Office of Overseas Study facilitates more than 250 programs on all eight IU campuses to more than 2,500 students and gives more than $100,000 in need and merit-based scholarships annually. With so many options, the Office of Overseas Study provides guidance for interested students with a staff in Bloomington for advising, student services, financial information and budgets. While IU offers study programs in 17 languages in 52 countries, fluency is not required, according to the IU Overseas Study website.Kerner graduated in 2011 with a degree in psychology and was in Cape Town for the spring 2010 semester. “The best thing about IU study abroad programs is there are so many destinations,” he said.Kerner had advice to give for students traveling abroad.“Get your major out of the way quickly so you can take electives abroad,” he said. “Making friends with teachers always helps for those letters of recommendation.” Because he didn’t have many major requirements to fulfill, Kerner said he was able to take classes he wanted to while abroad, like a course in African politics.“Try everything,” he said. “Take risks.”The “First Steps” section at the IU Overseas Study website provides information on choosing a program, financial aid, alternative overseas experience and profiles of students who have studied abroad. IU programs and non-IU programs are both offered, but prospective students need to keep some things in mind when choosing, according to the website.IU programs offer direct IU credit, grades count in grade-point average and most financial aid is applicable. However, students should check that credits earned in non-IU programs are transferable and that financial aid can be applied. Grades for non-IU programs are not calculated in the GPA and it does not count toward senior residency. Application instructions for programs through Overseas Study, other IU units and non-IU programs can be found at overseas.iu.edu/apply/index.shtml.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Green Dream Clothing Company promises to plant a tree for every item sold, including accessories.Adam Swartz, a junior studying arts management, is the founder of the company. “I basically do everything from finances to marketing to social media,” he said. Swartz said he had always been into fashion and thought it would be something fun to try.“I got a little more serious late 2011,” he said. “I got incorporated through the state of Indiana and opened a bank account so I’m all legal.”He also designs all his merchandise. To build the brand, junior telecommunications major Ben Tamir Rothenberg started helping with media, taking photos and creating YouTube videos.“He was making shirts but had no high-quality pictures, and so I filled that void,” Rothenberg said. “We needed a certain look, a look of professionalism that we strive to attain.” Swartz said he got the idea of planting trees from his target market, “the environmentally aware 20-something college kid.”“I’ve always cared about the environment personally, and anything you do today you have to be a little different,” he said.Every week, Swartz said he sees how many items he’s sold and then pays Plant-It 2020, a separate nonprofit, to plant a tree.“I planted 20 trees in Zimbabwe,” he said. “It’s a pretty fun thing. Business has been good.”The clothes themselves also carry positive messages, Swartz said.“We’re not going to write ‘swag’ on our shirts — we’re going to write ‘stay positive,’” Rothenberg said. “I’m a fan of chasing your dreams.”Both would both like to continue Green Dream after graduation. “The next thing I’d like to do is not a food truck idea but a clothes truck,” Swartz said. “Looking down the road 10 years, I’d like to have my own store.”Junior Joe Turner is the head of Green Dream’s initiative to form a street team of interns. Turner said he would also like to see the brand be a recognizable name around campus and continue it after graduation.“This is the first semester we’ve had more turnaround and more of a chance of making it,” Rothenberg said. “You really have to push yourself to do things. Now we’re making our passion more of a reality.”Swartz takes what he learns in the classroom to help him with his business.“Every group project I’ve done I’ve tried to center it on Green Dream,” he said. “I like working on the real life stuff more than in the classroom.”Turner said he wants to spread the cause of Green Dream and promote the brand.“It’s not just clothes, it’s a lifestyle,” Turner said.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU Army ROTC cadets and seniors Matthew Smith and Thomas Mack were recently recognized as leaders among thousands of their peers.The two received the Sinclair L. Melner Award at the U.S. Army Cadet Command’s Leader Development and Assessment Course this summer.“This award recognizes the top two of more than 425 cadets tested in each of 13 training regiments, placing Hoosier cadets Smith and Mack among the top 26 of approximately 6,000 students tested,” Lt. Col. Michael Ogden said. “Of the 273 schools around the nation with Army ROTC, Indiana University was the only school with multiple cadets to earn this award.”Both received the award for consistently demonstrating excellence in critical thinking, mental and physical toughness, land navigation, resiliency, leadership and peer evaluations, Ogden said.“The purpose of ROTC is to train and assess Army officers, so it’s an entire program through college in classroom and hands-on experience,” Smith said. “Then, nationwide, usually the summer between your junior and senior year, you go to the course run by the Army. You’re thrown into a group of people you don’t know.”Smith said cadets are constantly evaluated during the course.“You go through a month of training and tasks and are evaluated all day everyday — how well you get people up and outside, how to attack something and everything,” he said. “Every cadet has to do this to become an officer.”Mack said it felt like being under a microscope.“They were watching how you perform and your leadership potential,” Mack said. “I was fortunate to have a lot of great guys in my platoon because you’re working with people you’ve never met before.”The course was at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash., and lasted 29 days.Smith served six years of active duty and then decided to finish his undergraduate at IU in order to go to medical school. He will graduate in December with a degree in biology.“I’m kind of an odd guy,” he said. “Awards don’t mean that much to me. I think it’s more important, and I was more happy when I found out we had done so well as a group. Cadets from IU had been very successful ... It’s a testament to the program that IU produced two cadets who received this award.”Smith found out he won the award the day before course graduation and said it’s always nice to get an award. Mack found out while lying on his bunk.“I felt like everything I had done paid off,” Mack said. “All the preparation I did and everything the program here did to prepare me and the extra time I put in paid off. It was a good feeling.”IU’s Army ROTC program was ranked fourth of 272 nationwide at the 2011 LDAC.“Our Hoosier Cadets routinely rank among the top scholars, athletes and leaders in the nation,” Ogden said. “It is truly an honor and a privilege to lead such a special group of Hoosiers.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In an effort by the IU Panhellenic Association to increase the number of sororities on campus, Alpha Sigma Alpha will return to IU.ASA is the second sorority to return to IU in recent years following the reinstatement of Theta Phi Alpha in fall 2011.Bringing these sororities back is part of an extension plan by PHA. The sororities were both chosen through a mutual selection process with PHA, said Suzanne Haynes, leadership consultant for the ASA national organization.“They realized they needed more organizations,” Haynes said. “Theta Phi Alpha and we were chosen through mutual selection. Theta Phi Alpha was a great little guinea pig, and now we’re here looking to help more women get into greek life.”ASA was active at IU about 20 years ago and has an active alumni base in Bloomington and Indianapolis, said senior Kendra Allenspach, PHA president. Increasing the number of women in the greek system is a goal of both ASA and PHA, Haynes said.“The PHA here has recognized that through statistics, a lot of women weren’t getting placed,” Haynes said. “And the goal is to have as many women placed in greek life as possible and, for them, that meant offering something different and that is a non-residential sorority.” Haynes will be in Bloomington during fall semester and most of spring semester to organize the colony before it becomes the Epsilon Phi chapter.“We will be a part of recruitment in January, which is an exciting thing,” Haynes said. “We don’t have plans for a house, and that would be down the road. This is great for people who can’t afford housing but are great doers on campus.”About 120 women came to callout meetings Tuesday and Thursday of the first week of classes for information about ASA and philanthropy in Bloomington, Haynes said.“As a greek organization, we are very focused on philanthropy,” Haynes said. “The meetings were about why we’re here and why we’re excited to be here.”There will be another callout meeting 8 p.m. today in Woodburn 120. Sophomores, juniors and seniors can come to the meeting, but freshmen can’t join until second semester.“We’re looking for women who are leaders, scholars and who meet our expectations,” Haynes said.In the coming weeks, interested women will have informal interviews with either Haynes, Communications and Marketing Coordinator Katie Matis Smith or Membership Growth Coordinator Lisa Stephenson, Haynes said. “We will also be at the Student Involvement Fair,” Haynes said. “We don’t have a set number of women to recruit, but we are looking to be competitive with the numbers of established sororities on campus.”While there are 26 sororities in the National Panhellenic Conference, ASA will be No. 21 for IU, Allenspach said.“We are so excited Alpha Sigma Alpha is here,” Allenspach said. “There are so many women interested so seeing those great numbers gives us hope that this will be a successful chapter.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Earlier this month, IU Foundation’s fiduciary directors selected Kelley School of Business Dean Daniel Smith to replace current IUF President Eugene Tempel, who will leave this fall.According to a press release, Smith’s role as president will begin Oct. 1, although he will act as the Kelley School’s interim dean until a replacement is found.Tempel, who has served IUF for four years, will return to the Center on Philanthropy at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis, where he served as executive director for 11 years prior to his work with IUF.“I’ve been asked to help build this School of Philanthropy,” Tempel said. “I’m looking forward to that.”Tempel said appointing Smith as the new president ensured the job went to someone with knowledge of the school and previous experience. “In these positions, it’s a great advantage to have someone coming from inside the University,” Tempel said. “Smith is coming from the business school, which is such a successful part of the University. He comes in with those kinds of experiences.”Five new members were also elected to IUF’s Board of Directors.For new members of the board, the nomination process is ongoing.“We actually went into the process by which we made two structures inside the board,” Tempel said. “One is the fiduciary board, and then a larger group that deals with fundraising and other functions. These members are in that larger group.” IUF manages an endowment of more than $1.57 billion and administers about 6,000 gift accounts, according to the foundation’s website. “What’s prompting us is this deliberate focus of the board on University funding,” Tempel said. “Finding people who are engaged in the University already. We’re very focused on that as a primary criteria, to find people who are engaged in all aspects of the University.”The five new members were primarily added because of their leadership, management and business experience and connections, Tempel said.“All of them have connections in the business community,” he said.New IUF board member Jeff Fettig has been chairman and chief executive officer of Whirlpool Corporation since January 2004 and received both a bachelor of science and a master of business administration in finance from the Kelley School, according to a press release.Alan Graf is executive vice president and chief financial officer of FedEx Corporation and also has received the same degrees from the Kelley School.Louis Jordan is senior vice president of corporate finance of Starbucks Corporation and received his master of business administration in finance from the Kelley School.Glenn Scolnik is chairman of Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Company Inc. Along with a bachelor of science in business and government relations from the Kelley School and a law degree from the Maurer School of Law, Scolnik was also inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 2000. Randolph Seger is partner of the law firm Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP and has a bachelor of science in marketing from the Kelley School and a law degree from the Maurer School of Law.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>How men make decisions about sexual partners, how mood affects sexual arousal in women and what prevents couples from using condoms are only some of the topics on sex being researched at IU’s ground-breaking Kinsey Institute. The Institute has been a source of research and information about issues in sex, gender and reproduction since 1947.The Institute is named for Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey gathered histories of sexual behavior in thousands of interviews, which culminated in his book “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” published in 1948. This was followed by his “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” in 1953. The volume “surprised everyone when it became a bestseller,” according to the Kinsey website.The Kinsey Institute offers a library, art collections, events, an active research program and the Kinsey Confidential Website. For example, Kinsey has 250 original prints by Wilhelm von Gloeden, who is known as the first photographer of the male nude.Open Monday through Friday, 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m., the Gallery showcases selected pieces from the Institute’s collection of art, artifacts and photography.Self-guided tours are available Monday through Friday, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and guided public tours are offered on certain Fridays. Reservations are required for public tours and can be made by calling 812-855-7686 or emailing kinsey@indiana.edu.Have questions about birth control, sexual dysfunction, condoms, orgasm or sexual assault? Kinsey Confidential is a blog and podcast website from The Kinsey Institute that provides information on sexual issues for college students.Questions can anonymously be submitted on the website.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When former IU student David Kerner was watching hippopotamuses on a camping safari in Botswana, he didn’t know he would be woken up at 4 a.m. by one outside his tent. Kerner went on this camping safari and other trips while studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa.The IU Office of Overseas Study facilitates more than 250 administered, co-sponsored or autonomous programs on all eight IU campuses to more than 2,500 students and gives more than $100,000 in need- and merit-based scholarships annually. With so many options, the Office of Overseas Study provides guidance for interested students with a staff in Bloomington for advising, student services, financial and budget.While IU offers 250 overseas study programs in 17 languages in 52 countries, fluency is not required, according to the IU Overseas Study website.Kerner graduated in 2011 with a degree in psychology and was in Cape Town for the spring 2010 semester.“The best thing about IU study abroad programs is there are so many destinations,” he said.For students considering studying abroad, Kerner gives this advice: “Get your major out of the way quickly so you can take electives abroad. Making friends with teachers always helps for those letters of recommendation,” he said. Because he didn’t have many major requirements to fulfill, Kerner said he was able to take classes he wanted to while abroad, like a course in African politics. He also had advice for when students are abroad.“Try everything,” he said. “Take risks.”The “First Step” section at the IU Overseas Study website provides information on choosing a program, financial aid, alternative overseas experience and profiles of students who have studied abroad.IU programs and non-IU programs are both offered, but prospective students need to keep some things in mind when choosing, according to the website.IU programs offer direct IU credit, grades count in grade-point average and most financial aid is applicable. However, students should check that credits earned in non-IU programs are transferrable and that financial aid can be applied. Grades for non-IU programs are not calculated in the GPA and it does not count toward senior residency.Application instructions for programs through Overseas Study, other IU units and non-IU programs can be found at www.indiana.edu/~overseas/apply/index.shtml.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Suzanne Phillips is the director of the Parents Association, an organization meant to connect parents to IU. We spoke to her about what this important resource can do for parents of IU freshmen.What is the Parents Association?Suzanne Phillips It’s an affiliate group of the Alumni Association and is a non-dues-paying association that links parents to the campus. We hold the Freshman Family Weekend and Parents Weekend in the fall, too. There’s a parent board representing 25 families that meets twice a year, and parents are automatically members when their kids go to IU.How does a parent join?SP All parents are automatic members. We used to send out a letter but had to stop last year because of costs so now we do email. The problem is, we don’t get the parent’s email, so they should give us their email so they can get the newsletter, Campus Link. They can email mykidis@indiana.edu, which will get to me, with their information.Why should parents join?SP They can email mykidis@indiana.edu with any questions they have, and we’re looking to be on Twitter and Facebook soon. Those will actually go to me, and I’ll be the one answering.Does the association offer anything special for parents of freshmen?SP The Freshman Family weekend will be the weekend of Sept. 14. The tentative schedule can be found online at http://studentaffairs.iub.edu/parents/, and there will be a tailgate tent before the game.What events should parents look forward to through the association?SP We host the Freshman Family Weekend and also the Parents Weekend for all other parents, and that will be the weekend of Nov. 2. The tentative schedule for that weekend is also online, and a tailgate tent will offer refreshments before that game, too.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>College allows a lot of freedom compared to high school. But before freshmen can get used to curfew-free lives, they have the freedom of deciding how much access to give their parents to their college lives. OneStart has a third-party access setting that students can assign to any person, like a parent or guardian. It grants that person access to the student’s information including grades, unofficial transcripts, class schedules and personal information such as addresses and phone numbers. Students can assign third-party access to as many people as they wish, so both Mom and Dad can keep tabs on their child’s grades. But some students might choose not to allow third-access to anyone - and that can create tension.Junior and environmental science major Kate Drass said her parents left the decision to her, and while she allowed them access, she kept her grades private.“With grades specifically, it’s about letting go of control,” she said. “It’s the kid’s responsibility now.”Drass said keeping that information inaccessible to her parents has actually helped with communication about academics.“They’ll ask, but we have that communication that I can say I might not be doing so well in one class,” she said. “I feel more willing to talk about it with them. If we have that communication rather than them having direct access to my grades, it’s better for us.”Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) has similar advice for parents when dealing with letting go of complete access to their child’s life.Regular communication about expectations can make it easier to avoid tension with your child, according to the CAPS website.If parents assume their child will want to give them access to every financial and academic detail but their child assumed that access stopped at high school graduation, communicating why each party felt that way can help.“Parents need to realize their kids are in college now,” Drass said. “It’s all about growing up and becoming responsible.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Instead of spending a week relaxing, senior Andrea Zambrano will lead a team of five students to volunteer in Peru through the Alternative Break Program.“The Alternative Break Program provides students the opportunity to work on issues domestically and internationally,” said Spring 2012 ABP Director Kelly Donoughe.Eleven trips are planned for spring break. Each trip has a team of about six students and a team leader, Donoughe said. Each team is paired with a nonprofit organization. Two teams will go abroad for spring break. One is pairing with Outreach 360 in Nicaragua, and the other is pairing with Coprodeli USA in Peru. The other teams will stay in the United States. Both nonprofits deal with education.Zambrano went to Alabama last spring break with ABP, but said she wanted to become more involved this year by becoming a team leader.“Last year, I just went on the trip,” she said. “For me, it wasn’t enough to go on another trip. I’m really passionate about education. I always have this week where you could rest, but I have time to give those hours in volunteering I don’t have during the year.” As team leader, Zambrano said she worked on contacting nonprofits and figuring out housing, transportation and the team’s budget. Zambrano also persuaded her friend, sophomore Kristina Carrillo, to participate in ABP. Carrillo looked for a trip that dealt with children and education and will be traveling to Nicaragua.“I heard people talk about it, but didn’t really know what it was,” Carrillo said. “Andrea said to apply and always talked about it and sounded really excited, and I didn’t have something to do for spring break. Peru was my first choice, but I was placed in the Nicaragua trip.”Carrillo said she is looking forward to learning a little bit more about the world.“I haven’t traveled a lot, but I’m interested in learning about the economic situation there and stuff we take for granted here,” she said. “You see and hear stuff on the news, but you never experience it.”Although the program is run by the Civic Leadership Development in the Kelley School of Business, all students, no matter their majors, are allowed to participate, Donoughe said.“The goal is to become an active citizen,” she said. “We want students to take their experiences back from spring break and be more cognizant of issues in the community. We want it to be a continuous experience.”To help with the cost of the trip, students can send letters to families and friends asking for donations. Scholarships are also offered through the IU Student Association.Zambrano said she also looks forward to making a difference in people’s lives.“To me, it’s really about making an impact on the people we help,” Zambrano said. “I just remember meeting the person we built a house for last year, and it was really special.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Sublime with Rome concert and Women’s Little 500 race are both scheduled for Friday night, April 20. Junior Brad Domash, public relations and marketing director for Union Board, said the events should not overlap due to a new time change.The women’s race will start at 7 p.m. with pre-race ceremony laps until the official start at 7:36 p.m., said Jordan Bailey, IU Student Foundation assistant director and Little 500 race coordinator. “The race has averaged one hour and 12 minutes, so with the green flag going down at 7:36, it should be over by 8:38,” Bailey said. “It goes to show how exact and precise the pre-race activities are.” Domash said planning for Little 500 concerts is very complicated due to the large scale of production.“It takes a lot of coordination to plan for race week,” he said. “But we’re moving the concert time to 9:30 because we want to respect the tradition for students of this legendary race.”Planning for the concert began last semester and involved much communication between committees and artists’ agents about the budget and date of the show, Domash said.“Planning started last semester with our previous concert director,” he said. “We look at what artists are feasible with our budget and decide with the students’ best interest in mind.”When sophomore Theta Phi Alpha rider Courtney Roessler was considering riding for the Women’s Little 500 race, she said she knew she would miss out on some Little 500 activities.“I knew I’d miss out on getting to know the frat we’ll be paired with, but I’ll still have Friday night and Saturday,” she said. “I’ve heard some people still deciding to go to the women’s race because they’re not huge Sublime fans.”Even though she knew she would have to miss out on some activities, Roessler said she would be disappointed if her favorite band was coming and she had to pick between the race and the concert.“It’s not all the time your favorite artist comes to your college,” she said.The time of the women’s race was moved three hours later than last year to 7 p.m. because it’s the 25th running of the Women’s Little 500, Bailey said. Riders will have to arrive earlier than usual for special ceremonies.“It is a team-to-team preference when to get to the track that day, but they tend to have a warm-up time to do some practice exchanges between 6 to 6:30, so riders could get there around 5 to 5:30.” Bailey said planning for this year’s race began right after last year’s with evaluating what to improve. A Women’s 25th Committee started meeting in August to plan for pre-race activities.“The race starters will be the women riders who had a lot to do with starting the race in ’88,” Bailey said. “They will be the ones to announce, ‘Mount your Schwinn bikes.’ We’re just trying to make it as special as possible.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Sigma Chi and Beta Theta Pi are raising funds for the American Cancer Society by strapping on skates for the philanthropic hockey event “Dropping the Puck on Cancer.”The game is at 10 p.m. Feb. 24 at Bloomington’s Frank Southern Ice Arena.Junior Charlie Herr said he and the two co-presidents of “Dropping the Puck on Cancer” are working on other events to raise money for the ACS, as well, although the events are not finalized.A hockey game between the IU Frat Stars and the IU hockey club team will begin at 9:15 p.m. Friday.Tickets will be $7 at the door, Herr said. The organizers behind “Dropping the Puck on Cancer” also plan to sell T-shirts at Kilroy’s Bar & Grill.The three organizers, Herr and Beta Theta Pi seniors Joshua Vollmer and Logan Davis, came together last year with a vision of setting up an ice rink in Dunn Meadow, but they moved the inaugural game to Frank Southern Ice Arena, Herr said.They saw potential in the event, which they planned for one month, after they were able to donate $2,600 to IU Dance Marathon and the variety show Big Man on Campus, Herr said.Herr, who is also Sigma Chi’s team captain, played in last year’s game and will play again this year.“We won last year 4-2, and everyone was stoked about it,” he said. “Besides bragging rights, we have a trophy mimicked after the Stanley Cup, but in wood.”Tickets to the Feb 24. game were sold online at droppingthepuck.com for $15 but sold out in 60 hours, given the arena’s maximum capacity of 500, Herr said. However, the organizers are talking with fasthockey.com about broadcasting the game online.Former Sigma Chi president and junior Andrew Esstman said the competition will tentatively include multiple teams next year.“Although the event only features two fraternities this year, next year’s event will incorporate more chapters via tournament-style play,” Esstman said. “Next year’s model will foster even more Greek involvement in the event, as well as raise more money for such an important cause.”Vollmer, co-president of “Dropping the Puck on Cancer” and member of Beta Theta Pi’s team, said sororities are also helping to popularize the event.“Each house will have the chance to sell jerseys, T-shirts, attend events and raise money for the event,” Vollmer said. “Whichever house raises the most money will receive 30 percent of the money raised, second will get 20 percent and third will get 10 percent for their philanthropies. The other 40 percent will go to the American Cancer Society.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With winter temperatures dropping below freezing, maintaining a comfortable temperature indoors can be pricey, according to IU’s Office of Sustainability. To help students stay warm and save money, IUOS and student-group Volunteers in Sustainability have partnered to offer winter weatherization workshops.These workshops, made possible by an IUSA grant, are targeted to students who live off-campus and see a spike in utility bills in the winter months.Julia Denison, a senior studio art major and coordinator for Volunteers in Sustainability, said the real point of the workshops is to show how simple these changes are and how they can save money.“Most people wouldn’t think to go out and buy this stuff on their own,” she said. “You might not think it’s important, but these are things people can use in their permanent homes in the future.”Rachel Irvine, an intern with the IUOS and a senior environmental major, said although the workshops are targeted to students who pay utility bills, anyone is welcome to attend.“We certainly won’t turn anyone away,” Irvine said. “Students will learn ways to make their homes more energy-efficient in the winter.”Not only learning about weatherization techniques, attendees are also given supplies to make their housing more energy efficient. These materials include weather stripping, light outlet insulation covers, window insulation and more.“Some of the materials aren’t allowed in dorm rooms, and we always tell students to ask permission from landlords before using anything,” Irvine said. “We also take the group around the Office of Sustainability because it is a house so we can show them how to use the materials. It’s pretty hands-on.”Denison said it’s beneficial to see energy-saving techniques actually being used.“When you see it in action, you see how important it is,” she said. Irvine said while using these winterization techniques will save money, it is also helping the environment.“In the end, people are making their homes more energy-efficient while saving money,” Irvine said.There are three workshops offered, and the first on Jan. 24 had about 10 people attend, Irvine said. IU Director of Sustainability Bill Brown leads the workshops.“Most students live off-campus, and a big part of their expenses relate to utility payments,” Brown said in a press release. “These workshops will offer simple techniques to recover those lost dollars while conserving energy and water resources.”The two workshops left will be held 2 to 3 p.m. Friday and 4 to 5 p.m. Feb. 1 at the IU Office of Sustainability at 704 E. 10th St.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The cold rain didn’t stop a crowd of people from gathering in Ballantine Hall on Wednesday and filling the room with buzz about the man in the front corner in the blue cap.Tim O’Brien, author of award-winning “The Things They Carried” and “Going After Cacciato,” visited IU as part of the Themester “Making War, Making Peace” because he’s written several books about the subject.Before O’Brien, there were two kinds of war stories. Some shed a positive light on war, and others opposed it, but his books go beyond teaching a lesson.“I think war has been the basis of my writing career because it was my first encounter with hard choices, my first encounter with death and facing my mortality,” O’Brien said. “It was traumatic, and what’s traumatic sticks with you.”O’Brien, like so many others, was drafted to fight in Vietnam but said he struggled with the decision to go or not.“I wore two heads that summer,” he said. “One was fiercely patriotic and believed in duty and country and all that. The other head believed in all that but knew that certain blood was being spilled for uncertain reasons.”This internal conflict of two-headedness is necessary to handle the pesky ambiguities and unknowns in life, O’Brien said.“Let us not commit the sin of one-headedness,” he said. “Watch out for such platitudes as ‘the courage of conviction.’ Your two heads will be heavy, but carry them high.”Even though “The Things They Carried” and “Going After Cacciato” are war stories on the surface, they also delve into other experiences that come with being a soldier.“I think war can be a platform for talking about other things: conscience, mothers, fathers, girlfriends,” he said. “What I try to avoid is the standard war story, which is typical. It’s easy and fast. It’s the story of basic training, trained to be a killer, baptism under fire, followed by going home. It’s a standard arc, so standard it’s boring. You’ve heard it a thousand times and seen it in a million movies.”In his lecture, O’Brien said literature is now under attack and expected to do more than tell a story, but this is a problem.“One doesn’t have to defend story, like you don’t have to defend breathing,” he said. “I wanted the reader to participate in the lifelong guilt of staring at a dead man.”While members of the current generation haven’t faced a draft, O’Brien said there are basic similarities about how they experience war and peace compared to the generation that went through Vietnam.“The fear, the sorrow, the returning home and trying to make a life out of the chaos and butchery, in those ways it’s identical to what I went through,” he said.O’Brien’s iconic baseball cap also tells a war story.“It has to do with coming home from Vietnam,” he said. “I got on a plane to go back to Minnesota and was still wearing my uniform, and during the flight I went in the back of the plane, and I took off my uniform and put on jeans, a sweater, and put on a baseball cap and haven’t taken them off since.”Later, he said his favorite cap is, “the one I have on, of course,” a red cap with white letters spelling “Indiana.”