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The history of IU’s fight song dates back to over one hundred years ago when the school’s athletic support was still growing.
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Merriam Webster defines “Hoosier” as a native or resident of Indiana. The definition is straightforward enough, but it doesn’t provide any insight as to where the nickname came from or what it really means. Steve Haller, senior director of Indiana Historical Society’s collections and library, wrote the article “The Meanings of Hoosier — 175 Years and Counting,” which examines the word’s origin and usage.
On the sixth floor, in a room that is precisely 68 degrees Fahrenheit with 47 percent humidity, Jim Canary is bent over a book of hours — a type of prayer book — hand-written and illustrated in the 15th century. He cleans two 600-year-old pieces of leather.
Okay, we get it. No one knows what a hoosier is.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>At 9:15 p.m., opening act Isaiah Rashad peeled off his shirt and lit a cigarette in the same place Meryl Streep received her honorary doctoral degree from the University a little more than a week ago.Within the hour, Union Board’s official Little 500 performer ScHoolBoy Q would be performing at the IU Auditorium. Men in bucket hats and basketball jerseys and women in crop tops screamed in anticipation. He came on stage close to 10 p.m. and after introducing himself, opened with his popular single “Hands On The Wheel.”“Excited is an understatement,” freshman Melissa Broaddas said before the show.Before getting on stage he tweeted from his account, @ScHoolBoyQ, “Bout to Hit da stage!!!!!! Go #HOOSIERS.”Freshman Kersea Gable came to the concert with a high school friend, Tommy Green.“We kinda freaked out,” Gable said. “We were sitting there waiting in front of the computer until the tickets went on sale.”During the concert, ScHoolBoy Q played other songs such as “Collard Greens” from his 2014 album “Oxymoron” that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. It sold 139,000 copies in the week ending March 2 and was the largest debut album since Eminem’s “Marshall Mathers LP 2” came out in November of last year. The auditorium was nearly sold out for the concert. The venue can hold about 3,300 people. IU Auditorium representatives said they sold all but some seats of the “obstructed view” seating in the balcony.Freshman Shantanece Ellis and Broaddus said they bought their tickets half an hour after they went on sale. Opening acts for the show began at around 8 p.m. starting with all California-based acts, Audio Push, Vince Staples and then Isaiah Rashad.They performed samples of their own music as well as covers of Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” Throughout the concert, fog floated up to the ceiling and a Technicolor rainbow of lights shined out into the crowd and onto the organ pipes on the walls, making the room resemble the Kilroy’s Sports Bar dancefloor more than the IU Auditorium. As part of the Oxymoron World Tour, ScHoolBoy Q has visited several other college campuses in the last month.He is a member of rap group Black Hippy with Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock and Ab-Soul.Sophomores Sid Suresh and Jason Garza said they didn’t know very much about ScHoolBoy Q before he was announced as the Little 500 performer, but they bought tickets anyway. “They always choose good music,” Garza said. “I’ve yet to find a concert I don’t like, and there was time to learn his music.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Seated in a dark classroom inside the Student Building, Julian Batts watched himself amplified on a giant projection screen. He watched himself spin the wheel and shout “L!” to Pat Sajak. And he watched Vanna White walk over and tap the four blue “L” screens. To his right, Batts’ friend Sara Zaheer turned to him, “Is it Achilles?” “Just wait,” he said. More than half a million YouTube views later, freshman Batts earned the label “worst Wheel of Fortune contestant ever” on the Internet last week after three flubs on the show’s “College Week.” With $11,700 in winnings, the Hudson and Holland Scholar, Herbert Presidential Scholar and Hutton Honors College member beat out students from the University of Alabama and Texas A&M University. But it was his three mistakes — mispronouncing Achilles and missing the completion of two other nearly-finished puzzles — that earned him a title he wasn’t anticipating when he arrived in the Culver City, Calif. studio at 7:15 that morning. Now, he takes special care to ennunciate “Achilles” very clearly — “uh-keel-eez.” “If I could describe that episode in one word it would be ‘crazy,’” Batts said.It’s hard to say when Batts’ journey to the big wheel began. It might have been when he submitted his online application soon after starting at IU.Or it might have been when he and his mom drove through an ice storm to Terre Haute for his audition in December. Or, maybe it was when he watched his first episode at age 10 or 11. He remembers the colors and lights of the show grabbing his attention. But his longtime love for what he simply calls “Wheel” culminated when he taped the show’s 6000th episode on Valentine’s Day this year. A self-proclaimed game show fanatic, he also loves following shows such as “Survivor,” “Big Brother” and “The Amazing Race,” among others. “That is just great TV, in my opinion,” he said.Back in the studio, Batts spent the whole day going over rules and rehearsing for the episode before it was finally his turn to tape at 3 p.m.A few minutes before the show began, a casting coordinator warmed up the contestants, showing them how to spin the wheel and making sure they had plenty of enthusiasm, and then she left the stage. “That’s when it hit me,” Batts said. “I was like, ‘It’s just us three up here, and in less than a minute all the music and the cameras, the lights — they’re all going to start rolling.’” He said he remembers picking up the million-dollar wedge a few minutes into the show and thinking, “You have to stay focused.” “And that’s something I might have kind of shifted,” he said now. “My focus maybe got a little off track.” He said he wasn’t familiar with the spelling of “Achilles,” so the pronunciation of the name just “didn’t click.”He remembers looking out into the audience and seeing his family that had traveled to California with him, and though they couldn’t communicate with each other, he said he knew they were encouraging him to stay positive and keep going.“Sometimes when you’re unfamiliar with words, they can trip you up,” Batts said. “And then when you’re under the spotlight, people can notice that much more easily.” Batts didn’t actually lose $1 million, he clarified. According to official “Wheel of Fortune” rules, Batts said, when a player lands on a million-dollar wedge, they then have to answer the puzzle correctly and not hit any “bankrupt” wedges for the rest of the game, win the game and also spin the wheel again in the bonus round and land on a million dollar envelope and solve that puzzle correctly.He said it’s only ever been done on the show twice.Despite his fumbles during the taping, Batts said he never expected what happened to go viral the way it did. “I’m not online scrolling through to see, ‘What’s the worst comment someone could say about me?’” he said. “That just gets negative energy in your brain and makes everything worse.” Right after the episode aired April 11, the double major in business and Spanish said he definitely noticed some double takes walking around campus.Despite some of the negative comments online, he said he’s experienced an outpouring of support from the University in person.“I have a strong support system, and these people are behind me 100 percent,” Batts said. Back in the Student Building, Batts listened to the buzzer and watched his competitor from A&M complete the puzzle. Throughout the room he heard murmurs of laughter and people saying, “That’s OK!” Later, he watched himself take the wheel, and spin again. “People can say what they’re going to say — haters gonna hate — but at the end of the day, I won.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After two months of deliberation, Indiana Limestone Company has plans to be sold. An auction was set to take place Monday but was canceled because only one firm offered a bid. If approved in bankruptcy court Wednesday, Indiana Commercial Finance LLC will buy the company’s assets. It is unlikely that employees will be laid off as a result of this sale. Court documents show that stalking-horse bidder Indiana Commercial Finance has had plans to bid for the company since at least February. Stalking-horse bidders are typically selected by the company in a bankruptcy sale like this one to avoid low bids on assets.Other bids were due April 11, but none were received. Following approval on the sale for a $26 million credit bid at Wednesday’s hearing, a closing will occur in the next couple of weeks, and the sale will be made final.Indiana Commercial Finance was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Rosemont, Ill., according to Bloomberg Businessweek. It is owned and controlled by Chicago-based private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital. Indiana Commercial Finance acquired Victor Oolitic Stone Co. Feb. 17, the day that ILC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.When ILC filed for bankruptcy, it cited a debt of $50 million to $100 million. In 2010 private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners bought ILC and merged it with Victor Oolitic Stone Company, which it purchased in an earlier Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in 2009.A full layoff of the 166-person staff was expected to take place between April 28 and May 11, according to a WARN notice filed with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. But within a typical sale of assets, most, if not all, employees will be rehired by the buyer immediately.The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice Act requires shutting down companies of a certain size to provide these notices even if a future sale is possible.The demand for Indiana limestone remains strong, contrary to some recent sweeping statements about the industry, according to a press release distributed by the Indiana Limestone Institute of America in March. ILC is just one of several limestone quarriers in the area.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Outside, a pink light glows through the windows of a small white restaurant. Nearby, a sign welcomes hungry customers in all caps: “TRY OUR SHRIMP & FISH NIBBLERS.” And inside, a woman unwraps the aluminum foil from a Hershey’s kiss into her boyfriend’s waiting palm.Their two-top is now littered with Valentine’s Day dinner remnants — almost-drained drinks, boxed leftovers, and a very precariously stacked tower of empty, grease-stained hamburger boxes. The couple of six months is celebrating the holiday with a dinner at Bloomington’s White Castle — and they are totally fine with it.It’s more famous for the stomach-churning saying, “they’re called sliders because they’ll slide right through you,” and Crave Cases than a hot date destination. And yet, for close to two dozen couples, families, and friends, this restaurant by the side of the highway seemed like just the place to spend their evening.For several years White Castle franchises around the country have taken to hosting sit-down Valentine’s Day dinners. Guests need reservations, behind-the-counter cashiers become attentive waiters, and little white castles are transformed, for one night, into palaces fit more for Will and Kate than Harold and Kumar.So, for general manager Lacy Jones, Valentine’s Day begins well before Feb. 14, in the aisles of the local Dollar Tree and Hobby Lobby. She knew she definitely wanted black tablecloths this year — fancy restaurants seem to always have black tablecloths — but with a $25 budget from the corporate office, pickings were slim. Standing in the aisle of the Dollar Tree, just across the parking lot from White Castle, she counted packages of miniature bubbles and boxes of stickers, adding prices in her head to avoid going over budget.In years past she’s used her own funds to supplement the $25 and fully bring her ideas to life — like the time she decided to freeze mint leaves and raspberries in ice cubes. “I’m not sure if customers appreciated it as much as I did,” she says. She’s toned down her decor ideas since then — but not by much.Picture the dining room of your typical fast food restaurant: sparse, plastic, and fluorescent. Now dunk that into a grocery store Valentine’s Day aisle: reds, pinks, and sparkle everywhere. Don’t forget to add a soundtrack of Taylor Swift’s bubblegum pop “Love Story” and Adele’s piano ballad “Chasing Pavements” pulsing out of the speakers.Lean in and take a whiff of the sugary vanilla wafting from the red cream soda filling up plastic fish bowls on every table. Resting on silver trays, they help to cover up the ever-present smell of fried food drifting through the restaurant. And that pink light that’s turning your onion chips and white button-down the color of freshly cut orchids? That’s the cellophane covering the usually unforgiving ceiling lights.**“I’m feeling straight up fat and sassy right now,” Grant Fowler said, looking past his personal pile of 10 empty White Castle boxes at his friend, Casey Johnson. She lifted her paper cup to his, “Cheers to that.” Grant is a stonecutter in Ellettsville and Casey (“the successful one,” Grant said) is a pharmacy technician at Kroger. Best friends for five or six years, they shared, Grant invited her to dinner because he went last year, and he calls this place “home.” The store is open 24 hours on the weekend, and because he said his stomach “can’t handle” Taco Bell, White Castle is the best place to refuel before, during, and after a night out.“I’ll get a 30-pack of sliders and a 30-pack of beer — I’ll walk into a party with a case in each hand, and I’ll be the life of the party,” he said.**And yet, it seemed like the party had just arrived. A trio of girls walked through the restaurant’s front door and up to the host stand on chunky heels. Violet Ploszaj, Haley Brooks, and Kelly Franklin: They’re all psychology majors, all from Highland, Ind., and all call White Castle “their spot” during the school year.It’s just a short drive down IN-37 from McNutt Quad, where Kelly and Violet are roommates. Taking off their coats at a booth, they were dressed in all black — dresses, tights, heels — acknowledging the irony that they were more ready for the night ahead than a typical Valentine’s Day dinner. “We’re like, the three blind mice,” Violet said. “Or,” she laughed. “The Three Musketeers probably sounds better.”**“I knew any girl that would let me come here on Valentine’s Day was a keeper,” Rob Moynihan said. After taking a last bite of her chocolate-covered-cheesecake-on-a-stick, Meg Tresenriter stepped out of the cozy restaurant and into the below-freezing night air. Rob, her boyfriend, followed close behind. Before climbing into his Pontiac Grand Prix, he offered her a pair of thick wool socks — and asked her to tie them into a blindfold around her head.They had just finished their second-ever Valentine’s Day meal at White Castle. The couple of a year and half went last year because it was a low-key option, and they had only been together for a few months. Now, it’s a tradition. Once they left the restaurant, she remembers he drove in circles around the city’s west side for close to 20 minutes. Money was tight this year. They had moved in with Rob’s parents in August while they both finished school at Ivy Tech Community College, and he had told her earlier in the day that he hadn’t gotten her any sort of gift.The whole time she sat next to him with a gray infinity scarf pulled over her eyes (the socks didn’t fit around her head) before they finally arrived. Unknown to her, their destination was the Marriott on the other side of the highway from the White Castle. But until they were standing in the lobby and she smelled the chlorine from the hotel’s pool, she says she was clueless.“I kept asking if we were going to our friends’ house in Ellettsville,” she says. But Rob had kept his secret the whole day. While he told Meg he was out running errands, he and his mom went to the hotel to decorate. Even during dinner, when asked what their plans for after the meal would be, they both just looked at each other before Meg answered: “Probably just go home and watch a movie."Back in the hotel room, lilies, her favorite flower, were on the desk next to a laptop playing, “You Are My Sunshine.”You make me happy when skies are gray,She started to cry, so Rob pulled her in for a hug —You never know, dear, — And a kiss. He told her,How much, “I love you.”By now, any remnants of Valentine’s Day are crumpled somewhere in a landfill. Torn envelopes stained with rosy lipstick kisses are decomposing next to piles of soggy napkins, while heart-shaped chocolate boxes sink into the sludge near withered carnations. Brief and sometimes expendable, Valentine’s Day — like taking a pit stop in a fast food joint’s drive-thru — holds a distinctive quality. Fleeting as it might be, you can still hear the smile in Meg’s voice when she recalls her date at the Castle several weeks earlier: “It’ll be our thing as long as we’re a thing.”
Outside, a pink light glows through the windows of a small white restaurant. Nearby, a sign welcomes hungry customers in all caps: “TRY OUR SHRIMP & FISH NIBBLERS.” And inside, a woman unwraps the aluminum foil from a Hershey’s kiss into her boyfriend’s waiting palm.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>All 3,100 available tickets for Meryl Streep’s April 16 lecture at IU were distributed in just a few hours Monday. An orderly line filled the IU Auditorium’s lobby as 522 students and community members filed through, waiting between 45 minutes to almost an hour and a half before stepping up to the ticket windows. “I’ve always loved Meryl,” senior Madeline Dinges said while waiting in line. “I think she’s the epitome of classy Hollywood.” Katie Williams left her home in Indianapolis at 7 a.m. Monday morning in order to pick up fellow IU-Purdue University Indianapolis senior Kevin Boling in Terre Haute. They arrived in Bloomington to get their tickets at 11 a.m. “I would walk through a pile of broken glass to see Meryl Streep,” Boling said, laughing. Williams and Boling said they both saw Streep when she spoke on campus with Jane Pauley in 2010. “At the end when they were wrapping up, there was this moment of awkward silence, and I screamed, ‘I love you!’” Boling said. “And then she looked at me, and she blew me a kiss.” Streep will visit campus to speak as part of the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture Series and to accept an honorary doctoral degree from the University. “Given the number of calls we received about the event, we were prepared to handle a large crowd, and I believe the distribution process went very smoothly,” Maria Talbert, associate director of the IU Auditorium, said.Despite the quick distribution Monday, those interested in going will have one more opportunity to possibly attend: a standby line will be recognized starting at 1 p.m. the day of the lecture. Tickets for the event were free, but the public must be in their seats by 2:50 p.m. Any returned or unused tickets will be given to people in the standby line on a first come, first served basis, Talbert said. IU Cinema will also show several films starring Streep in her honor, including her most recent work, “August: Osage County,” throughout April and May. “It makes me so happy to know that she’s getting that honorary doctorate,” Williams said. “We’re IU students too, so it feels nice to have something in common with Meryl Streep.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Indiana Limestone Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week and is expected to lay off 166 employees.Headquartered in Oolitic, Ind., about 20 miles south of Bloomington, ILC has been facing layoffs since 2010 when Cleveland-based private equity firm Resilience Capital Partners bought and merged it with Victor Oolitic Stone Company, another southern Indiana limestone company.Local 741 of the Laborers International Union of North America, one of four unions with employees at ILC, used to represent 45 to 50 quarry workers at ILC, but since the sale, that number has decreased to nine.“It’s been going downhill ever since they took over,” Bobby Minton, business manager for the Local 741, said.Layoffs are expected to take place between April 28 and May 11, according to a notice filed Monday with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development.“We will try to put them somewhere else,” Minton said of the employees he represents. He said because quarry workers have such specialized skills though, it could be difficult to train them in another field.ILC officials hired investment bankers who have reached out to more than 100 potential purchasers, according to Dow Jones.The purpose of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing is to reorganize the company’s liabilities. The process requires a vote by creditors and approval by a bankruptcy judge. In typical cases a business will continue to operate through court deliberations.The company’s estimated assets and liabilities are between $50 million and $100 million, according to the filing.During the last century, the ILC cut the stone for dozens of national icons and landmarks including the Empire State Building, the Pentagon and the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis along with many IU buildings and dormitories.It was estimated that 67 percent of all building stone shipped throughout the U.S. came from Monroe and Lawrence counties in 1930, according to an ILC brochure.ILC is also known for owning the quarry in Monroe County that was included in 1979’s “Breaking Away.”ILC did not return calls for comment by the time of publication.
As the keynote speaker for the Women in Business “Have it All!” conference Saturday, former Cosmopolitan Editor-in-chief Kate White drew upon her personal rise up the magazine masthead and 14-year experience running the top selling magazine on newsstands to dish out her bold career advice.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Don't drink too much if you want to date her again.Don't wake roommates when you come in late from a date to regale them with accounts of the good time you had. And don't throw your clothes all around the room while undressing.Don't collect pins. Though wearing a boy's fraternity pin does not signify formal engagement on Indiana campus, it is considered very bad taste to wear more than one at a time.Don't smoke where ashtrays are not provided.Don't "periscope" (peek) over a fellow student's shoulder, whether you are cribbing or just checking up on progress.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Don't drink too much if you want to date her again.Don't wake roommates when you come in late from a date to regale them with accounts of the good time you had. And don't throw your clothes all around the room while undressing.Don't collect pins. Though wearing a boy's fraternity pin does not signify formal engagement on Indiana campus, it is considered very bad taste to wear more than one at a time.Don't smoke where ashtrays are not provided.Don't "periscope" (peek) over a fellow student's shoulder, whether you are cribbing or just checking up on progress.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>If you’ve spent the past week crying over “Dawson’s Creek” reruns while swaddled in dirty blankets and empty cartons of Ben & Jerry’s, you might be the victim of the common phenomenon known as the “turkey drop.” “Breaking up is hard to do,” Neil Sedaka said, but at this time of the year, you’re certainly not alone. According to the Atlantic, Thanksgiving break is one of the most popular times of the year for college students to break up. Most often, freshmen who have been keeping up long-distance relationships since the semester began have finally started to cut the cord with their high school sweethearts. But freshmen aren’t the only ones who endure this unfortunate truth. Thanksgiving is also considered a convenient time to dump someone because it’s before the holiday season when it’s viewed as just downright mean to break up with a significant other.So, if this sounds like you, and you’re “so sick of love songs” on the radio, put down the box of tissues and turn up the volume. This playlist will get you back on your and feet and on the dance floor in no time. Just remember to change out of your groutfit, first.“Part of Me” by Katy Perry“Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blows; But you’re not going to break my soul.”“Catch My Breath” by Kelly Clarkson“No one can hold me back, I ain’t got time for that.”“Just Like a Pill” by Pink“Instead of making me better, you keep making me ill.”“Running If You Call My Name” by HAIM“I’ll keep running if you call my name.”“Cry Me a River” by Justin Timberlake“Your bridges were burned. Now it’s your turn to cry.”“I’m Still Standing” by Elton John“And if our love was just a circus you’d be a clown by now.”“Go Your Own Way” by Fleetwood Mac“Loving you isn’t the right thing to do.”“Stronger” by Britney Spears“I’m not your property as from today.”“Better Off Alone” by Alice Deejay“Do you think you’re better off alone?”“Bound 2” by Kanye WestJust take a moment to rejoice in the fact that you’re not trapped on a motorcycle with Kanye.