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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Where to find IU's most famous statues, buildings, and monuments— and the traditions behind them.DUNN FAMILY CEMETARIESWhere Adjacent to Beck Chapel and in front of Foster Residence CenterThe legend When IU bought the land from the Dunn family there were three stipulations. Their family plots could not be moved, which is why there are two cemeteries on campus. There are no live burials anymore, and most of the plots are recognizable IU names. The second stipulation was that for every tree IU cut down to construct a building, one had to be planted in its place. Herman B Wells later said for every tree cut down, two trees must be replanted. The final stipulation was that IU could not move the Dunn family’s “Sweetheart Tree,” which currently stands inside the chemistry building. HERMAN B WELLS STATUEWhere Sitting on a bench on the west side of campus, near the Sample GatesThe legend Herman B Wells was one of the greatest presidents in IU’s history. At freshmen orientation, parents are told if they shake Wells’ outstretched hand, their student will graduate in four years.Because the sculptor was a University of Minnesota grad, under the brim of Wells’ hat is inscribed “Go Gophers.”THE ROSE WELL HOUSEWhere In Old Crescent, near Wylie and Owen halls and Dunn WoodsThe legend Built in 1908, the Rose Well House was originally part of the old College Building. Legend states that an IU female is not an official co-ed until she is kissed under the house for the twelve strokes of midnight. Another myth is that a couple will be together forever if they kiss at midnight on Valentine’s Day.SHOWALTER FOUNTAINWhere In the Fine Arts Plaza, in front of the IU Auditorium and between the Lilly Library and School of Fine ArtsThe legend The fountain depicts the Birth of Venus. On the night of IU’s last NCAA championship in 1987, students came to celebrate at Showalter Fountain and stole all of the fish that surround her. Four of the original fish were found, and although another one was recast in spring 2011, the fifth original fish continues to elude the IU administration.BRYAN HOUSEWhere Next to Ballantine Hall, behind Delta GammaThe legend The Bryan House is typically the home of IU’s president. President Michael McRobbie and his wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie, use the house as an office. A house cat, Hermie, is known to be a protector of the grounds. The Bryan House also hosts a reception for incoming freshmen and outgoing seniors to talk to the administration about their IU life. The landscape around the house reflects the theme of the president at the time. McRobbie’s theme is sustainability.BECK CHAPELWhere Across from Ballantine Hall and the Chemistry BuildingThe legend Completed in 1956, Beck Chapel is IU’s non-denominational chapel on campus. It holds copies of the Bible, Quran and Torah, and is open 24/7 during finals week. Many IU sweethearts marry inside, but the wait list is one year, said Allison Williams, reservationist at the chapel.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>While the past few days have brought traditional winter weather, the overall winter season in Bloomington has been warmer than usual. The IU Grounds and Maintenance Campus Division usually works through the night to clear snow and salt down icy roads, but the groundskeepers have been mulching and planting flower beds in recent weeks.“The warm weather has allowed us to speed up our yearly tasks and get ahead of the game,” said Trent Chitwood, general supervisor for the campus division. “We have been mulching around campus, which puts us in a good position for the mowing season.” While the unplanned warmth has forced the crew to re-configure its plans, it ultimately has allowed them to be more productive, Campus Division Manager Mike Girvin said. “Our long-term master plan had to change, but we accomplished a lot on our list of filler projects,” Girvin said. “These are jobs that we have wanted to get done for three or four years, such as general clean up of campus and cleaning debris out of the creek. We now have time for that.” He said the weather has also improved employee morale. Girvin explained he couldn’t be more proud of how his team has come together. He said this weather is also ideal to complete jobs that are typically saved for the summer months because the employees are more comfortable working in the warmer conditions. Howver, the weather serves as a red flag for other aspects the crew deals with. Spring flowers such as daffodils have been popping up on campus, and some trees have already started to bud. But the crew can’t get completely out of winter mode in case the weather turns for the worse. “Our trash has been worse this winter,” Chitwood said. “Normally, the trash load slows down because we have guys out there picking up three to four times a week, but they have been doing other tasks now.” Environmentally, this early warmth could cause problems for plants, too, said Vicky Meretsky, associate professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. “For gardeners, the problem tends to be that plants ‘wake up’ too early,” Meretsky said. “Constant freezing and thawing tends to cause frost heaving, which is hard on shallow plant roots, as well as causing damage to roads and sidewalks.” Roger Hangarter, chancellor’s professor of biology, explained these plant changes would normally be most apparent in non-native species. The native plants will stay dormant longer since they use day length as a seasonal cue. Areas around the Sample Gates and the Indiana Memorial Union have already been mulched for spring, a task that normally would not be completed until two months down the road. Because the crew is so far ahead of schedule, one project that the division hopes to focus on in the spring is turf care, Chitwood said. “We are normally struggling to be in this place in late April and early May,” Girvin said. “Needless to say, I have been very pleased with this winter weather.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Using everyday items such as kitchen sinks, trash cans, brooms and newspapers, the performers of STOMP created rhythms and beats this weekend in the IU Auditorium.“It’s so cool how they can perform an entire show without speaking once,” sophomore Allie Hurwich said. “I had heard good things about the show, and it turned out really great.”Not only was the show rhythmical, it was also extremely visual. Performers used lighters during one scene to have a mini light show, making patterns with the lights. The auditorium lights also created shadows on the wall that resembled giants marching toward the audience. Whether it was a martial arts-inspired fight scene or men marching across the stage on giant trash cans, the shadows dancing on the walls added to the noises that were happening onstage. “The show was pretty awesome,” said Analilia Silva, an audience member and the director of global strategy and international initiatives for the Kelley School of Business. “It was really creative and different. It was like nothing I had ever seen before.”Through the crashing and banging, STOMP managed to tell a story without words. Each performer had a character he or she portrayed and each had a starting role in at least one scene. Humor was an underlying element that audience members of all ages enjoyed, especially when a performer was hit in the head from a prop being hurled at him from off stage — an event that was planned with the audience before the show. The performers’ competition for attention also led to many laughs. The audience members were given a chance to create some beats of their own. One of the performers divided the audience into different sections of hand clapping and feet stomping to create its own musical scene for STOMP. “The musicality makes STOMP so popular because it’s the best way to reach people,” said Nicole Silvernell, a student volunteer at the auditorium. “Shows like this that are interactive and let the audience cheer and dance get the best response from an audience because they actually get to be a part of the show.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Blaring fire trucks and glowing floats cruised down Third Street and Indiana Avenue on Friday as the 53rd annual Homecoming parade delivered the spirit of IU. Musician and record producer Todd Rundgren served as grand marshal. Rundgren led the crowd and energized the mood for the evening. Rundgren is a familiar face at IU, having taught a seminar for Wells Scholars and Hutton Honors students last year. “I’m not an alumnus anywhere because I never went to school,” Rundgren said. “My only college experience was at IU, and it was a no-brainer to accept the position of grand marshal.”Rundgren said he loved the classic college campus feel of IU, and the students he worked with also inspired him. “I met some great students here,” Rundgren said. “Not only were they figuratively inspirational, they helped me change and rethink things I was working on at the time. Just the conversations I had and the suggestions I heard helped me musically.”This was the first time the Homecoming parade was at night, and Rundgren said he was excited to be part of the change.“The lights on the floats will create something different,” Rundgren said. “I’m excited to see the fireworks.”Rundgren “epitomized our theme of Rocktoberfest,” said Tricia Riveire of the IU Alumni Association.– Nicole Montella
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When the beauty of a fairy tale met 14-foot-high flexible poles, Strange Fruit was the outcome. This performance art troupe, based in Melbourne, Australia, features three belles who tell a story using music and movement on custom-designed poles that help them glide through the air. “We also wanted to create a sense of wonder and fun and transform and liven a public space,” said Grant Mouldey, associate director of the show. “We wanted to showcase an all-female performance and the construction of women and how they tell a story.”The women on stilts first appeared on campus Thursday outside the IU Art Museum and made three more appearances throughout Bloomington as part of the celebration for the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.The act featured three women, or belles, clad in bright magenta and purple and theatrical makeup. It began with each belle scaling the poles to reach the top. Then, the performers strapped themselves in and pulled up their full-hooped skirts. The magic started as the belles began leaning and moving in circles on the stilts, allowing them to execute gravity-defying dips. The belles teased one another and portrayed how they face the ups and downs of life together. Strange Fruit is a free production that has traveled all over the world. Transforming any patch of grass into a backdrop for performance art. The women in the air did just that.“It was very pretty,” said 7-year-old Gianna Skaggs as she watched. “The girls looked like princesses.”Besides creating a story for people to enjoy, observers, such as student Lorissa Pietruszka, said they enjoyed how the production also brought culture to IU.“The different music they used from different parts of the world is culturally significant,” Pietruszka said. “Because we are in southern Indiana, you don’t think we would see much of that, but we get to all the time.”The women of Strange Fruit said they perfect their act with training and hours of practice. They added that two of the belles have a dance background, while the other has experience as a trapeze artist.“The main part of the audition was being able to climb up the pole,” performer Natalie Abbott said. “It takes a lot of core strength. After that, it’s about learning the technique and how to use your body to slow down your movements or how to do the big dives and then stop.”Those dives and dips were what thrilled attendees who attended the Australian artists’ performance like student Andie Riffer. “It was brilliant,” Riffer said as she watched the belles swing high in the air.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Archie is a longhaired dachshund and the official mascot of the anthropology department.Listed as a member of the faculty on the department’s directory, Archie has been a member of the anthropology department since he was 10 weeks old. “I didn’t want to be stuck in my office all day, so having a dog to walk around was a perfect excuse to leave,” said Richard Wilk, Archie’s owner and a provost professor in the anthropology department. “I was lucky that my daughter wanted a dog, even though she’s always been jealous that Archie liked me better.”A day in the life of Archie consists of going to class, attending faculty meetings, chasing squirrels and rabbits and relaxing outside Professor Wilk’s office, waiting for students to pass and give him a friendly pat. “Archie acts as a surrogate for kids who left their dogs at home and are missing their puppies,” Wilk said. “Previously, when I was department chair, people would be afraid to come talk to me, but they would come to my office to pet and talk to Archie.”Archie has traveled to Belize, England and France, as well as other places. On the first day of class this year, he chased a squirrel around campus, and a student found him and took him back to Briscoe Quad, where he waited in lost and found. He has also ended up in Ballantine Hall’s lost and found after he became bored with one of Wilk’s lectures and ran out of class. He has been known to take a dip in the Jordan River. The only places Archie isn’t allowed on campus are the Indiana Memorial Union and Jordan Hall, unless he’s being used as a demonstration. During class, he sits in front to keep an eye on the class, and in smaller classes, he roams around sniffing backpacks and looking for spare food. Professor Wilk has even trained him to bark at students who have fallen asleep in larger lectures. Besides being a monitor for sleeping students, Archie brings a sense of relaxation to the department. “Having a dog around makes things more human. It changes the atmosphere of class and meetings,” Wilk said. “Having a mascot is good for every team.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Intertwining art and reality, Margaret Dolinsky’s “Inter:Facing” premiered Sept. 9 in the Grunwald Gallery of Art at the School of Fine Arts. Five pieces filled the gallery and allowed audience members to interact with the computer-mediated portraitures. Simulating a walk through a forest and playing with fish in a pond are just two of the pieces Dolinsky has created. “All of these figures in my pieces came from my sketches or paintings,” Dolinsky said. “They jump out at me and allow me to step into their world and go beyond the surface.”Dolinsky said interactivity between the art and the audience completes all of Dolinsky’s works. In a piece titled “It’s All About You,” a facial detection camera is used to place the audience’s face into the portrait. The figure in the painting interacts with the viewer by changing its expression and the portrait’s background. “Each piece invites the audience in,” Matthew Gunselman, Dolinsky’s assistant, said. “Our generation is so computerized, which allows us to relate to these works. It’s a new experience.”Another piece, titled “Figuratively Speaking,” creates a virtual environment in which the audience wears 3-D glasses and uses a controller built to look like the figure’s face. The eyes on the controller serve as a joystick, and allow the viewer to adopt the point of view of the figure within the piece. The viewer can walk around and interact with the figures in the imaginary world. “I knew Ms. Dolinsky from a class I had taken where we actually created works similar to ‘Figuratively Speaking,’” Jessica Hamman, an attendee at the opening, said. “This was a lot more than I expected, and I really like the graphic and abstract factors of it.”Because these pieces of art are different from a typical painting or photo, the question of archiving lingers in the artist’s mind.“You can show a picture of the video or image, but it’s not like being there,” Dolinsky said. “It’s my cross to bear using this type of media, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”Because audience interaction does finish all of these works, Dolinsky said she hopes that the audience will take a message from her exhibit. “I’m hoping the audience will experience a perceptual moment and to just have fun,” Dolinsky said. “I want them to notice something different about themselves and to usurp reality.” “Inter:Facing” will be on view at the gallery through Saturday, Oct. 1. All events are free and open to the public.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>If you’re taking a stroll around campus, make sure to stop by some of these campus landmarks. They’ve all got their own story, and they’re quintessentially IU.Bryan HouseWhere: Next to Ballantine Hall, behind Delta GammaThe legend: The Bryan House is typically the home of IU’s president. President Michael McRobbie and his wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie, use the house as an office. A house cat, Hermie, is known to be a protector of the grounds. The Bryan House also hosts a reception for incoming freshmen and outgoing seniors to talk to the administration about their IU life. The landscape around the house reflects the theme of the president at the time. President McRobbie’s theme is sustainability. Beck ChapelWhere: Across from Ballantine Hall and the chemistry buildingThe legend: Beck Chapel is IU’s non-denominational chapel on campus, and it was completed in 1956. It holds copies of the Bible and Torah and is open 24/7 during finals week. Many IU sweethearts marry inside, but the wait list is a year according to Allison Williams, reservationist at the chapel.Dunn Family CemeteriesWhere: Adjacent to Beck Chapel and in front of Foster Residence Center. The legend: When IU bought the land from the Dunn family there were a few stipulations. The first was that their family plots could not be moved, which is why there are two cemeteries on campus. There are no live burials anymore, and most of the plots are recognizable IU names. The second stipulation was that for every tree IU cut down to construct a building, one had to be planted in its place. Herman B Wells later said for every tree cut down, two trees must be replanted. IU could not move the “Sweetheart Tree,” which currently stands inside the chemistry building. Herman B Wells StatueWhere: Sitting on a bench on the west side of campus, near the Sample GatesThe legend: Herman B Wells was one of the greatest presidents in IU’s history. The main library is named after him. At freshmen orientation, parents are told if they shake Wells’ outstretched hand, their student will graduate in four years. “Under Wells, ‘Go Gophers’ is carved because the architecture is from Minnesota,” senior Kyle Roach said. “IU has so many quirky things all over campus. You just need to go looking.”The Rose Well HouseWhere: In the Old Crescent near Wylie and Owen halls and Dunn WoodsThe legend: Built in 1908, the Rose Well House was originally part of the old College Building. Legend states that an IU female is not an official co-ed until she is kissed under the twelve strokes of midnight. Another myth is that a couple will be together forever if they kiss under the twelve strokes of midnight on Valentine’s Day. Showalter FountainWhere: In the Fine Arts Plaza, in front of the IU Auditorium and between the Lilly Library and School of Fine ArtsThe legend: The fountain depicts the birth of Venus. On the night of IU’s last NCAA championship in 1987, students came to celebrate at Showalter Fountain and stole all of the fish that surround her. The fish slowly started turning up in random places on campus. One fish remained missing (with some saying IU wouldn’t win another championship until it was returned), but it was recast in spring 2011, and all of the fish are finally back together.
The landmarks you see around campus have histories that help make the Hoosier experience unique.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Serve IT worked with four Bloomington nonprofits to improve their service to the community by helping with technology hurdles. The new IT clinic, out of IU’s School of Informatics and Computing, worked with Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington, Sycamore Land Trust, Middle Way House and Christole Inc. to revamp their websites and update their databases. Each nonprofit was paired with a team of four to five student volunteers through the semester-long program. “Serve IT provides access to and understanding technology and how nonprofit organizations can successfully use it to further their missions,” Bert Clemons from Christole Inc. said. “The program also makes assistance available through volunteers, which is cost effective for organizations that face funding challenges every day.”One of the most important aspects of Serve IT’s service is the price tag. “The team brought technology expertise to Christole that we wouldn’t have been able to afford to purchase,” Clemons added. “They worked hard to understand how Christole works with children and adults with autism as well as our relationship with our local and professional community.”Serve IT worked with Sycamore Land Trust in redesigning their website and donor and volunteer database, with technical support questions and provided them with a used desktop when one of theirs had crashed. “As a nonprofit with a small staff, having access to free, high-quality information technology assistance is extremely valuable to us and helps us concentrate on our mission of preserving land in southern Indiana,” said John Lawrence, assistant director of Sycamore Land Trust. “Nonprofits often simply don’t have the extra resources to spend on IT, yet using IT well, especially new tools such as social media, is increasingly important to being an effective organization.”As with the other nonprofits, Serve IT’s team at the Boys and Girls Club sets up 17 work stations in the club’s computer lab, and once a week offers class to 9 to 12-year-olds to help them with the technology. The clinic has been funded for its first two years by the School of Informatics and Computing and is currently moving in the direction of making the program a for-credit course that will help costs by providing tuition income. Serve IT is in the process of applying for grants and has already received $8,000 from the Community Foundation of Bloomington and another $20,000 from the Smithville Charitable Foundation.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>To fight diseases affecting children, doctors from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio have teamed up under the Pediatric Regional Collaborative Grant program supported by the Indiana Clinical and Transitional Sciences Institute. The program will be used to support pediatric research to stop the progression of diseases in children.“We developed this program to work within our institutions to leverage additional support to study and ultimately treat childhood diseases,” said Dr. James Heubi, professor and associate chair for clinical research of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. “There has been concern that child health issues were not getting adequate attention, and this collaborative grant program was an effort to ensure that resources were directed toward child health research.” IU Health’s Riley Hospital for Children; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio; Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland; and the University of Kentucky Department of Pediatrics will be working under the grant. Each organization will contribute its own funds for its institution. A maximum budget of $50,000 will be used for the research with each center contributing $10,000. “We created the program to ensure that the study of child health at the multiple institutions would have earmarked support for this program,” Heubi said.The benefits of this collaborative program, which was announced March 31, are solely focused on the children receiving the treatments, said Dr. Scott Denne, professor of pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine. “Children are in general underrepresented in research, so one of the goals of this program is to encourage new areas of investigation in pediatrics,” he said. “In addition, because institutions have different areas of expertise, combining the efforts of individuals from more than one institution can often produce stronger and more innovative research.” Denne said the program is just getting started with the opening of applications. The Indiana CTSI pushes discovery in the lab and helps take these results and apply them to new patient treatments. IU, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame are members of the Indiana chapter, which is part of a 55-member national network funded by a Clinical and Transitional Science Award from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.