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(11/29/12 5:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The first day of the IU Press Holiday Book Sale offered students and faculty the opportunity to choose from more than 300 titles by IU Press and other Indiana publishers. The sale will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Georgian Room. Mandy Clarke, IU Press trade marketing and publicity manager, said the sale is an annual event that usually takes place in late November or early December. “It provides a way to increase our presence with IU and the community in general,” Clarke said. “It is an opportunity to see what IU Press does.”Clarke said the books at the sale are deeply discounted with some priced as low as one dollar. A copy of “This is Indiana: Tom Crean, the Team and the Exciting Comeback of Hoosier Basketball” will be given to the first 25 customers each day.“Everyone is really into IU basketball right now,” Clarke said. Previously, customers had received free copies of books about Little 500 and IU soccer.Clarke also believed the books available for purchase, which included music, film, history and cookbooks, will help bring in students. WTIU Public Television DVDs and Purdue University Press publications are also for sale.“The selection we bring is more geared for faculty and students, and it contains books of local interest,” Clarke said.Graduate student Chris Muir, who picked up a copy of “Bloomington Past and Present,” said he had attended the sale in past years.“I guess I usually check the regional and natural history stuff, as I’m a biologist,” Muir said. He mentioned he has many of the natural history books but uses the sale as a way to pick up the newest titles.Clarke said the location of the sale in the IMU helps bring in students as well.“Students are always wandering through the Union and can do shopping for themselves or for the holidays,” Clarke said.Sophomore apparel merchandising major Brooke Markham said she saw the sale while walking through the IMU.“I just saw the book sale and thought I might do some Christmas shopping,” Markham said. Markham said she attended the sale last year toward the end of its run, and much of the selection had been sold. “I thought that if I stopped by earlier this time I might be able to find some Christmas presents or something,” Markham said. “I was also going to see if they had any apparel books to look through.” Assistant professor of criminal justice Mark Berg said he also saw the sign on his way to lunch and headed into the sale. “I’m just browsing, but I find the mix of books to be rather diverse, so there may be something here that I find that interests me,” Berg said.
(11/12/12 4:03am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Students with the IU Chinese Calligraphy Club gathered Friday for the final workshop of the fall semester.The club, founded by junior Xin Chen , typically has workshops every Friday. Chen, who learned calligraphy while growing up in China, said she wanted to continue practicing the art and promote it, as well. She said calligraphy, a type of art related to writing, can be traced back thousands of years to ancient China.The club currently has six mentors, but Chen said any student can become a mentor if they have prior knowledge of Chinese calligraphy.“Our mentors are all students,” Chen said. “Ph.D. students, art school students, Kelley students — we have all types of students.”Chen founded the club last year with the help of some friends.“We wanted to bring Chinese calligraphy culture to Bloomington and to international students who are interested in this or to American students,” Chen said.An exhibition, which Sophomore and Vice President Xiaoran Zhu said will include live calligraphy writing, traditional tea and showcasing of members’ work, will take place Nov. 30 in Teter Quad.Zhu also said the exhibition and workshops will help promote culture beyond just the club.“We want to promote ancient Chinese tradition and culture,” Zhu said. “We hope that we can promote calligraphy here in America. Then, more people will know that this is the spirit of Chinese culture.”Only calligraphy lovers or families that have elders to teach calligraphy pass down the tradition, Zhu said. Sophomore Molly Moffitt said calligraphy has a meditative quality as well.“My goals are pretty much to have fun and relax because it is kind of like a meditative thing, too,” Moffitt said.Moffitt, who was introduced to the club by a friend last year, has her own calligraphy set and tries to practice when she has time.“I just try to practice writing ‘one’ in Chinese because that is one of the most basic, but I still mess up on it,” Moffitt said.Zhu said both international students with experience and American students face the same challenges.“We all have the same difficulties of holding the pen, maintaining the pen and how to round the pen,” Zhu said. “If there is some challenge, it is for us, for our mentors, to explain how to write calligraphy in English, but both international students and American students do very well.”
(10/18/12 3:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Among the trees covered in yellow, orange and brown autumn leaves at Karst Farm Park in Bloomington, IU women’s club soccer Coach Jeff Thomas can be heard yelling commands to his team.The team has multiple wins this season despite returning only nine players, as well as having a new coach and a new home field.The Hoosiers improved an 8-0-1 record with a 4-0 win against Southern Illinois on Oct. 14 at Karst Farm Park.The team plays at Karst Farm Park this season because the new IU baseball stadium is being built on the team’s old home field.Thomas, who spent last year as a volunteer coach for the IU women’s soccer team, said this season’s goals have changed with the team’s continued success. “Originally I thought it was going to be a rebuilding year because so few players were coming back,” Thomas said. “But it was quickly apparent that there was more talent on this team than I expected and, I think, the team themselves expected.”The players have allowed only one goal this season.Sophomore midfielder Emma Winkler was also worried about the uncertainty surrounding this season.“We were really unsure of how it was going to end up, just because we have a new coach and new players, but it’s gone really well,” Winkler said.Thomas said 45-50 women tried out for the team, and many of them had other options to play college soccer at other schools on the varsity level. Only 26 made the cut.Club president and senior defender Lucia Seasly said she has been involved with the club for four years, in a variety of leadership positions. She said she got involved so she could continue playing soccer but still have more free time.“I just knew I wanted to play soccer in college but also have a life,” Seasly said.Winkler said she wanted a balance between school, soccer and friends.“I knew I didn’t want to put in the time commitment for the varsity level, so this is a perfect in-between,” Winkler said.The team has three practices a week that last about an hour and a half, Thomas said. The women play games nearly every weekend, including some doubleheaders, and compete in the Women’s Midwest Alliance Soccer Conference.Freshman forward Katie Seelenbinder said she considered playing college soccer but decided against it.“I knew I wanted to come to Indiana for the business school, but I still wanted to play competitive soccer, and I knew this was a good program to get involved in,” Seelenbinder said. Seelenbinder also said she loves the camaraderie with her teammates.“I really enjoy being around the team and having teammates,” she said. “In high school I played basketball and soccer, so I always had teammates to rely on.”This year, the team wants to return to the national tournament. Last year’s team advanced to the national tournament in Las Vegas by finishing runner-up in the regional tournament in Dayton, Ohio.This year’s nationals are in Memphis, Tenn., so the team can save money on travel.“Last year it was a really big expense to have to fly, and this year it would be a lot easier because we can just drive,” Seelenbinder said.The team will take on Northwestern on Oct. 21 in Evanston, Ill., before the regional tournament Oct. 27-28 in Dayton.
(09/27/12 1:57am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Senior Hays Formella was one of the members who brought the Sailing Club back to IU.“I
sailed in high school, and I wasn’t going to go to college specifically
for it, but I wanted a sailing school,” Formella said. He said
he met a few other students interested in sailing during his freshman
year and enlisted the help of Recreational Sports. The group had a
couple of callout meetings and used sidewalk chalk to advertise.“It was something that snowballed pretty quickly,” he said.Formella added that the club now utilizes the Recreational Sports Fair to recruit members.The
IU Sailing Club had its callout meeting Aug. 29. The club is
experiencing a resurgence since 2009 after being dormant for several
years.Formella also said the club enlisted the help of School of
Public Health faculty member Bob Kessler, who teaches the sailing
courses offered at IU. Formella said Kessler helped the club secure
equipment rentals and a leasing plan at Lake Lemon.“Working with him has been great,” Formella said. “As he has gotten to know us, he has gotten to trust us.” Formella’s fellow club member Jesse Magaña followed a different route to the club.“Coming from high school, I didn’t know anything about sailing,” Magaña said. He
said he learned how to sail in the summer following his freshman year
while taking E164: Sailing. He later joined the email list and decided
to participate in the club.“I went (to) the Marquette University regatta and absolutely loved it,” Magaña said.The
regattas are races held between different colleges. Formella said he
always wanted to get into the racing aspect of sailing when he and other
students were trying to revive the club.He said that as the
club gained more members and became more organized, the group petitioned
the Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association for a race team. Now, the
club has that team and serves as a recreational club for members.The
club’s race team participated in its first regatta in March 2010.
Currently, the race teams participate in four or five races per
semester.Formella said the club signs up for regattas at the
mid-winter conference in January at the Strictly Sail Chicago Boat Show.
He also said all the Big Ten schools go to this event, as well as
smaller schools like Notre Dame.From Sept. 15-16 the race team
participated in the inaugural Old Oaken Rudder with Purdue, which was
organized by IU alumna Jess Lawhead and the Indianapolis Sailing Club.
The regatta was at Geist Reservoir.After the first day of
competition, the score was tied. The second day, the teams could not
sail due to calm conditions with no wind, Magaña said.“The lake was so calm, it looked like glass,” Formella said.The teams decided to end the inaugural event in a tie.“The
creepy part was when someone mentioned that the football teams tied
nearly 100 years ago when the Old Oaken Bucket was first awarded,”
Formella said.IU was allowed to keep the Old Oaken Rudder due to a better rendition of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”Magaña said it started out as a joke, but when he realized people were serious he tried to perform his best.“I was up, dancing, snapping my fingers and making my voice really high,” he said.Both Formella and Magaña said they want the club to start its own regatta in the future.“Right now we need to get newer, more uniform boats before we can do that,” Magaña said.Formella
also said he would like to see the club expand membership and add a
sailing house, a place club members can use as a residence during the
school year.“A sailing house is something that brings the
sailing culture together at all these other schools,” he said. “But for
now, I want to get kids to see sailing and how easygoing and fun it is.”