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(07/25/02 8:23pm)
f you're looking for a little entertainment outside the bars and music scene, adventures wait for you around Bloomington and beyond.\n That's what three IU students found out during a weekend of camping and ice climbing. Seniors Jon David and Chris Hayes and junior Ryan Anderson had all been rock climbing before, but this was different.\n "When you're up 30 or 40 feet, what you have to do is kick your crampons into the ice, and that's all that's holding you up," says Hayes. "It's a little nerve-racking."\n It's like rock climbing, Hayes says, except climbers can choose where to put handholds and footholds because the face of the rock was covered with four to five inches of ice. \n "It was intimidating to learn the equipment at first, but after a trial run, I was used to it," David says, "It was a matter of trust." With crampons, a plate with metal spikes that attaches to climbing boots, and ice axes in each hand, the climber never actually touches the ice, he says, and he had to trust the equipment.\n David credits graduate student Tom Stuessy of the IU Outdoor Adventures with teaching the group climbing techniques. Stuessy and assistant Derek Mills, also a graduate student, taught the class knots and techniques used on the climb and during the camp setup.\n Stuessy and Mills work at IU Outdoor Adventures, which supplied the training and equipment for the outdoor recreation class that the students enrolled in through the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.\n The members of the class met on two dates before the trip. The first was spent in a classroom discussing equipment, and during the second, the class went to Hoosier Heights climbing gym to practice.\n Anderson is a rock climber, but he didn't know how to use an ice ax or crampons. After his experience, he says he's comfortable going out to climb ice on his own.\n The class went to Dodge State Park in Wisconsin. It arrived early Friday evening and set up camp. Anderson went with the group leader to check out the site. They were supposed to climb a frozen waterfall, but decided it was unsafe. Instead, they would climb a nearby cliff covered with frozen ice.\n After rising early and eating a quick breakfast, the group members set out for the climb. First they practiced setting up anchors on trees, and the two group leaders checked and graded them. One showed them how to use the ice ax, burying it just deep enough to not waste energy pulling it out.\n After lunch and the ice pick demonstration, the ropes were set into place, and the nine began the 30- to 50-foot climb. It only took five or 10 minutes to get to the top, Anderson says, so they climbed it several times and also climbed another more vertical ascent.\n Tired, they returned to the campsite before nightfall and had hot cocoa around a Duraflame log fire. They rose Sunday and climbed at the same spots until around noon. Anderson found time to go off by himself on a trail along a creek bed and take pictures. \n "After I went on that trip, I would feel comfortable doing it on my own," he says. "I'm already a rock climber; now I know how to do ice ax placement. It's a good class to take if you want to decide whether or not ice climbing is for you"\n But you don't have to take a class to participate in a weekend adventure. IUOA trips take place Friday through Sunday and include rock climbing, horseback riding, camping and whitewater rafting. One adventure is hiking in North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains and includes an 80-foot slide down a river chute.
(03/29/01 5:00am)
f you're looking for a little entertainment outside the bars and music scene, adventures wait for you around Bloomington and beyond.\n That's what three IU students found out during a weekend of camping and ice climbing. Seniors Jon David and Chris Hayes and junior Ryan Anderson had all been rock climbing before, but this was different.\n "When you're up 30 or 40 feet, what you have to do is kick your crampons into the ice, and that's all that's holding you up," says Hayes. "It's a little nerve-racking."\n It's like rock climbing, Hayes says, except climbers can choose where to put handholds and footholds because the face of the rock was covered with four to five inches of ice. \n "It was intimidating to learn the equipment at first, but after a trial run, I was used to it," David says, "It was a matter of trust." With crampons, a plate with metal spikes that attaches to climbing boots, and ice axes in each hand, the climber never actually touches the ice, he says, and he had to trust the equipment.\n David credits graduate student Tom Stuessy of the IU Outdoor Adventures with teaching the group climbing techniques. Stuessy and assistant Derek Mills, also a graduate student, taught the class knots and techniques used on the climb and during the camp setup.\n Stuessy and Mills work at IU Outdoor Adventures, which supplied the training and equipment for the outdoor recreation class that the students enrolled in through the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.\n The members of the class met on two dates before the trip. The first was spent in a classroom discussing equipment, and during the second, the class went to Hoosier Heights climbing gym to practice.\n Anderson is a rock climber, but he didn't know how to use an ice ax or crampons. After his experience, he says he's comfortable going out to climb ice on his own.\n The class went to Dodge State Park in Wisconsin. It arrived early Friday evening and set up camp. Anderson went with the group leader to check out the site. They were supposed to climb a frozen waterfall, but decided it was unsafe. Instead, they would climb a nearby cliff covered with frozen ice.\n After rising early and eating a quick breakfast, the group members set out for the climb. First they practiced setting up anchors on trees, and the two group leaders checked and graded them. One showed them how to use the ice ax, burying it just deep enough to not waste energy pulling it out.\n After lunch and the ice pick demonstration, the ropes were set into place, and the nine began the 30- to 50-foot climb. It only took five or 10 minutes to get to the top, Anderson says, so they climbed it several times and also climbed another more vertical ascent.\n Tired, they returned to the campsite before nightfall and had hot cocoa around a Duraflame log fire. They rose Sunday and climbed at the same spots until around noon. Anderson found time to go off by himself on a trail along a creek bed and take pictures. \n "After I went on that trip, I would feel comfortable doing it on my own," he says. "I'm already a rock climber; now I know how to do ice ax placement. It's a good class to take if you want to decide whether or not ice climbing is for you"\n But you don't have to take a class to participate in a weekend adventure. IUOA trips take place Friday through Sunday and include rock climbing, horseback riding, camping and whitewater rafting. One adventure is hiking in North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains and includes an 80-foot slide down a river chute.
(03/20/01 4:55am)
Coffee can mean more than the java juice that gets people going in the morning. Every Friday afternoon, it can also mean a chance to meet new people and learn about different cultures.\nA martial arts demonstration and a mock Filipino wedding were two of the events at the Leo R. Dowling International Center's Weekly Coffee Hour, 4-6 p.m. every Friday. Located next to Read Center, it provides the facility where one of about 50 different international student groups on campus play host each week to a social and informative get-together for students and community members.\n"Any international student group is encouraged to host a coffee hour," said John Riley, events coordinator. The meetings are social gatherings, an outlet to share parts of different cultures and a forum for people to have a good time, Riley said. Some groups bring traditional dishes such as sushi or rice and peanut sauce from different countries and regions. Sometimes as many as 200 people attend, he said.\n"The point of it is to provide a social outlet," Riley said. "Everybody is always welcome. Americans especially are encouraged to come because what we try to do is provide a forum for cross-cultural sharing and cross-cultural understanding."\nSmaller groups are held, as well. For example, last semester about 50 people gathered to hear a reverend from Kenya speak about development issues, Riley said. It was more informative than social, he said.\nUpcoming events include the International Graduate Student Association's Cultural Fest April 27. It will be the group's biggest event of the semester, said president and graduate student Kazuko Suematsu. Although plans are not formalized, the festival could include a fashion show, displays and music. \nThe association, which represents a number of international student groups in the School of Education, holds its own coffee hour from 2:30-4 p.m. every Friday in room 3115 in the Education Building. Members watch movies with cultural aspects or invite guest speakers. One session was about international associate instructors and the problems they encounter.\nLast semester, the group held its kick-off party during the Dowling Center's coffee hours and nearly 70 people attended. \n"We hadn't seen that many graduate students in one place, so it was pretty successful," Suematsu said. They played intercultural games, had a guest speaker and just got to know each other, she said.\nGraduate student Hennessy Ng, president of the Hong Kong Student Association, has participated in many of the weekly coffee hours.\n"Each one is different because of the different cultures," he said. "You get a glimpse of what each does and what they practice."\nThe Hong Kong Student Association is planning to sponsor a coffee hour within the next few weeks.\n"We are always trying to attract more American students and provide that forum to meet other people that are unlike themselves," Riley said. "I think sometimes we get too comfortable with what we're used to, and we travel in the same circles and things where maybe we should be expanding our horizons and getting out and approaching people who are different from us. \n"You need to come to one and experience it in order to do it justice."\nOtherwise, he said, "you won't really get a flavor for what it's all about. It's a great way to meet people and find out things you don't know"
(03/05/01 4:54am)
Recent tension surrounding the testing of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan helped spearhead a discussion on the problems associated with the development of nuclear weapons in the Indian Ocean region last week.\nThe prevention of nuclear weapons has been a part of the national debate for decades, said David Albright, senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of Global Change. The center took part in sponsoring the conference Thursday and Friday in the Moot Court Room of the Law School.\nThe buildup of nuclear power is taking place in nations surrounding the Indian Ocean, Albright said.\n"While we've produced some notable successes," he said, "there are growing indications that proliferation is likely to increase in the years ahead." \nThe Indian Ocean region is usually examined in sections -- South Asia, the Persian Gulf states, Southern Africa and outlying countries such as Australia, Albright said. \nBut the conference looked at the entire region and at the impact nuclearization has on its military and politics, most of which lie on the periphery of the Indian Ocean. \nThe conference first discussed why states want to build nuclear weapons, which was the subject of the keynote speech by Sir Timothy Garden of the Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London. \nOther subjects examined by the scholars were the prospects for proliferation and U.S. response to the buildup of weapons of mass destruction. \nSouth Asia, with Indian-Pakistani relations, was a main focus. States in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, such as Israel, Iran and Iraq, and other nations bordering the Indian Ocean in Africa including Australia were also discussed.\nMethods of controlling nuclear weapons such as treaties do not always serve as impediments, Albright said. Still, as Garden pointed out, the U.S.-Soviet Union's Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, while not successful, became a model for national missile defense proposals.\nPolitical pressure is used to impede the building of arms, Albright said, but many states lack the leverage to influence others.\nJudith Yaphe from the Institute of National Security Studies at the National Defense University spoke about Iraq's nuclear weapons program. The University is a think tank in Washington.\nShe said although economic sanctions should be lifted in Iraq, the sanctions on developing weapons should not. While the nuclear capability of the country is problematic, the nuclear superpowers cannot stop them, Yaphe said. \n "Given the U.S. cannot prevent a country that wants to acquire nuclear capabilities -- we can delay but we can't deny them -- then you have to craft a policy that will cause weapons to be used as a deterrent" rather than as weapons of war, Yaphe said. \n There are plausible reasons for a country to develop its nuclear stockpile, Garden said. \n "Fear of hostile states must be a major factor," he said. Albright said the political and social relations between countries can also come into play.\n A country like Iraq, which has been trying to get nuclear capability since the mid-1970s, wants to be a regional power and get respect from its neighbors, Garden said. It may feel it has nuclear weapons enemies in Israel and potentially Iran. He said Israel may feel surrounded by enemies and lack strategic depth because of its small population. \n"There are some states that are isolated, and once isolated, their insecurity tends to feed on itself," Garden said, "and they convince themselves they need to have the ultimate deterrence, or worse, the ultimate weapon for war fighting."\nThe conference was also sponsored by the India Studies Program, the African Studies Program and the Middle Eastern Studies Program. \n"Our intention was to assemble a small group of specialists who can present some of their ideas and views and test them before the group," said Brian Winchester, chairman of the center. The center studies issues of global importance.
(03/01/01 5:00am)
Stories about ghosts don't keep Becky Cape awake at night.\nSome workers at the Lilly Library claim they've seen them and heard noises. Cape, head of public services at the library, hasn't seen any in her almost 30 years there, but myths about the library, which is part of the IU library system, abound.\nSome people say it's the tallest building on campus, with 17 floors underground. Some say there are tunnels connecting it to other buildings on campus, or you have to wear white gloves when viewing one of its rare books or manuscripts and raise your hand to have a librarian turn the page.\nPerhaps the myths survive, says Carla Carson, a docent who leads tours of the library, because many of the 16,000 who pass through it each year are alumni returning to the University who tell her they never went inside in all their years at IU. She says many people don't realize that anyone from the campus or the community can view most of the library's rare collections.\nThe truth is the Lilly Library, south of Showalter Fountain in the fine arts plaza, houses the University's rare books and manuscripts on seven floors and functions as a museum. \nBooks, manuscripts and paintings are displayed throughout two floors open to visitors. There are three floors of closed stacks and two floors partially underground. The main entrance and gallery is actually the third floor. The library's reading room, where materials are viewed, is off the main gallery. \n"Anybody can use it. You just need your picture ID," she says, "and that's what always surprises people." People who want to view anything can check in with the receptionist inside the main gallery and be allowed into the reading room. Titles of some of the available works can be found online.\n"We're not in the business of just locking things up and not letting anybody ever touch it," Cape says.\nThe most frequently requested items are works from the Renaissance and medieval collections, followed by items about Latin America. The Mendel room, above the main gallery, holds the Latin American collection, which dates from colonial times to the Latin independence movement and is said to be the finest in the world, Carson says. Shakespeare's folios are also popular. The oldest things are Babylonian cuneiform tablets and cones from 3000 to 2000 B.C.\nSome items are off limits to patrons because their condition is fragile or because of the terms of purchase, Cape says. A letter from George Washington accepting the presidency cannot be handled. It has faded so badly they don't want it exposed to light. But a facsimile can be viewed in addition to other letters by Washington, Cape says.\nMore recent works among the library's 7 million manuscripts include papers from Kurt Vonnegut and Sylvia Plath. There are also scripts from the original "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series, as well as "Hamlet" written in Klingon.\nIn addition, a desk used by Abraham Lincoln at a Springfield, Ill., law firm is on display in the Lincoln room, which is decorated similar to the way the White House looked during his administration, including a chair in which he sat.\nThe Gutenberg Bible is the most famous work in the library, Carson says. Dating to 1455, it is thought to be the first book printed with moveable type, although that claim was recently disputed in an article in the New York Times. There are 48 known copies of the original 180 printed. Lilly bought its copy from a collector in Chicago when it opened the library in 1960. Christie's auction house found a missing page from IU's bible and sold it to the Lilly Library in 1977 for $24,000. \nThe holdings are worth a tremendous sum of money, Cape says. For example, the Lilly Library owns one of 22 copies of the Declaration of Independence; another recently sold for $8 million to television producer Norman Lear.\nThe library is named for collector Josiah Kirby Lilly, whose rare books collection forms the foundation of the Lilly's holdings. IU started collecting rare books in 1914, Carson says, and in the 1940s established a Department of Special Collections. The collection was originally stored in Franklin Hall, says Cape. \nIn 1954, J.K. Lilly, grandson of Eli Lilly, wrote to then-IU president Herman B Wells that he was looking for a depository for his rare book collection. Lilly had amassed more than 20,000 volumes and 17,000 manuscripts as well as oil paintings and prints of historical figures, all of which he donated to IU. Armored trucks transported the collection to IU during the course of several years.\nWhen it became public that Lilly had donated his collection, "rare book authorities said it was the largest and most valuable gift ever given to an American university," Carson says. Lilly also collected 6,000 gold coins, which are on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.\nSenior Matt Meyer, who took the tour Friday, is taking his first art history course and working toward his second bachelor's degree. He says the professor told the class there were manuscripts pertaining to the medieval art they are studying.\nMeyer says reading the works in the Lilly Library, one can get a sense of history directly from the source. "It's the best way to get an account because everything you've read is someone else's historical work," he says.\nSenior Meg Abell, who accompanied Meyer to the library, says, "I'm really interested in coming back and reading the diaries of the people who went out West." She was speaking about works housed in a room named for alumnus Robert S. Ellison, who collected books on the American West.\nGraduate student Kelly Crowley, viewing the Lincoln room's wall-lined bookcases, furniture and exhibits says, "I can't think of another place that has something like this. It's really special."\nThe Lilly Library is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Tours of the library are 2 p.m. every Friday.
(03/01/01 4:26am)
Stories about ghosts don't keep Becky Cape awake at night.\nSome workers at the Lilly Library claim they've seen them and heard noises. Cape, head of public services at the library, hasn't seen any in her almost 30 years there, but myths about the library, which is part of the IU library system, abound.\nSome people say it's the tallest building on campus, with 17 floors underground. Some say there are tunnels connecting it to other buildings on campus, or you have to wear white gloves when viewing one of its rare books or manuscripts and raise your hand to have a librarian turn the page.\nPerhaps the myths survive, says Carla Carson, a docent who leads tours of the library, because many of the 16,000 who pass through it each year are alumni returning to the University who tell her they never went inside in all their years at IU. She says many people don't realize that anyone from the campus or the community can view most of the library's rare collections.\nThe truth is the Lilly Library, south of Showalter Fountain in the fine arts plaza, houses the University's rare books and manuscripts on seven floors and functions as a museum. \nBooks, manuscripts and paintings are displayed throughout two floors open to visitors. There are three floors of closed stacks and two floors partially underground. The main entrance and gallery is actually the third floor. The library's reading room, where materials are viewed, is off the main gallery. \n"Anybody can use it. You just need your picture ID," she says, "and that's what always surprises people." People who want to view anything can check in with the receptionist inside the main gallery and be allowed into the reading room. Titles of some of the available works can be found online.\n"We're not in the business of just locking things up and not letting anybody ever touch it," Cape says.\nThe most frequently requested items are works from the Renaissance and medieval collections, followed by items about Latin America. The Mendel room, above the main gallery, holds the Latin American collection, which dates from colonial times to the Latin independence movement and is said to be the finest in the world, Carson says. Shakespeare's folios are also popular. The oldest things are Babylonian cuneiform tablets and cones from 3000 to 2000 B.C.\nSome items are off limits to patrons because their condition is fragile or because of the terms of purchase, Cape says. A letter from George Washington accepting the presidency cannot be handled. It has faded so badly they don't want it exposed to light. But a facsimile can be viewed in addition to other letters by Washington, Cape says.\nMore recent works among the library's 7 million manuscripts include papers from Kurt Vonnegut and Sylvia Plath. There are also scripts from the original "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series, as well as "Hamlet" written in Klingon.\nIn addition, a desk used by Abraham Lincoln at a Springfield, Ill., law firm is on display in the Lincoln room, which is decorated similar to the way the White House looked during his administration, including a chair in which he sat.\nThe Gutenberg Bible is the most famous work in the library, Carson says. Dating to 1455, it is thought to be the first book printed with moveable type, although that claim was recently disputed in an article in the New York Times. There are 48 known copies of the original 180 printed. Lilly bought its copy from a collector in Chicago when it opened the library in 1960. Christie's auction house found a missing page from IU's bible and sold it to the Lilly Library in 1977 for $24,000. \nThe holdings are worth a tremendous sum of money, Cape says. For example, the Lilly Library owns one of 22 copies of the Declaration of Independence; another recently sold for $8 million to television producer Norman Lear.\nThe library is named for collector Josiah Kirby Lilly, whose rare books collection forms the foundation of the Lilly's holdings. IU started collecting rare books in 1914, Carson says, and in the 1940s established a Department of Special Collections. The collection was originally stored in Franklin Hall, says Cape. \nIn 1954, J.K. Lilly, grandson of Eli Lilly, wrote to then-IU president Herman B Wells that he was looking for a depository for his rare book collection. Lilly had amassed more than 20,000 volumes and 17,000 manuscripts as well as oil paintings and prints of historical figures, all of which he donated to IU. Armored trucks transported the collection to IU during the course of several years.\nWhen it became public that Lilly had donated his collection, "rare book authorities said it was the largest and most valuable gift ever given to an American university," Carson says. Lilly also collected 6,000 gold coins, which are on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.\nSenior Matt Meyer, who took the tour Friday, is taking his first art history course and working toward his second bachelor's degree. He says the professor told the class there were manuscripts pertaining to the medieval art they are studying.\nMeyer says reading the works in the Lilly Library, one can get a sense of history directly from the source. "It's the best way to get an account because everything you've read is someone else's historical work," he says.\nSenior Meg Abell, who accompanied Meyer to the library, says, "I'm really interested in coming back and reading the diaries of the people who went out West." She was speaking about works housed in a room named for alumnus Robert S. Ellison, who collected books on the American West.\nGraduate student Kelly Crowley, viewing the Lincoln room's wall-lined bookcases, furniture and exhibits says, "I can't think of another place that has something like this. It's really special."\nThe Lilly Library is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Tours of the library are 2 p.m. every Friday.
(02/19/01 5:40am)
Risky behaviors leading to sexually transmitted infections involve more than just not wearing protection during sex, about a dozen people learned during "Get Safe for Everyone," a safer sex program presented by Kathryn Brown, educator with Health and Wellness Education, and Mark Price, test counselor with Positive Link and IDS HIV Live columnist.\nIt includes such factors as how one feels about his or her body, and behaviors such as partying on weekends or exercising on and off.\nTo illustrate, Price gave a sample quiz based on information he gathered as an HIV test counselor. His job involved talking to many people, mostly students, who fear they may have contracted HIV.\nThe quiz scored people on their attitudes about their ability "to protect yourself doing something you'd rather not protect yourself during," Price said.\nThe reason for the quiz was that "when you talk about safer sex, what you're talking about is risk," Price said. Risk doesn't just happen at the moment people engage in sexual acts, he said. "Risk is pervasive throughout your life. Risk is part of attitude, and attitude is part of action."\nFor example, people who are frustrated about their weight may have issues with their body image, and may say yes to sex if they are afraid someone will reject them because they perceive their body to be unattractive. \nPeople who do things off and on, such as exercise sporadically, do many things sporadically, he said. \n"People who decide to exercise in January are also who decide at a certain point that they no longer have to have protected sex, even if they have many partners," he said. \nIt's a behavior pattern that makes wearing protection such as a condom during vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, or using a piece of latex called a dental dam or a piece of plastic wrap over the vagina, conditional. That person may decide once he or she started having sex with someone it's no use trying to protect oneself anymore, Price said.\nSexually transmitted infections include more than HIV, Brown said. Herpes is the most common STI contracted, particulary through oral sex, which many people do not think of as penetration, Brown said. Genital warts, or HPV, gonorrhea and chlamydia are other STIs that can be transmitted, according to information from Health and Wellness Education at the Health Center. \nBrown said even though much is known about AIDS and HIV, students still need to be aware they risk getting other STIs. \nThough one has a greater chance of getting an STI through anal and vaginal intercourse, it's possible that a person may have an abrasion in their mouth from brushing their teeth, and will get it through oral sex, Price said.\nCondoms, both latex and polyurethane, were given to those attending, and as well as water-based lubricants, which do not cause latex to tear, as oil-based lubricants such as petroleum jelly do. Also available was literature from Health and Wellness Education showing how to use a condom. One brochure suggested that people wait to have sex if they feel uncomfortable discussing it. \n"If you can't talk about sex, you're not ready for it," it stated.\nThe literature and Price both said many people do not like using condoms because they spoil the moment. Price suggested that men practice putting on a condom when they masturbate to learn not just how to put it on, but how to keep sex exciting while protecting themselves and their partner. The literature also advised making safe sex a part of foreplay. Both Brown and Price said masturbation, both alone or mutual, is a healthy form of safer sex.\nThe threat of STIs do not have to take away the excitement of sex, people who attended the program found. \n"I really gained new insights," said senior Bill Powers. "There were so many things I wasn't aware of."\nKelly McBride, a community specialist for Planned Parenthood, 421 S. College, said she attended because she is also a safer sex educator and is interested in learning different techniques to teach the public. \n"I like Mark's method of risk reduction, and looking at risk factors other than whether you wear a condom or not," she said.
(02/14/01 5:27am)
To help bring AIDS issues to students, graduate student Mark A. Price read reader responses to his IDS HIV Live column to about 50 people Monday at "Another Year of AIDS: Conversation with Mark Price" in the Collins Center Coffee House.\nThe program was sponsored by Health and Wellness Education of the Health Center. Kathryn Brown, health educator, said it is the second year Price has done the presentation, and he is effective for AIDS Awareness Week/Safe Love 2001 because he brings realism to his talks. \n"Here he is, a student on this campus, willing to share his thoughts about the whole situation," Brown said. "We particularly chose the Collins Coffee House because it is a small, intimate setting."\nBrown said she was glad he brought in samples of his columns because some people might not be familiar with them.\n"He's a good public speaker because he can talk about his personal life, his philosophy; he can do whatever he wants," she said.\nThe reader response letters covered a wide range of topics. \nOne woman who wrote to Price said she didn't have the courage to apply to the masters program in information science, but after reading Price's column about living with AIDS, she applied and was enrolled in her first semester. Another woman wrote that she sent his column to her freshman daughter at IU and advised her to read it.\nHe sees his job as a columnist not as talking to students about condoms all the time, but as talking about how HIV enters one's life. \n"And I don't mean your life just as in your body. I mean how your attitudes play out towards sex -- how people act towards you if you admit to being a sexual person; how people judge you if you admit that you had unprotected sex," Price said. "These are all consequences of what HIV has done to public discussion of sex in the United States."\nPrice said times have changed such that the ultimate cultural marker of irresponsibility is first, being infected with HIV, and second, spreading it to others. He said it is becoming common that the "ultimate red flag" is to say they are HIV-infected and would deliberately infect other people because they don't care, he said.\nIn his job as an HIV test counselor at Positive Link, a woman revealed she had sex with someone who she later found out was HIV positive. After an investigation, it was found she knew the person was infected with HIV. \nSomething went wrong in their relationship, and she decided she would raise the red flag on him, Price said. \n"We are in a culture that really has ideas about who's a good person and who's a bad person," Price said, adding that many people think he is a bad person because he acquired AIDS through unprotected gay sex. \nWhile disagreeing that what he did was immoral, Price said he thinks he was "dumb" because he didn't heed the warnings.\n"In 1981, when I was 21 and people started dying, I didn't even understand it was personal to me and didn't understand that it was ever going to be part of my life," Price said. \nIt became a part of his life when his first partner, Ken, died of AIDS in 1988. \nIf people become infected today, a lot of people will ask them how it was possible with everything known about HIV and AIDS, he said. \n"The fact is it does happen. It happens because you have a lapse. It happens because you got drunk. It happens because you were stoned," Price said. "It just happens sometimes because you just didn't care. But none of those things mean you are a bad person or that you have deserved what has happened to you."\nHe writes about attitude rather than condoms, he said, because he is tired of talking about intercourse. \n"The basic facts are out there. If you want to find them, they're easy," he said. The idea of safer sex goes much deeper than HIV statistics, he said.\n"When I came into the experience of actually being diagnosed with AIDS, I understood, probably because of my parents most of all, that the one thing that would save me was if I believed in myself," Price said.
(02/09/01 5:49am)
Racial slurs and swastikas carved into doorways and walls of campus buildings. Anti-gay messages on dry-erase boards in the residence halls. An associate instructor making fun of a Jewish student's religion.\nThese are only three examples of discrimination cases that were reported to IU's anti-discrimination teams.\nIU prohibits discrimination based on age, disability, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. \nTo deal with violations of this guideline, IU established the Racial Incidents Team, which has become a model for other universities, said Doug Bauder, Coordinator of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transsexual Student Support Services.\nSince the Racial Incidents Team was established in 1988, other universities have expressed an interest in it, said Pamela Freeman, assistant dean of students and chairwoman of the team since its creation.\nBased on the success of the team, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transsexual Student Support Services, 705 E. Seventh St., formed the Anti-Harassment Team in January 1990, and the Gender Incidents Team was established in Fall 2000.\nThree specialized teams are more effective because the work involved is detailed, said Bauder, who is also a member of the Anti-Harassment Team.\nDuring the 1999-2000 academic year, 72 racial incidents and 128 sexual orientation incidents were reported on campus, according to statistics from the Racial Incidents Team and the Anti-Harassment Team. \nFrom the statistics, it is not possible to tell trends, Freeman said. \nShe said the numbers tend to spike after one incident when other people start reporting things that happen to them.\nMore discrimination is reported by blacks, Jews and Asians than any other groups except men reporting incidents to the GLBT Anti-Harassment Team, according to the teams' statistics. The incidents happen mostly in residence halls.\nIncidents range from racial slurs, verbal harassment, vandalism and defacing property -- which is the most common occurrence -- to outright physical harassment and intimidation. In most cases, the offenders are unknown.\nThe Racial Incidents Team finds that in most cases, the offenders are students, but sometimes are staff or faculty. The Anti-Harassment Team finds that most are students.\nIf the offender or offenders are known, the teams work toward mediation. \n"(Remedies) are tailored to a specific situation," Bauder said.\nThe teams do not have the authority to impose sanctions but refer cases to other resources, such as the Office of Affirmative Action and the Office of Women's Affairs. Some students are sanctioned and subject to punishment within the campus judicial system. \nWith the majority of the offenders unknown, the predominant outcome is that the information is compiled and statistics are collected.\nIn the residence halls, CommUNITY Educators are given this information to help address issues proactively rather than reactively, Bauder said. If there is a lot of graffiti in a part of a residence hall, they will have a program there, Freeman said. The programs range from panel discussions to interactive games. Sometimes the GLBT Speakers Bureau gives talks.\n"We hope to educate and -- through education -- prevent," Freeman said. "A big part of what we do is support for people victimized." The team will listen and offer suggestions as to what the victim can do.\nDuring the 1999-2000 school year, incidents included the following:\n• Homosexual slurs written on dry erase boards in the residence halls. Racial slurs and swastikas were carved and written on campus buildings and in residence halls. \n• A Jewish student reported an instructor told him "this test is going to make you squeal like a pig," squealed, and made references to pork products. \n• Police reported a white male student called a black officer a racial epithet when he was responding to a fight at a fraternity.\nFreeman said much discrimination stems from ignorance. Students don't always know what constitutes harassment and what is serious enough to report. Some are in denial about what is happening, she said.\n"One big value is (that compiling data) helps prevent people from saying we don't have a problem"
(01/24/01 6:09am)
Today marks the Lunar New Year celebrated by Chinese all over the world. \nAt IU, students from China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia and Taiwan will celebrate with a party Friday at the Willkie Quad Auditorium.\nBefore the introduction of the solar calendar system in China, the Chinese used the lunar calendar based on the phases of the moon, according to www.web-holidays.com. This is the first day of the first month of the lunar year, said graduate student Mi-Young Kim, who coordinates programs at the Asian Culture Center.\n"In Korea, the day begins with a ceremony to remember ancestors," Kim said. She moved to the United States from Korea 11 years ago. \n"Some families prepare a table to make an offering to their ancestors," she said. "A traditional meal, including fruit, fish and tuck-kuk, a rice cake soup, are set out on a low table, around which the family gathers."\nMaysee Yang, a graduate assistant at the center who is helping to coordinate the event Friday, said the holiday is an international one.\n"People have the impression that it is just the Chinese," Yang said. "(The holiday) helps bring all sorts of groups together."\nYang's family is Hmong, an ethnic group in Laos, she said. The Yang family immigrated to Wisconsin. \nShe said the family's celebration can take place any time in the fall or around Christmas during several days.\nAnother student assistant helping with the party is junior Sherlianty Widjaja. Her grandparents moved from the southern part of China to Indonesia. \n"It is a time for families to come together and honor their ancestors." she said. They visit her father's oldest brother. The parents give children money in red envelopes for luck, and the children wish for their parents' prosperity.\n"This year, the Asian Culture Center, along with other Asian student groups, are coming together for a celebration including music, food a slide show and a fashion show," Kim said.
(11/30/00 7:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It is the classic shower scene in your standard slasher film. The killer approaches two beautiful women, who, of course, don't know he's there. He raises his knife to strike. Stop action. Reverse.
The scene took place within the last four weeks, when a small troupe of actors gathered at least twice a week in the Union to rehearse for the upcoming annual IU Madrigal Feast. On one night of rehearsals, 10 performers prepared for their roles as servants of Lord and Lady Chamberlain who lived during the late Renaissance in England.
The director of the troupe, senior Jeremy Cross, asked for volunteers for an improvisational game, and the remaining cast put them in a situation where the actor must play through the scene by his or her wits and imagination. In one case, it was Nick Romy, 13, the first member to play a part in the Madrigal Feast who was not affiliated with IU. A new costume was made for his role as a jester apprentice. Nick auditioned because he attended previous celebrations as a guest with his family.
Nick stood alone on an area of the floor set aside as a makeshift stage, while three other volunteers stood offstage. The cast made Nick a superhero who had to fix a hole in a dam. One by one, the other cast members jumped in, as part of a superhero crew. Their special power was named by the previous person to join Nick on stage. Sophomore Hans Fiene was "Bikini Wax Man." In the next group of volunteers, one was named, "Man Who Speaks Only in Puns." He stood, hand to mouth, flabbergasted.
The purpose of the improvisational games was to get the cast members familiar with each other's style and find someone they played well with. In another game, two actors took the stage while the cast put them in a situation such as scuba diving or building a house, and quickly threw out genres of film and television which the people onstage had to perform, from French film, to horror film, to beach movie.
During the script reading, the cast tried on different accents, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, southern belle or the old English they would use through the entire Madrigal performance.
Improvisational acting is like learning to swim the hard way, except buoyed by a sense of fun and camaraderie. The actors laugh and talk like old friends, and put each other in situations such as mining their knowledge of puns. Stop action. Fast forward.
The 52nd Madrigal Feast will take place during the first two weekends in December. It is hosted by the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU School of Music. It started in 1947 as a choir performing for dinner patrons and grew to include musicians and actors. During the banquet, guests are transported back to the year 1575, to the court of Lord and Lady Chamberlain, who are entertaining their guest of honor, the queen, with food and song.
A madrigal is a short poem, set to music with parts for several voices, unaccompanied by instruments. Known as polyphony, each voice sings either a competing melody, or a melody in accord with the others. Some of the more popular composers were John Dowland, William Byrd and Thomas Morely, according to the Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org). One of Morely's songs appears in the Shakespearean play, "As You Like It." The origins of the style are in the medieval period, but it became more sophisticated and complex over time and flourished during the late Renaissance in England.
The School of Music provides the chorus and a brass quintet, and the performers were chosen through an audition process that took place in early October. Fourteen people were chosen from the more than 40 who auditioned. The rehearsals run from mid-October through late November.
Festivities include a concert after the dinner, but before the flaming persimmon pudding is brought out, there is a play about a knight who is slain by a dragon, and comes back to life, illustrating the theme of death and rebirth central to the season.
The jester, senior Adam Ploshay, introduces the festivities, and Lord Chamberlain, played by senior Brian G. Hartz, gives a short speech inviting his guests to take themselves back to Elizabethan England.
The characters entertain guests amid much laughter and singing. Trumpet fanfare introduces the procession of food, including a papier-mache boar's head on a platter, sung to "The Boar's Head Carol." Even if the performers see someone they know at the dinner, they must stay in their roles the entire performance.
"What's unique about the Madrigal Feast is that you are part of the performance," says Kristine Ankney, IMU marketing manager.
During last year's banquet, while waiting for her companions to arrive, one of the performers approached her and started talking in a thick English accent, complimenting her on her "ear balls," she says. "She was talking about my earrings."
The setting makes you feel like you are a guest in a castle, says Ankney. Alumni Hall is vast, with the stage at one end, where the queen sits at a dais with Lord and Lady Chamberlain and the chorus. The stage and the high, arched windows are draped with velvet crimson. Simple metal chandeliers hang over rows of tables, and sconces lining the wall throw off their soft light.
Candlelight illuminates the curves of faces lit with smiles and laughter. Glasses clink the coming of the holidays. Anticipation rises as smells of prime rib and Yorkshire pudding waft in, until knives and forks engage in sword play over a feast fit for a king. All the while, servants dressed in 16th century garb work their magic. A musician strolls by playing the mandolin. A fortune-teller reads palms. Jugglers toss balls and rings and clubs in the air, and catch them just at the right moment.
Madrigal 2000 Feast
(11/30/00 5:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It is the classic shower scene in your standard slasher film. The killer approaches two beautiful women, who, of course, don't know he's there. He raises his knife to strike. Stop action. Reverse.
The scene took place within the last four weeks, when a small troupe of actors gathered at least twice a week in the Union to rehearse for the upcoming annual IU Madrigal Feast. On one night of rehearsals, 10 performers prepared for their roles as servants of Lord and Lady Chamberlain who lived during the late Renaissance in England.
The director of the troupe, senior Jeremy Cross, asked for volunteers for an improvisational game, and the remaining cast put them in a situation where the actor must play through the scene by his or her wits and imagination. In one case, it was Nick Romy, 13, the first member to play a part in the Madrigal Feast who was not affiliated with IU. A new costume was made for his role as a jester apprentice. Nick auditioned because he attended previous celebrations as a guest with his family.
Nick stood alone on an area of the floor set aside as a makeshift stage, while three other volunteers stood offstage. The cast made Nick a superhero who had to fix a hole in a dam. One by one, the other cast members jumped in, as part of a superhero crew. Their special power was named by the previous person to join Nick on stage. Sophomore Hans Fiene was "Bikini Wax Man." In the next group of volunteers, one was named, "Man Who Speaks Only in Puns." He stood, hand to mouth, flabbergasted.
The purpose of the improvisational games was to get the cast members familiar with each other's style and find someone they played well with. In another game, two actors took the stage while the cast put them in a situation such as scuba diving or building a house, and quickly threw out genres of film and television which the people onstage had to perform, from French film, to horror film, to beach movie.
During the script reading, the cast tried on different accents, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, southern belle or the old English they would use through the entire Madrigal performance.
Improvisational acting is like learning to swim the hard way, except buoyed by a sense of fun and camaraderie. The actors laugh and talk like old friends, and put each other in situations such as mining their knowledge of puns. Stop action. Fast forward.
The 52nd Madrigal Feast will take place during the first two weekends in December. It is hosted by the Indiana Memorial Union and the IU School of Music. It started in 1947 as a choir performing for dinner patrons and grew to include musicians and actors. During the banquet, guests are transported back to the year 1575, to the court of Lord and Lady Chamberlain, who are entertaining their guest of honor, the queen, with food and song.
A madrigal is a short poem, set to music with parts for several voices, unaccompanied by instruments. Known as polyphony, each voice sings either a competing melody, or a melody in accord with the others. Some of the more popular composers were John Dowland, William Byrd and Thomas Morely, according to the Internet Public Library (www.ipl.org). One of Morely's songs appears in the Shakespearean play, "As You Like It." The origins of the style are in the medieval period, but it became more sophisticated and complex over time and flourished during the late Renaissance in England.
The School of Music provides the chorus and a brass quintet, and the performers were chosen through an audition process that took place in early October. Fourteen people were chosen from the more than 40 who auditioned. The rehearsals run from mid-October through late November.
Festivities include a concert after the dinner, but before the flaming persimmon pudding is brought out, there is a play about a knight who is slain by a dragon, and comes back to life, illustrating the theme of death and rebirth central to the season.
The jester, senior Adam Ploshay, introduces the festivities, and Lord Chamberlain, played by senior Brian G. Hartz, gives a short speech inviting his guests to take themselves back to Elizabethan England.
The characters entertain guests amid much laughter and singing. Trumpet fanfare introduces the procession of food, including a papier-mache boar's head on a platter, sung to "The Boar's Head Carol." Even if the performers see someone they know at the dinner, they must stay in their roles the entire performance.
"What's unique about the Madrigal Feast is that you are part of the performance," says Kristine Ankney, IMU marketing manager.
During last year's banquet, while waiting for her companions to arrive, one of the performers approached her and started talking in a thick English accent, complimenting her on her "ear balls," she says. "She was talking about my earrings."
The setting makes you feel like you are a guest in a castle, says Ankney. Alumni Hall is vast, with the stage at one end, where the queen sits at a dais with Lord and Lady Chamberlain and the chorus. The stage and the high, arched windows are draped with velvet crimson. Simple metal chandeliers hang over rows of tables, and sconces lining the wall throw off their soft light.
Candlelight illuminates the curves of faces lit with smiles and laughter. Glasses clink the coming of the holidays. Anticipation rises as smells of prime rib and Yorkshire pudding waft in, until knives and forks engage in sword play over a feast fit for a king. All the while, servants dressed in 16th century garb work their magic. A musician strolls by playing the mandolin. A fortune-teller reads palms. Jugglers toss balls and rings and clubs in the air, and catch them just at the right moment.
Madrigal 2000 Feast