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(04/30/03 7:23pm)
Fifteen students stare glumly ahead at people who already have dibs on a work station in the fifth-floor computer lab of the Main Library. Some tap their feet or shift their weight, while others talk on their cell phones to maintain some semblance of a social life as they begin to glare at the people who constantly move but never leave. \nThe elevator behind them dings as five more bodies emerge with the hope of getting a computer, only to find themselves at the back of a line that is not going to move because there is no time limit on group computer labs.\nWith 11 days to finish an 80- to 150-page executive summary on BioChem4000 blood monitors, I-Core groups have been camped out in computer labs across campus for six to 16 hours a day doing qualitative and quantitative analyses. While some call Integrated-Core the "rite of passage" into the Kelley School of Business, others call it hell. On the way out of a consulting session with one of the four I-Core professors, a male student described it as "running backwards through a cornfield with no pants."\nAll undergraduate business students are required to take I-Core, a 12-credit hour package that includes classes in marketing, finance, strategic management and operations management. At the end of the semester, students are required to produce a case study worth 25 percent of their grade that integrates all four aspects of the classes they took.\n"They're literally eating, drinking and sleeping I-Core 24 hours a day," said Daniel Greiner, finance professor and I-Core coordinator. "Of course they're going to be a little bit ragged around the edges."\nTo ease the pain, many students comfort themselves with caffeine and snacks. The computer lab of the Main Library is littered with cellophane wrappers, Nalgene water bottles, packs of gum, 20 oz. soda bottles and styrofoam coffee cups that sit precariously close to group members' paperwork and laptops. \nWith sunflower seeds as sustenance, senior Johanna Miller has already been working with her group several hours before they decide to take a break at 5:30 p.m. \n"I'm never home," Miller said. "My roommates have hardly seen me. When I go home for dinner, they'll come downstairs to watch me eat."\nSchedules have remained hectic since April 21, as business students try to get the final and most challenging hurdle of I-Core done by Thursday: the case study.
(12/11/02 4:02am)
Some people assume he is Mexican. Others think he is from Southeast Asia. With his black hair, smooth dark eyes and tawny complexion, IU sophomore Melvin Tejada doesn't blame them. \n"I'm dark," he said. "I've had some people in my life think I'm Indian."\nYet Tejada's ethnic background is neither Mexican nor Indian -- his parents actually emigrated to the United States from El Salvador 30 years ago. \nTejada is Latino. At first glance, it can be easy to misidentify a person belonging to this group.\n"Every single Latin American and Caribbean country has different types of people within that country," Tejada said. "El Salvador has dark, dark people, and light-skinned, blue eyed people, and then people like me in the middle."
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Wednesday's suspension of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was one of at least a dozen other fraternities who have faced disciplinary action from the University or a chapter's national organization in the last four years.\nSenior Ben Schmidt, IFC president, said national organizations are now more involved with individual chapters. "These sorts of issues present a huge liability for chapters and a huge liability for national organizations," he said. \nJudson Horras, director of Chapter Development for Beta Theta Pi's national organization, said national fraternities are increasingly interested in focusing chapters on the principles upon which they were founded. \n"A lot of the national organizations are saying 'Hey change has to happen and it is going to happen'," he said. "Sometimes, you've got to take a stand and close some of the old chapters that are strong and large to ensure the organization remains credible."\nSchmidt said IFC encourages IU chapters to hold parties away from fraternity houses and to employ third-party alcohol vendors. In 2000, the IFC passed a resolution banning alcohol from all houses on campus, limiting social functions and requiring off-campus functions be served by a third-party vendor. \nCurrently, IFC is implementing Training for Intervention Procedures or TIPS, a national alcohol education program, for new member classes. \nWhile national organizations are increasingly involved in the actions of chapters, Schmidt said chapters are dealing with increased attention from the University. This comes in part in the form of a police officer who Schmidt said patrols campus specifically in search of policy violations at social functions.\nIn 2000, the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity were suspended by Dean of Students Richard McKaig for violating the University's alcohol policy. This suspension resulted from the 1999 death of then-sophomore Joseph Bisanz. Although alcohol was found in Bisanz's blood, the coroner determined asphyxiation as the cause of death.\nLater that year, McKaig investigated Delta Chi, 1100 N. Jordan Ave., where then-freshman pledge Todd Hege was taken to Bloomington Hospital with a .2 blood alcohol content, a chipped tooth and bruises to his face. At the time, McKaig told the IDS fraternity members could face disciplinary action for alleged alcohol violations. \nIn April of 2000, the national organization of Sigma Alpha Mu revoked the charter of IU's Sigma Zeta chapter for "hazing and other activities not consistent with the mission of the fraternity," as stated in a press release.\nTheta Chi's nationals revoked the IU charter in February because of a party at their house. University officials said the death of then-freshman Seth Korona was related to a skull fracture he sustained at that party. \nIn July, nationals disbanded Beta Theta Pi for several risk management incidents during the past several years.