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(04/20/04 5:35am)
IU will hold a memorial service for William "Bill" Walters, IU's former bursar at 2 p.m. April 22. The service will be held at the Indiana Memorial Union in the Whittenberger Auditorium. Walters worked for the University for 27 years and continued his service to the University until 2002.\n"Bill was a caring guy who always asked his employees about their families," said Linda M. Bruce, who worked in the bursar office for Walters. \nWhen asked what her favorite memory of Walters was, Bruce laughed and said, "Oh gosh, I have so many."\nBruce and Walters worked together for 20 years, and she said she would miss Walters' friendship and loving nature. Susan Coté, another member of Walters' staff in the Office of the Bursar, said Walters was always committed to his work.\n"When I picture Bill in his bursar role, it's usually as Bill 'on the move,'" she said. "He didn't like to spend much time at his desk and would visit frequently with the staff and see how we were doing. He was also the consummate Franklin Hall host. If he was passing through the hall, he would offer to assist any student he encountered. Then, rather than pointing out the route to Financial Aid (if that was the question), he'd accompany the student there and escort him right to the director. While interacting with the students, he'd find out where they were from, what they were studying and generally make the experience one the student would likely remember."\nCoté said the Bursar hopes to uphold the tradition of excellence Walters contributed to. \n"Bill set the standard for student service in this office and continually reinforced the idea that the student comes first in all of his interactions with the staff," she said. "To this day, we always think of student service first; I like to think we carry on in the Bill Walters tradition."\nWalters received numerous awards during his time at IU, including membership in the Order of Omega, the Dean's Award from the Dean of Students in 1990, the Presidential Citation of the Interfraternity Council in 1977 and the Special Merit Award for the Campus Life Division for 1995-96. Walters was also an undergraduate member of the IU's Lambda chapter and was involved with Sigma Chi fraternity.\n-- Contact staff writer Alex Moore at mam3@indiana.edu.
(04/15/04 5:42am)
For the past year, photographer Will Claytor has been documenting the Southern Indiana terrain between Indianapolis and Evansville, which will be affected by the I-69 interstate highway construction. From 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow, visitors to Boxcar Books store and Community Center will be able to view the results of the IU senior's project.\nClaytor has shown work in a variety of locations around Bloomington and this will be his second show at Boxcar Books. He said his inspiration comes from a wide variety of people and places. \n"I've spent the past year, off and on, traveling the route for I-69 between Indianapolis and Evansville photographing the area, while also interviewing homeowners and business owners who will be affected by the highway, activists and public officials," Claytor said. "This show consists of photographs and interviews from that work, focusing on the lives and opinions of rural families who will lose land to I-69."\nJody and Wayne Vaught live in Springville, Indiana -- about one mile outside of Hobbieville. The Vaught's farm is being destroyed because of the construction of I-69.\n"We wanted to be able to pass the farm down to our daughters and their families," Jody Vaught said. "We have always paid our taxes on time and now the government says we want your land ... We don't want their money ... We want our farm." \nClaytor recently traveled to the Vaught's farm to photograph their property and the land that is going to be disrupted.\n"Will has actually given us some comfort because of his stand on the entire I-69," Jody Vaught said. "I am such an optimist that I can't help but think this will not happen."\nCorinna Manion, an employee at Boxcar Books and Community Center, said they are featuring this particular show because it is an incredibly important issue in Southern Indiana right now. \n"We feel that the personal side of the story should be highlighted, as it is in Will Claytor's photography and interviews with people who will loose land to I-69," Manion said.\nManion said although the event is not a fundraiser for any organization, the bookstore enjoys allowing the community an open gallery to display art work. Claytor has been taking photos much of his life and he began the I-69 project in January 2003 while he was taking a class on documentary photography.\n"This was just a couple weeks after the late Gov. O'Bannon announced the state's preferred route for I-69, so looking into that decision and its effects seemed like a logical thing to do at the time," Claytor said. "The photos that are the most interesting to me personally are some that I shot in the Amish community in Daviess County, which will be bordered to the west by I-69." \nClaytor said he hopes his work will show the destruction of communities and lives that will be brought on by the construction of I-69. Manion and Claytor encourage students and local residents to attend the show. \nFor further information, contact Corinna Manion at 339-8710 or visit the Boxcar Books and Community Center Web site at www.boxcarbooks.org.\n-- Contact staff writer Alex Moore at mam3@indiana.edu.
(10/30/03 5:45am)
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures will celebrate Halloween with Family Fun Fest, featuring a variety of crafts, storytelling and hands-on activities, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday. \nThis is the ninth Family Fun Fest, said Abbie Anderson, the Curator of Education at the museum, who is in charge of the event.\n"I'm having a lot of fun planning our Halloween Family Fun Fest, and we're hoping for a good turnout," Anderson said. She said about 200 people attended the event last year.\nThe museum's Assistant Director Judy Kirk, who was in charge of all the museum's special events at the time, decided to hold a special program on Halloween in 1995. The dangers of trick-or-treating were in the news that year and she wanted to offer the museum as a safe and fun place for concerned parents, Anderson said. \n"Parents have been concerned for years about the potential dangers of their children going door to door at night and accepting gifts from strangers -- gifts that might hide razor blades, or ground glass or poisons," she said. "In the early '90s, people started trick-or-treating at malls and such, so kids could still get dressed up and get treats but do it in a clean, well-lighted place."\nTrends like that were what gave Kirk the idea of holding a special Halloween event at the museum, a place where parents could feel good about bringing their children. The event was so successful that it became an annual fixture at the museum.\nAnderson said many of the same families come to the Fun Fest every year.\n"We like the museum to be a place where people have fun, as well as learn about the different ways of being human," she said. "We especially want families to know that they are welcome here. Plus, if kids learn early on that museums are exciting places to be, they're more likely to remember everything we have to offer as they grow up." \nThe Fun Fest offers different themes each year; this year the museum will focus on festivals of the dead around the world, Anderson said. Some of the events at the Halloween Family Fun Fest will include mask making, potato stamping on Adinkra (West African cloth), Japanese dancing and face painting. For the first time this year, the festival will feature ghost stories from around the world, including stories from Spanish, Japanese, Siberian and Pawnee Indian cultures.\nSenior Christina Conn, an anthropology major, said she plans to have an exhibit of masks she made from around the world in December at Mathers, so she thought the festival would be a fun event to volunteer for. \n"The Mathers always has a mask-making table at the Halloween Fest, so this year I wanted to help out and hopefully keep some of the children's masks to put on display in my exhibit," Conn said. "At the table this year, the kids will have a choice in making Yoruba Egungun masks associated with special annual and biannual funeral ceremonies or free-style masks where they can show their creative side and make whatever type of mask they want or, of course, they could make both," she said. "The children will construct masks out of paper plates and paper, adding whatever decoration they want, using feathers, construction paper and markers. For the Egungun masks, they will tape strips of streamers on a paper plate to represent the colorful strips of clothes that Egungun wooden masks have," Conn said.\nCatherine M. Tucker, who is an assistant professor in the anthropology department, enjoys taking her son to the event. \n"It did provide fun for my son and I, and it's a good activity; I hope it continues," she said. \nThe museum is located at 416 N. Indiana Ave. Parking is available at the McCalla School parking lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue. Admission is free. For more information about this event or tours at the museum call 855-6873 or visit their Web site at www.indiana.edu/~mathers/.\n-- Contact staff writer Alex Moore at mam3@indiana.edu.
(10/30/03 5:18am)
The IU Student Association and the T.I.S. Bookstore are unifying Hoosier basketball fans by challenging IU students to create a design for a unified fan T-shirt, which will be passed out at the first three men's basketball home games.\nMany colleges throughout the nation, including the University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina and Michigan State University, show spirit with a school-sponsored "spirit T-shirt," but this is something IU is lacking, said junior Scott Norman, IUSA press secretary.\nStudents should submit ideas or designs by Saturday to the IUSA office in Room 387 of the Indiana Memorial Union. The student who wins the contest will receive a free semester of books from T.I.S. \n"Last year's shirt was designed by T.I.S.," Norman said. "It was IUSA's idea to put together a contest this year where the student shirt, inherent that the shirt would be for students, would be designed by students. No such contest has been run until this point. Many schools have spirit shirts. In fact, we are currently in the minority." \nIUSA President Casey Cox, a senior, said you can see many similar examples of unified fandom at other schools, such as Purdue University's "Gene Pool" and MSU's "Izzone." \n"We are aiming to enrich student life by providing solidarity among students and fans in general at various events," he said. "We'd like to establish an IU tradition in which students consistently identify with the name that they assigned themselves." \nCox said he hopes the student body will spread this idea throughout all sporting events, creating a more intense level of competition for athletic teams. \nMike Mann, marketing manager at T.I.S., said both IUSA and T.I.S. plan to pass out 800 free T-shirts at the games. Norman said the shirts will be placed on the bleachers prior to the game. The shirts passed out will be primarily larger sizes, but if someone who received a T-shirt needs to switch sizes, they can do so at T.I.S., Mann said. \nMann said T.I.S. will donate a portion of the proceeds to IUSA for student scholarships and another portion to the IU Varsity Club. \n-- Contact staff writer Alex Moore at mam3@indiana.edu.