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(09/29/08 4:24am)
Kraft Easy Mac is the ultimate college convenience. Pour in the water, put it in the microwave, pour in the cheese, stir and eat to your gut’s delight. But convenience on IU’s campus can be costly.A six-pack of the cheesy goodness is $7.79 at any C-Store, but a short walk or drive down Third Street to the local Target could save you more than $5 if faux mac-and-cheese is what you are craving.Students are questioning whether it’s worth sacrificing price for the convenience of shopping on campus.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines
(09/25/08 3:55am)
They walk backwards more than forwards. They showed you how your first
dorm room would look, and they were some of the first students you met
before you came to IU.
They are the Residential Programs and Services student tour guides, and they’re always at your service.
(09/23/08 3:06am)
While pizza might be thought of as a college food staple, students can’t eat it every day.
As a result, Residential Programs and Services is trying to provide healthier and more sustainable options in food courts.
(09/22/08 2:05am)
The second floor of the IU Art Museum was crowded with people Friday
for the opening of its new special exhibit, “The Grand Tour: Art and
Travel, 1740-1914.”
(09/16/08 1:51am)
Extravagant fashion shows, the season’s newest lines, some of the
biggest designer names and the hottest celebrities could all be found
in New York City during Fashion Week. Attending Fashion Week is a dream
to anyone with an interest in fashion.
(09/04/08 4:46am)
While school was out of session for the summer and students headed home
to relax, Residential Programs and Services worked hard to make several
renovations to campus housing facilities.
(09/04/08 4:43am)
IU is looking to add a new school color to the original cream and crimson – green.
The effort to go green on campus is being made more simple with Indiana
Sustainable Student, a newly released guide to help students become
more environmentally aware and do their part while living on campus.
(09/03/08 2:17am)
Coffee. It wakes students up in the morning, keeps them up at night and supposedly cures those hangovers. So why not brew up another venue for this stimulant?
(08/28/08 1:32am)
Navigating a three-story museum might seem like a daunting task but, the IU Art Museum’s new training program will give students the opportunity to become docents, or volunteer tour guide, and direct people through the mazes of art.
(08/27/08 3:00am)
Today is the official day students can check into residence halls on campus and start moving into their rooms. Often, this day is full of stress and confusion, especially for freshmen and transfer students who are new to Bloomington.
(08/06/08 9:30pm)
All that jazz – and so much more. Maureen McGovern, Academy- and Grammy-Award winner, will join Jacobs School of Music faculty and students as well as regional musicians for an 8 p.m. performance Friday at the Musical Arts Center.
(07/23/08 10:33pm)
The Indiana University Opera Theater is bringing Broadway to Bloomington when the musical comedy “She Loves Me” begins Friday evening.
(07/16/08 11:40pm)
Good vibrations are coming to the IU campus. The IU Summer Percussion Workshop Grand Finale Concert will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Auer Hall. “Percussion is anything that can be struck or scraped,” said John Tafoya, director of the IU Summer Percussion Academy/Workshop and Jacobs School of Music faculty member.
(07/16/08 11:38pm)
The College Audition Preparation Faculty Concert will kick off the week-long CAP workshop 7 p.m Sunday in Ford Hall.“It is a great concert,” said Alain Barker, the Jacobs School of Music director of marketing and publicity. “There will be a lot of wonderful music by the Jacobs School of Music Faculty.”
(04/14/08 3:42am)
The Mini is almost at its max. \nLast week, IU’s Mini University reported having only about 20 seats left, said Kyla Cox, communications and outreach director for IU Continuing Studies.\nFor the 37th year, the IU Alumni Association and IU Continuing Studies are co-sponsoring Mini University, a week-long learning program for adults. Mini University offers 111 classes in subjects such as arts, business and technology, domestic issues, health and science. \n“Last year, we barely made it into June and we were sold out,” Cox said. \nAdults of all ages can attend, and being an IU graduate is not a requirement. This year it will take place June 15 to 20.\nThe regular registration fee is $225 per person. After June 1, the registration fee increases to $250. However, those interested are encouraged to act quickly, Cox said. \nParticipants take three different classes per day. By the end of the week, they will have experienced 15 different class sessions taught by IU faculty. Participants can stay in focused areas such as science or pick and choose, said Jeanne Madison, co-director of Mini University. \n“Classes are more in-depth and less textbook,” said Nicki Bland, co-director of Mini University.\nLast year, the 490 participants came from 31 different states and Canada, Bland said. In previous years, there was a participant from Turkey and one from Japan. Many people from Bloomington also attended.\n“There are a number of participants who literally walk from their homes to Mini,” Cox said. \nIn conjunction with classes, Mini University also provides special events, including a welcome dinner, a picnic, a chance to see Brown County Playhouse’s production of “Suds” and a faculty reception. All of the special events except the faculty reception will cost extra. However, all events are less than $20, Cox said.\n“(The special events) are very popular,” Madison said. “Some events are already closing.”\nMost participants stay in the Biddle Hotel at the Indiana Memorial Union. However, they are responsible for \nmaking their own reservations, and the housing is not part of the original registration fee, according to the Mini University Web site. Commuters can still participate in Mini University, but living on campus enriches the overall experience, Madison said.\n“It is a unique opportunity to get back and experience college again in an abbreviated form,” she said.\nMini University is an award-winning program. In 2006, the Council for Advancement in Support and Education honored Mini University with a gold medal for Best Collaborative Program, Cox said. In addition, it won a bronze award for Best Practices in Alumni Relations. But Bland said many participants attend Mini University for the social aspect.\n“Some people use this as a reunion,” she said.
(04/11/08 4:01am)
Little 500 riders may have been squeezing in some extra practice Wednesday, but they were not the only ones on bikes. \nThe IU chapter of Building Tomorrow hosted its inaugural event, “No Spandex Required,” where people hopped on stationary bikes to “ride” the 7,710 miles between Bloomington and Uganda and raise money to build schools in the sub-Saharan African nation. \n“I am so excited,” said sophomore Emily Hughes. “It is a fun activity that takes just five to 10 minutes between classes.” \nHughes said she liked this form of charity because it was accessible. \n“It is not a three-hour thing where you have to set time aside,” she said. “You can just hop on a bike between classes.” \nStationary bikes were placed throughout campus in locations such as the entrance to the Arboretum, the kiosk in front of Ballantine Hall and the Teter Quad courtyard from noon to 8 p.m. Riders were asked to donate at least $2 for every mile they rode. Around 8:30 p.m., all of the bikes were moved to Dunn Meadow, where the screening of “Breaking Away” took place. People could continue to ride while watching the film. \nAll of the bikes were from previous Little 500 races. This was purposely crafted to give everyone a chance to ride and be a part of the excitement for Little 500 weekend. Building Tomorrow member sophomore Trevor Shirley said the group tried to use creative approaches to attract people. \n“It is a novelty with Little 5 coming up,” he said. \nAlthough people did volunteer to ride the stationary bikes, much of the time the bikes sat empty. \n“It is interesting,” said Maria Srour, co-president and co-founder of the IU chapter of Building Tomorrow. “People are giving money, but we are finding that a lot of people don’t want to ride.” \nGraduate assistant Kevin Doran stopped by the stationary bikes outside of Ballantine Hall and donated $40 to the cause. \n“One of my students gave an announcement in class, so I thought I would come out to support,” Doran said. \nHowever, he was among those who did not ride.\nSrour said her goal was to raise at least $5,000. By the end of the day, the group had raised about $2,500. \n“The first year is the hardest,” Shirley said. “Hopefully it will jog people’s memories in the future.” \nThe first time is more about publicity and getting the word out, Srour said. \nSrour co-founded the IU chapter of Building Tomorrow last spring. The chapter hopes to continue to raise money for its cause each year.\n“Ideally we want to host one big event in the spring and one in the fall,” Srour said. \nThe money raised will go toward the construction of schools in Uganda. \n“It is hard to stop problems if there is no means in educating people about them,” Srour said. \nShe said if people were properly educated about sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS may not be as big a problem.\n“Everyone talks about problems in Africa,” Srour said, giving an example of the AIDS problem in Africa. “A lot can be solved through education – everything starts in schools.”\n Hughes said she decided to ride Wednesday because she thought the event hit close to home.\n“It is students helping students and furthering education, and that is what college is all about,” she said.\nSrour said she considered the event a success as long as word got out and people were getting excited, so “No Spandex Required” can become an annual event.
(04/08/08 4:04am)
Usually a unicorn, a sun, a swallow and flying bottles don’t have much in common. However, all of these are the winning designs to be displayed on recycling bins throughout campus.\nThe IU Task Force on Campus Sustainability held a design contest for recycling bins in February. More than 20 students submitted their designs and the top 10 were selected.\nThe top two designers won cash prizes of $100 and $50. \nFirst place went to senior Kelly Breeze and Liz Bockstiegel was the runner up.\nThe judging panel consisted of two undergraduate students, one graduate student, School of Fine Arts assistant professor Mariana Tres and Steve Akers, associate director of environmental operations for Residential Programs and Services.\nThe judges were looking for original artwork that was visually interesting. Volunteers in Sustainability President Vanessa Caruso said the only criterion originally established was for the designs to be eye-catching.\nWhile picking the winners, Caruso said the judges favored designs that were “creative, innovative and colorful.”\nBockstiegal, the second-place winner, described her design as a pink and purple tree with bright purple leafs. She said there are swirls of color throughout, and the lid of the bin is blue and green with swirls.\n“It is really big and colorful,” she said. “(Painting) was stress-relieving because I am not an art major so I don’t get to paint all the time.”\nBockstiegal said she would definitely do it again, given the chance.\nJordan Jacobs, a member of the IU Task Force on Campus Sustainability, came up with the idea for the contest. He said he thought outrageous, outdoor recycling bins would help bring attention to recycling.\n“It was a good opportunity to display artwork on campus while doing something nice for IU and sustain,” said Corey McAninch, one of the top-10 designers.\nAkers said the bins are not permanent, but instead, a temporary project that will help gauge how much recyclable material is collected. This is just the first step to help determine the best locations for placing permanent recycling bins on campus, he said.\nThe recyclable items include plastic, glass and aluminum. \nVolunteers will take all of the aluminum goods collected to the Hilltop Garden and Nature Center. The proceeds will help fund the center’s youth gardening program.\nMembers of the Volunteers in Sustainability and some volunteers from Alpha Phi Omega stood by the recycling bins Wednesday to educate people about recycling and other ways to help IU’s campus environmentally. The eye-catching bins will be in high-traffic locations such as on Seventh Street, Third Street, Jordan Avenue and near the Student Recreational Sports Center. \nThe bins will remain on campus until the end of spring semester. In the summer, the bins themselves will be ‘recycled’ and used temporarily for freshman orientation events.
(04/07/08 6:32am)
Music, cheers and spandex filled the parking lot of Memorial Stadium on Saturday as runners prepared for the big race. IU’s Circle of Life hosted its third annual Mini Marathon and 5K run and walk to help raise money for the Bill Z. Littlefield Scholarship for Survivors, an award given to cancer survivors. \nLittlefield was a senior lecturer in the Kelley School of Business who died of cancer in the summer of 2005. \nPresident and Chief Executive Officer for Circle of Life Sean Keegan MacCauley said just more than 1,500 runners showed up.\n“I am extremely pleased,” he said. “We only had 89 days to get the race off the ground with the transition from fall to spring. Now we have a whole year to prepare for the next race.”\nIU senior Andrew Zale had been training with a friend to prepare for the Mini Marathon. Zale said the two trained for the race by spending a lot of days running.\n“We have been training about two months, running every day,” he said. They ran six to seven miles on average each day. \nHowever, it was not just students who participated in the Mini Marathon and 5K. People from all over the community and a wide variety of age groups competed to support the cause. \n“I started the inaugural race three years ago ... I do it every year,” Bloomington resident Vickie Goens said.\nBut it was the young runners in the 5K that set the pace. The leaders could be seen crossing 17th Street only about 17 minutes into the 3.1 mile race. The first- and second-place finishers were both 14 years old. Bloomington resident Nick Kirkpatrick was the first-place finisher. \nTwenty-seven-year-old Cory Ferguson was the first runner to cross the Mini Marathon finish line and the top runner in the men’s division with a winning time of about one hour and 11 minutes. Ferguson finished the 13.1 mile course as runners and walkers were still striding in from the 5K. Bloomington resident Larissa Mikahaylova took first place in the women’s division, with a time of about one hour and 23 minutes. \nFerguson said he participated in the event to help prepared for the Boston Marathon, which he will be running in a few weeks. \n“It is a very hilly course, and I knew it would be a good challenge,” he said. \nHowever, for Ferguson, it isn’t just about preparation.\n“Circle of Life helps cancer survivors,” he said. “I had family members that have gone through cancer. It means a lot to contribute for a good cause.” \nThis year, the Mini Marathon and 5K had a slight makeover. Instead of being held in the fall, it was held in the spring. This change seemed to please runners. \n“It was the hottest race last year,” Goens said. “The hills and heat were a killer.”\nAnother twist was the promotion of groups for the 5K run and walk. \nSeveral greek organizations came out in support of Circle of Life by competing in the 5K and cheering each other on. \n“Our whole house is doing it, so you’re going to see all of us running together,” said sophomore Alpha Chi Omega member Megan Reeder. \nIU’s fraternities and sororities raced for $5,000 and a trophy as a part of the Greek Challenge for participating in the 5K. The top fraternity in the 5K was Sigma Nu and the top sorority was Gamma Phi Beta. \nAll runners and walkers got medals of participation when they crossed the finish line. Around 11:30 a.m., people gathered in the Memorial Stadium bleachers for the award ceremony. IU’s head football coach Bill Lynch and members of the IU football team handed out awards to the top runners in each category on the field.
(04/04/08 4:33am)
IU Mini Marathon is trying to get the campus pumped up this weekend – and not for Little 500.\nOn Saturday, the IU Circle of Life is kicking off its third annual Mini Marathon and 5K run and walk, sponsored by Old National Bank. \n“We are trying to get people on campus pumped up because this is the one race affiliated with IU,” said Rachel Wang, vice president of race logistics. \nDonations from the Mini Marathon and 5K will go toward the Bill Z. Littlefield Scholarship for Survivors.\nThe Mini Marathon is classified as “mini” because it is only 13.1 miles long in comparison to a typical marathon, which is 26.2 miles. The 5K is the equivalent of about 3.1 miles. Participants are allowed a three-hour time frame to finish the races.\nThe Circle of Life usually hosts the Mini Marathon and 5K in the fall, but having it in the spring is just one of the twists to the event this year. Instead of having the race be an individual event with men’s and women’s divisions, the marathon’s organizers are encouraging people to form teams. \n“Teams can be fraternities, sororities, men, women or co-ed,” Wang said. “Teams of five or more people will get 20 percent off the registration fee.”\nWang said they are projecting 1,400 to 1,500 participants this Saturday. Right now, the numbers are lower. However, based on previous years, runners usually sign up at the last minute, she said. \nThe Mini Marathon and 5K races are free for all to watch. \n“People can line up and down the streets if they want,” said Shildes McCaslin, operations vice president and chief operating officer for Circle of Life. \nHe encouraged IU students to attend.\nWang emphasized student involvement and the need for volunteers.\n“We are short volunteers,” she said. “We are at 75 percent compared to last year.” \nThose interested in volunteering can go to iumini.com. There is no deadline, and all volunteers get a free T-shirt and a complimentary breakfast and lunch.\nThe start and finish of both races will take place at the east end of the Memorial Stadium. The Mini Marathon starts at 8 a.m. and the 5K follows at around 8:15 a.m.\nThe award ceremony will be held at 11:30 a.m. inside Memorial Stadium. IU Football Head Coach Bill Lynch will present the awards to the top runners for the Mini Marathon and the 5K. \nCircle of Life is a nonprofit, student-run organization founded by former IU business student Kevin MacCauley. His brother, Sean Keegan MacCauley, is currently the group’s president and chief executive officer. Sean Keegan MacCauley said Kevin thought of the marathon because he developed a cyst on his head. Although it was not cancerous, he thought “what if?” \nHe then decided he wanted to help cancer survivors with financial burdens by developing the Bill Z. Littlefield Scholarship for Survivors.\nLittlefield was a senior lecturer in the Kelley School of Business who died of cancer in the summer of 2005. \nSean Keegan MacCauly said the group raised about $80,000 in the past two years. However, it is too hard to say how much money will be raised this year, he said. Donations are continuously accepted. \n“We accept and appreciate any donations,” Wang said. \nAll donations can be mailed to the Student Activities Office 371 in the Indiana Memorial Union or submitted online at iumini.com.
(02/18/08 2:11am)
It’s not easy being green – that’s why IU students are using as much color as possible to design new recycling bins. \nThe IU Task Force for Campus Sustainability is holding a contest for recycling bin designs. All IU students or groups of students can submit their original work. The bolder the better. \nJordan Jacobs, a member of the campus task force, came up with the idea. He said he thought that outrageous, outdoor recycling bins would catch people’s eyes, and in return, bring attention to recycling. He said the concept for the 55-gallon, eye-catching bins was modeled after the artistic cows that were popular attractions in New York and Chicago. \n“It will be fun to see all the different designs on bins around campus,” said Lauren Muskat, co-director of Collins Living-Learning Center’s E-Force.\n“It is important for people to visually see it. There is no doubt these are for recycling,” Jacobs said. “They will be clear and distinctive.”\nHe said there is no outdoor recycling on campus now, and the indoor cans often get confused with the trash cans. These decorated bins should prevent this from happening, he said.\nSteve Akers, associate director of Environmental Operations for Residential Programs and Services, said one of the main goals of this project is to build interest in recycling and to make it more convenient. \nAkers said the project was developed to get students, staff, faculty and visitors involved in outdoor recycling. These bins are not permanent, but a temporary project that will help gauge how much recyclable material is collected. This is the first step to help determine the best locations for placing permanent recycling bins on campus, he said.\nJacobs said the campus needs to become more environmentally aware, but it has to start with the students in order for the administration to care.\nVanessa Caruso, president of Volunteers in Sustainability, said the project is meant to “get students aware of how they play a part in making a successful recycling program at IU.” \nThe contest will help promote a campus-wide program and show that recycling outdoors is viable, she said.\n“A hot button topic right now is energy conservation and the environmental impact,” Akers said. “Recycling is one piece of the larger picture.” \nHe said recycling efficiently makes use out of products instead of having them become wastes that get dumped into landfills. \nVolunteers will take all of the aluminum goods collected to the Hilltop Garden and Nature Center. The proceeds from the aluminum collection will help fund the center’s youth gardening program. \nThe judges will consist of a diverse group of members including a member of the fine arts department, the IU architect office, the business and marketing department, a community member and one or two students. The student work will be analyzed by how striking it is and by its originality. \nThe top 10 winning designers will get the chance to paint their artwork on one of the recycling bins to be displayed throughout campus. Monetary prizes of $100, $50 and $25 will be given to the top three student designers. Supplies will be provided for all 10 winners.\nThe bins will be moved in spring 2009. Future plans for the bins may include use at outdoor events such as football games, the Little 500 race and tailgating.\nThe contest is open to IU students only, and the design must be submitted by 5 p.m., March 3. Entry forms can be picked up in the fine arts building, room 124 or online on the IU Sustainability Web site, www.indiana.edu/~sustain/contest.html.
