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(01/29/07 3:01am)
This weekend's Gladstein Invitational saw the IU track and field teams make many strides as they gear up for the Big Ten Championships.\nThe meet, in which more than 900 athletes participated, was hosted by the Hoosiers in the Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse for the second year in a row. \n"We have over 900 athletes here, including some schools from the South, so the competition level is really good," men's head coach Wayne Pate said. "Most of our meets don't often have this level of competition, but thanks to the new track our meets are doubling in size." \nNine athletes posted personal bests, including sophomore Jeff Coover. Coover cleared 5.20 meters in the pole vault, not only setting a personal best, but also clearing the NCAA provisional qualifying height, meaning that Coover will likely be one of a handful of Hoosiers to compete in the NCAA National Championships. \nSenior Stacey Clausing is another athlete likely to go to nationals. She qualified in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.37 seconds, and will also likely qualify in the 200-meter dash.\n"Our goal for Stacey this weekend was to get her qualified in both the 200 and 400," assistant coach George Freeman said. "She qualified for the 400, but that took a lot out of her for the 200." \nClausing did not qualify for the 200-meter dash, but still won the event posting a time of 24.21 seconds.\n"The coaches have been stricter, and have been pushing us harder during the week," said junior men's sprinter Ryan Smith, who posted a personal best last week at the Indiana Team Classic. "Coach Pate has really been pushing us harder; so has coach Freeman who even has us worrying about the exact angle our bodies are positioned in the starting blocks. Our practices are like competitions between one another, but all in good fun." \nAthletes from IU were able to lock up first place in eight events this weekend, including sophomores Caitlin Lauer and Audrey Smoot as well as senior Molly Beckwith. All three posted personal bests and took the top-three places in the women's 600-meter dash. This was Beckwith's first time competing in the 600-meter dash.\nSuccess this weekend was not limited to just the Hoosiers. Southern Illinois' Brittany Riley set a world record in the women's weight throw. Riley, who has been competing in the weight throw for only three years, swung and then hurled the 20-pound ball attached to a chain a distance of 24.57 meters clearing the automatic qualifying time for the NCAA by more than 3 1/2 meters. "Well that was farther than my last throw," Riley said after the throw. "When they told me it was a world record, I was excited of course, but not overly ecstatic." \nThe throw cleared the previous world record of 24.23 meters set by Erin Gilreath. Both throws were recorded in Bloomington at the Gladstein Fieldhouse.
(01/26/07 4:50am)
After strong performances at the Indiana Team Classic last weekend, the men's and women's track and field teams prepare to host the Gladstein Invitational on Friday and Saturday.\nThe women will be led this weekend by senior Stacey Clausing, who currently holds the team's top times for the 60-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash. Clausing, who posted career bests in the 200- and 400-meter dashes in last weekend's meet, hopes that the young squad can perform well while preparing for the Big Ten championships in late February.\n"We need to keep our legs fresh, while still putting up good times and remaining competitive," Clausing said. \nMen's throwing coach Wil Fleming's sentiments were in line with Clausing's while he discussed how his throwers were preparing for this weekend's invitational.\n"Our oldest thrower is a redshirt sophomore, so our team is young and has a lot of enthusiasm," Fleming said. "At this point in the season they are still learning how to compete, and this meet provides them the opportunity to face better competition in preparing for the Big Ten championships."\nOne of the young throwers who has grasped how to compete is the number one throwing recruit in the nation, freshman Eric Werskey. He currently holds the team best in shot put by over 1 meter with a distance of 17.67 meters and has the second best weight throw with 16.06 meters. Werskey said he chose IU because it was a great program and it was close to home. \n"Both of my parents went to IU, so it was kind of in my blood," Werskey said, "… also because IU is a competitor in the Big Ten."\nWerskey is used to the caliber of competition the Big Ten will offer. While in high school Eric competed in Beijing, for the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships, where he finished 13th in Group B of the shot put. \nThe men's squad also boasts a standout athlete in the triple jump heading into this weekend's meet. Junior Kyle Jenkins recorded the best triple jump of the NCAA season last weekend at the Indiana Team Classic. Jenkins jumped a distance of 15.86 meters, earning him the title of Big Ten Athlete of the Week.\nThe Hoosiers are hoping to showcase their talent this weekend. The Gladstein Invitational will bring in top athletes from colleges such as Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi, Butler and Southern Indiana.\n"We have a lot of talent on this team but talent doesn't win anything," Fleming said. "On the men's and women's side we could have several Big Ten champions, so the key is to continue working hard, taking it one week at a time, taking care of business this week, and hopefully the chips fall into place to where our team can be successful"
(01/18/07 3:34am)
Checking out the Frangipani Room in the Indiana Memorial Union at 7 p.m. Fridays, a passer-by would witness people dancing joyously in a circle to European music.\nAnd it wouldn't be out of the ordinary --just another weekly meeting of the IU International Folkdancers.\nSusan Sutton, an anthropology professor at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis and an expert on modern Greek studies, said folk dances tell stories, often imitate life and capture scenes from various European cultures.\n"(Folk) dancing plays different roles in different settings, and it is always filled with cultural meanings," she said. "... When young people on Paros get together to do the dances, they affirm a sense of community, togetherness and belonging."\nStudents who attend the club meetings said they get a real feel for the companionship the club offers.\n"I enjoy the sense of community," said Emily McFarlin, a graduate student in music and fifth-year IU folk dancer. "Besides sharing in wonderful music and dance together, I value my friendships with the people who are part of the group, including students, professors and community members."\nThe group has been around for 30 years and is made up of faculty, students and Bloomington residents.\n"The group size varies dramatically, but we have a core of about 12 stable dancers," said IU philosophy professor Leah Savion, who has danced with the group for 24 years. "Any Friday can have from 10 to 30 students who show up," Savion said, "and we meet every Friday, rain or shine, all year long."\nFor the first hour the club members do easier dances and leaders teach, then they take requests for the last half of the practice, McFarlin said.\nThe club meets every Friday but has extra rehearsals to prepare for the different performances they put on. Their most recent performances include the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis and the multicultural festival held here at IU.\n"(A folk) dance is a type of dance you can practice rigorously and still be a novice," Savion said, "because every dance is different."\nBefore a performance, the group practices about 10 dances and selects its best dancers to perform. Usually their dances consist of six to 14 dancers, but Savion said the hardest dances usually only have two dancers. \n"I have been folk dancing since I was a little girl, so I checked that IU had a folk-dance club before I applied to the school," McFarlin said. "This club is a great way to have fun, get some exercise, challenge your feet and meet all sorts of friendly people"
(11/15/06 4:45am)
Journalistic reporting requires an effective relationship between reporter and source to relay important information to the reader. This is especially true when reporting on the issue of sex research. \nOften breakdowns occur between source and reporter that skew important public health information, but a collaboration of IU experts has created a class designed to strengthen the relationship between journalist and sex researcher.\nThe course, J460: Sex in the News: Beyond the Headlines, will be offered through the School of Journalism in collaboration with the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.\nThe idea for the class came from a workshop the Kinsey Institute created that addressed the issue of sex in the media. According to the workshop's Web site, www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/KIJ, eight journalists and eight sex researchers gathered with the goal of finding a way to provide research-driven information that would benefit the public.\n"We are very lucky at IU to have an exceptional School of Journalism along with the Kinsey Institute and such a wonderful opportunity to collaborate and make a difference in the way information about sex is reported," said Kinsey Institute communications director Jennifer Bass.\nLesa Hatley Major, the assistant professor in the School of Journalism who is teaching the class in the spring, said such collaboration between sex researchers and journalists is rare. \nThe Journalism Bulletin explains that the class will explore the barriers in responsible coverage, challenges, biases, political implications and ethics related to presenting and covering sexual news.\nMajor said she hopes what she teaches can be applied to other areas outside of reporting just sex research. \n"The goal of the class is to help students understand the relationship between source and journalist in order to benefit the public," Major said.\nThe class is designed for students who are interested in covering sex research in the media but is also for students who are going to be involved with sex research and want to learn how to communicate with journalists.\n"I first heard about the class while looking up classes being offered for the spring semester on the journalism Web site," said Joanna Jacobs, a senior majoring in broadcast journalism. "I needed another elective and (J460) struck me as different from the other normal journalism classes always offered." \nJ460: Sex in the News: Beyond the Headlines deviates away from the usual offerings of the School of Journalism.\n"Most of the classes in the journalism school are geared toward reporting hard news, but I'm more interested in doing health or entertainment news," Jacobs said. "So it's great to have more choices and information on how to go about covering those issues differently"
(10/18/06 4:11am)
Many students add a unique flair to the outsides of their laptop computers with stickers and drawings. Now, the computer company Averatec is offering a way for students to show the world their technological creativity.\nIn the first ever "It's About Me" contest, amateur designers can win Averatec 7100 Series laptops for creating the best "skins," or cases, for the laptops. Voting on the contest Web site, www.createyourcase.com, determines the winners.\nThe contest ends Saturday and is free to enter. Five random registrants, including both design contestants and voters, will also win Voya 300 Series Global Positioning Systems.\nAccording to the contest's Web site, the digital image of the skin, which contestants will upload on the site, can be anything from a picture taken from a camera to a drawing scanned into a computer.\nCreating a laptop skin falls under a field of informatics known as interaction design, said Eli Blevis, assistant professor of informatics at IU.\n"Interaction design is the new meaning of human-computer interaction which is properly a subdiscipline of computer science," Blevis said. "(It) includes influences from cognitive science design and education, as well as others."\nAfter the image is uploaded to the Web site, people may vote for it an unlimited number of times, incorporating a marketing aspect of the contest. Though not a requirement, Averatec strongly suggests contestants put up information about how to vote for their image on other personal Web sites, such as Facebook and MySpace.\nTo win the contest, one would need to be well-rounded, said Darek Connole, an Averatec spokesperson for the contest.\n"(You'd need) a culmination of different artistic skills, and you would have to have a lot of friends or be good at social marketing," Connole said.\nAveratec's Director of Product Placement Bret Berg said he knows creativity in college kids can often lead to rather "racy" content. Berg is not discouraging this content, but asks that students keep everything clean and legal and is not allowing copyright or trademark infringement.\nThe contest is open to anyone over the age of 18, and more than 2,000 entries have been submitted.\nSo far, the gallery of entries includes logos of universities, pictures of island getaways and an image of a Furby smoking marijuana. \nBerg said he allowed the Furby picture in the contest because he didn't find it offensive. However, he did disqualify pictures of 9/11 because they weren't very creative and were too offensive for the contest's standards.\nAll registrants for the contest, whether they enter a skin or simply vote for one, enter a drawing for which five random people will win a Voya 350 Series Portable GPS system from Averatec. The GPS system has a touch-and-go screen with optional stylus, has 1.6 million locations and can be mounted in a car or fit in a pocket.\n"The optional stylus with the GPS system is nice," Connole said, "because I don't know about you, but I have fat nubs for fingers."\nBerg says the contest's goal is to get Averatec known among consumers in a way that encourages creativity in college students.\nThis creativity can lead to careers in the future, Blevis said.\n"There are many jobs are available in this field," he said. "In fact, a bunch of the design for computer works is done here (in the United States)"
