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This year is Pete Goldsmith’s first as IU’s Dean of Students. The alumnus tells us about his own days as a Hoosier, how he copes with student deaths, and why he wants to dine with the Queen of England.
The Political and Civic Engagement program, called PACE, combines classroom academics with experimental education.
School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Dean Bob Goodman won the 9th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta on Friday.
After two years of buying books at the campus bookstore, junior Ben Greenberg was irritated. Although he could handle the costs of the books, several of his friends were struggling to keep up.
Tami Goodrich, a Kelley School of Business professor, met her first colony of bees on a Saturday.
Kelley School of Business professor Tami Goodrich sets up beekeeping equipment in her backyard. A smoker filled with burning burlap will distract the bees when she open the hive.
After only a week of classes, the first “Themester” focusing on “Evolution, Diversity and Change” is well underway. Launched by the College of Arts and Sciences, the program aims to get students thinking across disciplines using classes and extracurricular activities.
Making the transition to college classes can be daunting, but there is never a shortage of help around campus.
Marie Howison knows you don’t have to leave behind the activities you loved when coming to a large university. She transferred her high school student government invovlement to her experience at IU.
Salima Lalani came to campus with 50 of her high school classmates, and while being with friends was nice, she knew needed to meet new people.
Lauren Mudd trained hard to participate in IU’s biggest tradition, the Little 500 bicycle race. She rode for her sorority Alpha Omicron Pi, which she joined this year.
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Charlie Beeker knows shipwrecks. In fact, they’re his job.For almost a year, Beeker, director of the Office of Underwater Science and Educational Resources in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, has been exploring the waters off the coast of the Dominican Republic with the hope of verifying a pirate shipwreck.
Five years ago Jo Burgess, director of the Wylie House Museum, made a trip to Arlington, Mass., to visit a little-known relative of the Wylie family, Morton Bradley Jr. While this was Burgess’ first trip to see Bradley, staff of the IU Art Museum and IU Foundation had visited him many times. At one point during most visits, Bradley would make a point to trudge up to the attic of his estate, returning with a small gift for the museum cradled in his hands.
The year 1990 ushered in the beginning of the last decade of the 20th century. It was the year that brought us Polly Pocket, Vanilla Ice and “The Simpsons.” And, it was also the year many students in the class of 2012 were born. While the names and faces are different, some parts of college never change.
A “Last of the Mohicans” poster is propped up near Pam Cook’s desk in the East Tower of the Herman B Wells Library. Her current project, a seven-DVD set on belly dancing called “Tribal Basics,” sits nearby.\nCook, an IU alumna with a degree in English literature, works as an audio-video cataloger at the library. She and Vaughn Nuest, head of Auxiliary Library Facilities Management Services, are only two examples of library workers with atypical jobs.\nManaging the surplus\nWalking into the book safe inside the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library is like walking into a cave.\nThe dimly lit, cavernous room is a balmy 50 degrees with 30 percent humidity, which is the ideal climate for book preservation, Nuest said. Metal shelving 30-feet high runs through the room and books sit nestled on shelves in special acid-free and lignin-free trays. The entire library environment is designed to provide the best life possible for its literary inhabitants.\nNuest oversees the 1.7 million items housed in the building. He has worked as a librarian at IU for 27 years, including several as a student. \nHe said he understands the importance of a high-density shelving facility like the Auxillary Library Facility – he worked as an assistant building manager at the Wells Library before the ALF was built. Part of his job was to help facilitate the off-campus storage of extra books. The Wells Library was built with a capacity to accept books for the next 20 years, Nuest said. However, after 20 years, annual acquisition rates averaging roughly 100,000 volumes per year continued to flood the campus libraries until they were 2 million to 3 million volumes more than capacity. Today, he said, the IUB Libraries are digging their way out of the book surplus by using the storage capabilities of the ALF.\n“Our goal is to get all of the libraries to 80 percent capacity,” Nuest said. “But that is still 10 to 15 years worth of moving.”\nLiving in the “deluxe environment” of the ALF can add an extra 400 years to the lifespan of a book, Nuest said. The ALF staff tries to send every book back in better condition that it arrived in. This includes vacuuming books, freezing items that may have insects or mold in them and even recreating books in the preservation room.\nUnlike the Wells Library, books are sorted and stored by size to maximize space in the collections vault. Only five people have on-demand access to the vault in order to maximize security. So far, Nuest said, the system has had a 100 percent retrieval success rate. Any item requested before noon is delivered the same day, Monday through Sunday.\nWhile plans for an expansion that would increase collection storage by 150 percent are underway, Nuest said the ALF is one of the models other universities use when designing shelving facilities for library materials.\n“They spared no expense to make this the best environment possible for the books to live in,” he said.\nKnowing a little about a lot\nCook said she initially intended to have her job as cataloger with the Wells Library for six months. Over time, six months turned into 30 years.\n“Around 1979 we had some video cassettes, the old half-inch ones, and my boss wanted someone to bring them into the catalog,” Cook said. “No one wanted to do it and I volunteered.”\nCook now catalogs nonprint materials. These can range from DVDs, the bulk of her work, to posters, games and maps. However, not all items that come across Cook’s desk are commonplace.\n“One day I came back from lunch and I found a box labeled ‘human body parts,’” Cook said. “It was a box of model body parts. We also get things like cross-sections of the human brain, and one colleague had to catalog owl pellets once.”\nCook’s job normally entails enhancing previous catalog entries or creating entirely new ones. She writes a physical description of the item, compiles a summary and assigns a call number.\nAfter cataloging a variety of things, Cook said she knows a little about a lot of things.\n“I always tell people, if you see a librarian on ‘Jeopardy!’ bet on that one to win,” she said.
Nine months ago, more than 7,000 freshmen from across the country flooded the campus during Welcome Week. Representing 45 states and 45 different nations, they found a home at IU. As the year comes to a close, freshmen Luke Fisher and Jessica Lehfeldt look back on their first year at IU.
More than 50 years ago, Frank and Daisy Beck returned to IU, their alma mater, with the goal of fulfilling one of the campus’ greatest needs: a small chapel.\nThe Indiana University Chapel, Frank Beck’s initial name for the building, would sit nestled between the family burial ground of George Dunn and the Jordan River because, as he wrote in a chapel newsletter, no man can love IU without loving the Jordan River.\nHis plans outlined a building with an exterior of Indiana flagstone or shell stone from nearby hills, much of it from the farm of Col. John Ketcham, one of IU’s first trustees,. The roof would be of slate, the spire of copper and wood from native strands of timber.\nAnd on a January evening in 1941 during a large dinner in Alumni Hall, the Becks presented the University with the initial funding for a small campus chapel. \nSince its dedication, the chapel has been a popular location for weddings and memorial services. About 90 to 100 couples are married at the chapel each year and usually an additional 25 miscellaneous ceremonies, such as christenings and memorials, are held there each year, said Sarah Cady, sales and events coordinator for the Indiana Memorial Union.\nThe chapel, like the people who have passed through its doors for 50 years, is a reflection of a wide cross-section of the community. Groups such as the IU “I” Men’s Club donated the spire as a memorial to the men who lost their lives in World Wars I and II. The bronze doors were a gift from the wife of the chapel architect, while other individuals donated the stained-glass windows and lychgate.\nBy the time the chapel was dedicated in June 1957, Frank Beck’s vision of a small and intimate chapel for generations of Hoosiers had come full circle. \nAn intimate wedding\nMore than half of a century after the chapel opened its doors to the public, patrons can still feel the same qualities Frank Beck hoped to instill in the building.\nRebecca Eberle, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, said the sense of timelessness and spiritual intimacy at Beck Chapel is what drew her and her husband to have their wedding ceremony there.\n“I feel that every time I walk past it, even during chaotic passing times of a typical college campus day,” she said.\nThe Eberles, both IU alumni, were married in Beck Chapel on April 30, 1983. The were good friends from Bloomington High School South, but they did not start dating until college.\n“(In high school) we were both runners, cross country runners, and we met through that sport,” Eberle said. “We were just good friends. He dated another woman and I had a boyfriend and we were just friends. We did a lot together. We were just compatible, which is why I think we are still married now.”\nThey decided to get married during Eberle’s graduate school program, and they looked to non-denominational Beck Chapel.\n“All of the weddings in the family ... had been large Catholic weddings,” Eberle said. “We felt like we wanted something smaller and more intimate – not that what had been done before wasn’t good – to meet our own personal needs. We wanted something less structured and opportunities to individualize the ceremony more.”\nBeck Chapel was an ideal location for a Catholic, yet original, ceremony. A Catholic priest from St. Charles Catholic Church in Bloomington officiated the ceremony and the couple incorporated personalized vows and poetry.\nCady said weddings of all faiths take place in the chapel, exactly the way Frank Beck imagined. During the dedication, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant leaders planted three trees outside of the chapel to solidify this idea. And today, the building still contains copies of the Bible, Koran and Torah for visitors \nto observe. \nEnduring values\nThe day of the chapel’s dedication, former IU President Herman B Wells shared his thoughts on Frank Beck’s gift.\n“We have begun something today which in a way we shall not be able to complete as long as memory knows gratitude and there are those who long the things for which the chapel stands,” Wells wrote. \nHalf a century after his remarks, people are still using the chapel as a place for quiet and meditation, longing for the values Frank Beck instilled in the building. \nThe night of her wedding, Eberle walked down the aisle in a long-sleeved, white dress. The couple’s 75 guests filled the pews and the room was bathed in candlelight.\n“My husband and I spent a lot of time on campus as college students,” Eberle said. “It felt like a place that felt like our place.”\nThe couple’s 25th anniversary is at the end of April. While they initially wanted to take a tropical vacation, Eberle said their plans will probably be similar to their anniversaries in the past.\nIf the weather is nice, they’ll take a walk through campus. And that almost always means a trip under the lychgate to Beck Chapel.
