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(03/28/08 6:10am)
IU freshman Ying Lao’s first word in Shan, her region’s native tongue, was “independence.”\nTo her, it was a foreign-sounding word whispered discretely among the villagers in her small community in the Shan state of Burma. Ying Lao, who learned Burmese at an early age, heard an older man murmur the Shan word “kornkaw” when she was in 10th grade.\nThe first time she heard the word, she asked her father, the headmaster of a primary school, about the meaning of “kornkaw” and why everyone was afraid to utter the word above the level of a whisper. \n“It means ‘independence,’” her father said.\nA divided country\nYing Lao has been working to secure independence and a constitution in her home country since she discovered the meaning of “kornkaw.”\nAfter joining youth and women’s groups in Burma, she began helping to draft a new constitution in the ethnically divided country. She received the Burmese Refugee Scholarship and is now a freshman at IU. She believes her education in the U.S. will help her learn from the past and prepare to return home to Burma.\nBurma is made up of the ruling Burmese majority and a handful of ethnic minority groups, including the Shan. Tired of inequality, brutality and human rights violations, the Shan people decided to break away with the hope of becoming an independent Shan state.\nGrowing up, Ying Lao questioned why she had to study the Burmese language, a language she did not associate with herself or her community, instead of the Shan language her friends and family spoke. There were books in her house she couldn’t read, conversations she couldn’t understand. \nSomething is wrong, she thought.\nIn 1988, when Ying Lao was 3 years old, her father was arrested in an uprising for supporting the democractic movement and illegally teaching villagers the Shan language. Soon, the lessons began.\nEvery night after dinner, Ying Lao sat behind her father as he rode his bicycle around the village and taught her the Shan language.\nA curious and talkative child, Ying Lao continued to ask her parents about the strange events occurring in her village. She learned that the military forced villagers in nearby Shan states to flee their communities because they supported the democratic movement. They sought refuge in Thailand, where many became illegal migrant workers.\n“It was more dangerous to keep living in our own town because our villages are all gone,” Ying Lao said. “The economy is going down and down. At the same time, women are raped every day and we heard the news that people were killed because of suspicions that they are supporting the rebel group.”
(02/28/08 5:44am)
Driving down U.S. Highway 90 between Biloxi and Pass Christian, Miss., junior Audrey Clayton was shocked by what she saw.\nDebris clung to branches of giant trees and piles of rubble 20 feet high lay untouched. Only stone foundations and steps remained where houses once stood.\nIt had been four months since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and Clayton, then an IU freshman, was embarking on her first relief trip to Mississippi. Since that winter, Clayton has made six more trips to Mississippi and New Orleans with Youth Advocating Leadership and Learning, also called Y’ALL, a relief group she co-founded.\nWhile Clayton works year-round to plan Y’ALL trips, many students and groups, such as Campus Crusade for Christ, sign up in the weeks before a break. Both groups are taking students on relief missions to the Gulf Coast this spring break. \nThis will be Campus Crusade for Christ’s third trip to help rebuild New Orleans. However, unlike past trips, this spring break will be focused on service, not ministry, said senior Emily Didrick.\nLike Clayton, Didrick’s first trip to New Orleans prompted her to continue volunteering in the devastated cities.\nOn the trip her sophomore year, Didrick was not prepared for the view from the van carrying her and other volunteers. She saw cars stuck in trees and spray paint marking houses where people had died. Everyone was silent.\n“It was humbling,” Didrick said. “These people were not looking for a handout. They didn’t want to ask for help, but they knew they had to.” \nYears later, Didrick recognizes that there is still a need for volunteers. While the details about what volunteers will be doing in New Orleans this spring break will not be confirmed until they arrive, Didrick said they will probably be involved in demolition, cleaning and rebuilding.\nY’ALL volunteers are involved in similar activities on their relief trips, Clayton said.\nClayton cleaned up debris from lots as large as three acres, knocked out drywall that had been flooded, hung sheet rock and helped install roofing. As she sorted through rubble, she would place personal belongings in a separate pile for homeowners to claim. Dolls, photos and diplomas were among the personal items she sifted through.\nIn addition to working with hammers and paintbrushes, Clayton spoke with homeowners whose houses had been destroyed. After she helped to remove six feet of weeds from Elmer Street in Biloxi, residents threw Y’ALL volunteers a block party complete with a crawfish dinner.\n“These people were just so thankful,” Clayton said. “Their lives had been completely destroyed, yet they were there making us home-cooked food and saying, ‘Thank you so much for doing what you’re doing.’”\nWhile Clayton currently works on the logistical aspects of the relief trips such as finding funding, transportation and lodging, she finds this job as rewarding as the manual labor.\n“When I see the volunteers come back after a day of work, especially the first-timers, and they have tears in their eyes after they have talked to homeowners, it re-motivates me to facilitate this opportunity,” she said. “I know that without what I do back here on campus in the weeks before, the trip wouldn’t happen, so it’s just as important.”\nIU alumnus Michael Nosofsky has been volunteering on the Gulf Coast since December 2005, the first Y’ALL trip. He found out about the trip from his roommate, who had been involved in Habitat for Humanity.\nWhile Nosofsky said he will be busy with AmeriCorps during spring break, he said he plans on staying involved in Y’ALL trips as a graduate student next semester.\n“A lot of people think that they can’t make a big difference because they are only there for four or five days,” he said. “But the families couldn’t be happier and you really are making a huge difference. You just have to put it in perspective.”\nClayton has never had a “real” spring or winter break, but said she does not mind the time commitment.\n“There’s nothing wrong with going to Panama City and getting drunk all week,” she said. “But I feel like there’s a better way to use my time. I’ve been really blessed, and I wanted to do something to give back.”
(02/15/08 9:25pm)
As IU professor, Dr. Joe Mamlin carried plates of beans and rice into the single dining room of his home – \na seven-house, 40-bedroom compound in Eldoret, Kenya – he heard the singing.\nInstead of witnessing glimpses of the tribal warfare ripping across Kenya, Mamlin and his wife, Sarah Ellen, watched as members of every tribe currently at war stood in one room of the compound crying, singing and praying. Together. As he described it, they became one with God, their voices combined as a beautiful music.\n“It was not like any prayer I had ever seen before,” Mamlin wrote in an e-mail. “It had a beauty that defined prayer.” \nPlaying children blanketed the floor of one room of the house as adults created a makeshift worship service in another. In the midst of the violence, the IU House was a place of peace. “I know church when I ‘feel’ it deep down,” Mamlin wrote. “This was church.”\nTheir tribes were still at war; these were the survivors. Five days before, Kenya had erupted in violence following the re-election of President Mwai Kibaki, amid claims of election fraud. Five days before, Kenya was a symbol of African democracy on a continent ravaged by epidemic, war and economic despair. Five days before, Mamlin and the people of Kenya lived differently. \nHIV patients were largely left without medication, as gang violence raged in Eldoret. Foreign workers, including IU doctors, professors and students, evacuated to escape what has already claimed more than 1,000 lives. Study abroad programs in Kenya are on hold and the medical residents planning to study there have been delayed. But Mamlin and his wife stayed.\nSince 1989, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine have teamed up to foster new leaders in health care for the U.S. and Africa. In 2001, in the face of the deadliest pandemic in human history, IU and Moi responded by creating the Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH).\nAMPATH treats 50,000 HIV-positive patients among its 26 clinics in both urban and rural Kenya. The treatment program is one of Africa’s largest, most comprehensive control systems. More than 1,000 Kenyans and Americans have taken part in the two-way academic, medical exchange. AMPATH alone consists of a staff of about 900 people, almost all of whom are Kenyan. And, at the center of the HIV/AIDS response team is Dr. Joe Mamlin.
(02/13/08 3:07am)
After six years of marching, chalking and petitioning, members of No Sweat! are optimistic about their campaign to kick Coca-Cola off campus.\nNo Sweat! is the IU chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops, a student group working to combat sweatshops and corporate globalization at a local level.\nIn the group’s most recent campaign, members are protesting the University’s contract with Coca-Cola in response to allegations that the company has been using torture, murder and kidnapping to intimidate their workers at a bottling plant in Columbia, said junior Cole Wehrle, a No Sweat! member. Group members said they believe if the school discontinues its contract, it can send a powerful message to the company.\n“Our ultimate goal is to get Coke to reform,” Wehrle said. “We’re not anti-Coke, we’re just trying to get them to police their actions.”\nThe University has had an exclusive contract with Coca-Cola since July 1994. However, in June 2009, the contract will be up for renewal, said Jonathan Lore, assistant director of purchasing. \nOf the 209 campuses around the country with active anti-Coca-Cola campaigns, 46 have terminated or decided not to renew their contracts with the company. Wehrle said he hopes IU will soon join the list.\nWehrle described the situation as “the perfect storm.” He said the national trend will be one of the arguments the group uses when discussing the issue with IU President Michael McRobbie and \nhis advisers.\n“Last year, I was not that optimistic,” Wehrle said. “Now it’s less of fighting to fight the good fight just to do it and thinking that it’s something we could feasibly do.”\nNo Sweat! has also brought the issue to the Anti-Sweatshop Advisory Committee, a committee comprised of faculty and staff working to ensure IU’s licensing code of conduct is enforced. \nDean of Students and chair of the Anti-Sweatshop Advisory Committee Dick McKaig said because of the allegations against Coca-Cola, the committee has looked into the information and talked with representatives from the purchasing department. However, the decision to not renew the contract would be based on a recommendation from the IU president and board of trustees.\nIn addition to working through the campus bureaucracy, No Sweat! has been raising student awareness, Wehrle said.\n“Just being a student makes you involved,” Wehrle said. “You’re paying tuition, which is going to buying Coke. Every dollar is a vote. It’s our job as consumers to guide the industry.”\nWhile the group has staged marches and boycotts in the past, this year they have focused on petitions, Wehrle said. \n“People have been attached to Coke, so the petitions have sparked huge conversations,” Wehrle said. “It’s amazing to see their eyes open. It’s challenging a tenant of American culture. It’s like trying to get Campbell’s soup kicked off campus.”
(02/06/08 5:56am)
In 1998, professor Steve McKinley stood in front of the camera, clad in an oversized navy blue T-shirt. A basket of laundry sat on the table in front of him and a cardboard cutout of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin covered in laundry stood to his right.\n“Hello, everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode of ‘The Finite Show.’ I’m your host, Steve, and we are coming to you live this evening from my grandmother’s laundry room.” \nAfter making a couple of jokes about his laundry, he started to do math problems using his socks as examples.\n“The Finite Show” premiered in 1998 as part of an initiative to help improve freshman retention, said Raymond Smith, associate vice provost in the office of academic affairs.\nA grant from the Lilly Endowment helped finance the project, intended to enhance M118 finite math classes. The initiative also increased tutoring and created D116 and D117, classes that split a normal finite class into two semesters. \n“In M118, there was a high percentage of students that did not do well,” Smith said. “Through these initiatives, performance in M118 improved. The number of D’s, F’s and W’s really decreased.” \nThe idea for the show came from Dan Maki, author of the “Finite Mathematics” textbook and former chair of the math department. “The Finite Show,” hosted by McKinley, aired twice a week on Channel 32. The 90-minute show broadcast from the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation building and allowed students to call in with questions from the textbook. \nWhile the creation and production of the show was a group effort, McKinley said the idea for the “wackiness and low quality” was his idea. \n“I always wanted to be a stand-up comic when I was little,” McKinley said, “but I wasn’t funny so I became a math teacher. I always thought it would be neat do something like ‘Bill Nye The Science Guy’ for math. Finite is kind of unique in that way, in that everything is a story problem so there is lots of room to come up with interesting examples.” \n“The Finite Show” team consisted of McKinley in front of the camera, fellow lecturer Andrew Dabrowski screening phone calls and Steve Egyhazi, currently the vice president of information technology, producing the live show. Smith said that Residential Programs and Services was a pivotal factor in getting the show on TV every week. \nWhile the goal of the show was educational, McKinley tried to make his examples – such as dirty laundry, Spice Girls dolls or fake mice – funny. However, because the show was live, a lot of humor was the result of student callers. \n“One of the first nights we were on air, a guy who was obviously drunk called,” McKinley said. “There was no tape delay and he just started rattling off expletives. We let him go for about a minute and it was pretty funny. I think I said something like, ‘I remember when I had my first beer.’” \nAnother time, during an example using fake mice, McKinley had to talk to a student for several minutes because she was convinced the props were real animals. \n“We had to sit on the phone for three or four minutes and talk to her and bang the mice on the table to show her they weren’t real,” he said. “She was really convinced and freaking out that we had hurt these mice and they had bit me.” \nWhile McKinley’s props have gone out of style in the last 10 years, students are still using “The Finite Show” as a resource. \nFreshman Chris Oosterbaan said he watched the show online about once a week when he took M118 last semester. \n“My teacher was on the show once and he told us it was an available resource,” Oosterbaan said. “Finite math is a difficult subject, and the show gives you the right answer and shows you the correct steps to get it.” \n“The Finite Show” broadcast live for three years, McKinley said. One reason the show ended was a lack of funds. McKinley said it would take another grant, such as the Lilly Endowment, for another show to be possible. Another reason the show ended is that the textbook has remained the same and students can watch old episodes online. \nOosterbaan said while the current online episodes cover the necessary problems, it would be worthwhile to bring back the show if the textbook changed. \n“I would love to do it again,” said McKinley, who still teaches M118. “In class I don’t typically employ the Spice Girls dolls, but my examples tend to be pretty whacked-out and more edgy than the normal example. That’s good because finite is a stressful class and I think adding a little levity can be helpful.”
(01/30/08 10:19am)
Mark Lockwood knows everyone. At about 8 a.m., he walks down the third-floor hallway of Teter-Boisen greeting groggy, pajama-clad residents. Lockwood says their names followed by “Good morning” or “Hello.”\n“I know people might be having a bad day sometimes, but I believe in the nice gesture of saying good morning,” Lockwood said.\nHowever, he doesn’t know the names of just one floor of students; he knows the names of students on about three floors.\nLockwood was recently the recipient of the Residential Programs and Services Kudos Award. The awards program, currently in its second year, allows students or co-workers to nominate an exemplary RPS staff member, said Steve Akers, associate director of environmental operations.\n“Mark really goes above and beyond,” Akers said. “He is almost like an RA in the fact that he’s there if people need help, but he’s a custodian. He has adopted the floors almost like a surrogate family ... He does a great job and he’s just a great guy.”\nLockwood said he has been a custodian at IU since January 1995 when he transferred to Bloomington from Indianapolis. He spent four and a half years working in McNutt Quad and then moved to Wright Quad, where he spent only one month. After moving to Teter, he worked in several wings until he settled into working on half of Boisen’s second floor and all of the third and fourth floors. \nLockwood said he works from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. five days a week to make sure students have a clean living environment.\n“I believe in cleanliness and courtesy,” he said. “Some people don’t believe in courtesy and I do. You just don’t treat people like crap.”\nLockwood and his wife live with two 10-pound Chihuahuas named Maggie and Yoda, the latter affectionately dubbed for her “Star Wars”-inspired ears.\n“I found the dogs at Delilah’s over on 17th and College,” Lockwood said as he pulled a small, keychain frame with a photo of Maggie and Yoda out of his pants pocket. “I carry them everywhere I go.”\nLockwood flips through pictures in his wallet as he talks about his family and his job. Starting with Welcome Week, when students move into the dorms, he begins learning the names of every resident on his floors. \n“I look at the signs on the doors and just put it in the back of my mind,” he said, naming a handful of returning students. “I try to look ahead to the next year and find out who is going to be staying on the floor.” \nStudents appreciate Lockwood’s friendly personality and hard work.\n“Mark is very dedicated to his job,” said freshman Julia Stern. “He cares about what he does and he’s always willing to talk. He’s just a nice, cool guy.”\nIn the winter, Lockwood not only empties trash and stocks bathrooms, he plays Santa to the students on the floors he cleans. Before students leave for winter break, Lockwood leaves individually addressed red and green cards that read, “Merry Christmas” or “Seasons Greetings” outside of each student’s door. He has been preparing cards, occasionally topped with candy canes, each year since he began working at IU.\n“My grandma told me to do unto to people as you would have them do unto you,” Lockwood said. “When I took on this big thing, I thought, there are some kids who are not getting anything for Christmas, no presents or even a card.”\nAfter Christmas, Lockwood purchases cards for the following year. Every resident’s name and room number is on an envelope by the end of October.\n“Sometimes I’ll do candy canes and sometimes I won’t,” Lockwood said. “I always put out a card. They always think, ‘Mark remembered us,’ and I know people have remembered it all throughout college.”\nLockwood’s work philosophy is simple.\n“I believe in working hard and being honest,” he said.
(01/29/08 5:41am)
As primary elections approach, the IU campus is chalk-free. No one is scrawling candidate endorsment messages on the sidewalks; no one is pushing flyers into students’ hands.\nWhile the IU College Democrats and Republicans continue to meet and discuss election issues, they remain fairly inactive during some of the most politically charged months of the year.\nBoth organizations cannot single out and endorse one candidate before the primaries, said T.J. Wallace, chairman of the Indiana Federation of College Republicans. Because both organizations are coalitions of students that support a variety of candidates, groups wait until after the nominees are selected to show their support. \nHowever, many students elect to join campus groups focused on supporting a single candidate, such as Students for Barack Obama.\nTim Granholm, a senior and IU Students for Barack Obama coordinator, said the group has made four out-of-state trips to campaign for the Illinois senator. Before the Iowa primary, Granholm went door to door in different parts of Iowa to inform residents about Obama.\nHe said a group of student supporters is also planning a trip to St. Louis this weekend to help campaign for Missouri’s Feb. 5 primary.\n“If we go, it will be two days before the primary,” Granholm said. “It will be exciting to feel the energy and feel like you’re being part of history.”\nWallace has also made a trip to Iowa and made phone calls on behalf of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. After hearing Huckabee speak at a convention in Washington, DC., Wallace e-mailed the campaign offering to help rally students in Indiana.\n“I think that the candidate with the largest student group will win,” Wallace said. “Candidates need energy and time, and that’s something students have.”\nResults from the Iowa caucus illustrate that college-age students can have an impact on who will win the election.\nAccording to a press release from Rock The Vote, a non-profit organization aimed at engaging young voters in the political process, 22 percent of Democratic caucus-goers were 17 to 29 years old. This is a 5 percent increase from 2004. Similarly, among Republicans, 10 percent of people at the Iowa caucus were 17 to 29 years old. \n“Students can absolutely make a difference if you can get them excited about a candidate,” said Megan Bartholomew, internal vice-chair of College Republicans. “Students are a huge chunk of the population and they will take the election one way or another.”\nHowever, by the time Indiana students have the opportunity to vote in a primary election, the nominees might already be determined.\nIndiana’s primary, scheduled for May 6, is one of the last. This late date, coupled with confusion over absentee voting or political apathy, could cause students to not vote at all, said Anna Strand, president of College Democrats.\nBoth student groups are focusing on registering voters and hosting information events at club meetings.\n“I want to do programming because there’s a lot of misinformation,” Strand said. “Students don’t know how to vote absentee or how to register in Indiana. We are just getting out the idea of why you should vote and why you should vote Democrat.”\nOfficers of both College Democrats and College Republicans said it is hard to encourage students, many of whom are registered in different states, to vote in a primary. Strand said they will have a big push in the fall of 2008 to register students and campaign for candidates. \n“It’s important to vote and exercise the right that people fought for,” said Andrew Hahn, political vice president of College Democrats. “Students need to be more involved in their democracy. In an important election cycle, college students standing up as a whole can make a difference.”
(01/25/08 5:01am)
When senior Omar Memon moved into his Tulip Tree apartment his junior year, he lived on pizza and burgers. Like many students, he missed home-cooked meals but did not know the first thing about cooking. Back home in Lahore, Pakistan, his family hired people to do everything from cleaning the house to making tea. \n“When I moved into my apartment, I started cooking, which was interesting, because never in my life had I even made an omelet,” Memon said. “I still don’t make omelets, but I learned to make two easy dishes and we survive on those.”\nMemon and other students with Pakistani heritage said people of different ethnicities often have misconceptions about Pakistan, and they cite Western media as a large cause of the problem.\n“Comparing the two countries is like comparing apples to oranges,” Memon said. “What works in one country may not work in the other.”\nIn Pakistan there is a heightened emphasis on the family, Memon said. Everyone eats together on Sunday, and when there is a special occasion, such as a birthday, family members are expected to show up at the house. No invitation is necessary. \nAnother cultural difference is that the work week lasts six days.\n“When I got to Indiana I wondered, when do these guys actually go to school?” Memon said. “On Thursday happy hour starts at 5 p.m. and lasts Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I thought, they go to school half of the week and party the rest.”\nDespite the extra day of work, Memon said Pakistanis have a relatively weak work ethic. In the United States, he said, people are always working to be above the competition. Work in Pakistan is fairly laid-back, perhaps to a fault.\nThis lack of motivation does not help a developing country in its struggle with infrastructure problems, namely power, freshman Aoun Jafarey said.\n“We’re still stuck 40 years behind when it comes to power,” Jafarey said. “We have the capabilities and the money but not the initiative.”\nWhile there are motorways, the equivalent of American highways, they only run between a few major cities in Pakistan. Other roads are often unpaved and the streets can be poorly organized, Jafarey said.\nDespite these problems, Pakistan is a country that is becoming more modern with time, said Juhy Ali, a junior.\nAli has never lived in her parents’ home city of Karachi. However, she traveled to Pakistan over winter break, and prior to college she visited family there annually. During her latest visit she noticed the transformations taking place in the provincial capital.\n“Karachi is changing,” Ali said. “The city opened its first ice skating rink, which is a big deal because it’s so hot there. There are coffee shops and wireless Internet, too.”\nWhile Jafarey said most Pakistanis are conservative and believe anything Western is haram, or not allowed, Ali had a different experience over winter break. She packed more traditional clothes but ended up wearing jeans. \n“When I go to the malls I see girls in spaghetti straps,” Ali said. “The upper class is pretty Americanized, but the lower classes just don’t have the money to do that.”\nPakistan has a prominent middle class, but it also has extremes of poverty and wealth, Ali said. Despite the many improvements taking place in the country, all three students said many misconceptions and negative stereotypes are associated with Pakistan.\n“People think we’re a terrorist nation,” Jafarey said. “I get a lot of jokes about it, but we’re not.”\nJafarey attributes some of the misunderstandings to Western media. Karachi has its share of problems, he said, but the media makes the problems seem worse than they really are.\n“When a bomb goes off, (the media) makes it out to be something huge, like we’re falling apart,” Jafarey said. “It’s not that big of a deal. Baghdad is a war zone; Karachi is not. Yes, we don’t have everything, but we’re working on it.”\nJafarey, Memon and Ali all agree that Pakistan is not the dangerous country the media claims it to be. In fact, Jafarey and Memon both said they feel the safest in Pakistan, the country they call home.\nA lack of communication between different ethnicities on campus only helps to facilitate a lack of knowledge, Memon said.\n“People need to be more open to everything,” Memon said. “We are all in college now and we should make an attempt to make a connection and see what’s happening in other parts of the world. There should be more of an effort on the American side to talk to other people and find out what’s happening and why.”
(01/14/08 5:53am)
Dec. 27 started out normal for freshman Aoun Jafarey. He played tennis at a club in his home city of Karachi, Pakistan, got in his car, turned the radio on and started his normal 10-minute drive home. That’s when he learned about former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad. It had been exactly six minutes since her death. \n“Within 13 minutes, everything went crazy,” Jafarey said. “What happened was the traffic was stopped because they didn’t want anything else organized, so it took me two hours to get home. We all got stuck in traffic and a stray bullet hit my car. I heard an explosion a few miles away.”\nThere is a 710-mile difference between Karachi, dubbed the “New York of Pakistan” by residents, and Islamabad, where Bhutto was killed during a political rally. However, Jafarey and freshman Adanir Hussain witnessed the impact of Bhutto’s death in Karachi, where Bhutto’s family lives. \n“The political violence lasted for a good five days,” Hussain said. “More people took advantage that the shops were closed and went out to loot.”\nWithin one hour, Jafarey said, about 200 banks were robbed. ATMs were broken and left strewn in the road. Businesses, including food markets, were shut down for three days and vendors sold meat for three times the normal price. Gas prices soared to almost $10 per gallon, a major burden in a third world country, Jafarey said. People burned Suzuki car showrooms and broke into BMW dealerships, driving off in the cars.\n“They broke into all of the big electronic stores and took refrigerators and TVs,” Jafarey said. “They broke into shoe stores and burned everything; no one wants shoes. I mean, they took the good shoes and destroyed everything else.” \nWhile Lahore, Pakistan, located about 643 miles from Karachi, did not experience violence or riots, businesses also ceased to operate. Junior Omar Memon, who is from Lahore, Pakistan, did not travel outside the city during his break. The shutdown, he said, lasted about five days and complicated his plans to get together with friends.\nIn addition to the looting and political unrest, Memon said, flights were delayed and the parliamentary elections originally scheduled for Jan. 8 were rescheduled, adding more pressure to what Memon called an “already tense political scene.” \nBefore her assassination, Bhutto had recently returned to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile and had been warned by intelligence reports that she might be in danger of an attack, Hussain said.\n“When she left the rally, there was a boundary to where security can protect you,” he said. “Then you come to one point where only normal people are around. That’s where Benazir was told not to get out of her car. But she took the risk.” \nBoth Hussain and Memon said they were shocked when they heard about the leader’s assassination. \n“When it had happened there was confusion on TV about if she was dead or not,” Memon said. “It was pretty shocking. She was truly a leader of the people and pretty popular. She had that support. It was a tragic event. It’s really, really sad that she died.”
(01/11/08 4:02am)
When IU alumna Eboni Gatlin started her internship at Fox News during the summer of 2005, she did not realize that in one year she would end up in the company’s elite apprentice program. \n“I did not really have any intention of coming back (to Fox after my internship),” Gatlin said. “It was just something to make contacts and hopefully good references for the future.”\nGatlin said she found out after her internship about the apprentice program and started thinking about packing up her life and moving to New York. \nFox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes established the apprentice program in 2002 to attract and assist minority employees. During the one-year program, four or five students work with a mentor in different departments at Fox. Upon completion, students earn a regular spot in the company, according to a Fox news press release.\n“(Ailes) thought that because minorities are traditionally underrepresented in TV, we need to find a way to have minorities come to us,” said Maureen Hunt, vice president of human resources at Fox. “We discovered that people who start at entry level succeed. You need to learn from the ground up.” \nDuring her time at IU, Gatlin worked for WTIU, IUSTV and the Indiana Daily Student. After completing her internship with Fox and learning about the apprentice program, she decided to leave her hometown of Kokomo, Ind., and move to New York. \n“I had my then 4-year-old daughter so it was a big decision,” Gatlin said. “It felt like it was now or never. When do you have the opportunity to move to New York for a job? If I fail, at least I’m young enough that I can start over. What do I have to lose from this?” \nGatlin worked on production for “Studio B,” a Fox news television program, which included everything from researching for segments to booking guests to appear on the show. \n“It can be very, very stressful and there’s a lot of pressure,” Gatlin said. “It’s great that we put so much emphasis on getting things right. Everything is triple-checked and then checked one more time. There is always a stress on being perfect and being at the top of the game and that’s fun.” \nWhile the entire program has been beneficial, Gatlin said, working with Shepard Smith, news anchor for “Fox Report,” was one of the highlights. \n“Having Shepard as my mentor and the person who kind of helped me and pushed me along, that is one of the things I am most thankful for,” Gatlin said. “I truly did feel like I got to experience every aspect of TV production and figure out what I eventually really, really love and really want to do.” \nGatlin will work as a production assistant and booker after graduating from the program in January.\nSince the program’s establishment, it has had an almost 100 percent retention rate and all of the graduates have advanced in their careers, \nHunt said. \n“I hear from the talent and producers that Eboni is very impressive and passionate about what she’s doing,” Hunt said. “Shepard Smith personally told me that she has \nbeen great.” \nLooking back on her apprenticeship at Fox, Gatlin offered advice for students wanting to pursue a career \nin journalism. \n“One of the things that helped me was that I went to all of the journalism conventions,” Gatlin said. “Networking is important and also always remembering how you present yourself at every single opportunity ... Always make sure you’re putting your best self out there because people will notice.”
(11/30/07 4:29am)
The IU Police Department will continue to work in full force to protect the campus even after students travel home for an upcoming three-week break. \nIUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said a drop in the number of people on campus is not a reason to scale-back on officers since the same amount of area still needs to be monitored. During winter break, IUPD does not utilize part-time officers in residence halls, but the number of full-time officers patrolling the campus remains the same. \n“We’ve always got along well with the officers we have,” IUPD officer Marty East said. “I think everyone is always concerned about the potential catastrophe that could occur. I know I am always worried that the big one could happen and not enough people would be here. We have an advantage because we’re close to Bloomington and we work together with their police contingencies.” \nWhile school is in session, IUPD officers tend to spend more time dealing with illegal consumption, noise and petty theft, all problems that arise when a large group of people occupy an area, Minger said. During break, however, officers are on a continuous patrol of campus to protect the empty properties. \nAccording to IUPD police reports from 2006, the week before winter break yielded 73 incident reports. This number dropped to 38 during the first week of break. \nThe biggest change East recognizes is the drop in the number of people on campus. As a result, officers switch from policing people to policing property. \n“Thirty thousand people just vanish,” East said. “Plus everybody in Bloomington knows that the fraternities and sororities are going to be empty so it’s an easy ticket for them to break in.” \nEast, who has worked for IUPD for almost 25 years, said sororities and fraternities give IUPD information about what cars will be parked at the houses so the police can better protect the property. In recent years, however, few houses have participated. \n“We spend more time patrolling when people aren’t on campus then when school is actually in session because usually we are dealing with actual people,” East said. “Over break it’s more of a continuous cruise, but we don’t want to set up any patterns and we’re conscious of that.”\nMost of the break-in problems occur at sororities and fraternities, not classrooms, East said. While technology was once a target, computer clusters now have security that alerts IUPD if computers are tampered with. \nThe best way for students to prevent theft over break is to take expensive items home. East also suggests securing televisions, stereo equipment and laptops. \n“Most expensive things are small like laptops, iPods and jewelry,” East said. “I’d rather see it at home or locked up in a trunk and out of sight. Out of sight, out of mind.”
(11/29/07 5:55am)
Healing after Hurricane Katrina was the focus of the annual Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration Wednesday night at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. The keynote presentation highlighted the aftermath of Katrina with stories, music and textile art. \n“We are dedicating this event to the themes of reconciliation, healing and the human impulse of creativity and survival,” said Audrey McCluskey, interim director of the Neal-Marshall Center. “Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and left many of its most disempowered citizens abandoned, to be called refugees in their own homes. We want to celebrate the spirit of renewal and cleansing and the tenacity of life.”\nThe pre-Kwanzaa celebration began with a libation ceremony led by Dr. James Mumford, emeritus professor in the African American and African Diaspora Studies department, and Samuel Obeng, director of the African Studies program. \n“It’s time to recommit ourselves to what it means to be African, African-American and human,” Obeng said. “We toast our great ancestors, the great leaders who lead us forward and those who have taught and mentored us individually and collectively.” \nFollowing the toasts, seven student organizations lit candles to commemorate the seven principles of Kwanzaa and the Neal-Marshall Dance Ensemble performed the Akwaaba dance, a traditional West African welcome dance, to live drumming. Later, Dr. Aderonke Adesanya, a visiting scholar from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, read a poem focusing on the second principle of Kwanza: self-determination. \nKeynote speakers Jacquelyn Hughes, a visual artist and poet, musician Monica Dillon and storyteller Karen Hurst all live or have lived in New Orleans. At the beginning of the presentation, the group had a simple message:\n“We ain’t gone and we are not going,” Hughes said. “There is no New Orleans without African people. We are the most African city in the United States and have taken ourselves all over the land. Of course we need support, but make no mistake that we are here.” \nThe trio’s multimedia presentation incorporated poetry readings by Hurst, piano music and song from Dillon and a slideshow of quilts designed by Hughes. All of the work highlighted the struggle and rebirth of New Orleans and its residents. \nKwanzaa is a 40-year-old African-American tradition lasting from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. However, McCluskey said the there is a monthlong celebration on campus. \nSophomore Dominique McGee participated in the candle lighting ceremony to represent the African \nStudents Association. \n“I don’t know much about Kwanzaa so I hope it will be a learning experience,” McGee said. “When I was younger I used to think it was an African holiday, but it really isn’t. It was made by African-Americans during the civil rights movement as a way to embrace their African heritage. Not many African students know about Kwanzaa, but a lot of people assume that we do. I am really excited about it.”
(11/08/07 3:36am)
After junior Justin Haney ordered his drink at the Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks Wednesday, he walked away with coffee and two cans of golden corn.\nHe kept the coffee for himself, but dropped the cans of corn into a food donation box at the register. Haney is just one of many IU students making contributions to the Cans Across America Food Drive.\nFrom 5 p.m. Tuesday to 5 p.m. Wednesday, IMU Dining Services and Sodexho, a food and facilities service, collected cans with the goal of breaking a Guinness World Record. This is the second year the IMU and Sodexho have participated in Cans Across America, a nation-wide initiative to stop hunger. \nSodexho campuses across the country collect canned food for one day and attempt to break the current world record for the largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in a 24-hour period. \nWhile the Regina and District Food Bank in Saskatchewan, Canada, currently holds the world record with 221,028 pounds of food collected in 24 hours, the IMU and Sodexho hope to top this. \n“Cans Across America is one way we came up with as a company to rally the troops,” said Steve Mangan, general manager of IMU Diving Services. “We get to try to break a world record and we’re having fun with it.” \nAfter beating its goal of 2,500 pounds of food last year, the IMU doubled this year’s goal to 5,000 pounds, Mangan said. According to IMU personnel counting the cans Wednesday evening, the Union brought in more than 3,100 pounds of food.\nDonation buckets were located at all IMU dining locations, the Cyber Cafe at the Herman B Wells Library and the food kiosk in the Education Building. While some donors brought cans from home, many purchased two cans for $1 at drop-off locations. \nSophomore Megan Johnston did not know about the can drive until a Starbucks barista at the IMU asked her if she wanted to purchase cans to donate. \n“I had never heard about it before but I took part in a lot of can drives in high school so I know that it is appreciated,” Johnston said. “I think it’s a really great activity for IU.” \nAt the end of 24 hours, Mangan, Bruce Jacobs, IMU interim executive director and Dean of Students Dick McKaig will weigh the cans and complete paperwork so the IMU’s weight can join other Sodexho campuses. Mangan said it could take a week or more to find out if the IMU helped Sodexho set a new world record. \nAfter being weighed, counted and recorded, the cans will be delivered to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. \n“We have a tremendous need for food in our community,” said Julio Alonso, Hoosier Hills executive director. “We have distributed the most food in our history this year. We need as much as possible.”
(11/02/07 4:11am)
Dean of Students Dick McKaig hopes students bring more than just textbooks to class Wednesday.\nStarting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the Indiana Memorial Union and Sodexho, a food and facilities service, will collect canned goods for 24 hours to help attempt to break a Guinness World Record.\n“Sodexho has always been assisting with feeding the hungry, and there are always events across the country helping with this effort,” said Steve Mangan, general manager of IMU Dining Services. “We make food our business and we’re always surrounded by it. We take it for granted every day, and we owe it to the community to give back.”\nThis is the second year the IMU will participate in the Cans Across America campaign – a nation-wide initiative among Sodexho campuses to combat hunger – and attempt to break the current record for the largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in a 24-hour period. \nLast year IU-Bloomington collected 2,537 cans, exceeding the campus goal by 37 cans. IU’s contribution was then added to all of Sodexho’s campuses to come up with a total figure, which fell just short of the world record, said Bari Kuhlman, special events coordinator for the IMU. This year, IU’s goal has doubled to 5,000 cans. \nThe Regina and District Food Bank in Saskatchewan, Canada currently holds the world record with 221,028 pounds of food collected in 24 hours. \n“Efforts to address hunger are important,” McKaig said. “This has a special meaning because it is going on at every college. Last year it generated a lot of food and had a very positive effect on the faculty, staff and students.” \nDrop-off stations will be located at all IMU eateries, the Cyber Cafe in the Herman B Wells library and the food kiosk at the education building. Students can also purchase cans to donate. IMU dining locations will be selling two cans for $1. \n“All of the cans go to a local food bank, so the beneficiaries are in our community,” McKaig said. \nAt the end of 24 hours, McKaig will help weigh the cans. Later, the cans will be delivered to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank and distributed to more than 85 organizations in six counties, said Julio Alonso, Hoosier Hills executive director.\n“We try to engage the campus community as much as possible,” Alonso said. “We have a lot of student and faculty volunteers. The can drive gives students a way to be involved without too much effort.” \nAfter a successful first year, Mangan is looking forward to helping the community and making a second attempt at the world record. \n“We’re just trying to have fun and mobilize the campus for a good cause,” Mangan said.
(11/01/07 9:09pm)
Dean of Students Dick McKaig hopes students bring more than just textbooks to class Wednesday.\nStarting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, the Indiana Memorial Union and Sodexho, a food and facilities service, will collect canned goods for 24 hours to help attempt to break a Guinness World Record.\n“Sodexho has always been assisting with feeding the hungry, and there are always events across the country helping with this effort,” said Steve Mangan, general manager of IMU Dining Services. “We make food our business and we’re always surrounded by it. We take it for granted every day, and we owe it to the community to give back.”\nThis is the second year the IMU will participate in the Cans Across America campaign – a nation-wide initiative among Sodexho campuses to combat hunger – and attempt to break the current record for the largest food drive by a non-charitable organization in a 24-hour period. \nLast year IU-Bloomington collected 2,537 cans, exceeding the campus goal by 37 cans. IU’s contribution was then added to all of Sodexho’s campuses to come up with a total figure, which fell just short of the world record, said Bari Kuhlman, special events coordinator for the IMU. This year, IU’s goal has doubled to 5,000 cans. \nThe Regina and District Food Bank in Saskatchewan, Canada currently holds the world record with 221,028 pounds of food collected in 24 hours. \n- For more on this story see Friday's Indiana Daily Student
(11/01/07 3:09am)
Part of assistant professor of costume design Linda Pisano’s research material is “Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies: Sex in the City in Georgian Britain.” The risqué, 160-page book by Hallie Rubenhold is a guide to picking up prostitutes in the 18th century. For Pisano, however, it is more than a quirky handbook; the commentary and annotated features are important resources.\n“I keep all kinds of interesting books around,” she said. “‘Harris’s List’ is kind of a scandalous book, but what it does is actually describe what prostitutes look like and what they were wearing. ... How hard is it to find that information? It’s really hard.”\nPisano heads the intensive, three-year Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design Program within the Department of Theatre and Drama. This year, the program has three students from the United States and one from Serbia.\nStudents are recruited from all over the United States and interview with Pisano in Chicago or New York. \n“I look for students who really love artwork and people,” Pisano said. “It’s important that they have a love of people because that’s what we’re designing. We’re designing people, characters.”\nWhile the entire theater department has more than 250 undergraduate students, the M.F.A. costume design program never has more than four. Pisano said this allows her to mentor her students one-on-one and give them every professional opportunity available, including a study abroad program in London or assistantships.\nScott Anderson, a second year M.F.A. student in costume design, has been Pisano’s assistant since last January and spends 20 hours each week helping her. He even went to New York for three days to help Pisano fabric shop for one of her professional projects, designing a ballet of “Aladdin.”\n“It’s a lot of juggling,” Anderson said. “As an assistant, you are always there to help. You do everything from keeping a schedule to helping choose fabrics to just being able to help carry things.”\nStudents take classes in costume history, tailoring, costume design, rendering, millinery (or hat-making) and dramatic literature. In the design courses, students are responsible for designing entire operas, about 200 costumes; dramas, 60 to 70 costumes; and musical theaters, 120 costumes.\nAnother component of the curriculum is designing for shows at IU. \n“Students leave the program having designed at least four or five IU productions,” Pisano said. “That’s a tremendous amount for someone leaving a graduate program so their resume is actually quite good. It might seem like ‘oh, four or five shows,’ but that’s an annual income for a professional designer.”\nDesigners are involved in initial creative meetings with the director and other designers six to seven months before the show. Then they research, draw rough sketches, produce final renderings and create a research packet for the director.\nAnderson has designed three productions, including the October production of “The Real Thing.” Third year M.F.A. student Angie Burkhardt is working on her thesis show, “Measure for Measure,” which opens Nov. 9 in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.\n“(‘Measure for Measure’ has) been a great experience,” she said. “It’s a huge time commitment. I work in the shop 20 hours a week and I’ve been here all day, every day this weekend. But it’s your life so you love it.”\nThough student designers are responsible for working in the shop, they do not typically construct the garments they design.\n“My role as a designer is not to build anything, but to collaborate with the director and the other designers to choose the fabric, to research it, to render it and to create the world of the play that these actors live in,” Pisano said. “When the curtain opens and the first characters walk out in their costumes, it is something very exciting to see this world that you’ve come up with. The colors and the ideas and the script come to life.”\nStudents typically begin their days with 8 a.m. classes and are done with rehearsals and other production related activities around midnight. During the day, they have to find time to design a production, go to creative meetings, do homework and have a personal life, Pisano said.\n“Not everything gets done,” Anderson said. “I have a list of things I need to do and I prioritize. I have a lot of late nights. It’s not unusual to run on four hours of sleep for two to three months.”\nPisano said despite the gruelling schedule, she encourages healthy living and teaches time management.\n“The hours are long, but they wouldn’t do it if they didn’t love it,” she said. \n“We try to give them as much support as we can. My hope is that if I can balance my life professionally, academically and my personal life with my family, I can show them that you can actually have a career and a life. You have to live to be able to create life.”
(10/29/07 2:40am)
Women will have the opportunity to hone their networking skills by talking one-on-one with professionals who have excelled in their careers.\nThe Student Alumni Association and Career Development Center will host Women in Careers Networking Night on Tuesday in the Kelley Dining Room of the DeVault Alumni Center. \nStarting at 6:30 p.m., a panel featuring IU alumni and other professionals will speak to students about challenges they have faced, a typical day of work and general information about their careers, said Nick Baker, director of events for the Student Alumni Association. \nPanelists include Jennifer Mayer, team leader at Target in Bloomington; Mary Sugg Lovejoy, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction with the Monroe County Community School Corporation; Rebecca Linehan, unit director of Boys & Girls Club of Bloomington; and Janet Josway, vice president of Aon Consulting. \nFollowing the discussion, students will have the opportunity to eat and talk to the panelists individually.\n“The whole goal of the program is to let the students practice networking,” Baker said. “We want to make sure students feel comfortable going up to someone and introducing themselves and carrying on a small conversation with them. The Student Alumni Association, along with the Career Development Center, feels like that is a valuable experience for students coming out of college.” \nAlmost every other Tuesday, the Student Alumni Association and Career Development Center host networking nights with various career themes. The final networking night of the fall semester will be Nov. 6 and cover careers in arts and entertainment. \nThe Women in Careers Networking Night, which is free to all IU students, will last until 8:30 p.m., but students are free to leave after the 45-minute panel discussion. The dress code is business casual, and students who are interested should make a reservation online at iucareers.com. \n“It should be a great opportunity for young women to hear about women who are leaders in their fields,” said Erin Erwin, associate director for the Career Development Center.
(10/22/07 3:12am)
Ostrich feathers, lace, spangles and hand-painted silk adorn the 100 fans on display at the “Fantasia: Fans from the Sage Collection” exhibit at the Monroe County History Center. The exhibit, which runs until Jan. 5, chronicles how fans were used throughout history.\nJill Lesh, managing director of the Monroe County History Center, said co-curators Kelly Richardson and Kate Rowald chose fans that would demonstrate a variety of uses and shapes over a long period of time.\n“We have quite a lot of fans, over 300, and we’ve simply always wanted to do an exhibit on this subject,” Richardson said. “Fans were such an essential part of fashionable and ceremonial life for hundreds, really thousands, of years. They are small artworks in their own right and tell of a way of life that no longer exists.”\nThe exhibit features several types of fans, ranging from elaborately painted folding fans with pastoral, biblical or mythological scenes to modern advertising fans made of cardboard or wood. Panels explaining the history and use of fans over time accompany the displays. \nWhile the exhibit details the historical and geographical presence of fans from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, it also highlights some of the more peculiar uses of the accessory.\n“I liked the information about how fans were used by women to send messages to men,” said Erin Duffy, an IU freshman. “Women could use different movements and placements of the fan to tell a man he had a chance or to break his heart or just to tell him to keep a secret.”\nFans were often tools for silent communication and a single movement could convey a common phrase. Some of the quirkier examples from the exhibit included shutting the fan very slowly to express “I promise to marry you” or twirling the right hand to say “I love another.”\nThe fans on display were pulled from the Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection, part of IU’s Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design, and individual donors. Most were part of the collection of Avis Burke, a fan enthusiast and collector, Richardson said.\n“We’re just thrilled that we could be the place to have (the exhibit),” Lesh said.\nThough the exhibit had been on display since Oct. 12, only a few people, mainly artists and designers, viewed the fans prior to the opening reception on Oct. 19, Lesh said.\n“People who enjoy art, fashion and history should definitely visit the exhibit to see these rarely viewed artifacts,” Richardson said. “The fans’ glittering and hand-painted designs, intriguing history and interesting exhibit presentation should please everyone.”\nAdmission to the museum is free to members and children under the age of 4. For non-members, admission is $2 for adults and $1 for children aged 5 to 18. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
(09/28/07 2:21am)
Actor Jeff Daniels learned to approach acting from what he calls “the psychiatrist’s couch.” When the “Dumb & Dumber” star moved to New York to begin his acting career, he learned to become vulnerable, a skill he considers vital for every aspiring actor.\n“In New York, everything I ever learned as a student they threw out,” Daniels said. “Whatever scene you are in you have to fall apart; you have to break down, you have to sob. If you can’t, they’ll find someone else who can. You learn how to do that if you want to have a career in acting.”\nDaniels spoke to a group of theater students at the Wells-Metz Theatre on Friday. The actor was in town for the Thursday night kickoff of the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, where he performed original songs at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.\nThroughout his afternoon question-and-answer session, Daniels used his film and stage experiences to give theater students advice on how to embody characters as well as deal with rejection.\nAfter talking about his role as Harry Dunne in “Dumb & Dumber,” Daniels spoke about the challenges of portraying the hated Bernard Berkman in “The Squid and the Whale” and a 50-year-old pedophile in the Off-Broadway production of “Blackbird.” \n“Every night I’m backstage ramping it up thinking like him, stressing out like him,” Daniels said about his role in “Blackbird.” “In school they teach you to relax and stretch and breathe, but you just have to throw that all that away. I was just stressed, and that was the only way to do it.”\nDaniels also talked to students about the need to self-rehearse and perfect their skills before they get on set. While leading stars have time to perfect their characters in front of the camera, supporting actors need to be great over the span of multiple takes.\n“In New York I learned that you have to be good right away,” Daniels said. “Early in my career in ‘Terms of Endearment’ I learned that the director is going to use the shot where Debra Winger is great. I have to be great eight times; Debra has to be great once.”\nFreshman Nicole Zausmer said she was relieved to hear that even successful actors deal with rejection. As a theater and costume design major, Zausmer was leaning away from acting. \nHowever, she said Daniels taught her that acting is a realistic goal.\nDaniels labeled “the onslaught of rejection” as the biggest challenge facing young actors. Even as an established actor, Daniels said he is turned down for not being a “big enough star.” \n“You’ve got to believe in yourself,” Daniels said. “You’ve got to go to New York or Chicago or L.A., and you’ve got to believe in yourself truly and honestly because you’ll be the only one. No one else will.”\nWhile Daniels is known for his film roles, he has also been a stage actor, playwright and musician. He even founded his own theater company, the Purple Rose Theatre , in his hometown of Chelsea , Mich. \n“I keep watching for theaters to die,” Daniels said. “It’s more work than ever to get the YouTube generation into theaters. If the American play is going to have a future, it’s going to be in the regional theaters with playwrights writing about the people from the area.”\nFreshman Kevin Doran liked that Daniels had a broad range of acting experience. \n“I really liked hearing about how he approaches a role and that he talked about acting from every angle: the playwright, the director, the actor and even the lighting,” Doran said. “He gave me lots of energy to keep going and keep pursing acting. An hour with him was like a whole semester of an acting class.”
