The father of IU
(09/17/10 9:15pm)
“Enormously humane and generous.” Those were the first words Chancellor Ken Gros Louis used to describe the University’s “Man of the Century,” former IU President Herman B Wells.
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Herman B Wells, father of IU
(06/10/10 5:42pm)
From 1938 until 1962, Herman B Wells served as University president. During his 25-year presidency, IU expanded to include the streets, buildings and student population that make it what it is today.
The father of IU: 11th president Wells expanded University with ‘enormous vision’
(03/30/10 11:41pm)
From 1938 until 1962, Herman B Wells was University president. During that time IU expanded to include the streets, buildings and population that make it what it is today.
The father of IU
(06/16/09 4:00am)
From 1938 until 1962, Herman B Wells served as University president. During his 25-year presidency, IU expanded to include the streets, buildings and student population that make it what it is today.
IU Student Media Board names spring EIC
(11/10/08 3:30am)
The IU Student Media Board announced Friday that Michael Sanserino will take the reigns as the spring 2009 editor-in-chief of the IDS.
Junior studies music, opera in Korea, NY, IU
(09/25/08 3:55am)
Who is junior Jenny Kim? She’s a girl who loves scarves, who loves to laugh and who listens to every type of musical genre – pop is her guilty pleasure. But if she’s not wandering around with a scarf on in July or hanging out with her friends or singing along to the radio, she’s in the Jacobs School of Music, belting out her classical music tunes.
Famous female author visits IU
(09/09/08 4:14am)
The audience laughed, cheered and clapped for best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert on Monday night in the IU Auditorium. The mostly female crowd came to hear the renowned writer speak about her writing experiences. A majority of the audience had already read her acclaimed novel “Eat, Pray, Love,” which chronicles Gilbert’s trip around the world after a divorce. Others in the audience were in the middle of or almost done with the memoir.
RAW gets down, dirty to raise animal awareness
(09/02/08 4:00am)
Briscoe Quad was home to more than just students Monday. Dogs gathered in the quad’s circle drive as students and members of Revitalizing Animal Well-Being gathered beneath the shade to bathe dogs while raising awareness about animal well being and the positive connection animals and humans have.
Grant allows IU professor to catalog historical Liberian presidential photos
(06/08/08 10:49pm)
In 2005, Verlon Stone, the coordinator of the IU Liberian Collections Project, was in Liberia at the estate of the country’s longest-serving president, when he and some others pulled out some photos that were in “pretty bad shape” along with other papers from the statesman’s collection.\nThe photographs are historic images from former Liberian President William Tubman’s records, taken during the time of his presidency. The photographs were of meetings and conferences Tubman attended and of leaders Tubman met. They represent a part of the history of Liberia during the African pre- and post-independence era.\nBut due to a lack of funding, some of the photos had to be left behind upon returning to IU, Stone said.\nThe Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library recently presented the Liberian Collections Project with a $76,750 grant to conserve, organize and digitize the 6,500 photographs in Tubman’s collection. The photographs will be made available to the public on the Internet.\nStone said the papers and photographs recovered are the property of the Tubman family and will be returned to the family in Liberia after the conservation and digitization process is complete. \n“We were only allowed to bring materials here because they are in such bad shape,” Stone said. \nIU will keep the digital copies of the photos and copies of the papers on microfilm, Stone added.\nNow, Stone said, the first step is to begin scanning the photos that were first brought back. Other photos that are not as dirty as the first set of photos will be separated out, cleaned and prepared for digitization.\nWhen the digitizing is complete, Stone said, the digital library program in the Herman B Wells Library is developing a Web application that will allow scholars to describe and categorize larger-than-thumbnail-size photographs, which will then go into the digital library program’s largest repository.\n“People anywhere in the world can search for the photos,” Stone said. “The scholarly duty is to make sure these photos are properly described and are made available to as wide an audience as possible.”\nTubman served as Liberia’s 19th president from 1944 until his death in 1971. His presidency was marked by changes in the economic, political and social environment of Liberia, a Western African nation of about 3.3 million people.\n“He was involved in a lot of West African diplomacy and opening up the country to modern development and beginning to expand social and governmental access to the indigenous residents of Liberia,” Stone said. “He was also very important in the diplomacy in both the pre and post colonial period and key in setting up the Organization of African Unity.”\nStone said that adding more photographs and papers of Tubman’s to the Liberian Collection Project “fits well with our work and the Liberia archive collections.”
Herman B Wells: The father of IU
(06/05/08 10:29pm)
"Enormously humane and generous.” Those were the first words Chancellor Ken Gros Louis used to describe the University’s “Man of the Century,” former IU President Herman B Wells.
The father of IU
(06/04/08 8:29pm)
“Enormously humane and generous.” Those were the first words Chancellor Ken Gros Louis used to describe the University’s “Man of the Century,” former IU President Herman B Wells.
The father of IU
(06/04/08 8:29pm)
“Enormously humane and generous.” Those were the first words Chancellor Ken Gros Louis used to describe the University’s “Man of the Century,” former IU President Herman B Wells.
Campus gears up for construction
(05/14/08 11:19pm)
In addition to six projects currently under construction on the IU campus, the IU Board of Trustees approved plans for six other construction projects earlier this month with approval to begin site plans for a seventh.\nThe ongoing and planned construction for the campus is the most the campus has experienced for a long time, according to a press release.\nRight now, intensive work is going on in planning the projects, said University Architect Bob Meadows. \nAlthough campus is undergoing many construction projects at once, Meadows said the construction is the campus’ “responsibility” and something dealt with all the time.\n“The procedure will be exactly the same,” Meadows said, adding that the construction plans approved will most likely not begin until some time early next year. \nThe estimated cost of the 13 projects is about $340 million, with endowments paying for some of the costs, according to the press release.\nAmong the approved projects include an International Studies building, which will house many of IU’s international centers and other cultural programs. Student trustee A.D. King, who sat in on the interviews for potential building architects, said the structure will promote collaboration between departments that are currently spread out all over campus.\n“It’s expected to be a pretty iconic building that will help catapult (IU) into a new level of international studies in higher education,” he said.\nA Jacobs School of Music studio building will replace the round music building adjacent to Merrill Hall, which will offer up more practice rooms, classrooms and offices. The IU Auditorium will be renovated and will include plans for a University Cinema for the study of film. A total of 837 new bedrooms for Ashton housing will be constructed in Residential Programs and Services’ five-year plan to revamp and upgrade facilities, an addition will be added to the Auxiliary Library Facility to increase library storage space and a campus office and classroom building will also be constructed to provide space for academic programs.\nTrustees approved the site plan for a business incubator as well. with the building to run parallel to 10th Street. The $10 million facility will house start-up businesses and related organizations, according to the press release. \nConstruction in Bloomington is already underway at the $51.7 million multidisciplinary science building, a $30 million data center, the $3 million Hutton Honors College, the $55 million project at Memorial Stadium’s north end zone, along with the basketball player development facility and a $3 million optometry clinic, according to the press release.\nKing said IU needs more buildings like Simon Hall, which was dedicated on Oct. 16 and houses research labs and offices.\n“Those are the types of buildings research universities like Indiana need to build to stay competitive,” he said.\nMany of the projects, including the University Cinema and the International Studies buildings, line up with objectives IU President Michael McRobbie set out for the University his inaugural speech last October. \n“I am especially pleased that nearly $100 million of this investment is going to projects that will enhance many of our educational programs in the arts and humanities,” McRobbie said in the press release.
Push away the table and say Damn
(05/08/08 1:57pm)
Aracelis Girmay cooks up and offers a collection of poetry that will leave anyone who reads it thirsty for more of her words and inspiration. Her collection “Teeth” is composed of many poems that have the power to speak universally to everyone if one takes the time to feel her words. \nA collection of poetry is just as equal to a novel, I believe, as the poems that make up the collection are arranged in a way to tell a story. While the story may not be linear, it is a story through words as the poems tell stories through each other.\nGirmay’s poetry collection is full of soul and song. With repetition of words throughout some of her poems, she is able to build a beat that lasts long after the poem is finished. \nIn her poem “Here,” the title word is repeated numerous times through descriptive imagery. The poem reads almost as a stream of consciousness, filled with different thoughts and feelings.\nThe poem is emotional, as the opening line of the poem, “Because I wanted to write a poem that would make me / push away from the table and say Damn,” is filled with a mysterious force that is driven by the desire to release the energy within it. \nBut the poem ends on a beautiful and brilliant vision of hope and preservation through struggle as she writes, “Here is a god to make you sing and pray to, / oh, good and wrecked and here and here and here.” \nThis isn’t the only poem of Girmay’s that offers hope at the end of misfortune. Others, such as “Epistolary Dream Poem After Finding a Schoolbook Map,” offer not only hope, but unity through cultures and a strength that is found through these ties.\nThe first poem in the collection, “Arroz Poetica,” deals with the reality and raw emotion of suffering, death and cruelty in the world in response to war, but the concepts within the poem are universal. She writes, “and although it is my promise here / to try to open every one of my windows, I cannot / imagine the intimacy with which / a life leaves its body” –a line filled with a deep connection to the emotions of the world.\nGirmay connects to the audience with her universal concepts about life, love, death, suffering and cruelty – but her poems always come back to tell the story of how life survives because of hope to prevail and the endurance of love throughout all of this misfortune.\nPoetry collections offer many stories, similar to novels. Unlike novels, poetry’s language is more playful, more discrete when it comes to its message, but both fiction and poetry offer stories to the world. \nIf you haven’t read poetry before, try Girmay’s collection of poems telling stories of survival and of hope. By the end of reading her collection you’ll not only be inspired to try reading other books of poetry, you’ll also want to push away the table and say Damn.
Short stories will leave you wanting more
(05/02/08 12:18am)
This summer, besides reviving our energy after a draining spring semester, it’s time for us to revive something else: the short story.\nI realize that the semester just ended, that the chunk of money you earned from selling back your textbooks has already been spent and that the last thing you want to do is buy another book. \nBut one day when you have an extra hour or two, pick up a short-story collection. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Interpreter of Maladies” will hook you immediately and make you want to read more short stories. \nIt’s rare for someone to recommend short stories to read, although the annual compilation “The Best American Short Stories” has been gaining and maintaining popularity throughout the years. The “Best American” series offers up a batch of some of the most notable stories, but try reading a collection of stories written solely by one author. \nLahiri, whose collection won national recognition, helps bring awareness to the short story, showing the importance it still has in today’s literature. \nThe clarity and ease with which Lahiri transforms the individual worlds she creates in her nine stories reads with such power. She doesn’t need a huge vocabulary to spice up her writing; her language flows naturally, the stories weave together.\nThis smart short-story collection will leave you satisfied, but only for a little while. Your tongue will only be wet a little, leaving you to beg for more marvelously spun short tales. \nIn each of her nine stories, acceptance and love is sought for throughout different cultures and generations. Lahiri, who is from India, writes stories mostly about that country and culture, telling of the arranged marriages and the love that grows through them, while also telling stories of the heartbreak that also results in life and love. \nSome of her stories, such as “The Third and Final Continent,” focus on a journey to another country, but the message of finding a place to belong, a final resting place, resonates with anyone who has ever packed up and gone somewhere where belonging was difficult at first.\n“Sexy,” another story in Lahiri’s collection, tells of a woman who has an affair with a man she meets while at a department store. While told from the woman’s point of view, this story can relate to any gender, and to anyone who has ever loved before. The story is heartbreaking, and I found its message to resonant remarkably. \nLahiri’s collection proves that short stories are still alive. The collection gives readers nine different stories filled with life and worldly knowledge – just as much as a novel can offer.\nCultural and generational gaps are explored throughout this collection, but what Lahiri proves in her stories is that no matter the cultural difference or gap, the raw human emotions of love, acceptance and belonging are what we all search for, no matter who we are or where we come from.
Putting us to sleep
(02/14/08 5:00am)
Jack Johnson's music is the equivalent of the beach in Corona commercials: pleasant, unchanging, anonymous and happily oblivious to the stuff of real life. Although the tropical fantasy is appealing while working in a cubicle or trudging through slush, sitting on the same beach forever becomes boring. \nHampered by his very limited vocal range, Johnson's songs have a habit of blurring together. The first track on Sleeping Through the Static, "All at Once," is a bit of an exception. It has more depth and movement than the familiar click and clack of your average Johnson white-reggae-on-Vicodin song, but the formula is already falling into place: languid, staccato half-singing over muted, primarily major chords. \nA line in "All at Once" catches: "It seems like the heart is no place to be singing from at all." The song begins to seem very similar to one by that other pop stalwart John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change." Both artists try to sum up the contemporary feeling -- a vague dissatisfaction with America's precarious position in the world and a sad feeling of powerlessness at doing anything about it -- in a way that's friendly enough for top-40 radio. This feeling is swooping, subtly, throughout popular music: Wilco, Feist and even Radiohead have also recently made stripped-down, tastefully restrained albums for a hyper-speed, hyper-complex, hyper-technological time. \nJohnson continues to sprinkle anti-war sentiment throughout the album, later chanting "We went beyond where we should've gone." Suddenly, the formula attempts to stretch further. Though Johnson's music is consistently inoffensive, some light political disaffection gets thrown in to keep things from becoming saccharine -- the perfect ambiance for Starbucks and Panera Bread. \nStill, to really touch anyone, even quiet, amiable music has to have some cojones. By the album's midway point, the songs are nearly indistinguishable. This is a collection of inert songs from a musician who has been remaking the same album for eight years. Like the faceless sunbathers on Corona Beach, these songs, and this album, go nowhere.
Last-word lounge
(01/31/08 5:00am)
R.I.P. Heath Ledger: \nThe death of Heath Ledger means the end to a promising and, in the end, unfulfilled career, one that never reached the potential shown in "Brokeback Mountain" and "Monster's Ball." Amid the press coverage, though, the greatest tragedy is personal and familial, so we feel a bit callous mourning a man's career instead of his life. But for Ledger, his career very much represented his life's work, and we remember him for it.\nRing, ring, ring, ring: Hamburger phone: \nWith the success of "Juno," the once-derided hamburger phone has found new commercial life. Sales have jumped 759%, which some math majors told us is a really big percentage. In a few years, everyone will be hoping to dump their hamburger phones like a bag of Beanie Babies.\nThe winner for Best Mustache goes to ... :\nThe Academy has decided to honor the most maligned grooming choice in America today: the mustache, from the mighty Western walrus of Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood" to the shifty Chevron of Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War." Stubble of all genres has made a splash at the Oscars.\nThe WGA strike rolls on: \nAs individual studios start making deals with the WGA, the negotiations with major studios continue to drag onward. It will be hard for the studios to allow smaller groups to start making movies and TV shows again, but writers have to start reaching for compromise as well. Informal talks have started again. We're all crossing our fingers.\nThe FCC sucks: \nProving once again that the federal government sucks at regulating art, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed that ABC be fined $1.43 million for an episode of "NYPD Blue" for showing a naked woman taking a shower. Hmm, so promoting death and destruction on TV is OK, but not a naked human being? Yeah, that \nseems fair.
Shameless Idolatry
(01/17/08 5:00am)
Clay Aiken, "Invisible"\nEven though he didn't win season two of "American Idol," Clay Aiken was clearly a better choice for mainstream success, and he proved that with his first single "Invisible." Aiken delivered his patented strong vocal in a simple pop song, and while the lyrics were a bit creepy ("If I was invisible then I could just watch you in your room") considering the constant rumors of his deviant sexuality, "Invisible" is the best first post-Idol single from any "American Idol" competitor. -- Cory Barker\nRuben Studdard, "Sorry 2004"\nRuben Studdard's first post-Idol single, "Sorry 2004" was mostly what people expected of him: a sappy ballad. However, the song featured "rougher" lyrics than most A.I. fans wanted, and that's why he could never recover after it. The lyrics were laughable ("It's like trying to build a new house with no roof and no doors / Damn I'm sorry"), but if you had a rocky relationship near the end of '04, this was definitely on the mix CD. -- Cory Barker\nTaylor Hicks, "Do I Make You Proud?"\nThe ultimate karaoke Idol, Taylor Hicks, made his single debut with this piece of extreme schlock and gave it his, er, distinctive stamp. After all his prancing onstage, Hicks attempted to do his best soul impression but couldn't resist his own goofiness. He can barely take himself seriously enough to slog through the lyrics. By truly embracing the karaoke aspect of the show and dumping as much faux growl and moan into his singing as possible, Hicks won the show and a No. 1 single. -- Peter Chen\nKelly Clarkson, "Since U Been Gone"\nThis 2004 single girl-empowerment anthem by the first winner on "American Idol" managed to gain the love of everyone from teenyboppers to hipsters. While it's hard to imagine the hit not being sung by Kelly Clarkson, it was originally written for Pink, after which Hilary Duff was considered. The writers of the song, Max Martin and Lukasz Gotttwald, have also noted that it is influenced by guitar jammers The Strokes. -- Stefania Marghitu
Last-word lounge
(01/10/08 5:00am)
No Golden Globes:\nNBC cancelled the awards show, after all the nominated actors from the Screen Actors Guild said they wouldn't show up in solidarity with striking writers. There's still a press conference, but now what will the 12 people who care about the Golden Globes do with their time?
The Nutcracker: A new tradition
(11/29/07 3:30am)
On Tuesday evening, Michael Vernon coached more than 40 members of the IU Ballet Department as they pirouetted on stage in preparation for this weekend’s performances of the classic ballet, “The Nutcracker.” But the dancers in this year’s 49th annual production of the ballet are twirling to a new set of choreography. \nFor the past eight years, IU Jacobs School of Music professor Jacques Cesbron has brought the ballet to life. This year, Vernon, who serves as the chair of the IU Ballet department, choreographed the show. He said he was approached with the idea to change the choreography of the ballet because “it’s always nice to see something new.”\n“There is nothing wrong with the old production,” he said. “But after eight years in a the small town of Bloomington, it is time for a change, a new viewpoint.” \nVernon says the concepts of the ballet will remain the same, since he believes in telling the story from a traditional fashion, but his interpretation of the classical ballet will be different. \nThe ballet tells the story of a young girl named Clara, who receives a nutcracker as a gift from her grandfather on Christmas Eve. When she falls asleep, she has a magical dream of dancing snowflakes, the Sugar Plum fairy and her toy nutcracker coming to life. The music, composed by Peter Tchaikovsky in 1892, is based on an old German fairy tale.\nWhat is most notably new about Vernon’s show is that the role of Clara will be played by an 11-year-old girl from IU’s Pre-College Ballet Program. Previously, this role was given to one of the ballet majors. Vernon said he wanted Clara to be played by a young girl to enhance the story and link Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy, who serves as the heroine, together.\nHe said that while the ballet may change in terms of dancers and steps, the classic story will always remain the same. \n“The ballet offers something for everyone,” he said. “Dancers come from all over the world. There is a battle scene with mice. There are beautiful women, strong men. It is ideal for people to come for a first time ballet and to sit back and enjoy.”\nIU Ballet sophomore Anja Hoover said that this past week the dancers have been rehearsing from about 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Prior to tech week, Hoover said rehearsals went from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Though it’s a tough schedule, the dancers don’t seem to mind. \n“There’s nothing better than getting on stage and performing and doing what you love,” Hoover said. \nAs a dancer in last year’s Nutcracker ballet, Hoover performed under Cesbron’s vision. Despite the differences in choreography, She said she likes both productions.\nSophomore Juliann Hyde, who dances the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy during the Saturday night performance, agreed.\n“I have no preference,” she said. “Both have their similarities.” \nNo matter the different choreographers, the dancers affirm that “The Nutcracker” is still a classic holiday tradition to be enjoyed by children and families. Sophomore Jenna Sagraves, who dances the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy during the Saturday matinee performance, said the new choreography will add a different feel to the ballet, but in a good way.\n“‘The Nutcracker’ is so exciting and puts you in the holiday mood,” she said. “Watching it puts you in the Christmas spirit.” \n“The Nutcracker” opens Friday at the Musical Arts Center. Additional performances will be at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. Ticket prices range from $18 to $35 and can be purchased at the Musical Arts Center.
