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(10/02/02 4:47am)
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Susan Bush and Jessica Armstrong were in pain. No Internet. No life.\nWhen the 20-year-old students lived on campus at St. Paul's Macalester College, the school's high-speed computer network connections gave them autobahn-speedy access to cyberspace.\nBut when they moved off campus this fall, they electronically screeched to a halt.\n"We don't have the Internet at the house yet, and I'm going through such withdrawal," Bush moaned one recent afternoon.\n"We can't get e-mail at home, we can't get the Web, we can't download new music. I am going crazy," Armstrong said.\nA recent national survey of how college students use the Internet suggests Bush and Armstrong are hardly unusual.\nThe Internet has become such a part of college students' lives that they can't fathom living without it any more than Americans can do without running water, says the Pew Internet and American Life Project's "The Internet Goes to College" study.\nStudents' online habits could have a profound impact on future online usage and may help kick the Internet economy out of its doldrums, the researchers said.\nCollege students have long been in the vanguard of U.S. Internet users, and they've become its most pampered users. Colleges and universities nationwide have spent millions rewiring ivy-covered halls into 21st century information-technology nerve centers.\nThe University of Minnesota has just completed a $63 million renovation of venerable Walter Library, part of which involved stuffing fiber-optic lines under floors and between walls to allow Internet access within 18 inches in any direction.\nAt Winona State University, in Winona, Minn., a policy of "an Ethernet port per pillow" in the dorms is contributing to a housing crunch -- many students don't want to leave their high-speed access, says school spokesman Tom Grier.\nAnd at St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict near St. Cloud, Minn., even computerless students can find Internet-connected machines in nearly every classroom, meeting room and residence hall.\n"Students in their pajamas can use them 24 hours a day. They're ubiquitous here," says Jim Koenig, director of information technology services for the sister schools.\nThe Internet has long been a college phenomenon, says Steve Jones, the Pew study's principal author and head of the Commu-nications Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\nProfessors developed the technology for the early Net more than 30 years ago. In the 1990s, students dreamed up its most popular tools -- the browser, the search engine, music-file swapping.\nJones said the online behavior of students now is a harbinger of things to come.\nResearchers tracking the behavior of Chicago-areas students at 10 campuses as part of the study saw a rush to embrace high-speed Internet access by recent graduates. "They were used to broadband in college, and it was hard to let go afterwards," Jones says.\nWhile it's hardly surprising that college students like the Internet, Jones said he was surprised how deeply students have absorbed it into their daily lives.\nNearly four-fifths of college students say Internet use has enhanced their education. Nearly half say e-mail lets them express ideas to a professor that they wouldn't have aired in class, Jones says.
(09/16/02 5:33am)
Attention students of IU: Savor every last moment of college life. The real world is looming. If you think MTV's interpretation of the real world is what's awaiting you after school, you have another thing coming sister (Nobody sleeps with as many men as Cara from the Chicago episodes in the actual real world). Your happiness will be a distant memory when that diploma is placed in your hands. \nDon't believe me? Okay, take a journey with me into the lives of two people: Wally the worker, a 24-year-old college graduate working in Chicago, and Suzy the student, a 21-year-old senior at IU. Let's take a peek at what each person is doing at various times throughout a typical Friday: \n6:15 a.m. -- Wally wakes up from his alarm and proceeds to curse repeatedly. \nSuzy awakes momentarily, dislodges a breadstick and an empty can of Natural Light from behind her neck, and then rolls over back to sleep. \n7:10 a.m. -- Wally stands in a crowded elevated train on his way to work. He is sandwiched between two heavy-set men; the man behind him seems to be rubbing up against Wally's backside on purpose. Tears begin mixing with the sweat dripping down from Wally's face. \nSuzy clutches her pillow in the midst of a dream involving George Clooney and the cast of "The Golden Girls." (Side note: Didn't he make an appearance on that show once? Wait, how would I know that? I don't watch Lifetime. Oh geez.)\n10:33 a.m. -- Wally sits in his cubicle staring at a spreadsheet. He wishes something would come and destroy him so he could be rescued from his excruciating existence. \nSuzy spoons Captain Crunch into her mouth as she watches her third episode of Sportscenter. \n12:00 p.m. -- Wally eases out of his chair and then sprints for the elevator. Within minutes he experiences his only joy of the day, a spicy chicken combo at Wendy's. \nSuzy lies out in the sun and sips a strawberry daiquiri. Suzy does not have class on Fridays. \n1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. -- Wally opens e-mails that may or may not be appropriate for viewing while in the workplace; he looks over his shoulders in eight second intervals. \nSuzy splits her time between watching television and dancing in front of the mirror. \n6:00 p.m. -- Now home, Wally stares inside his barren refrigerator. \nSuzy passes out from her afternoon cocktails.\n10:25 p.m. -- Despite overwhelming exhaustion from a week of sleep deprivation, Wally forces himself to go out. He meets up with a few friends at Leg Room on Division Street. He walks in with his hands in his pockets and his head down. \nSuzy and her friends play "flippy cup." The conclusion of each game is followed by a series of hooting and hollering. \n11:58 p.m. -- Wally walks up to the bar and orders a round of drinks for his five friends. The bartender says, "That'll be 50 dollars." (Side note: Are you kidding me? Do you know how long it takes me to make 50 dollars? The people of Chicago need to go on strike.) \nSuzy pays two dollars for a beverage at Kilroy's.\n1:48 a.m. (Saturday) -- Wally invites a woman he'd been talking to for much of the night, back to his apartment. The woman inquires about how much Wally makes. \nSuzy is introduced to Tom by a mutual friend.\n1:51 a.m. -- Wally gets into a cab by himself. \nTom asks Suzy if she would like to go home with him. Suzy replies, "Sure."\nAs you can see, a terrible fate awaits us after college. So I implore you, bask, baby bask.
(09/10/02 10:40pm)
The television inside Katie Flege's home will remain quiet today. She won't watch the hours of special programming and footage dedicated to the Day Our Nation Saw Terror. She says she can't. Her own memories are vivid enough. \n"It's important to honor the victims, but I don't want to watch the whole thing on TV," Flege says. "It would depress me too much. I just feel lucky to be here and alive."\nOne year ago Flege was working in the nation's capitol as an intern with the SPEA Washington Leadership Program, just blocks from where at 9:37 a.m. a 757-jet deliberately slammed head-on into the west side of the Pentagon. \nShe was one of 35 IU students working in Washington that day.\nFlege and her co-workers attempted to keep working even as they watched the twin towers burning on TV. But when the Pentagon was hit, everyone evacuated.\n "I had only been in D.C. for a week or two," she said. "So when it happened, I felt very scared and isolated. People were confused. It was scary. I wanted to get home so bad."\nThe scariest moments came when Flege heard that a fourth plane was somewhere in the air. Someone shouted that it had just been spotted above the Potomac River. \n"That feeling of fear that I had, I can still conjure up so clearly," she said. "Not knowing what was going on, not knowing where that plane was."\nSo instead of turning on the TV today, Flege plans to call her mom. \nMaurina Roberts feels the same way. She too was interning with the SPEA program on Sept. 11, in the policy department of the Wilderness Society, just a six-minute walk from the White House. She won't be watching the TV today, either. In fact, she hasn't watched the news in a year. \n"I no longer watch the news," Roberts said. "I avoid it because TV news is too depressing."\nIn the year since the attacks, Roberts said she has developed a new perspective.\n"It changed me, in a nonspecific way," she said. "My life after Sept. 11 has been altered."\nShe has gained a new appreciation for different cultures.\n"It was a slap in the face reminder that we are not the only people on the planet," she said. "I have a stronger empathy with people who live in places like the west bank where things of this nature happen every day of their lives."\nShe also reevaluated the direction of her life. \n"I pondered if it was worth it to continue my education and achieve my goals professionally," she said. "Is it worth it to keep fighting, if it could be all wiped out?"\nFlege has felt some of the same stirrings inside her.\nIn the days after the attacks, she went to volunteer with the Salvation Army in D.C. and was amazed by the spirit of charity. She said her reaction to Sept. 11 has made her more patriotic. \n"I felt better when I saw how our country had come together," she said. "I've felt more lucky to be an American. It was something I took for granted."\nFlege said she'll never forget that evanescent feeling of unity.\n"Everyone came together," she said. "We were all going through the same thing, even though we came from different backgrounds."\nMatt Light, now a graduate student at IU Law School, was in D.C. too. In the year since, he has drawn reassurance from his experience that day.\n"Everyone on that morning had the exact same look in their eyes," he said. "I didn't notice it at the time. They wanted to get to a safe place, they wanted to know that their families were all right. It reinforced the fact that we are all from different areas, but we are all from the same country."\nHe reminds himself of that to deal with his memories.\n"Sometimes you are rational and other times, you think of retribution," he said. "I had a hard time figuring it all out. You go through different moods."\nMarc Lame, a professor at SPEA who led the program, had the stressful task of trying to account for all 35 interns immediately following the attacks. By 4 p.m., he had contacted everyone.\nHe said all but two interns finished their jobs. \n"Brave young men and women," he said.
(09/10/02 4:58am)
The riots on Kirkwood Avenue, the stealing of the fish in Showalter Fountain and Little 500 weekend all came and went. So did the celebration of the beginning of summer.\nIt's no wonder IU was proclaimed "No. 1 Party School" by the Princeton Review. \nWhen the polls came around to decide who had the biggest parties, weekend after weekend, the students at IU were celebrating. \nAt the same time local alcohol treatment centers were filling up rapidly as well.\nMichael Lindstrom, a graduate from IU and now a clinical worker at the Bloomington Hospital, said that the program offered for the people of Bloomington is a short-term treatment facility that helps addicts get past their addiction.\n"It is not a long term facility, but just enough for those who know that there is a problem with alcohol, and the center gets them started on information with addiction and abuse," Lindstrom said.\nThe difference between an addict and an abuser is simple to differentiate. Addicts feel they mentally and physically need alcohol or another substance to function. Abusers drink at parties and keep drinking until they fall down, pass out or throw up. \n"When habitually this is done weekend after weekend is when they might start filing in to the clinics. It can just take one party to be checked in. All patients are not necessarily addicts," Lindstrom said. \nSymptoms of an abuser would be one who goes out every weekend looking for a party and drinking until they pass out or vomit constantly. \n"Since IU is a dry campus, students look for places to drink and feel that they are starved for alcohol," Lindstrom said. "The bars are flooded every weekend since we are told constantly not to drink."\nSophomore Ben Klopfer disagrees with IU's stereotype.\n"I don't think that the Bloomington community has a problem with alcohol," he said. "I think alcoholism is a problem when people have a dependency on alcohol, and I think the programs are good to have for alcoholics who wish to get over their alcoholism."\nAlthough the center is prepared when they know it is going to be a big weekend for partying, such as Little 500 weekend, junior Yuval Sharon said he doesn't think alcoholism is a big problem on campus.\n"I haven't run into many people who I think are addicted to alcohol," Sharon said. "I know a lot of people who abuse it, but not to an extreme."\nBoth Sharon and Klopfer said they feel the difference between addicts and abusers are those who drink alone, those who drink every night and those who drink to fix problems. \nAlcoholism is a serious issue, and there are places in the community that are there to help. \nTo get in touch with someone who can help, call Bloomington Hospital at 353-9411.
(09/10/02 4:38am)
At first glance, Michelle Amsden looks and sounds nothing like a champion-caliber powelifter. But, Amsden, a softspoken, 5-foot, 1-inch graduate student, has become one of the premiere competitors in her sport. \nAmsden attended IU as a freshman and was a member of the IU cheerleading squad. After finishing her freshman year she decided to transfer to Ball State, where she became involved with their powerlifting club. There, she discovered she had a knack for lifting. Amsden received a bachelor's degree in exercise science and returned to Bloomington as a graduate student. \nIn 1999, Amsden was the collegiate national runner-up in powerlifting, and in both 2000 and 2001 she won the collegiate nationals. Also in 2001, she won the Open National Champi-onship.\nIn April, Amsden won the International Federation Student Cup competition in Russia where she lifted a combined total of 942 pounds in the three required fields in a powerlifting competition: squat, bench press, and dead lift. Her 942 pound total set a collegiate American and Junior National record. \nAfter her spring semester last year, she traveled to Riesa, Germany, for the Women's World Championships and placed third in the 123-pound division. Amsden broke several records at the competition and recorded personal bests in all three events. She squatted 363 pounds, benched 220 pounds, and dead-lifted 396 pounds, all of which bettered previous American records. Her bench press performance earned her a silver medal.\nAmsden participated in many sports while growing up. During her teen years she suffered three major knee injuries and had two reconstructive surgeries to repair them. \n"When I got hurt I started going to the gym in town and learned how to lift and from there I developed a passion for it and kept on doing it," Amsden said. \nAmsden routinely trains at the Iron Pit Gym in town, where she lifts five times a week, for three hours a day. Doug Ballard, owner of the Iron Pit Gym, said Amsden is one of the most dedicated athletes he's encountered.\n"We've had a lot of lifters come through here and she might be the hardest worker we've had," he said. \nAmsden's coach Greg Simmons said it is a combination of a variety of training techniques that makes Amsden so successful. \n"It is a year long effort that takes a serious commitment," he said. "We stick to basics on the competitive lifts but also incorporate innovative and unconventional training methods to attack weak areas. I am always thinking, analyzing and tweaking her training to make her stronger."\nOn Saturday, Amsden and Simmons left for Sochi, Russia, where Amsden will compete in her final junior division competition. Amsden arrives at the competition as the No. 1 ranked junior lifter in the world. The date that Amsden is to compete is Sept. 11. \n"It's an awesome feeling to know I'll be there with our team and representing our country on Sept. 11, and I think that the other countries there are going to be very supportive of us and I'm definitely going to show my colors, red, white, and blue that day," Amsden said. \nAfter her final junior competition, Amsden is still undecided where her future will take her.\n"Everyone asks me that question and I don't know the answer right now," she said. "I do know one thing, no matter what I do I want to work with athletes, especially supporting female athletes"
(09/06/02 6:31am)
SOUTH BEND -- President George W. Bush met an enthusiastic crowd when he stopped in South Bend Thursday to raise money for Indiana Republicans. Although his speech was slated to be non-political in nature, Bush hinted at some of the tension in Congress as the House and Senate are under tight deadlines to push through legislation.
(09/06/02 5:17am)
MILWAUKEE -- Three's company in many college dormitories this year.\nA housing shortage at some Milwaukee-area colleges has forced students to accept more roommates than usual, breaking from tradition and introducing a new lifestyle arrangement on campus.\nRyan VanDeLoo, a freshman at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wis., is sharing his dorm room with two roommates this fall. What's more, all three are stocky college football players.\n"It's pretty crowded," VanDeLoo said of the 12-foot-wide room typically assigned to just two students. "We're hoping that our parents stop bringing stuff."\nMarquette University in Milwaukee has rented an entire hotel to manage its largest freshman class in 14 years.\nWhile housing crunches are nothing new at colleges and universities, some officials say the problem seems to be worsening.\n"We haven't had to do anything like this in a long time," Marquette spokesman Ben Tracy said.\nMarquette has rented the entire 40-room Executive Inn to handle overflow temporarily until rooms open up in campus housing.\nWisconsin is not the only state where colleges are in a pinch.\nGary Schwarzmueller, executive director of the Ohio-based Association of College and University Housing Officers-International, said housing is scarce in several parts of the country.\nNot only are high school graduates flocking to colleges and universities, displaced workers and other non-traditional students are driving enrollment higher during these tough economic times -- increasing the demand for housing even more.\n"Some places are having enormous, explosive growth," Schwarz-mueller said.
(08/29/02 7:18am)
Tenth Street and Fee Lane have finally been put back together as workers put the finishing touches on the new Graduate & Executive Education Center, a facility the Kelley School of Business dean calls "a technological wonder."\nThe GEEC boasts two full computer labs, data ports for laptops throughout the building and two-way audio and video links. These links will be used for students to transmit lectures and presentations across the globe.\nThere will also be a finance trading room and information system/information technology laboratories that Dan Dalton, dean of the Kelley School of Business, hopes "will be the envy of any business school."\nThe GEEC, a project that has been in the works for several years, will finally give a home to the Kelley School's Executive Education offices, which until now had been off-campus. Similarly, many of the business school's institutes and centers such as the Leadership Development Institute and the Indiana Business Research Center were also housed off-campus.\nThe need for expansion also comes from the fact that in past years, the Kelley School has restricted its MBA program to only 280 students per year. This expansion will allow them to increase their admissions to more than 400 annually.\nEvery year, close to 650 companies and corporations hold 19,000 interviews here on campus, according the Kelley School of Business Web site. But because of the limited enrollment, supply exceeds demand and many companies leave without employees.\nFaculty, staff and administration at the Kelley School see the GEEC as the solution to this problem.\nThere are high hopes for the new center.\nAt the groundbreaking ceremony, Dalton promised "the GEEC would rise as a testament to the many friends of IU and the Kelley School of Business."\nSince then, alumni have contributed $18 million, which was added to the $12 million provided by the state. The $35 million price tag covers not just the structure itself, but much of the bells and whistles found inside it.\n"The building is a technological wonder," Dalton said.\nThe building project was supervised by the architects at Beyer, Blinder, and Belle of New York, the same firm that led the restoration of Grand Central Station.\n"(The building) is commanding inside and out," Dalton said. "Beyond that was GEEC's attention to the tradition of the great buildings of Indiana University."\nChancellor Sharon Brehm sees the new building as part of a bigger plan that includes improvements to the Central Heating Plant north of the school, expansion of the Psychology building and upcoming improvements to the Service Building. \n"Like the Neal-Marshall Center last year, the graduate business school building has significantly improved the campus look in an area of campus that, to exaggerate a little, was an eyesore," Brehm said.\nAll of these projects are centered around a place that was funded by a $1 million gift from James Robert Waller, an IU alum and best-selling author.\nMany undergrads in the Kelley school are also anticipating the GEEC's opening.\n"I think that it will give the undergrads the opportunity to use the resources previously available only to the grad students," said Matt Hollosy, a junior.\nThe building will serve more than 900 MBA students and 450 students in the Accounting Graduate program.\nThe GEEC is still waiting to identify a donor after whom to name the building. This will be announced at the Nov. 22 dedication ceremony, where the keynote speaker will be Nick Scheele, the President of Chief Operations Officer at Ford Motor Company.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
I'm not the wagering type, but I'd bet money that our vice president will be 70 percent prosthetic before the Bush administration is through. First it'll be a hip, then he'll need a kidney. Next thing we know, a robot with remote-controlled facial expressions will air live from the White House. \n And he won't be the only one, not by far. But it's not bio-ethics that I'm commenting on, but the potential for political misrepresentation we face as the baby-boomer generation ages. By 2030, about 20 percent of the population will be over 65, and this sector will be the part of the population most likely to vote. \nThere's hardly anything wrong with their growing share of political clout -- taxation does equal representation (unless you're from the District of Columbia), and voters deserve to have their interests met. The only aspect that edges the future scenario into the realm of science fiction is the inclination of our generation to regard politics as a joke -- or not to regard them at all. \nMedicare and Social Security have already dominated the campaign promises of the last two presidential elections, but it's easy to pledge 40 acres and a cane when the boomers break the 65 barrier. \nThere's hardly anything for our generation to complain about in this scenario. Ten years after we graduate from college, an entire generation will retire, launching our career advancement at ludicrous speed. Older people often have more wisdom, patience and humor than youngsters -- and more willingness to share it. But no matter how kind people are, they go to the polls in self-interest.\nPeople vote for the candidate who will sustain their wealth, health and peace of mind, so politicians try to deliver these things to people who actually vote. \nLet's try another scenario: the year is 2030. Legions of Mercedes endlessly circle the neighborhood, music blaring and tinted windows rolled down. It's not rap music you hear, but Fleetwood Mac and that's not gin and juice in the cupholder, but V8. All of this will go on around a city block where our children will be schooled in burned-out apartment buildings. \nSo maybe the generation at the helm of the nation's longest period of peacetime economic expansion won't be the social deviants of the future, but the potential exists considering the voting power they wield. \nIf current education policy proposals are any indication, the baby boomer generation leaders are already starting to act irresponsibly. Give every student achievement tests every year -- Bush said it, and no one seems to be arguing. \nThis will be an expensive, exhaustive effort, and all we'll learn is how poorly or exceptionally students are doing. No one will know any more about the world, just his or her place in it. It's a policy equivalent of seeing that a plant is withering and investing in a high-powered microscope rather than water and fertilizer. \nI don't foresee a geriatric revolution spreading from Florida and seizing the nation, but the elderly -- just like anyone else -- will continue to look out for themselves at the polls. That means our generation has the additional incentive to be active participants in civic life and establish a presence in the political landscape.\nAs we spend these years preparing for our careers, the political forces are already working to our detriment. This month Congress threw out ergonomic standards that would have forced businesses to safeguard workers from carpal tunnel syndrome and other repeated stress injuries that often occur in office jobs. \nLeisure time is on the steady decline also. Between 1969 and 1987 the hours American workers put in on the job jumped the equivalent of more than a month's worth of labor per worker, per year, according to a Harvard economist. \nIn addition, the Bush tax plan proposes a $200 million cut aims at programs that provide child care, prevent child abuse and train doctors at children's hospitals.\nThe trend toward a senior-centric government is starting, and it will only continue -- or worsen if we sit on our votes and fail to respond to policy that goes against our best interests. The baby boomers could become the bio-bots and live forever at the expense of the younger generation's health and welfare. Pointing-man posters with the slogan "Uncle Sam Wants You" might take on a whole new meaning -- for your kidneys.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Peace Corps annual statistics put IU 14th on a nationwide list of large colleges and universities with the most Peace Corps volunteers. IU has 48 alumni who are volunteering their time overseas.\nFor the third year in a row, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was first on the list, with 93 graduates and one current student serving. University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California at Berkeley were second and third, respectively. The University of Oregon made the largest jump on the list from 15th place last year to fifth place this year. \nMiddlebury College in Vermont topped the list for colleges and universities with less than 5,000 students. The college has 32 alumni volunteers. Middlebury was followed in the rankings by Columbia University in New York, Tufts University in Boston and Colby College in Maine. \n"The strong showing of colleges from so many different parts of the country illustrates that many students today are solidly dedicated to service and deeply value the unique experience Peace Corps offers," Peace Corps Acting Director Charles Baquet III said in a press release. "And through their volunteer work overseas, Americans throughout this country are able to learn more about the world in this era of globalization."\nThe Peace Corps was established in 1960 by President John F. Kennedy. To date it has sent 161,000 trained volunteers to 134 countries. More than 7,300 volunteers were serving in 78 countries in 2001 -- the most in 26 years.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Gathered in a tight clump in the center of the dance floor, the 25 members of dance company In Motion press their bodies together, forward, around and sharply back to the front again during a rehearsal.\nThis formation is one of many in the company's opening piece, "Music," which they will perform in an upcoming performance at Willkie Auditorium. \nChoreographed by company directors senior Alisha Pedigo and sophomore Alice Cockrum, the piece sets the stage for the 20 dances that follow.\nThe pieces range from hip-hop and jazz to modern and lyrical forms of movement, and have been choreographed by different dancers in the company. Some are solos. Others are duets. Most are group pieces of five or more. All use bodies to create a moment of art. \nThe group began as an independent study and research project by Margaret Larkey, a former graduate student of Associate Professor of Kinesiology Gwen Hamm, and continues in the hands of students. \nHamm, also a professor of dance in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, said the program began several years ago after Larkey's project was accepted by her faculty director.\n"The students perform their own choreography, although in previous years funding had been obtained to bring in guest choreographers," Hamm said.\nAs a student-run, nonprofit organization, financial struggles sometimes trouble the company. But the dancers find a way to make the show possible every year. Sophomore Megan Allen has been a member of In Motion for two years and said company members pay for their own costumes.\nCockrum said In Motion directors apply for funding every year.\n"But we must also raise our own funds by way of voluntary donations and business advertisements in the show program," Cockrum said. "IU has provided us with superior outlets and resources to make all of this happen."\nAllen was on the panel of judges for the 2001 company. The audition for In Motion consisted of a four-hour-long series of short dances and technique exercises, such as pirouettes and leaps. The judges used a set standard of requirements for acceptance into the 2001 In Motion dance company, based on "technique, attitude, style and memorization skills," Allen said.\nThis year, there were about 60 dancers at the audition and 25 were chosen, which Allen said, "creates a mixture of styles that add variety to the company."\nPedigo's involvement with the company began three years ago as a freshman, although she already had 16 years of training under her belt. Her responsibilities include coordinating company meetings, auditions and advertisements; scheduling a place for the performance and dress rehearsal; booking a production crew; organizing practices; fundraising; managing the treasury; communicating with the company's sponsor; and designing programs and costumes. \nPedigo said her two biggest goals as director are keeping the company alive and putting together an annual show. \nCockrum said it takes a significant time commitment for she and Pedigo to keep the company running.\n"Basically, if Alisha and I didn't feel like running In Motion anymore, there would be no one to hold us back from just quitting," Cockrum said. "There is no one looking over our shoulder making sure we are getting the job done. So one must be a very responsible and hard worker to be in charge of a student-run organization." \nIn Motion will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Willkie Auditorium. Admission is free.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Before he went on the infamous killing spree that ended the life of graduate student Won-Joon Yoon, white supremacist Benjamin Smith distributed racist literature at IU.\nSmith's attempts to divide Bloomington had the opposite effect. It brought the people of Bloomington together. \nProminent community and religious leaders banded together to form Bloomington United, a group devoted to racial harmony.\nTuesday, the group tried to bring together the city's black residents to find out what they have to say about being black in Bloomington. The crowd that gathered at the Banneker Community Center was of all ages and mostly two colors: black and white.\nIf the meeting was any indication, the Bloomington community is divided about how to be united.\nThe panelists -- La Verta Terry, Paul Norris and Patrick Efiom -- started the meeting by telling stories. There were stories of firsts: first black teacher in Bloomington, first black IU Police Department officer and first black postal worker in Bloomington, respectively. \nOthers told of a past much more difficult than the present, and of children who are fortunate to be able to take things for granted. Many shared experiences of harassment and race-baiting. \nIn the end, only half an hour was left for debate about how Bloomington's black residents feel, what they want changed and how they could do it. People had a lot to say, and many stayed after the debate to share their opinions. \nMany said Bloomington doesn't have a black core. Communities are transient and the old networks don't exist anymore. \nNorris, from Bloomington, suggested black churches as the only places where some of these networks still exist. \nTerry said she sees new kinds of networks shaped in schools and elsewhere. \nMany noted that urban segregation is not as obvious as in bigger cities. \nPreston Bridgwaters, who has lived all of his 64 years in the house across the street from Banneker Center, said he remembers when this kind of segregation was promoted. \n"Years ago, I was interested in buying a house, and I realized that I will have to live in this particular area where the blacks were," he said. \nHis bank told him that was how it should be. \n"Of course they said that they are letting me know that I would be disappointed or get my feelings hurt if I lived outside of this area," Bridgwaters said. "Years later, the same people told me, Preston, you are in a different income bracket, you don't have to live in that area anymore, you can live in any area you want. But I said, no, I will live here for the rest of my life."\nBridgwaters said that he didn't mind living there but that he is disappointed that once black people become successful they move away from their roots. \nOthers said they have to start with themselves. \nWillie Kimmons, chancellor of the Bloomington campus of Ivy Tech, said he has been involved in the civil rights movement as long as the movement existed. \n"I am the civil (rights) movement" he said.\nHe said blacks are not visible enough in the community.\n"I don't see us at the plate -- we're not at the country club, the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotaries, the Kiwanis …" he said. "We're not where the decisions are being made; we are not visible. We need to stop fooling each other." \nSome applauded Kimmons, but Don Griffin said he found that perspective frustrating. \n"It irritates me," he said. "I am in real estate; I am a developer; I'm in the Kiwanis -- what is he talking about?" \nGriffin, who has lived in Bloomington all his life, said he was bothered by some other speakers, too.\n"I get frustrated with people standing up and basically not saying anything," he said. "They want to hear how diverse they are, and we are here to hear what the problems are and what to do about them"
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Senior Natalie Tucker, who earned All-Big Ten honors last year and was an honorable mention All-American in women's golf, is on course this year for accolades as the leader of the women's golf attack.\nTucker is the reason the Hoosiers are undefeated this spring season, entering this weekend's Indiana Invitational as the nation's No. 35 team, coach Sam Carmichael said.\nTucker transferred to IU from Memphis before her junior year. From St. Leon, Ind., she has played golf seriously since her freshman year in high school, when it more a favor to her father. \nIn high school, Tucker's father was the golf coach and needed more players. And with her father and brother playing all the time, Tucker got bored on the sidelines. She took the challenge. \n"Natalie has a tremendous desire to want to get better," Carmichael said. "She knows she can get there through hard work, and she does.\n"People like Natalie Tucker make coaching enjoyable." \nTucker just returned from winning the individual title at the San Antonio Shootout, where she shot a career-best 72 in the final round and was named Big Ten golfer of the week. \nThe win was Tucker's second individual victory, and her first at IU. \nBut Tucker was only concerned about was the team victory. \n"More importantly, we won as a team, and it was awesome," she said. "The last day we were seven strokes back, but we fought through the rain together for the victory, and we won by about seven strokes. It was amazing."\nTucker said she transferred because she was unhappy with the direction of the program at Memphis; she said it appeared that "they didn't have the desire for success." \nUnder Carmichael, a seven-time Big Ten Women's Coach of the Year winner, Tucker has a coach who "wants to lead, and girls who want to be successful," she said.\nHer game is improving; she shot a career best 3-under par last weekend. But Tucker isn't talking about it.\n"Other girls talk more than me, but I lead with how I play," she said. \nJunior Tiffany Fisher said she is excited whenever she is on the course with Tucker.\n"She always brings in a good game for us because she's so confident," Fisher said. "She leads us by telling us to believe in ourselves, and showing the entire team confidence. I'm going to miss her competitive nature next year." \nTucker is a sports management and marketing major and has 15 credit hours to complete. Her eligibility is up after this year, but her time at IU is not. After graduation, Tucker might attend the LPGA qualifying school, attempting to become a professional. \n"Natalie is one of the better players to come through here during my tenure, and there have been some pretty good players through here," Carmichael said. "You never know who's gonna make it, but I wouldn't be surprised if she is a successful professional."\nFreshman Karen Dennison hasn't been around Tucker for long, but her style and class is catching Dennison's attention, she said.\n"She's a very hard worker, and it shows," Dennison said. "I'm going to miss her leadership next year. I see Tucker out there working so hard, so I feel I should be out there working hard too.\n"She really inspires me to work harder to improve my game."\nTucker, who puts in about 25 hours a week of practice, not to mention traveling and participating in tournaments, said she will be sad to leave collegiate golf because of the close bond she has with her teammates. \n"We've had a great season so far," she said. "It's been so exciting. I can't believe it's almost over. Golf has been a part of my life for so long, and I'm really going to miss traveling and having that camaraderie with my teammates.\n"Individual stats are nice, but it really means something to accomplish all of this with a team"
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Last Friday, Helen Walker drove 20 miles from her hometown of Sugar Land, Texas, to Houston to spend the evening reminiscing with friends and watching movies.\nThe IU senior had been home for a week. Fresh from a successful stint as stage manager for the Bloomington community production of "A Chorus Line," Walker was doubtlessly ready for a little relaxation. \nShortly after 1 a.m., she got back in her Ford Explorer and prepared to make the half-hour trek back to Sugar Land.\nShe never made it home.\nA few blocks from her friend's apartment, she was struck by a drunk driver exceeding speeds of 100 mph while proceeding through a green light, her mother said.\nThe autopsy report indicated Walker was killed instantly, though paramedics attempted to resuscitate her. The official time of death was reported at 1:30 a.m., 20 minutes after emergency vehicles arrived on the scene.\nJohn Leggio, spokesperson for media relations for the Houston Police Department, said Helen had the right of way when an unidentified male driving a Dodge pickup ran a red light and struck her vehicle on the driver's side. The DWI task force administered an on-scene field sobriety test, which the driver failed. He was then transported to a local hospital for mandatory blood tests. The results of those tests have not yet been released.\nTheresa Walker said she will testify in the driver's trial on behalf of her daughter if needed, as will her husband and son, Aaron. Charges of driving under the influence, assault with a deadly weapon and vehicular manslaughter are pending. The trial is expected to convene in about three months, according to the Houston District Attorney's office.\nHer death has left a void in the hearts of her friends and family. Remembered by her parents as a dedicated student and hard worker, Helen's work ethic proved particularly influential to those associated with her in various IU productions. \nSenior Josh Huff worked with Walker in theatre productions of "Pippin" and "A Chorus Line" and spoke of her "amazing work ethic." Huff said he always thought he'd work with her again in the upcoming season.\n"She really loved what she did," Huff said. "Stage manager is such a thankless job, but she never even cared about being thanked. She was just so selfless."\nWalker's mother said her daughter began acting in community theatre when she was 8 years old. She continued performing onstage until her senior year of high school, when she found what Walker termed "her true love" in theatre's technical aspects.\nShe dreamed of working in professional theatre and was working toward degrees in computer science and technical theater. She was also minoring in American Sign Language.\n"She had a passion to learn things where she could communicate, especially humorously, with all sorts of people," her mother said.\nHelen was offered an opening position as assistant stage manager with the William H. Hobby Theatre in Houston, her mother said. She was planning on moving to Houston upon graduating in May 2002 to begin work there.\nHuff also remembers Walker as a "funny, fun-loving" individual who always treated everyone fairly and said he firmly believes she would have made a tremendous impact in the realm of professional theatre.\n"She was the kind of individual that never let an opportunity for fun or mischief pass," her mother said. "She never let anyone perform an injustice in front of her. If there was an underdog in a particular situation, she would stand up to anyone to ensure that person was treated in a just and right manner."\nHelen is survived by her parents, Michael and Theresa Walker; brother, Aaron Walker; paternal grandfather, Lewis Walker of Sugar Land; maternal grandparents, Francis and Maria Elena Flood of El Paso, Texas; great aunts, Sister Mary Kathleen Flood and Isabel Flood of El Paso, Texas; and numerous other relatives.\nIn lieu of flowers, donations in Helen's name can be made to Indiana University, c/o Dept. of Theatre and Drama, 1211 E. 7th St., Room 200, Bloomington, IN 47405-1111. The cast of "A Chorus Line" is also naming a star in her honor.
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While many students were out of town or fighting Bloomington summer road construction, a few campus construction projects began to materialize into new campus landmarks. \nWhile the Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center is set to open, the Graduate Executive Education Center has another year until it's completion. In the planning stages are a Multidisciplinary Science Building and a new classroom building near the Arboretum.\nGraduate Executive Education Center\nShortly after graduation, workers began constructing the "bridge" over Fee Lane to connect the business school to the new GEEC, said University Architect Bob Meadows. The project is slightly ahead of schedule.\nThe "bridge" is complete, and Fee Lane is open. Now the IU seal meets you as you drive down Fee Lane.\n"From our point of view, it'll be a significant addition to the campus once you walk under it and see the Arboretum on the other side," Meadows said.\nBloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm said the "bridge" is, "a striking visual piece ... A symbol of connecting the whole campus."\nThe building is set to open in May of 2002.\nTheatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center\nThe distinctive Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center adds to the cultural theme of Jordan Avenue, Meadows said.\n"If you walk from south to north, we've got the music school, we've got the MAC, and now we have this venue," Meadows said. "Imagine it during the evening ... another crown jewel at Indiana University."\nThe Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center opens in September, but the theater and drama and African-American studies departments are already setting up offices in the building.
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Students do not often have the chance to present President Myles Brand with direct, uncensored questions, but during the IU Student Association town hall meeting Monday night, 85 students got their chance.\nThe session lasted an hour, and students remained in line to ask questions until Jake Oakman, IUSA president and the event's moderator, closed the discussion. \n"It is mutually beneficial," he said. "He gets to speak to students. We get to speak to him." \nBrand sported khakis and a button-down shirt, joking and laughing with the participants. \nBut the students did not back down from asking a variety of questions on a range of topics. \nThis summer's 7.5 percent tuition hike to compensate faculty salary increases raised a number of questions. Students voiced concerns about how their financial contribution to the University is delegated. \nBrand regrets tuition was raised.\n"I worked every summer and semester while in college," Brand said. "I know what it costs." \nMany students are concerned about the disparity between the salaries of administrators versus professors. Brand agreed.\n"We have to reward our facutly members," he said. "Excellence in the Universtiy depends on faculty more than anybody else." \nBut, Brand said IU has to comply with the rules of the market, explaining, "different fields command different salaries."\nHe also answered questions about IU's role in global causes, such as the University's contract with Nike and the comapany's questionable labor practices. Brand assured students he is not oblivious to the controversial issue, but emphasized IU could only instigate change in conjunction with the Worker's Rights Consortium, a labor rights monitoring group. \n"We will only be effective if we ban together," Brand said. "I'm not interested in feel-good politics. IU doesn't have enough muscle on their own."\nOne student showed concern about the U.S. News and World Report rankings, which placed IU poorly among Big Ten schools. Downplaying the ranking's importance, Brand was confident with IU's national stature. \n"The fact of the matter is IU continues to improve," Brand said. "Through the 1990s, and currently, we are doing well. We're moving in the right direction." \nBrand explained that national rankings are often influenced by high tuition and low acceptance rates, and that IU will not compromise its mission to public education in search of higher rankings.\n"I could get IU in the top five of public universities by cutting off the bottom half of the class," he said. "We give everybody who can make it through IU an education." \nStudents also expressed concern about the appointment of 32-year-old graduate student Sacha Willsey as student trustee, and her ability to represent the undergraduate population.\nIn his response, Brand emphasized that the student trustee is representative of all eight IU campuses. Roughly 30,000 undergraduates represent one-third of the entire student population on all of IU's campuses, Brand said. \nThus, the appointment of Willsey is more representative of the student population than it may appear to Bloomington students. Students responded by asking why there were not more student trustees so the entire student population may be more accurately represented. Brand sympathized, but explained that he had no control over the appointment of any trustee.\nBrand also took the time to clarify his role as president of all IU campuses, not just the Bloomington campus. \n"My level of responsibility covers the entire University," he said. "I must respect the range of authority of the Chancellor. I have a different role. I'm not as visible of a character, and students need to be aware of this role." \nOverall, students, IUSA members, and Brand were satisfied with the outcome of the meeting. \n"I thought they were forthright, difficult questions, and they covered a wide-range of topics," Brand said. "The students may have known the answers to their questions, but they wanted to hear it from me."\nJeff Wuslich, IUSA vice president for administration, said the meeting was important to help bring the student body together with IU's top administrator. "(Students) had a direct line to the No. 1 man on campus," Wuslich said.
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Michael Weichman, who quit his job at New York's World Trade Center Friday, could have been dead had he kept his position. \nWeichman, who graduated from IU in May, moved to Manhattan in July. His apartment, which is near the Empire State Building, is only 30 blocks from the twin towers. \nHis office was located on the 81st story in tower one. \nAlthough Weichman no longer worked at the office, he said he still worried about his many friends and former co-workers at Network Plus, a telecommunitcations provider, who were working in the office at the time of the attack.\n"The exact office that I worked (in) got hit by the wing of the first plane. I was not there, but I saw all of the smoke and flames that surrounded the building," Weichman said. \nBut Weichman's friend was in the building at the time of the terrorist attack.\nHere's the gripping description he gave Weichman, who relayed it to the IDS.\n"My friend was working in the office at the time of the attack," Weichman said. "He ran down the stairwell, along with two other people and someone that they had to carry in a wheelchair down to the 30th floor. \n"They continued to run down the stairs, and he decided to go into an empty office and use the phone to call his wife, (who) worked in tower two. \n"After finally finding a phone line that worked, he called his wife on her cell phone to make sure that she was alright. She was running out of tower two, telling him that she was fine and that he needed to get out. He hung up the phone and began running, finally catching up to the others he had left. \n"By that time, he said that he could not see anything but blackness. After he ran down the other 50 stories that were left he saw a man that held a flashlight standing in a big hole. The guy was a FBI agent and he was waving for them to run in a certain direction. \n"My friend said that he tried to pick up the FBI agent to take him with him, but the agent refused and said 'I have to help the other people get out, you go on.'\n"My friend said that he was stepping all over dead bodies as he ran out of the building. As soon as he hit the revolving doors in tower one, tower two began to fall. \n"He started running toward the Hudson River. That is where we ran into each other, he was covered in clay and debris. There was nothing but mad chaos at the shores. There was a six to eight hour wait for a ferry to take you to New Jersey."\nAlthough Weichman's friend was fine, Weichman said he was still frightened about the fate of his other two friends that were working in the World Trade Center at the time of the attack. \n"I have tried over and over again to call their cell phones, and have received no answer. I really do not know what to think," Weichman said. "They are nowhere to be found and I know that they were in the office at the time of the attack. In reality, I know that they probably did not make it out, but I am still going to try call them until I know something for sure."\nWeichman and his girlfriend are currently in New Jersey waiting for the opportunity to get back to New York and pick up the pieces they have left behind. \n"It is a little different for people that just work there, but I live there, right in Manhattan, only 30 blocks away from the disaster," Weichman said. "Everything I have and own are in Manhattan, and since the bridge that takes me back to New York is closed because of the car that was found to have explosives in it, I do not know when I will be able to get home"
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Dr. Jose de la Cruz watched black smoke billow from the World Trade Center from the fourth floor of St. Vincent's Hospital in Staten Island, N.Y., last week.\nJust two months ago, the IU alumnus began his first year as a resident physician in New York.\n"Everybody was looking out and I saw just as we were looking at the tower ... we saw the second plane hit the tower and I didn't know what it was," he said. "By noon they got all their residents together and we were placed on emergency alert."\nThe day of the attacks, de la Cruz worked at the hospital in Staten Island, seeing patients who were brought in by ferry, mostly suffering from smoke inhalation. But by 3 p.m. Wednesday, he was needed in Manhattan. Doctors were needed at what has come to be known as "Ground Zero."\nPolice escorted him and two other doctors to the South side of the World Trade Center wreckage, only getting through with medical identification. They were assigned to do triage in the middle of the devastation of two planes crashing into the World Trade Center -- the worst Terrorist attack in United States history.\nDe la Cruz said the main triage station is now located at nearby Stuyvesant High School, but last Wednesday night they were set up in the entrance to the World Financial Center across the street from where the towers stood. The surrounding buildings were unstable, he said.\n"It was kind of scary because before we got there they told us we needed a hard hat and glasses," he said. "It was a very strange environment. You're surrounded by so much squalor and death." \nDe la Cruz, who is training to be an opthamologist, treated rescue workers with dust and debris in their eyes until about 5 a.m. Thursday. He wore two masks to shield his lungs from both the steaming dust still rising from the rubble and the smell.\n"If you're in an operation ... and you burn fat, that's how it smelled," he said. "It sounds very gruesome but that's the way it smelled."\nWith nearly 6,000 people missing or dead in New York, the tragedy forced one of de la Cruz's friends at a New York hospital to categorize patients with burn injuries coming into the emergency room. When de la Cruz called him, his friend said they were sending "medium-well" burn victims to Bellevue Hospital, with "medium rare" going to St. Vincent's Staten Island.\nWhen he saw the second plane hit, de la Cruz focused himself. Besides witnessing hurricanes in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his hometown, he had never seen such a tragedy. Then last week he was called on to help the injured. He locked all emotions away and prepared to do his job.\n"My first reaction, I didn't even think of anything at all," he said. "I need to go where I'm needed." \nBut as the days followed, the emotional burden was beginning to peek through. He and his girlfriend, Sylvia Villares, a resident physician studying pediatrics at St. Vincent's Manhattan, stopped watching television and tried to cheer each other up.\nPhysically, he was tired, although the weekend allowed him to rest. \n"There's still going to be ups and downs as far as emotion," de la Cruz said. "I still don't know how I feel. I can't describe the way I feel right (now)."\nBut he doesn't give up on the chance for survivors.\n"My gut instinct is that we needed to keep hope," he said. "I know it (seems like) too far a stretch, but you have to think about the magnitude. Everything became dust."\nHe said he was surprised about how few patients were brought to the hospital immediately following the attack.\n"I tried to stay away from the logic. The reality is that while we were there, we saw a lot of body parts instead of bodies. You're going to see more body parts than bodies. I kind of prepared myself for that," he said. "Once I left that area, everything just (began) to find its place inside of me."\nAnd in the week after the attacks, the focus of much discussion is how to bring those who committed the attacks to justice. De la Cruz is among those missing someone -- one of the resident physicians is still missing at the World Trade Center site. He said nothing the country does will bring the missing home or erase the memories he has.\n"Your first reaction is to totally obliterate whoever did (it)," he said. "... but I don't want to make people (feel) how I feel right now."\nIn the end, he said the terrorists should be "brought to justice."\n"As health professionals you're taught to not do any damage and treat the ill, but someone has to pay."\nDe la Cruz earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science from IU in 1991, and his master's in 1993, later attending medical school at Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. At the time he was an avid bicyclist of national caliber, said Associate Professor of Kinesiology Joel Stager, his graduate advisor who has kept in contact with him over the years.\nWith a desire to ride in the Little 500, he came to Bloomington, and raced for the Cinzano team in 1990. He attended IU for six years.\nWalking through New York, he said every small park is crowded with people together, remembering the dead and missing with vigils and gatherings. Union Square, near the New York University campus, sparked memories of de la Cruz's college experience during the anti-war gatherings in Dunn Meadow in the early 1990s.\n"It reminded me a lot of IU," he said. "Those are the same feelings I felt when I was at IU. Even though I was very far from the action, there was a lot of tension." \nThe magnetic way Americans and New Yorkers are coming together has been something impressive to de la Cruz. Villares, his girlfriend, said food was pouring into St. Vincent's Manhattan long after patients were coming in. She said she was given a turkey sandwich.\n"There was a note that said, 'Thank you.' I was very touched by that," she said.\nThe events of last week will change everyone's lives, he said. And through his first months in his three-year residency, de la Cruz said the terrorist attack taught him the hardship of medical school was more than worth it.\n"You have the satisfaction that you helped somebody even if it was just one person"
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WASHINGTON -- It took Hooshmand Yazdani half an hour to get his F-1 student visa at the American Embassy in Iran. \nThat was 1969. \nToday, 32 years later, Yazdani is an American citizen and the owner of Nomad's Kitchen in Washington. He sits at a table in his restaurant with a worried look on his face. He is concerned about the future of Iranian students wanting to study in the United States.\n"There is a lot of talk about new immigration legislation," Yazdani said. "(The Immigration and Naturalization Service) is going to make it a whole lot more difficult. They will have more control and more screenings."\nAfter the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, some are concerned about immigration control becoming more stringent, especially for those people from the Middle East. \nDon Chadwick, an immigration attorney in Chicago, said the INS will push for careful screenings of green card applicants from target countries like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Pakistan.\n"If their home country is completely against the United States, the applicant has a high chance of denial," Chadwick said. "But this action has to come with acts of Congress. If Afghanistan declares a Holy War against the United States, Congress can decide to deny residency to people from that country."\nDenyse Sabagh, a Washington attorney specializing in immigration law at Duane Morris law firm, said some residents of Middle Eastern decent could be facing deportation. \n"If the INS thinks they share information or have a connection with terrorist activity, and they have a pending application or a green card, then they are not protected."\nMany immigration advocates are also worried about the future of international students studying in the United States. According to data collected by the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers, during the 1999-2000 academic year, 514,723 international students studied in the United States making the country the leading destination of international students. \nRuth Miller, associate director of international services at IU, said depending on what happens with the continued threats of terrorism, international study in the United States may be greatly affected. \n"The United States will be more careful about which students they will let into the country to study," Miller said.\nThere has also been some anti-Arab sentiment across the country resulting in harassment in the recent weeks. The harassment has been directed at students from the Middle East or at people who look like they are Muslim. \n"Students (from the Middle East) feel very sorry for what happened on Sept. 11," Miller said. "It's not their fault, but they feel very bad because people think their home countries did that."\nAfter the attacks, there have been reported cases of hate crimes toward people who look like from they are from the Middle East or who look Muslim. Fanta Aw, director of international student services at American University, said the anti-Arab sentiment is very dangerous.\n "People are trying to find immediate solutions, but identifying and profiling Middle Easterners is not a solution," Aw said. "As soon as you identify people on what they look like in a country of immigrants, it is problematic."\n Americans may also be afraid of international students because they believe they will stay in the United States after their studies, Aw said. There is a tendency for students coming from poor countries to remain here, but 99 percent of Middle Eastern students go back home after graduation. Most of these students don't even take advantage of the one-year optional practical training the INS offers them as a precursor to part time working permits.\nIn 1996 the INS proposed a national foreign student tracking system known as CIPRIS. But due to a lack of funding and manpower, the tracking system was uneffective. \nAfter recent events, the INS is planning to implement a new tracking system, Aw said. Universities will have to report to the INS when students enroll at their institution and when they graduate. This way the INS will know where the students are. \nAw said this tracking system doesn't solve the immigration problem. People who come to the U.S on visitor visas still remain untracked. Many of these people stay here illegally after their visas expire.\nBefore the attacks, President George W. Bush was proposing new immigration laws and working permits for some illegal immigrants. These plans are now on hold.\n"There is a need for these workers, and politics are getting in the way," Aw said. "Amnesty is not for charity, there is a need. There is no industry that hasn't benefited from foreigners advancing their industry."\nRep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., has been working on passing amnesty laws which would make millions of illegal immigrants permanent residents. \nBilly Weinberg, press secretary for Gutierrez, said they believe offering amnesty would benefit everyone and that they will continue with the immigration effort. \n"Immigrants feel as if they are Americans, and like most people, they feel the effects of the attack on their adopted country," Weinberg said. "Immigrants made constructive contributions before and after Sept. 11. We believe immigration is important in the healing process of this country."\nHooshmand Yazdani died of a heart attack one week after granting the IDS this interview.
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Pictures spoke more than a thousand words Wednesday. \nImages of aborted fetuses, the Holocaust and animal testing confronted students as they walked by the Sample Gates. Students, faculty and community members made evident their feelings with looks of surprise, disgust, shock and disbelief. \nThe Genocide Awareness Project came to IU and brought these pictures to compare abortion to acts of genocide. The group remains just inside the Sample Gates until Friday. \nThe pictures are billboard size and enclosed by a metal railing. Behind the metal railing, employees and volunteers helping with the project answer questions and hand out literature. \nGAP member Greg Davis acknowledges the unavoidability of the detailed and graphic pictures. \n"This is right in the midst. You can't get away from it, it's in your face," Davis said. "Sometimes, it takes drastic measures. It's not easy, and we don't like to have to do this. "We're appalled by this."\nThe pictures contain graphic content, but the workers said they believe in their purpose.\nErica Rogers, a 17-year-old volunteer with GAP, said she knows the power of the images which ricochet through people's minds. \n"These pictures are needed because there are some things that are so horrific that words cannot describe the magnitude," Rogers said.\nAlongside the stirring images, students gathered to protest the display. \nKate Schroeder, a graduate student, came to the display as a member of the group IU Reaction to GAP. Schroeder said she does not believe in the effectiveness of GAPs form of promotion. \n"I don't believe these kinds of tactics promote debate," she said. "It should be discussed, and this doesn't promote civilized discourse. I don't believe that any message should be promoted with fear or hate. That is not the way you should get your message across."\nGreg Davis, the GAP employee, said forums and discussions do not draw people and do not truly bring forth the issue. Workers with the project attempt to engage onlookers in discourse about the topic. \nA discussion on First Amendment rights has sprung from the controversy surrounding the display, and the various groups do agree on this issue.\n"I support free speech. I believe they have the right to be here," Schroeder said.\nThe Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion group that created GAP, sued IU for the right to set its display on the public campus.\nIU wanted the display presented in Dunn Meadow, the campus's normal free speech area, but the two reached a compromise to place the display near the Sample Gates, in the heart of IU's old campus.\nProtesters remained peaceful and showed their dislike and disagreement with the display by distributing information and offering a different point of view. \n"Basically, we aren't reacting so much to this but we want our community to be safe and peaceful. We're not out here to argue or debate. There are times for debate, and this isn't it," Schroeder said. \nSchroeder said she also disagrees with what she sees as mistakes in the display, such as the correlation that abortion causes breast cancer.\nRogers said the display helps people make an informed decision with option, whether that choice be pro-life or pro-choice.\n"People need to know what it actually is," Rogers said. "The pictures show that it is not just a blob of tissue. It is a human life.\n"And when you have a picture, the image is instilled in their mind"
