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(11/05/02 5:08am)
A female IU employee was assaulted Sunday night in the Willkie Center Building, according to IU Police Department reports. The assault occurred about 11:10 p.m.\nA 45-year-old staff member was walking through Willkie when an unknown person turned off the lights and pulled a bag over the employee's head. The perpetrator proceeded to lead her upstairs to the stage area of the auditorium. She remembers nothing after that point.\n"We have no physical description, no evidence of her being hit on the head, and no evidence of sexual assault," said IUPD Sgt. Tim Lewis. "We've still got a lot of work to do."\nAccording to Lewis, this case is still an active investigation, and names will not be released until more information is found.
(11/05/02 5:07am)
Delta Delta Delta sorority received an unwelcome visitor Saturday, according to the IU Police Department.\nAt 5 p.m., Tri Delta president Lauren Cross responded to someone pounding on the rear door of the house. The pounding would not stop, so Cross cracked the door open. As she did, the person attempted to push in the door. Cross told the person, whom she identified as male, that she would call the police. He subsequently ran back to his vehicle.\nCross reported that the person was male, over 6 feet tall with blond curly hair. He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with jeans, had greek letters taped on his clothes and was perceived to be drunk. The vehicle he returned to was a dark-colored sports utility vehicle and was filled with male subjects. Sgt. Tim Lewis of IUPD said the repercussions from the incident could be serious.\n"It depends on the intentions," Lewis said. "We don't know if it was a fraternity prank or anything. The most serious it could get is trespassing."\nThe suspect was last seen westbound on 3rd Street.
(11/01/02 5:35am)
A female student was grabbed by her shirt while walking at about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday near the Neal-Marshall Education Center, according to a police report. The suspect is believed to be a male but no other physical description was given.\n"She didn't see the person and she told us she thought it was a male," IUPD Sgt. Tim Lewis said.\nThe woman was walking back from class when she was grabbed from behind by her collar and shirt sleeve. She said she immediately ran back to her residence. The victim was not injured and there were no witnesses.\nThe incident is under investigation by the IUPD. Anyone with information regarding the assault is asked to contact the police department at 855-4111.
(10/24/02 5:12am)
A 22-year-old female student was physically assaulted at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday while she was walking in front of McNutt Quad, according to the IU Police Department. \nThe student was walking north on the sidewalk and saw the suspect coming towards her. He hit her on her right side and she fell down. She suffered abrasions and contusions. \nThe victim reported the incident at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.\nThe suspect is described as a tall male with short brown hair. He was wearing a light colored T-shirt. The victim did not provide any other information about the suspect. \nThe incident is under investigation by the IUPD. If anyone has any information about the assault, contact the investigations section of the IUPD at 855-4111.
(10/22/02 6:03am)
Cornell speaker hosted by computer science\nThe IU Computer Science Departmental Colloquia will host a speech by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University on "The Temporal Dynamics of On-Line Information and Communication" from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. today. The speech will be at the Indiana Memorial Union Maple Room. For more information, call 855-6862. \nAstronomy Department brings guest lecturer\nThe Astronomy Department will host Rob Kennicutt, from the University of Arizona, who will give a talk on "SIRTF Sings: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxy Survey" at 4 p.m. today.\nKohl's comes to organization's meeting\nThe Apparel Merchandising Organization will have a mass meeting from 7 to 8 p.m. tonight. There will be a guest speaker, Natalie Osborne, from Kohl's Department Stores. The group will also be decorating goodie bags for the Mental Health Society. For more information, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~amo.\nAsian Culture Center hosts Go game\nThe Asian Culture Center will host a Go (WeiQi in Chinese, Baduk in Korean) game from 5 to 7 p.m. tonight. The center is located at 807 E. Tenth. At the event, students can play learn or teach the game. For more information 856-5361, e-mail acc@indiana.edu, or visit http://www.indiana.edu/~acc. \nZeta Phi Beta Sorority presents 'My Sisters'\nZeta Phi Beta Sorority INC will present "My Sisters, Where's the Love?" during their Fantazee Week called "A Blue Revolution." At the presentation, social issues important to African American females on campus will be discussed. Males are invited to come and give their perspective on the issues. \nThe discussion is from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Ashton Barnes Lounge.
(10/22/02 5:57am)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University is building a $16 million alumni center and Hall of Achievement, which will feature the school's accomplishments through interactive kiosks and museum-like exhibits.\nThe university gave some benefactors and graduates a first look Saturday at the plans. Funded by private sources, the 67,000-square-foot center is under construction on the eastern edge of campus. Completion is expected in late 2003 or early 2004.\nCarolyn Gery, Purdue's associate vice president for development, said the center would be an important addition to campus, providing a gathering place for graduates and housing alumni and fund-raising offices.\nGuests who attended Saturday's ceremonial groundbreaking before the Purdue-Michigan football game had the opportunity to view the architectural renderings of the center.\nThe center is being named for Richard and Sandy Dauch, who have donated $3 million toward its construction.\n"The renderings have been shown to different people," Richard Dauch said. "We've seen the excitement in their eyes, and we've seen the spirit of Purdue be kindled by it."\nThe Hall of Achievement will display state-of-the art, changeable showcases featuring photographs, memorabilia and other objects that highlight some of the university's accomplishments and graduates.\nSome of the planned exhibits include tributes to the Purdue astronauts, Amelia Earhart, Purdue's athletic stars and faculty members.
(10/22/02 5:55am)
Two couples were robbed by four males early Sunday morning after walking out of Lindley Hall, according to the IU Police Department. Soon after midnight Saturday, the two couples were walking toward Third Street when one of the males approached them holding a knife. The four men took an undisclosed amount of money from the two couples and fled westbound toward Bryan Woods, according to police reports. \nOne of the four men, Dale McCutchen, a nonstudent, was arrested approximately 40 minutes after the robbery. The other three suspects have not been located.\nIUPD Sgt. Tim Lewis said this armed robbery was the first one on campus this year. He said there were five robberies last year, two in 2000, and one in 1999.\nLewis said the two couples couldn't have necessarily done anything to prevent the robbery.\n"They weren't in a real dark area," Lewis said.\nTo help prevent something like this happening again, Lewis said people need to be aware of their surroundings and are best walking in groups late at night.\nThe investigation is currently ongoing and IUPD urges anyone with any information to call the police department.\n"Anyone who has been a witness in the incident or witnessed something in that area, call us," Lewis said. "We'd appreciate the help."\nAnyone with information regarding the robbery should call the IUPD at 855-4111.
(10/18/02 4:47am)
INPIRG fundraiser focuses on Bloomington's homeless\nThe Indiana Public Interest Research Group are hosting "PB and Jam," a fundraiser for Bloomington's local homeless population today. The group will sell peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and play music in Dunn Meadow from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All of the proceeds from the event will be donated to the Shalom Center and Mother Hubbard's Cupboard. For more information, call 856-4128.\nFull Frontal comedy to perform tonight\nThere will be an Improv Comedy show featuring Full Frontal Comedy at 9 p.m. tonight. in the Indiana Memorial Union Georgian Room. The show is free. For more information, e-mail kmckerna@indiana.edu or go to http://www.fullfrontalcomedy.com.\nPolitical Science department \ncolloquium today \nThe Department of Political Science will present a colloquium on the 2002 German Elections at 3:30 p.m. today. Professor Robert Rohrschneider, who recently returned from Germany, will speak about various aspects of the German electoral process. The event is free and will be in Woodburn Hall, Rm 218. The event is sponsored by Political Science and West European Studies. \nHorizons of Knowledge lecture will talk about Italian novelist\nRemo Ceserani, professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna, will speak about the Italian novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda at 4 p.m. today in the State Room West of the IMU.
(10/18/02 4:42am)
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- For college freshmen, it used to be sink or swim. Today, many get swimming lessons -- special credit courses designed to get them used to college and to make the best of it.\nColleges nationwide are paying more attention to "the first-year experience," as it has come to be called. The theory, backed by research, is that students who have a good first year will come back for more, do better academically and stay to graduate.\nIn practice, the courses look like everything from an extension of freshman orientation to an academically rigorous seminar. Sometimes they're required, sometimes not.\nThis fall for the first time, St. Louis University is offering "University 101" to a pilot group of 300 freshmen. They meet for two hours once a week for eight weeks in groups of 20 or so to talk about issues common to young people new to college.\nLeanna Fennenberg, from SLU's department of housing and residence life, and Mike Rozier, president of SLU's student government, have been taking one group through the course. They follow a syllabus with prescribed topics such as relationships, diversity and time and money management. But they follow it loosely, allowing time for whatever is on the students' minds.\nIn an early session, when they were still getting the hang of campus life, the students were full of practical questions: How do I change my meal plan? What if I'm not getting along with my roommate? How can I cook macaroni and cheese in a microwave?\nFennenberg and Rozier make games of as many topics as possible. Besides fun, the course includes quizzes, reading assignments and short papers -- all for a grade and one college credit.\nShawn E. Swinigan, the university's director of residential life, said SLU's ultimate goal is to offer the class to all freshmen.\nKatie Bordner came to Webster University this fall from Jefferson City, Mo. Like all new Webster freshmen under age 20, she had to enroll in a special three-credit, semester-long freshman seminar. Webster offered 29 choices, many with titles such as "Trials, Tribulations and TV," "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?" and "Sex, Shadow and Society."\nBordner is one of 16 students taking "Book, Disk and Reel: Cultural Worlds through Sight and Sound" from Don Conway-Long, assistant professor of behavioral and social sciences.\nHuman global diversity is the subject. As in Webster's other freshman seminars, the students read a few books and watch a few movies that apply, do oral presentations, engage in discussions, write short papers and learn how to use the college library.\nThe emphasis is on helping students adjust to the academic demands of college, but there is a social aspect to the courses as well. Meetings are informal, and students are encouraged to participate. They get to know one another and the teachers.\nConway-Long knows all of his students by their first names. They call him Dr. Don.\nBordner likes the seminar even though "it requires a lot of reading, which is kind of a kick in the butt." The same could be said of her first paper for the class, which came back with a grade of 70. As a journalism major, she thought she knew how to write.\n"I'm kind of like a creative writer," she said. "I write like I talk, and that's not always proper syntax and stuff." Having realized that, she did better on her second paper.\nCollege has been a change of another kind for Curtis Wolterding, who was home-schooled in Woodbridge, Va. At Principia College, he is learning that "I have to get up at a certain time. I have homework due."\nA freshman seminar called "Frontiers" is helping him adjust to these realities and to college-level academic work. The class is all about people who broke intellectual boundaries down through the centuries.\nWolterding and his classmates are analyzing the works of major philosophers, composers and mathematicians. They read, listen, write analytical papers, discuss and keep journals in which they write about their academic goals. Teachers return the journals with comments.\n"Sometimes we write more than they write," said music professor Jim Dowcett, one of Wolterding's three teachers. The others are Randi Browning, head of the college's writing program, and Steve Hinthorne, head of its mathematics department.\nBetween the three of them, they give the students a lot of personal attention. The teachers meet with the students individually and watch for any special problems they have or help they need.\nThis is the fifth year for Principia's freshman seminars, which add up to a series of three graded courses, required of all freshmen.\nAlmost three-fourths of colleges responding to a national survey two years ago said they offered a special course for first-year students. Most of the courses gave grades and credits; half were required. Courses like SLU's about college survival were about twice as common as those with an academic slant, such as Webster's.\nSouthern Illinois University at Edwardsville gives entering students a choice of both types of courses. About one of every five students chooses to take one. Associate provost David Sill said the university wanted to develop more courses to give students more choices and to eventually require them to take one.\nSIUE doesn't believe in a one-size-fits-all approach. "Students are different," Sill said. "They have different needs. They bring different backgrounds with them. There is no such thing as the average student. Every student is unique"
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
About 10 minutes after senior Samantha Bingham's train pulled out of the Pentagon Metro station, a plane under terrorist control crashed near the military complex. She wouldn't find out until she arrived at work in Washington that the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon had crumbled after the worst terrorist attack ever waged against the United States. \n"People were looking out the windows, everyone had tears in their eyes," she said. \nAbout 60 IU students were in the Washington area at the time of the attack. None were among the estimated 100 people who died or the 40 who were hospitalized when a section of the Pentagon burned and collapsed.\nThe plane that damaged the Pentagon was carrying 58 passengers to Los Angelos from Dulles Airport near Washington. The crash came less than two hours after two planes crashed into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.\nBingham, an intern at the Environmental Protection Agency, walked home with a co-worker after the building was evacuated.\n"It was really eerie at a point where we saw the Washington Monument in the foreground, with billows of smoke behind it," she said. \nAfter two hours of walking, Bingham and the co-worker were picked up by a Good Samaritan. \nBingham went back to the Alexandria, Va., apartment complex where 35 IU students who participate in SPEA's Washington Leadership program live, about four miles south of the Pentagon. \nOwen Moore, a senior, works for the Soldier's Radio and TV Network, a division of the Army that provides national and army-related news to service men and women stationed throughout the world. When TV reports of the crash at the Pentagon aired at his office, he and co-workers rushed to the scene to cover the event. \nOnly top officials were admitted near the Pentagon, but Moore was close enough to see jet fighters, helicopters and armored vehicles surround the building. Moore said FBI agents, police and SWAT teams were racing everywhere. \n"It looked like a big bomb had been dropped, like a city block was in flames," he said. \nMoore said dozens of accidents on the highway were unattended since emergency vehicles had concentrated at the Pentagon. \n"It was unbelievably chaotic," he said. "There was a general sense of vindictiveness there within the army. Everyone wants revenge, civilians as well."\n On Capitol Hill, senior Brian Wlazlo was opening mail when other employees working for Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) gathered around the television. About five minutes after the second plane hit the World Trade Center, the lines in Bayh's office lit up.\n "People were saying 'go to war,'" Wlazlo said.\nFirst lady Laura Bush was scheduled to speak Tuesday in the Russell Senate Office Building where Wlazlo is an intern, but the event was cancelled and the building was evacuated shortly after reports of the Pentagon crash were known. \n"No one really panicked," Wlazlo said. "Everyone was trucking down the staircase faster than they normally would."\nAs Wlazlo and other interns walked among hundreds of other Hill staffers toward the Union Station Metro stop, they heard an explosion of unknown origins.\n"Everyone did a half-duck kind of a move," he said. "Everyone was looking around, there was no smoke in the immediate area. After that people started jogging and one guy started sprinting."\nSenior Christian Haumesser watched smoke roll past the windows of his office at the Department of Housing and Urban Development where he is an intern. At about 9:30 a.m. EST an announcement on the intercom urged employees to evacuate the building. \n"People were driving insanely -- I couldn't even cross the street. Everybody was running red lights in a panic to get out of the city."\nAfter walking around the city for near two hours, waiting for the Metro service, he headed back home.\n"I've never had as many conversations with complete strangers on the Metro -- talking about the news, what they'd seen," he said. "People were concerned about what would happen next, what the U.S. would do in retaliation."\n When the IU students in the SPEA program got back to the apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., most called family and friends and watched television reports of the attacks. In Washington, many had found cellular phones and land lines to be unreliable, but e-mail proved to be an effective means of communication.\n Beside the 35 students in the SPEA program, about 25 who participate with the Navy Executive Education Program were safe on Tuesday, Sharon Brehm, IU Chancellor said. \nMarc Lame, the SPEA professor who leads classes for the Washington Leadership Program, said he was glad to learn that all the students were safe, although most students were inconvenienced by hours-long commutes. \n"(Students) realize that sitting in traffic alive was not too much to worry about considering the alternatives," he said.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
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"
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
The phone rings. The call is transferred from the receptionist to a licensed counselor. No one knows exactly what to expect from this unknown caller. The counselor must be ready to deal with any problems that might arise on the other end of the line.\n"All the calls we receive are pretty intense," Suzanne Pauwels, licensed counselor at the IU Health Center, said. \nPauwels works at the Sexual Assault Crisis Service. SACS is a division of Campus Life and offers a 24-hour crisis help line for anyone with concerns about sexual assault. \nStudents can access the help line 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 855-8900.\nThe service recently celebrated 13 years of service to the IU community. \nWorking at SACS can be a lot of hard work, employees say. The hours do not follow the typical nine-to-five work day.\n"One of us is always on call," Pauwels said.\nWorking with victims of sexual assault has an emotional impact on the lives of the counselors as well.\n"The hardest part of working at SACS is seeing how sexual assault affects people's lives in traumatic ways, as well as seeing how attitudes and behaviors of perpetrators change little over the years," Debbie Melloan-Ruiz, a licensed counselor with SACS, said.\nAlthough this job can be stressful and hard, this service is needed on campus, IU Police Department officials said.\n"Sexual assault, in general, is a problem at all university campuses," Lt. Jerry Minger of the IUPD said.\nAccording to the IUPD statistics, there were five forcible rapes reported on campus in 1999. The problem with this statistic, though, is that many of the rapes that are committed are not reported, Minger said.\n"Maybe 10 percent (of victims) report it to the police," Pauwels said.\nShe said the counselors need to try to balance their work with the rest of their lives. Counselors must unwind after answering intense calls daily.\n"It is extremely important in this line of work to take care of oneself," Pauwels said.\nCounseling is not an occupation for everyone because of stress factors and emotional impact that come along with the job, SACS employees said.\n"I think anyone who goes into counseling has to have a real desire to help others," Pauwels said.\nSACS provides free individual and group counseling to victims of sexual assault as well as their family and friends. The program also works to provide educational programs, prevention strategies, crisis counseling, advocacy, medical treatment and legal referrals according to the needs of the victim. \nAlthough providing these services can be hard work, the job is very rewarding to the staff, they said.\n"The best part of working at SACS is being able to be a part of someone's journey toward healing from sexual assault," Melloan-Ruiz said. "I get to see individuals move from being devastated by what has happened to them to regaining control and moving onto feeling good about themselves again."\nPauwels echoed her co-worker's sentiments.\n"As difficult as it is, you can see people make major positive changes," Pauwels said.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Monday evening marked the beginning of Rosh Hashana for Jewish students throughout campus. The holiday, along with Yom Kippur, focuses on asking forgiveness for wrongdoings committed during the previous Hebrew year before the start of the new one. The prayer services conducted by the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center and the Chabad House reflected the nationwide concern over last week's terrorist attacks.\nMany students welcomed Rosh Hashana Monday night by attending dinners at Hillel and McNutt Quad. They were asked to donate to an emergency relief fund in response to last Tuesday's tragic events. \n"It's a mitzvah (commandment) to give tzedekah (money for charity) before the holiday," Hillel assistant director Josh Stein told dinner guests.\nFreshman Michael Tanney, who attended dinner at Hillel, said he felt the experience was a positive one.\n"The High Holiday period is where you start over," he said. "It's great that people had the opportunity to meet other students at dinner and cultivate new friendships for the new year."\nAfter dinner, an IU bus picked up students at every residence hall and transported them to and from St. Paul's Catholic Center, 1413 E. 17th St. \nProfessor of Jewish Studies Michael Morgan, who has led Reform services through Hillel for 22 years, opened the service by expressing sorrow about the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. \n"We've had experiences this past week that none of us will ever forget," Morgan said. "I can't think of a time when starting anew meant so much"
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Jerry Tardy lived for IU.\nAnd the University showed its thanks Wednesday in a memorial filled with moving memories of a man who touched many.\nTardy, 62, died Friday, Sept. 7 after losing a 15-month battle with cancer. \n"He taught each of us how to live, and die, with dignity, humor and style," his sister Susie Tardy Maxwell said, peaking the 90-minute tribute.\nTardy, the head of the IU Alumni Association for more than 14 years, was remembered in a tribute that included music from renowned IU musician David Baker and performances by a cappella organizations, such as Straight No Chaser and Ladies First, which was sponsored by the IUAA under Tardy's direction.\n"Jerry was a personal friend," said IU President Myles Brand, the first of seven friends and colleagues to present statement's of Tardy's life. "He displayed great pride as a Hoosier and had Hoosiers' humility, too … He was a good man, and helped others become good people."\nSurvivors include his wife, Laura Loudenback Tardy; two stepsons, Andrew Minger and Geoffrey Minger; two brothers, M. Eugene "Gene" Tardy, M.D., of Oak Park, Ill., and Richard N. "Dick" Tardy, of Salem, Ind.; and a sister, Suzanne "Susie" Tardy Maxwell, of Indianapolis.\nRather than speak, Dick Tardy sang a melody of hymns in remembrance of Tardy.\nNear the end of service, the crowd and deus that filled the Musical Arts Center stood shoulder-to-shoulder, arms entangled, and sang the Alma Mater song, "Hail to Old IU".\nBrand grabbed the coattails of a member of Straight No Chaser and pulled the two together. It was a show of unity, in the way Tardy would have wanted, Kent Millard the senior pastor of St. Luke's United Methodist Church, Indianapolis said.\nTardy invented "the sway," and helped build IU's alumni network, colleagues said.\nOf his accomplishments, many to list, Tardy gave the IUAA a full-time home, the Virgil T. Devault Alumni Center, 1000 E. 17th St. It wasn't a business office, Pat Shoulders, chairman of the 2001-2002 board of managers said, it was truly a home.\n"He worked tirelessly to give us a permanent home. We affectionately call it the 'Taj McTardy'," Shoulders bringing the silent audience into brief laughter. \nDick Huffman, a close friend who spent a lifetime with Tardy on the golf course, promised that only the thought of losing of Tardy's hand-me-down golf equipment would make him cry.\nIt didn't work.\n"For the past 15 months, Jerry has shown courage and determination that was super-human," said Huffman, breaking down. "He was an inspiration to me, as I think he should be to all of you. He made our campus a better place, our University a better institution and he made me a better person. And I'm indebted for that."\nHuffman told the crowd that included faculty deans, members of the board of trustees, athletics administrators and coaches, of Tardy's love for the game of golf.\nHuffman recalled one trip to the prestigious Muirfield Golf Village, their first to the course north of Columbus, Ohio. It was also their first round of golf with caddies.\n"I saw Jerry talking to my caddie, but I didn't think anything of it," said Huffman, planting the seed for his demise.\nAfter Huffman topped a shot that skidded along the ground, he heard his caddie: 'Nice shot. Shorty.'\n"I couldn't believe what I heard," Huffman said. "I turn around and see Jerry doubled-over."\nTardy had payed the caddie $50 to call Huffman shorty.\nTrustee John Walda hopes IU and the people that remain can live up to the example set by Jerry Tardy. The stone-faced trustee, usually making decisions that impact the students and employees across the university, fought back tears remembering the legacy of a friend.\n"We have inherited a responsibility from Jerry that what makes IU special continue to be a part of our fabric," Walda said. "Today's gathering is a pretty good start"
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Indianapolis -- In the wake of mounting budget restraints, IU's top executive wants state officials to reconfigure their formula for funding higher education.\nDuring his annual State of the University address Tuesday, IU President Myles Brand lamented what he called disproportionate state funding for the Indiana's three largest research institutions -- IU, IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis and Purdue. \nAlthough the four-year research campuses are experiencing record enrollment numbers, the Indiana General Assembly gives them an average of $1,500 less per student than what other Midwest states provide to their Big Ten schools, Brand said. \nBrand alluded to Indiana's priority for funding the one-year-old community college network and other smaller schools designed to administer two-year degrees. \nIU-Bloomington received 65 percent of what Indiana lawmakers allocated on average to other campuses statewide, Brand noted. Vincennes University -- a two-year college in Southern Indiana -- receives more funding per full-time student than IUPUI.\n"In keeping with Hoosier values, we do more with less," said Brand, noting that the University has tried to keep its costs down in light of the funding crunch. "But if we stretch our resources too thin, quality will suffer over time."\nBrand did not say whether there would be cuts in University programs or faculty hiring initiatives as a result of the funding gap. But he did mention that the seeming prejudice against research universities could eventually lead to more students leaving the state in search of higher-paying jobs.\nIndiana is still primarily a manufacturing state, Brand said, affirming his commitment to helping the state develop a more technology-driven economy.\n"'Good enough' is never good enough," he said. "It is not now, nor should it ever be the case, that Indiana students must leave the state in order to find a first-rate job. It would be shortsighted in the extreme if the state did not do all it could to strengthen its research universities."\nAn officer from the state's higher education agency agrees, but said Indiana budget leaders, amid their own crisis, are providing IU with as much funding as they can.\nHealthcare and education are the state's top two budget priorities, but a recent economic slowdown had caused some severe belt-tightening throughout Indiana, said Cheryl Little, vice chair for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.\nIn the meantime, Little said organizations like the Indiana Chamber of Commerce could plug the state's brain drain by attracting more businesses, especially technologically-advanced industries.\n"We can't blame young people for leaving if they can't get high-tech, high-paying jobs here," said Little, a former candidate for Indiana Secretary of State.\nFaculty leaders support Brand's effort to rally the General Assembly for more money.\n"We have to keep hammering away on this," said Paul Galanti, president of the faculty council at IUPUI. "We cannot shortchange higher education. Otherwise we will become a backwater state, and remain that way."\nA professor in the IU School of Law at Indianapolis, Galanti said raising taxes might be one of the most immediate ways the state could raise more money for IU and Purdue.\n"If I have to pay more, I'm willing to," said Galanti, noting that pitching in additional tax revenue to benefit higher education would be a worthwhile investment for Hoosiers.\nGerald Bepko, the University's vice-president for long-range planning and chancellor at IUPUI, echoed Brand's sentiments, calling for a "long-term re-shaping of attitudes" about research institutions.\n"We need to keep the best and the brightest coming to Indiana, and get the best and brightest already here to stay," Bepko said.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
Domestic violence is the most repeated, least reported crime in the nation. On Friday, there will be an event that assists in not only educating people about the problem, but also teaching them how to prevent it. \nThe second annual Fitness Against Violence will take place tomorrow at the Student Recreational Sports Center from 3-8:30 p.m. FAV is hosted by the SRSC and all proceeds go to Middle Way House women's shelter. \nThe event offers a variety of programs, including KickBo, Hip Hop, and Tai Chi. Additional educational courses will be offered to promote awareness of sexual assault, domestic violence and body image.\nTwo officers from the IU police department will be presenting a workshop on rape aggression defense.\nOne of last year's FAV participants, faculty member Jolene Boas, encourages assault victims who remain inactive or unsocial because of previous experiences to attend this event.\n"The non-threatening environment allows participants to step out of their comfort zone and try something new while having a whole room of support behind them," she said.\nBoas is a prevention specialist at the Indiana Prevention Resources Center, part of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation department.\nMiddle Way's funding coordinator, Jill Nielsen, said last year there were more than 300 participants, mostly students and faculty members, and the group raised $7,500 in donations and pledges. This year their goal is to have 500 participants and raise $10,000. Admission is $15, $10 if participants pre-register, and everyone is welcome to attend.\n"The point of Fitness Against Violence is to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault; these are issues that affect everyone -- friends, girlfriends, sisters, family members -- and people should be educated about them so that they can help better when they come across it in their own lives," Nielsen said.\nCarol Kennedy, program director of fitness and wellness at the SRSC, said she thinks it is imperative that everyone should educate him or herself about risks and how to take charge of their lives.\n"If these women can be victims of assault, anyone can," Kennedy said. "We are not immune. Anyone of us could have been in the World Trade Center as it was being taken down just as anyone of us could be a victim of assault."\nOne way to take charge is through mental and physical fitness, which is why the SRSC works with Middle Way in arranging this event, Kennedy said.\nNielsen, an SRSC employee, said her hope for FAV is that it flourishes and is emulated by other communities, both on and off campus. Her goal is not just to make everyone aware of how to deal with domestic violence and sexual assault, but to enjoy the experience of learning to empower oneself.\n"Remember that this isn't entirely serious; it's also about having fun," Nielsen said.
(07/25/02 8:23pm)
IU junior Brett Dvorak has qualified for the semifinal round of 'College Jeopardy.'\nIn the quarterfinals, broadcast Tuesday night, Dvorak finished behind Thomas Zamora from the University of Southern California and Mysti Kofford from Boston University, but finished with a total high enough to qualify for the next round.\nDvorak said he wasn't sure what his family and friends were cheering about after Final Jeopardy, when he had the lowest total, of $6,600.\n"I didn't know I was going to the semifinals when that show ended," Dvorak said. "My fans knew I had a high enough score to get into the next round."\nDvorak will take on contestants from UCLA and Stanford in the semifinals round to be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. tonight on Bloomington cable channel eight.\nNine contestants compete in the semifinals.\nDvorak, who is majoring in political science and history, was selected as one of 15 college students to take part in Jeopardy's annual College Champion-ships, taped Oct. 6-7 at the University of California at Los Angeles.\nThis year's college champion is guaranteed $50,000, a specially designed trophy and a brand-new Volvo. In addition, the winnings of the first, second and third place contestants will be matched by Volvo and given to the winner's respective schools as scholarships. Every contestant will go home with at least a $2,500 scholarship.\nDvorak said he was surprisingly not very nervous for the show's taping.\n"I thought I'd be real nervous," Dvorak said. "It was so surreal with (Host Alex) Trebek up there in front of me, that it was really funny."\nA good-sized contingent of family and friends also made him more comfortable, he said.\nAlthough Dvorak had prepared fake stories about himself to tell Trebek, the show's producers used a true story -- about Dvorak's blue "blanky."\n"Some of the lining has ripped off it, but it's still intact," Dvorak told Trebek.\nIn the quarterfinal round, Dvorak jumped out of the gates quickly, answering the games first two questions. But from there, things tightened up. Dvorak went through the first round without a misfire until the round's final question.\nHe answered questions about everything from elevators to ivory pool balls and answered correctly a Daily Double question with the category UCLA -- an answer he knew only from talking to an alternate contestant from Pepperdine before the show's taping.\nDvorak said he missed a "What is Indiana?" question because the buzzer is tough to get the hang of.\n"A light comes on when the buzzer can be pushed," he said. "If you buzz in before, you get locked out."\nWhile Dvorak wore a gray sweatshirt in the quarterfinal round, he said he wore a crimson sweatshirt in tonight's round.\nIn September, Dvorak told the IDS he decided to apply for the tournament somewhat haphazardly.\n"I watch 'Jeopardy' a little too much," Dvorak said. "I was just watching the show and I saw an advertisement about the College Championships and just applied online. I never expected them to call me back"
(11/12/01 6:05am)
A group of women stood in front of every sorority house on campus at about 11 a.m. Saturday, nervously laughing and doing some last-minute clasping and readjusting of their outfits and accessories.\nWhen the doors finally opened, the women stared raptly ahead as the deafening cheers of the sorority members trembled and erupted out of the houses. The 2001 sorority recruitment had begun.\nAbout 1,600 women gathered together this weekend for the two-day event called "19 Party." Potential members spent half an hour at all 19 houses, getting to know the women in each house. \n"I think they're looking for someone who has a personality, someone who can carry on a conversation," said freshman Emily Schroeder, a potential member.\nMembers of each house agreed that they were looking for people who were relaxed, comfortable, acted like themselves and stood out. This could be difficult because conversation was limited to certain topics.\nSorority members would ask each woman where she was from, her year, major and hobbies. \nBut the majority of conversation consisted of questions women had for each sorority: what they're like and what kinds of activities they participate in. \n"The purpose of recruitment is for potential members to be exposed to the greek system and everything it promotes," said senior Mercy Wagner, president of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She listed sisterhood, activity, diversity and philanthropy as among the most important attributes.\nOne potential member, freshman Miranda Ross, said her purpose for going through recruitment was "to meet people, to see what it's like."\n"I'm going to keep an open mind and make my own decisions," she said.\nThe majority of women said they were there to meet people and wanted to experience the greek system for themselves. They were more concerned with seeing what sororities were like than worrying about whether or not they would get into one. Most hadn't really considered what sororities were looking for in them.\n"I don't know what they're looking for. I have no idea what to expect," freshman Jessica Sample said.\nThat's where Recruitment Counselors help out.\nRecruitment Counselors are sorority members who have temporarily deactivated from their sororities for the sole purpose of being an unbiased guide to women interested in the greek system. They meet with a small group of potential members before the event, answering any questions they have about what to expect, what to wear, advice on etiquette and how to make an impression.\nSomething that assisted potential members with making an impression was their photo and list of activities they put on an index card and turned in to the woman they talked to at each house. This makes it easier for the house members to remember everyone they talked to, so they know who they would like to invite back.\nThose who make the cut after "19 Party" will continue on to the next series of recruitment parties that begin toward the end of Winter Break. Potential members go to "12 Party," "6 Party" and "3 Party," until they do or don't get a bid by the house of their choice.
(10/10/01 3:51am)
Photographer Will Counts, who captured on film the bitter conflict over racial desegregation in Arkansas, and later taught generations of journalists the importance of images in chronicling the news, died of cancer Saturday.\nCounts, 70, taught at IU for 32 years, retiring in 1995. He had lived in Bloomington since 1960.\nVisitation will be Thursday 4-6 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 219 E. 4th St., Bloomington. A sampling of his photos will be displayed. A memorial service will be held Friday at 4 p.m. at the church.\nBefore turning to teaching, Counts worked as a photographer-editor for the Arkansas Democrat in Little Rock and for The Associated Press in Chicago and Indianapolis.\nHe was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for photographs he took during the heated desegregation battle at Little Rock Central High School.\nCounts is survived by his wife, Vivian, of Bloomington; his daughter, Claudia, a former Associated Press enterprise photo editor of New York and her husband Charles Troyer, also of New York ; a son, Wyatt Counts, of New York City; a stepdaughter, Katie Lattimer, of Bellefontaine, Ohio; a stepson, Bob McRae, of Nashville, Tenn.; a nephew, Christopher Counts; and two step-grandchildren, Andrew and Christian Lattimer, of Bellefontaine.\n"I am very saddened by the passing away of such a wonderful person as Will," said John Ahlhauser, a close friend and a retired journalism professor. "I was full of admiration for what he has accomplished. He was an exciting person to know, always on top of the news and innovative in the way he presented it"
(10/03/01 5:20am)
John Hobson has been named interim president and chief executive officer of the IU Alumni Association by IU President Myles Brand.\nIUAA President and Chief Executive Officer Jerry Tardy, who had led the association for more than 14 years, died Sept. 7.\nHobson, who earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in education from IU, has worked for the association since 1973. Since 2000, he has served as senior vice president and chief operating officer for the IUAA. In that position, he coordinates and directs the 115 clubs in the alumni club program, serves as liaison to IU's regional campuses and supervises Bloomington program staff.\n\"When Jerry (Tardy) became ill, I stepped into the role, but now the president has asked me to serve as interim president,\" Hobson said. \"Our staff is appreciative of the expressions of concern and willingness to assist us from our volunteer leaders and colleagues from throughout the University.\"\nFrom 1994 to 2000, Hobson was associate executive director of the association. He earlier served as director of alumni relations for the Bloomington campus, and alumni director for IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne, IU-Kokomo and IU-East.\nBrand said a search committee to choose Tardy's permanent successor will be named in the next few weeks.\nThe IU Alumni Association reached the 100,000 mark in membership earlier this year, making it one of the five largest such associations in the nation.\nFounded in 1854, the association provides opportunities for alumni and friends to stay connected with their alma mater through communications, programs and services that foster a lifetime relationship with the University.