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(02/14/14 3:40am)
The five emcees rehearse before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. American Emily Lisanti and English Christopher Bishop garnered appreciative laughs from the audience for their attempts to speak in fluent Mandarin during the event.
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Emcees Zihao "Ted" Tan and Christopher Bishop rehearse lines with each other before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. Tan and Bishop joined three female emcees in leading the event.
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Christopher Bishop rehearses lines in his dressing room before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. Bishop, originally from England, is able to carry a conversation in Mandarin, but said he still needs a lot of improvement.
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Zihao "Ted" Tan ties his bow tie before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. Tan was one of five emcees who led the event this year.
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Zihao "Ted" Tan adjusts fellow emcee Christopher Bishop's tie before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. Tan and Bishop joined three female emcees in leading the event.
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Emcee Christopher Bishop's notecards lie on the floor of his dressing room before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. Bishop, originally from England, is able to carry a conversation in Mandarin, but said he still needs a lot of improvement.
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An X-Power dance group member lines her eyes before the performance, "After School," during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. "After School" performers danced to Lil' Mama's "Lip Gloss."
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A D-Force dance group member fixes her make-up backstage before the performance "Tao Yao," roughly translated to "tender peach," during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. "Tao Yao" dancers were dressed in costumes that resembled peaches and performed a traditional dance.
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D-Force dance group members work on hair and make-up backstage before their performance, "Tao Yao," roughly translated to "tender peach," during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. "Tao Yao" dancers were dressed in costumes that resembled peaches and performed a traditional dance.
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Echo Lu, IU senior and founder of dance group D-Force, applies foundation backstage before her performance in the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. Lu was sentimental about her last year performing with the group.
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OneStart musicians take a smoke break before their performance in the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. OneStart performed "Hybrid Rock," a medley of Chinese rock songs.
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A banner with the words "ru yi" hangs in the IU auditorium during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the auditorium. "Ru yi" is part of a longer phrase in Mandarin that translates to the granting of one's every wish and desire.
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IU Auditorium ushers hand out programs during the OneStart musicians perform during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the auditorium. The programs resembled "hong bao," or red-colored packets filled with money given away as part of the Lunar New Year tradition, in shape and size.
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Plastic cut-outs of the Chinese word "fu" decorate ceilings and light fixtures during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. "Fu" stands for happiness, good fortune and blessing. During the Lunar New Year, depictions of "fu" are mounted upside down in Chinese homes around the world to symbolize the ushering in of prosperity.
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Volunteers serve attendees during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. The array of dishes included stir-fried noodles and cabbage with shrimp.
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Shaped like peaches, buns filled with red bean paste are served during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. The buns symbolize longevity and are served on special occasions.
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A volunteer lights a tin of Safe Heat chafing fuel before the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Feb. 7 at the IU Auditorium. The annual event, which lasted for over four hours, offered attendees a taste of Chinese culture in the form of food and performances.
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D-Force dancers work on hair and make-up backstage before their performance, "Tao Yao," roughly translated to "tender peach." "Tao yao" is based on an ancient Chinese poem that expresses the beauty and desire of a young Chinese woman at the suitable age for marriage.
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D-Force dancers perform "Tao Yao," roughly translated to "tender peach," during the Chinese Student and Scholar's Association's 2014 Spring Festival celebration Friday at the IU Auditorium. "China Concept" featured pop-and-lock dance techniques. "Tao Yao" dancers, dressed in costumes that resembled peaches, performed a traditional dance.
(09/13/13 4:08am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Daryl Soo knew IU was the place for him as soon as he heard about the IU Badminton Club. The 20-year-old, who is currently serving in the Singapore Armed Forces, is an avid badminton player and was captain of his high school team in Singapore. He sent in his application to study at IU and is hoping to be accepted for the 2014 school year.It is potential students like Soo that Matt Beatty, director of international admissions at the IU Office of International Services, said the school is recruiting.Starting early this month, three OIS representatives have embarked on trips to three different continents — South America, Asia and the Middle East — for recruitment opportunities. This is the second consecutive year the OIS is applying its “targeted territory management model” to overseas school visits. For two months, the representatives will meet with counselors, teachers and students from between five and eight schools in each country.This recruiting strategy has only become more commonplace for IU in the past five to 10 years, Beatty said. This year, admissions officers bring with them new opportunities, including the launch of the IU Global Engagement Scholarships.Application for the merit-based scholarship is open to potential students of all foreign nationalities applying to IU as freshmen for the 2014-2015 year. Awards range from $1,000 to $11,000 per year and are renewable throughout the students’ four-year program. No additional scholarship application apart from the general admissions application is required. Applicants are judged on factors like GPA and standardized testing scores. “These scholarships give us a way of recognizing and rewarding high-achieving students of all backgrounds,” Beatty said. Applications are due before Feb. 1 next year — extended from the usual deadline of Nov. 1 of the previous year. This is because international students typically do not have access to the same resources as their domestic counterparts, Beatty said. Because international applicants usually have many additional steps to complete, such as obtaining visas, deadlines may have already passed once they are ready to start their applications.Scholarship recipients will be notified by mid-March next year. A project developed by OIS and its partners, the Office of Scholarships and the Office of Enrollment Management, the scholarship differs from others available for international students. The Global Engagement Scholarship process is more “automatic,” said Seth Walker, OIS assistant director of international admissions, who will be visiting schools in various parts of Asia this year.“With the Global Engagement Scholarship hopefully we’ll be able to defer some of those costs, which is definitely one of the main considerations for people coming from overseas,” Walker said.Walker left the U.S. for Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday. He started visiting schools there Thursday. He will then make his way through Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and India. He will spend the last day of his journey, Oct. 26, in Bangalore, India.Kwadwo Poku, fellow assistant director of international admissions, will tour four countries in the Middle East — Dubai, Doha, Muscat and Kuwait City — over two weeks in September.Associate director of Sponsored Student Services Dan Whitmer began his school tours on Sept. 2 in Recife, Brazil. On Sept. 5 he left Brazil for Ecuador; Columbia is the last destination on his itinerary.“It’s spending a lot of time and effort in looking where international students are coming from — building on good relationships, collaborating with alumni chapters overseas,” Beatty said.This year is also the second consecutive time an admissions officer is making a trip to Singapore.There are currently 28 Singaporean students enrolled at IU, seven of which are in their first semester. Walker will be in Singapore from Oct. 5 to 8 and will visit counselors and teachers at eight different schools.In picking schools, Soo said he considered his geographic preference and music interests. An electric guitarist, he found Bloomington attractive because of its strong music culture and tradition.He said he wanted to pursue studies at an American college because he believes the U.S. is the world leader in business.“It is always better to learn from the best and hope that the experiences I gain from pursuing my higher level education at IU will allow me to excel beyond others in the working world,” Soo said.Follow reporter Amelia Chong on Twitter @ameychong.