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(10/11/01 6:07am)
Sophomore Jessie Moskal is taking the semester off from IU. She is at home in Brecksville, Ohio, spending time with her family, and has kept in touch with friends using her dad's e-mail address.\nBut Moskal hasn't heard from her father, William, since the attacks on the World Trade Center Sept. 11. He was attending a meeting at the headquarters of his employer, Marsh USA Inc., on the 100th floor of the north tower. \n"I've always considered myself to be a lucky person. I used to think I have such a perfect life," Moskal said. "Now I don't have that."\nBill Moskal, 50, last talked to his wife Lorraine around 8:05 a.m. Sept. 11, before he signed in at 9 a.m. on the opposite side of the building from where the plane hit. \nHis name was initially put on a "safe list" by his company, which meant he was alive when he left the World Trade Center. But her father's name was inadvertently placed on that list, and Moskal said her family knows he is not alive.\nThe Moskal family lives in the Cleveland suburb of Brecksville, a drive of about six hours and 45 minutes from Bloomington. When Moskal decided to return home several days after the attacks, a stranger from her town offered to fly her there in his private Learjet.\n"I'm not even sure who this guy is," Moskal said two days before she left. "But by letting other people help, you help them."\nBill Moskal grew up in Johnstown, Pa., and had lived with his family in Brecksville for six years. In the community, he coached youth baseball, including his 14-year-old son Andy's team. \nPeople -- both within the Brecksville and IU communities -- are helping the Moskal family in many ways.\n"I love this school. I feel so safe here," said Jessie, adding that her dad was a major part of the college search process, taking her to Miami, Florida and Washington, D.C., to look at potential schools.\nCitizens of Brecksville have held candlelight vigils, tied yellow ribbons all over town and continued to pray for the Moskal family. Personally, Moskal said she has found renewed comfort in her faith.\n"They always say how people in a crisis turn to God," she said. "I know my dad's OK, wherever he is."\nThe person Moskal said she worries about most is her mother, who met her father when they were both attending the University of Pittsburgh. Moskal said with her departure for college, her parents were "just starting to know each other all over again. Now, my mom's all alone. But she's so strong."\nIn situations like this, people inevitably look for lessons to take from them, insuring something positive comes out of such a tragic event, Moskal said.\n"Don't treat this like a tragedy. Good things are going to come out of this," Moskal said. "Carpe diem -- I've never believed more in that in my life. If you're going to believe in it, do it for the people in the buildings who died, the people in the airplanes, the firefighters, the policemen.\n"I feel very at peace. I'm just sorrowful."\nThe Associated Press contributed to this story.
(04/25/01 3:35am)
For 22 years, every incoming freshman class has been inducted by Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis. For 22 years, every graduating senior has been bid farewell with Gros Louis' annual valedictory speech. For 22 years, every major campus administrator but one has been appointed by Gros Louis -- including four deans of the College of Arts and Sciences and three deans of the School of Education.\nAfter 22 years of speeches filled with 17th century poetry, 22 years of fighting for increased faculty governance, 22 years of watching over the Bloomington campus, IU will say goodbye July 1 to the person who has shaped it over the last quarter century.\nGros Louis is one of a select few to be compared to former University Chancellor Herman B Wells. \n"Herman defined much of what IU is about," psychology professor James Sherman said. "And, in my opinion, next to Herman is Ken."\nDuring his tenure as chancellor and vice president for academic affairs, he oversaw all the operations of the Bloomington campus. \nGros Louis will be replaced by current Ohio University Provost Sharon Brehm, an administrator described by him as impassioned about the University and "very interested in students." \n"I really am ready to retire and am delighted that Sharon has been the person chosen," he said. \nLeadership for students\nSeniors Mike Gosman and Philip Roessler worked closely with Gros Louis during their college careers -- Gosman as 2000 Union Board president and Roessler as a Board of Aeons member. Both have discussed student concerns about the University with him, and both have sought his advice on topics ranging from graduate schools to great works of literature.\nThey agree Gros Louis is a rarity among administrators, most of whom they say are not as open to student interaction.\n"I will miss the conversations we have had in his office -- about current events, about books we have read, about my graduate school opportunities, about his retirement," Roessler said. "I have looked to Chancellor Gros Louis for more than advice about campus issues, but have taken away insights and wisdom on a broad array of subjects."\nThe 20-member Union Board of Directors recognized Gros Louis' support of students by unanimously voting him as an honorary life member, one of only 16 in Union Board's 90-year history.\n"When I would leave his office, it always struck me how lucky IU students were to have such a strong advocate of student initiatives serving as chancellor," Gosman said. "My favorite part about meeting with Ken is getting through with the business at hand so he could tell stories about the history of the campus or just share what was on his mind. He is the best storyteller I think I have ever met."\nRoessler said he felt honored after every encounter with Gros Louis.\n"I will never forget the feelings I have every time I leave his office -- enlightened, inspired, grateful -- that Indiana University has administrators of his caliber, who generously make time for students," Roessler said.\nFaculty members said they look to Gros Louis' interaction with students and try to imitate it.\n"Ken has been one of my models," said James Ackerman, religious studies professor emeritus. \nHe said that when Gros Louis bridges the gap between students and the administration, "IU is not the large, impersonal place that many fear it will be when they first come here."\nFaculty ties\nGros Louis has taught a class almost every semester since becoming chancellor. An English professor by discipline, he taught an 8-week senior Wells Scholar class this semester. His first position at the University was as a comparative literature professor, and many say he never lost his faculty roots.\n"He was always a faculty member first," said Sherman, who is president of the Bloomington Faculty Council. "He shared our values; he stood up for us always. He's truly the academic leader of the Bloomington campus."\nThis closeness to the faculty population was enhanced during his years as an administrator, especially when he presided over the Faculty Council meetings. Budgetary affairs dean and vice chancellor Maynard Thompson, a member of the BFC, said Gros Louis always cared about faculty concerns.\n"One of the most important characteristics of his administration is the extraordinary relationships he developed with the faculty, students and staff," Thompson said. "He consistently involves them in campus decision making in meaningful ways."\nUnresolved Issues \nAlthough Gros Louis is leaving his position, he stressed the need to continue plans he began as chancellor. Some still unresolved issues include:\n• Development of the School of Informatics and other capital projects\nGros Louis wants to ensure the completion of several prominent projects underway at IU. He stressed continued growth and support for the School of Informatics, as well as for the proposed multidisciplinary science building. Gros Louis said that if an insufficient amount of state money is appropriated for the School of Informatics, it will have trouble attracting faculty. \nBut he said progress has been made. Next year, the first informatics degree will be awarded to an IU student.\n• Growth in diversity \n"This year has been a very good year for hiring faculty from under-represented groups," Gros Louis said. "We have to continue that."\nThe chancellor included in his proudest moments his assistance in the creation of the Asian Culture Center and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Support Center.\n"I was very supportive of both," Gros Louis said. "Both have proven there was a need for them."\nHe was also honored on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by William H. Wiggins Jr., chair of the Afro-American studies department, who presented Gros Louis with a videotape of Gov. Frank O'Bannon thanking him for his service.\n• Responsibility Centered Management\nWhen the RCM budgeting system was implemented, many faculty members protested, leaving Gros Louis in the middle of the debate.\nUnder RCM, each academic school's budget is determined by how many students it has, how many credit hours are taken and the size of its faculty. These factors determine how much money each school "owes" the campus for services such as libraries and computing. After paying these "taxes" to the University, schools get back their cut of tuition and state-appropriated money.\nRCM has been evaluated twice, in 1995 and in 2000, but the chancellor said he is still working to quell misinformation.\n"There has been no evidence of grade inflation or duplication of classes or part-time faculty," Gros Louis said. "But now, 10 years into this budgeting mechanism, there are still a lot of misconceptions out there."\nLast four months as \nchancellor\nAfter 22 years of administrative matters, it all came down to this last semester.\nSherman, who worked closely with Gros Louis during his final semester as chancellor, said he displayed little regret during the last four months. The two characteristics regularly attributed to Gros Louis are his optimism and wry sense of humor.\n"Although it was often sad for me, it never seemed sad for Ken," Sherman said. "Not because he is unmoved by retiring, but because he always looks forward and sees the best.\n"He wants Sharon Brehm to succeed. He wants the University to keep its memory of what is here and why it is here. I think he knows that what he has left will continue to have a great impact."\nGros Louis is retiring two years before reaching the mandatory retirement age and will travel for a year, then return to teaching English at IU.\nIn Gros Louis' office sits a meticulously-kept calendar, chronicling his appointments and commitments. As the last weeks of this spring semester approached, Gros Louis said he began to feel a sense of finality.\nThere were only work obligations written on the calendar for the next 15 weeks, which became 13, "then 12, then 11, then 10," Gros Louis said. "It will be an odd feeling as that calendar gets shorter and shorter. Twenty-one years has gone extremely fast. It's hard to believe that it's been that long"
(04/11/01 4:56am)
Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis has spoken at hundreds of receptions, luncheons and awards ceremonies.\nBut his last as Bloomington chancellor will be May 5, when he will deliver the Bloomington campus' commencement speech. He will also receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, one of 11 being awarded at the University's graduation ceremonies.\nAfter serving IU for more than 30 years, Gros Louis is retiring July 1 and will be replaced by current Ohio University provost Sharon Brehm.\nA committee, headed by Jerry Tardy, University director of alumni affairs, chose Gros Louis to be this year's speaker.\nSenior Meredith Suffron, who is graduating May 5, said the choice of Gros Louis is special to her. As the IU Student Association president, Suffron often works directly with the chancellor.\n"I'm really excited that he is our commencement speaker because it marks a big change in the University," Suffron said. "He's sending us all off … that means a lot to me."\nSuffron said Gros Louis is a perfect choice for commencement speaker because of his extraordinary knowledge of IU and because of his personality. She mentioned his "anecdotes about Chancellor Wells and places around campus" as some of her favorite things about him.\n"He knows more about this University than anyone I've ever met," she said. "What I'll miss most, I think, is his honesty and humor, and usually they go hand in hand. He'll give you his honest opinion, and it usually somehow has an entertaining twist."\nUniversity spokeswoman Susan Dillman said the choice of Gros Louis was fitting because this is his last year as Bloomington chancellor.\n"Ken has been part of graduations for many, many years," Dillman said. "Ken Gros Louis is such a fixture and so well loved on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus that the choice was easy."\nAssociate Vice Chancellor Raymond Smith, who has been at IU for 10 years, said he admires Gros Louis and his managerial style.\n"It was during my interview with him that I decided to come to Indiana University," said Smith, also an assistant professor of education. "Unlike a lot of administrators, he knew the rhythms of faculty life. He understood what motivated faculty."\nSmith stressed Gros Louis' unwavering commitment to the University, evident in his work ethic.\n"He's in the University rather then merely on it," Smith said. "He's one of those rare administrators who works well with other administrators, faculty and students.\n"He has done a lot of things for faculty members and students and employee members of his that most people will never know about"
(04/09/01 4:03am)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Donning a gold IU lapel pin, Ohio University provost Sharon Brehm was unanimously approved as the new Bloomington chancellor by the board of trustees Friday.\nThe board approved IU President Myles Brand's recommendation for Brehm to become the next Bloomington chancellor, replacing Kenneth Gros Louis July 1 when he retires.\nBrand, who described Brehm as "passionately committed to academic excellence," also officially announced the new chancellor will live in University Chancellor Herman B Wells' former residence.\n"Herman B Wells left IU with many gifts, both tangible and intangible," Brand said. "That house will become our new Bloomington chancellor's residence."\nBrehm said she has already started learning the ropes at IU, even looking to current administrators and faculty for advice. Among them has been Gros Louis himself.\n"Ken Gros Louis has agreed to provide private tutoring," she said. "With such a teacher, how can anyone not learn?"\nBrehm again stressed three specific areas she will focus on during her tenure -- "academic excellence, diversity and partnerships." She also continually thanked Brand, the 34-member search committee and the board of trustees.\n"It is clear to me the University is blessed," she said. \nIn other trustee news, the board unanimously voted to support the continuation of a three-year bus plan, which could eventually involve the merging of the IU Bus System and Bloomington Transit.\nIU Student Association president Meredith Suffron, a senior, is part of the IU bus proposal implementation team.\n"If our ultimate goal is to prevent students driving to campus, what better way to do that?" Suffron said about universal service.\nIU is in the first phase of the plan. This year, students have paid about $21 each semester to ride the Bloomington Transit buses with a valid student ID.\nIn the next phase of the plan, students will pay about $26 each semester to use the Bloomington Transit system as well as the stadium shuttle bus, Suffron said. This is an increase of about $5.\nThe third phase of the plan includes completing universal service and raising the mandatory fee.\nAlthough there has been student opposition launched to the universal bus plan, as point trustee Ray Richardson brought up, senior Jason Dudich said there is an appeal process.\nDudich, a member of the team and the Residence Hall Association president, said 30 appeals have been processed this year, and two have been granted.\n"Many students are stressing that they are wanting universal access more then ever," Dudich said. "I believe it's worth it, and it's benefitting students."\nTerry Clapacs, vice president and chief administrative officer, pointed to a Metro article that named the Bloomington Transit system the second-most improved in the country.\n"It's a win-win for everyone," he said.
(03/27/01 5:55am)
Facing the prospect of funding cuts for higher education in the state budget, IU President Myles Brand has stepped up efforts to lobby those who control it. \nIn response to a proposed Senate Finance Committee moratorium on capital building projects and a general slashing of higher education funds, Brand has been meeting with key legislators and contacting IU alumni to garner support for increased funding. \nBrand released a statement Friday expressing concern about the proposed funding cutbacks the committee suggested, stressing that Indiana's economic future relies on top-quality higher education.\n"I understand the difficulties facing state leaders during an economic slowdown," Brand said in his statement. "But I urge them to look at the central role that higher education must play in making our economy stronger and more diverse."\nTwo areas Brand mentioned were the informatics school and the new multi-disciplinary science building, top priorities throughout the budget process. The revised Senate bill does not include funding for the informatics school, and it could delay the science building's construction. \nIn his statement, Brand said the school will, "educate the employees and entrepreneurs who can help build Indiana's high-tech economy."\nUniversity spokeswoman Susan Dillman said the trend of lower higher education funding has been troubling administrators all year, but when the budget process started progressing, the University took more action. \n"The president and members of the administration, as well as the trustees, have been concerned throughout the legislative session about the budget," Dillman said. "We started with a flat-line budget. That was when the concern started. \n"It was sort of (an) indication of the kinds of things that we could end up with."\nNow the Legislature is one step closer to making the University's fears a reality, and Dillman said this is sending the wrong message to students in Indiana. \n"If that is the version of the bill that passes the entire Senate, then an entire chamber of the legislature has essentially said this is how the final version of the budget bill should look," Dillman said. "If we don't invest in higher education that can prepare Hoosiers for the high-tech jobs the state wanted to bring here, we will continue to see a brain drain."\nDon Weaver, special assistant to the president for state relations, has been a part of the lobbying process. Weaver is in the Statehouse daily, setting up meetings with legislators and IU supporters. \nWeaver praised Brand's lobbying efforts, saying Brand had met with Senate Finance Committee members Steven Johnson (R-21) and Robert Meeks (R-13), as well as the governor's office and budget agency and Rep. Pat Bauer (D-6), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.\nBrand and Weaver said the relationship between IU and Purdue University during this budget cycle has been positive and helpful, as the institutions face similar situations. Both schools have regional campuses and share an office in Indianapolis with four other institutions.\n"We work together on a daily basis," Weaver said. \nIn a letter sent to in-state parents earlier this month, Brand echoed Weaver's sentiments, writing, "IU and Purdue long have ranked at or near the bottom among Big Ten public universities in per-student state funding … We will urge state leaders to adopt a budget that will allow us to sustain and improve our programs. We have a compelling story to tell about the quality of Indiana higher education and its importance to our future. Progress cannot be achieved by taking one step forward and one step back"
(03/21/01 5:03am)
Quoting one of Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis' favorite lines of T.S. Eliot poetry, IU President Myles Brand introduced Gros Louis' successor Tuesday by saying, "We at the University are experiencing an end and a beginning."\nThe beginning will be when Ohio University provost Sharon Brehm replaces Gros Louis July 1.\nBrehm will serve as Bloomington chancellor and vice president for academic affairs and is the first female to hold the position. \nBrand highlighted Brehm's accomplishments, calling her "the right person at the right time for this job."\nIn addition to serving Ohio University, Brehm was dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Binghamton and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.\nShe cited all three of these administrative experiences as preparation for the IU post, and said her first task in Bloomington will be to "listen, listen, listen."\nBrehm said three of her foci at IU will be increasing academic excellence, diversity and collaborative relations. When asked about her thoughts on being the first female in the post, she laughed and said, "I think it's just great. What a good idea."\nThe new chancellor was chosen from a pool of 50 applicants who were reviewed by a 34-person committee. Brehm has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University and a master's degree in social relations from Harvard University, as well as a bachelor's degree from Duke.\nSenior Meredith Suffron, president of the IU Student Association, was one of three student representatives on the search committee.\n"She was by far our favorite," Suffron said. "She's very personable. She seemed very excited."\nGros Louis also participated in the search process, although less formally. The chancellor met with candidates to discuss the position and answer any questions they had. He said Brehm stood out, leaving him with a "very favorable impression."\nHe said at this level of administration, there are numerous qualified applicants. He said the task becomes finding "the kind of person that is going to fit the best with the school or in this case the campus."\nGros Louis, who announced his July 1 retirement last summer, was praised by both Brand and Brehm.\nBrand, called this "an important moment in the life of Indiana University," and said the chancellor "made (the University) a special place to work and to learn."\n"You've guided this institution with a commitment to faculty governance and student leadership," Brand said, turning to face the outgoing administrator.\nBrehm will have the opportunity to do something her predecessor, whom she referred to as "the incomparable Ken Gros Louis," never did. \nWhen Gros Louis took his position, IU legend Herman B Wells offered the administrator his house. Wells, almost 80 years old at the time, was prepared to give his residence to Gros Louis when he passed away. \nWells lived to be 97, though, and Gros Louis never had the chance to move in. \nBut Brehm will have the chance to move in when she relocates to Bloomington in July, Gros Louis said. \nBrehm will hold the title of IU's "chancellor-designate" pending approval by the board of trustees at its April meeting.\nShe expressed enthusiasm for her new position, saying, "I greatly appreciate the opportunity to serve this great University"
(03/19/01 4:44am)
Long-time Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis leaves big shoes to fill when he retires July 1.\nOne of three administrators -- from three different institutions -- will have the chance to try.\nSharon Stephens Brehm, Ohio University provost; Richard Edwards, University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Cora Bagley Marrett, University of Massachusetts-Amherst senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost, are the three finalists to replace Gros Louis.\nThe board of trustees met in executive session Friday in Indianapolis to interview the candidates and make recommendations to IU President Myles Brand, said John Walda, trustees president. \n"(Brand) made the candidates available to the trustees so that we could give him feedback, and then he will make the final decision after receiving our feedback," Walda said. "I'm convinced that they are some of the best potential chancellors in the country. Any of them could do the job in an exceptional way."\nUniversity spokeswoman Susan Dillman said the three candidates remain from a pool of more than 230 nominations submitted last summer. From those recommendations, Dillman said 50 people formally applied. This pool was then narrowed down to eight semi-finalists, she said. \nThe candidates then had interviews various people affiliated with the University -- from school deans to clerical staff members to students, Dillman said. Recommendations from all the interviews were taken into account when choosing the three finalists, she said. \nGros Louis, who was in Spain during the interviews with the trustees, said he has been a resource to the candidates throughout the replacement process and will continue to be after an announcement is made. \n"Any way that I can help in the transition, I would be happy to," Gros Louis said. "I was very pleased with the people I saw, and I think that they all are qualified."\nGros Louis emphasized the importance of individual personalities and demeanors when choosing a dean or chancellor-level administrator. He said that when searches are in their final stages, candidates are all qualified and it then becomes a matter of fitting managerial style to the specific job.\n"In any of these searches, it really is the question of what is the best fit," he said. "When I have appointed deans over the last 20 years or so … what I looked for is the kind of person that the faculty in this school would be comfortable with and visa versa."\nDillman, who was not in the interviews with the board of trustees, said they ran upward of an hour to an hour and a half. She said no timetable for a decision has been announced. \n"It is my understanding that the decision will be made fairly quickly," Dillman said. "There may be a short period of negotiation as well."\nGros Louis also said the fact that none of the finalists are from within the IU community has its positive and negative aspects.\n"The pro, of course, is when somebody comes in from the outside, they do bring in a fresh view," Gros Louis said. "And the down side is they have a longer learning curve to find out about the campus and the institution. It's a fresh perspective versus a knowledge base."\nThe applications were initially reviewed by a search and screen committee, headed by George Walker, vice president for research and dean of the graduate school.\n"I think the search and screen committee did a first-rate job in finding exactly the right kind of people, and I commend Vice President Walker for his leadership," Walda said. "As a field … the three candidates are outstanding"
(03/05/01 4:32am)
At 9 a.m. Saturday, between 150 and 200 people participated in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority's Pike/Kappa Klassic 5k run and walk.\nBoth the Pike and the Kappa houses participated in the charity event, along with other greek houses and students. All the proceeds are going to the Middle Way House, said junior Shawn Touney, philanthropy chair for Pikes. \nTouney said the run raised about $1,500 for the house, which supports battered women and their children. Touney said he and junior Annie Metheany, philanthropy chair for Kappa, decided in November to support the organization. \nThe 5k course began at the Kappa house, 1018 E. Third St., and wound its ran through campus, finishing back at Kappa. \nMetheany said she was pleased with the race turnout. \n"I was pleasantly surprised," Metheany said. "We were just hoping that the greek community would support it, and they were phenomenal."\nThe Pike/Kappa Klassic last took place in the fall of 1998, Touney said. But after Pikes was unable to participate because of their 1998 suspension, the annual tradition ended. This is the first year the Klassic has been revived, and Metheany said she hopes it will become an annual event from now on. \nSenior Erin Arkin, a member of the Delta Gamma sorority, said she ran in this year's race to benefit the good cause and meet other people. She said the Pikes and Kappa tried to get more people then just those in the greek community involved in the event.\n"A lot of people weren't in greek houses also," Arkin said. "That was a good thing for them that they reached out to more of the community and the campus."\nThere were 12 women from the Delta Gamma house who participated in the race, and Arkin said she was proud of her house's turnout. \nTouney said the Pike house and the Kappa house worked effectively on the philanthropy event. \n"It seems both of our houses worked together really well," he said. "We just kind of wanted the race to start and end by both of our houses, and in the end it turned out really well"
(02/22/01 7:44am)
Until Wednesday, senior basketball player Rachael Honegger had little hope she would be allowed to play during her last game in Assembly Hall today.\nHonegger has been suspended from playing since Feb. 7, when athletics director Clarence Doninger sidelined her pending investigation into her guilty plea to forgery. \nThe recommendations of the athletics committee investigation were given to IU President Myles Brand in a Wednesday afternoon meeting, committee chair Bruce Jaffee said.\n"(Wednesday) afternoon I met with President Brand, and we discussed the findings and the recommendations," Jaffee said. "My understanding is that he will release them (today)."\nUniversity spokeswoman Susan Dillman confirmed that Brand received the committee's recommendations and was deciding the University's course of action.\n"The president has received a draft of the report; he is reviewing it and will have an announcement," Dillman said. "We have no time table."\nFeb. 5, Brand charged the athletics committee, and specifically Jaffee, associate dean for academics of the Kelley School of Business, with looking into the matter. The committee held a special meeting Tuesday night to review a subcommittee's report and recommendations and vote on a proposal for Brand.\nHonegger pled guilty in October to forgery for embezzling from her former employer, the Ellettsville IGA. She has been forced to pay back about $13,000.\nA Monroe County judge sentenced Honegger to three years in jail, but suspended all but six months of her sentence. She is serving limited house arrest.\nShe has been allowed to practice and travel with the team.\nCoach Kathi Bennett said she could not predict the outcome of the investigation.\n"I honestly have no idea what's going to happen," Bennett said. \nJaffee said whether Honegger will play is up to Brand, and then, ultimately, to Bennett.\n"Our basic work is over," he said.\nBut Bennett did stress Honegger's continued support for the team.\n"She is pulling for us to win like you would not believe … There's not an ounce of bitterness in her, and I think that says a lot," Bennett said.\nJunior guard Heather Cassady, a team co-captain, echoed Bennett's sentiments. \n"Her attitude through this whole thing has been awesome," Cassady said. "In practice, she is still communicating with everyone on where to go, and she continues to be a great leader"
(02/21/01 6:15am)
After weeks of fearing a state budget proposal that would have frozen the University's state funding for two years, administrators breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday.\nA new budget proposal cleared the House Ways and Means Committee, bringing a spending package to the house floor that includes a 3.8 percent increase for higher education.\nThe two-year, $21 billion package was approved by a 24-1 vote of the committee. The additional funds for higher education will be split between Indiana's public universities and colleges.\nSusan Dillman, University spokeswoman, said specific funding for IU was included in the bill. She said the bill allocates bonding authority for the Multidisciplinary Science Building and $4.5 million for the School of Informatics.\n"The increases that IU got are a little hard to track because some are lumped together as higher education funding," Dillman said. "It's encouraging."\nForty million dollars from gambling money was also approved for university technology uses. Dillman said the money will be divided among all public institutions, and she said she did not know how the state will make those allocations work.\nGov. Frank O'Bannon announced on Jan. 8 his budget plan, which included freezing higher education funding for two years.\nThad Nation, O'Bannon's spokesman, said palthough Tuesday's bill varies from the governor's, O'Bannon supports the new version.\n"We always said from the beginning that the budget initially presented was a starting point," Nation said. "One of the governor's top priorities has always been to fund education. I think you saw the result of it today."\nNation stressed the bipartisan support the bill received Tuesday.\n"Today you saw it pass the House Ways and Means Committee with strong bipartisan support," Nation said. "Comments made today by both Democrats and Republicans, in both the House and the Senate, were very positive."\nIn a written statement, IU President Myles Brand praised past legislative monetary support and asked the representatives to continue that tradition.\n"The Indiana General Assembly has been very helpful in the past, and, for that, we are grateful," Brand said. "To build on the progress we have made, however, Indiana University needs the increases in operating funds, the money for technology and the funding for capital projects that this proposal would provide.\n"While we recognize this may be a tight budget year, we urge investment in higher education and in Indiana's future."\nThe bill now travels to the full House, and if passed, to the Indiana Senate for review. Nation said he did not expect any major changes to the bill.\n"I think the bill we saw today will be the basic framework," Nation said.
(02/06/01 6:02am)
IU President Myles Brand said this week he has asked two administrators to examine how the University handled the punishment of senior forward Rachael Honegger.\nHonegger pled guilty in October to forgery for embezzling about $13,000 from her employer, the Elletsville IGA, last summer. A Monroe County judge sentenced Honegger to three years in jail, but suspended all but six months of her sentence. She is also serving limited house arrest.\nBrand said he has concerns about the handling of Honegger's case, including a lack of communication between the athletic department and the rest of the administration.\n"I am concerned that neither I nor other members of the administration outside of the athletic department had been previously informed about this matter," Brand said. "I am also troubled by any situation in which an IU team member may not be living up to the standards of conduct that we have come to expect from all of our student athletes."\nBrand said he has asked professor Bruce Jaffee, associate dean for academics of the Kelley School of Business and chairman of the IU athletics committee, to examine the matter. Jaffee is chair of the athletics committee, and he said the committee has two tasks in reviewing the case.\n"One is to … establish procedures for when there (are) various types of misconduct by student-athletes … to assure that they are appropriately reported within the athletic department, to the athletic committee and within the normal procedures within the University," Jaffee said. The other, Jaffee said, was to "review the Rachael Honegger case."\nAthletics director Clarence Doninger said Honegger's situation was not kept from anyone. \n"This matter was not a secret. It happened last summer," Doninger said. "There was a glitch in communicating that matter, and I certainly welcome anyone checking that."\nJaffee said he appointed a six-person subcommittee to look into these issues and report to the full athletics committee as soon as possible. There is an athletics committee meeting at the end of the month, and Jaffee said he wanted the subcommittee's recommendations by then.\n"I made it very clear to that group that I want them to begin working on this immediately," he said. \nThe subcommittee will decide which conduct codes Honegger's case falls under, Jaffee said. \nBrand said he has appointed Dean of Students Richard McKaig to examine the matter to review the situation, concentrating on violations of IU's Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct.\nMcKaig said the same procedures will be used for Honegger that are used for any other student. Although McKaig could not comment specifically on her case, he said appropriate judicial system steps will be taken.\nA spokeswoman for the women's basketball team said Honegger is not commenting on the case. Coach Kathi Bennett also declined to comment on the matter.\nOverall, Jaffee said he wants to establish clearer lines of communication among the administration in student-athlete conduct matters.\nHe said he wants to "establish what we expect each of those three groups to do in informing misconduct among student-athletes to those other groups"
(01/17/01 5:32am)
By the end of the day Thursday, a new University e-mail system will have moved student computing into modern times, after University Information Technology Services unveils a new Web-based messaging system. \nThe new system, called Webmail, is accessible from any computer via the Internet, UITS data telecommunications director Terry Usrey said. While PINE, the current e-mail system, will keep running, Usrey said Webmail provides students with several advantages. \n"You can handle attachments really easily, and you can use a regular editor, cursor control and a mouse for composing and editing," Usrey said. "and you don't have to have any software."\nUsrey said if there are no complications with the program, Webmail should be usable today. If there are problems, he said only one day would be needed to fix most issues.\nHe emphasized that the PINE system will not change, but Webmail will give students another option for checking e-mail. To access Webmail, students with a PINE e-mail account can log in at webmail.indiana.edu.\nSue Workman, of the office of the vice president for information technology, said the system provides students with increased options. \n"This is a real benefit to our students to be able to access their mail anywhere, with a more user-friendly format," Workman said. "And one that's more up-to-date with where messaging is going for the general purpose user."\nPINE, created by the University of Washington 11 years ago, has become outdated in the face of more sophisticated computers. Because PINE requires a specific program to access e-mail, it was not accessible from every computer. \n"We've been hearing from students, faculty and staff for quite some time that people were not satisfied with PINE," Usrey said. \nSophomore David Veatch said he has been using the Webmail pilot program since the beginning of the school year. Last year, Veatch used Microsoft Outlook instead of PINE because he said it was easier to navigate. \n"I hate PINE because it does not use a graphical-user interface -- it's all keyboard-driven," Veatch said. "It's ugly to look at. It's really unappealing to the eye."\nFor the last 18 months, Usrey said UITS has been working to implement the new system. A pilot program has been testing Webmail with a select number of users in its pilot program. UITS had projected the completion of the project to be around this time, Usrey said, so the system is right on schedule. \n"The reliability and stability of the e-mail is vastly superior to what it was last year," Usrey said. \n"We're just really trying to be responsive and provide a service people are satisfied with"
(01/16/01 5:30am)
A week-long vacation ended in tragedy for an IU student's boyfriend in Tampa, Fla., early Sunday. \nMichael Hepner was found floating unconscious two miles off the coast by a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter, Tampa police spokesman Joe Durkin told The Associated Press. Hepner, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 6:45 a.m.\nHepner got into an argument with his girlfriend, junior Rebecca Brown, and climbed over the rail of the Carnival Cruise Line's Sensation ship. The 19-year-old man then lowered himself down the side of the ship as Brown begged him to return, Durkin said. Investigators told The Associated Press that Hepner could not lift himself back onto the deck, and before he could be rescued, he fell into the bay at around 3 a.m.\nThe Carnival Cruise ship was returning to port after a seven-day western Caribbean cruise. \nJennifer de la Cruz, director of public relations for Carnival, said the ship was notified of a man overboard around 3 a.m. Sunday.\nThe ship was stopped and a lifeboat launched after the man-overboard call.\n"We contacted the Coast Guard," de la Cruz said. "It is my understanding that at somewhere around 4 a.m. the Coast Guard did find the guest in question and transferred him to a local medical facility."\nThe search is being investigated in Tampa, de la Cruz said. He also said investigators were trying to determine whether the death was accidental. \nHepner and Brown were high school sweethearts who grew up in Lowell, Ind. \nCarnival Cruise Lines' policy is to always do an internal analysis after situations like this occur, de la Cruz said. She said the company is also trying to help Hepner's family through this painful time.\n"We have been in touch with family members, and in a situation like this we always try to offer any assistance that we can," de la Cruz said. "This is extremely rare. We're very saddened here at Carnival, and we send our regrets to the family and friends of the victim."\nThe Associated Press contributed to this story.
(01/11/01 4:05pm)
With only a handful of days left until he leaves office, President Bill Clinton has appointed Folklore Professor Henry H. Glassie to serve on the National Council of the Humanities.\nGlassie is also acting chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Along with him, there are nine other appointees. These include educators, archivists and a film director.\nThe council advises the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities on operational procedures, said John H. McDowell, folklore and ethnomusicology department chair. \nThe endowment awards millions of dollars in grants to professors for research and also to museums, McDowell said. \n"They do a lot of things. They also provide resources to community groups who might be interested in exploring their history or the local culture," McDowell said.\nWilliam Ferris, chairman of the Endowment for the Humanities, said Glassie is one of the premier folklorists in the world. Ferris said he has known Glassie since graduate school.\n"His career as a scholar, teacher and administrator is unparalleled," Ferris said. "He's also a very lovely human being. He will be an enormous addition to our work here at the agency."\nThere are four committees on the council -- research, education, public programs and cultural preservation and access, endowment spokesman Jim Turner said. Each committee examines peer review comments on proposed funding for humanities projects and then makes a recommendation to Ferris. Turner said the final decision on funding comes from the chairman himself. \nThe endowment was created in 1965, and there are 26 current members on the council that advise the endowment. Each appointee has to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, a process which Turner said is expected to be completed by the end of Congress' first session next fall.\n"It's quite an honor for one of our colleagues. It certainly does reflect, I think, well on us in a way that one of us is given an honor of this kind," McDowell said. "We do feel very encouraged that folklore and folklorists are in these prominent and visible positions, and it's nice to have Professor Glassie added to that list."\nGlassie received his doctorate in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania and eventually became chair of Penn's Department of Folklore and Folklife. He has also served as co-director of Turkish Studies at IU and has adjunct appointments in Central Eurasian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and American Studies. \nThe praise for Glassie ranges from his department chair, McDowell, who said, "Professor Glassie is somebody that is highly respected by his colleagues, not just here at Indiana University, but across the country," to national figures like Ferris.\n"Henry Glassie is one of my oldest and dearest friends," Ferris said. "I have always admired and looked up to him as a model for everything that I have sought to do"
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Two IU professors who have already distinguished themselves in numerous ways added another award to their resumes Tuesday.\nDistinguished chemistry professor Victor Viola was named the winner of the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, and history department chairman and professor John Bodnar was named the Chancellor's Professor of History. Both awards honor faculty whose contributions have been acclaimed in many arenas, from IU to international realms.\nViola, who is also an adjunct professor of physics, was introduced by physics professor Tim Londergan. He described Viola as "an excellent teacher" who is "passionately devoted to raising the quality of Indiana University." Londergan also complimented Viola's determination to explain to people in other fields what his research entails.\nThe Sonneborn Award is named after Tracey M. Sonneborn, a former distinguished professor of zoology. He died in 1981, and in 1985, IU started the award to honor a faculty member who has achieved distinction as a teacher and a scholar or artist.\nBloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis explained the history of the Sonneborn Award during the ceremony. He said Sonneborn was a one-of-a-kind professor and researcher.\n"We may wonder if Indiana University, at the turn of the century, will produce or sustain scholars like this," Gros Louis said.\nDuring Viola's acceptance speech, he thanked all of Sonneborn's former colleagues who contacted him and expressed disbelief at his winning the award, saying, "What am I doing here anyway?"\nBodnar, at IU since 1981, was introduced by colleague Phyllis Martin as "an influential and prolific historian." \nMartin went on to describe Bodnar's many achievements outside of IU, including a Fulbright award. He is also the director of the IU Oral History Center.\nBodnar gave credit to the deans who have supported his teaching and research and also thanked the professors who take time to carefully prepare their syllabi and class notes, to meet with students and to impress a love for learning onto their classes.\n"These people are the crown jewels of Indiana University," Bodnar said. "For the last 19 years, I can only describe my relationship with the University as positive"
(12/06/00 5:27am)
At the semester's final Bloomington Faculty Council meeting Tuesday, a representative of President Myles Brand's state relations office spoke to the council about the legislative budget process. \nDon Weaver, special assistant to the president for state relations, advised the faculty on how they can participate in the current budget process.\n"We have to help the legislators understand the importance of higher education," Weaver said. "A lot of people wonder why higher education and Indiana University does not do better. They deal with crisis situations. If they don't keep the funding going, that could happen."\nProfessor of public and environmental affairs Kurt Zorn also spoke about the budget process, emphasizing the limited ways in which faculty can get involved. Zorn has had much experience with the budget process during his career.\n"I'm not sure that there's an effective way to use faculty with the legislature," Zorn said. "I wouldn't recommend faculty members get actively involved."\nZorn said legislators often do not understand the needs of a research institution like IU, and only concentrate on the teaching aspect of a university. This could lead to lower funding, Zorn said.\nZorn and Weaver said the legislature usually responds with larger budgets in times of crisis in a university, and by many standards, IU is not in that situation.\nIn other faculty council news, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Robert Eno spoke about distributed education at IU.\nEno is part of the Educational Policies Committee, which recently issued a report on the subject.\nThe committee needs more input from faculty, Eno said, before the council can take any vote on the subject.\nEno reported three recommendations from the committee. One involved the composition of a newly established distributed education committee, another asked the council agenda committee to seek funding to allow the committee to operate during its initial year as a faculty seminar, and the third recommended that there be inter-campus communication on distributed education policy formation and implementation.
(12/04/00 5:23am)
English Professor Murray Sperber is returning to the classroom next semester after taking a leave of absence because of safety concerns. Sperber, who has made critical comments about former men's basketball coach Bob Knight, took the leave after receiving threatening phone calls and e-mails from Knight supporters last spring.\nSperber had originally decided last spring to take the entire year off but said he reconsidered his plans after Knight was fired Sept. 10.\n"I assumed he would be coaching this year," Sperber said. "I also assumed there would be incidents and such, and I would speak out, and it would be like it was last spring."\nBut since Knight's firing, Sperber said the campus atmosphere has calmed down enough so he can again do his job effectively. Sperber stressed he has not received a threat in a number of months. \nThe IU Police Department has been working with Sperber to prepare him if a threatening situation arises in one of the two classes he is teaching. The professor is taking some precautions, such as meeting with students in places other then his office and examining classroom setup.\nIUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said the situation is not unique and his department is treating it as an information-gathering project.\n"We meet with the person, discuss what is going on and give them information," Minger said. "We just wanted to make sure that Murray and the police department discussed our similar concerns about safety and to let him know that we are there 24 hours a day."\nMinger said the advice the department gave Sperber ranged from workplace violence training to self-defense classes and disgruntled student and employee workshops.\nInternet forums, where people can post and respond to messages, are the main place where Sperber is still criticized, he said. Many Knight fans have specifically chastised Sperber on these sites.\n"I don't consider it threatening, I just consider it nasty," Sperber said. "What disturbs me a little is that I am aware there are lots of IU students that post there, and I hope none of them get it in their head to disrupt any of my classes."\nSperber was told to monitor these sites, noting the unique address that could help identify the poster. \nIf someone does disrupt his class, Sperber said he has several options for repercussions.\n"Depending on the level of disruption, the IUPD said to call immediately. But there's also regular channels through the dean's office," Sperber said. "I hope it would not come to that, but then again I hoped it would not come to this."\nEnglish department chairman Kenneth Johnston said he was happy to have Sperber return to the classroom.\n"We're just glad to have Murray back, because it looked originally like he might not be teaching the spring semester," Johnston said. "He's a terrific teacher."\nSperber said he is excited to return to what he enjoys.\n"I love to teach, and it's one of the things I do well in this world," Sperber said. "I very much regretted having to take the fall semester off"
(11/29/00 4:24am)
A discrepancy in the grading system at IU surfaced during the Bloomington Faculty Council meeting Tuesday. \nRobert Eno, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and a member of the educational policies committee, said the new grade forgiveness policy the Council passed in 1994 still has not been implemented and will not be for three or four more years.\n"The University is in the process of moving to a new database for student information," Eno said, and added that this was one of the reasons he was given for the delay.\nEno said the Educational Policies Committee told him it would cost more to implement the new grading system under the current database and alter it for the new one than to wait.\nThe new policy was approved in 1994 to replace the FX grading option, with which students can retake a course they previously failed, Eno said. The grade they receive in the second class replaces the F on the student's official transcript. The option cannot be used for more than three failed courses, totaling no more than 10 credit hours.\nUnder the new grade forgiveness policy, students can retake three classes in their first three semesters at IU to improve their grade. This can be used for any class, not just ones the students failed.\nBut the FX policy is still listed in the course bulletin as an option for students.\nCouncil president James Sherman, a psychology professor, suggested IU implement an interim program in which new grades are entered by hand. IU-Purdue University in Indianapolis has started a similar program because its new grade system was also postponed.\nIn other Council news, Ball State University professor Dan Reagan, a member of the Indiana Commission on Higher Education, spoke to the Council about working with faculty in decision-making. Reagan tackled issues including Commission involvement in low enrollment programs and communication problems between faculty members, the Commission and legislators.\n"Most legislators think they give a lot of money to higher education," Reagan said. "They think universities are happy to ask for money and reluctant to let legislators know what they are doing."\nBecause it is a budget year, he stressed the added importance of open communication between all parties.
(11/21/00 5:04am)
If a sports analogy can be applied to the musicology department, Distinguished Professor of Music Thomas Mathiesen recently won the triple crown of national awards. \nHis work, "Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages," swept three major awards, the first time an IU professor has accomplished this feat.\n"The best way I can describe it is to make an analogy with horse racing ... with the triple crown," said Malcolm Brown, professor emeritus of music and former chair of the musicology department. "It's comparable to that."\nThe first award Mathiesen's book received was the Otto Kinkeldey Award, from the American Musicological Society. It honors the best book published from the preceding year in the musicology field. Musicology is the scientific study of music. \nMathiesen said he was honored to be the recipient of the award, which was given to two books this year. \n"The Kinkeldey is considered the highly prestigious award," Mathiesen said. "It is the highest award given by the society."\nThe second award the book received is Society for Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award, given to the best book published in the past three years in the field of music theory.\nThe American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers also recognized Mathiesen's book, giving it the Deems Taylor Award in the category of Symphonic and Concert Publications. It is an annual award presented to American authors and journalists whose books in the music field are deemed excellent. \nMathiesen will be honored at a reception Dec. 6 in New York.\n"I tried to write a book that would make the subject appealing across a wide variety of audiences," Mathiesen said. "I do feel a great sense of honor having the book recognized by these three very different audiences."\nMathiesen founded the Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature at IU. The center, affiliated with the School of Music, combines publications and projects in the music theory field.\nPeter Slemon, associate director of the center, complimented Mathiesen's intellect and emphasized the importance of his recent awards.\n"He's a brilliant man, but he's very unassuming and very modest," Slemon, said. "These are three very big awards in the field, and it's a real honor for IU that he has won these three."\nBrown said Mathiesen is an asset to the musicology department and always lets people know where he stands.\n"He is also a person of the highest ethical and moral standards," Brown said. "Even though he and I had a very good relationship, both on the professional and the personal level, he never was shy about speaking his mind."\nWhile Mathiesen said he recognizes the individual importance of the awards, but he is modest when discussing them.\n"They are three publication awards, so the awards really go to the book rather then to me," Mathiesen said. "My hope is that these three awards will certainly bring increased visibility to the academic side of the music school"
(11/17/00 4:51am)
The next step in IU's funding process takes place today at an Indiana Commission for Higher Education meeting in Indianapolis.\nThe commission is expected to approve a revised version of the University's budget proposal for the 2001--2003 fiscal years, associate commissioner for facilities and financial affairs Mike Baumgartner said. \n"I'm assuming they will adopt it," Baumgartner said. "I don't foresee any trouble with that."\nPresident Myles Brand presented IU's budget proposal to the Commission in September. Since then, the commission has been drafting the revised proposal it will vote on today. \nCommission members are able to amend or change the University's original proposal where they see fit, but the changes are not final.\n"The commission is free to do what it wants to do, and afterwards the legislature is free to do what it wants to do," Susan Dillman, director of University media relations, said. "It acts as an advisory body to the legislature."\nAlthough there were some revisions made to the University's original plan, Brand had nothing but positive remarks about the possibility for the proposed funding. \n"The recommendations ... support the University's efforts ... and focus on the main theme of helping the state's new economy," Brand said. "I am also very pleased about the process that was used, and I want to compliment Commissioner Stan Jones for his leadership."\nBaumgartner said the commission bases its revisions on many different factors, including inflation, individual area requests, enrollment growth and strength of different campuses.\nSeveral changes were made to the University's proposal, including a slight drop in the new School of Informatics funding numbers. IU requested $13 million for FY 2000-01 and $4.5 million for FY 2001-02 in the operating appropriations proposal.\nBaumgartner said the commission's informatics request for IU is "not quite at the level that was requested."\nDillman was quick to point out that, "the staff of the Commission for Higher Education is recommending a vast majority of what the University has requested for informatics. That's a good sign."\nAt Tuesday's University Faculty Council meeting, Brand reiterated how confident he felt about the upcoming budget negotiating sessions.\n"Early indications are that the budget proposal will be a strong starting point for Indiana University," Brand said. \nThe Commission will hold a hearing in December with the State Budget Committee, comprised of Indiana state senators and representatives, fiscal analysts and budget directors. At the meeting, the Commission will present their recommendation to the Committee, Baumgartner said.\nNext February, all Indiana public universities will present their budget proposals to the General Assembly.\nOverall, Indiana public universities have asked for about $480 million in capital requests. During the last budgetary period, the Assembly approved about $264 million in requests, the most money the state had ever satisfied.