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Sophomore business student Owen Hoepfner speaks with Red Frog Events event coordinator intern Samantha Soury about internship opportunities at the Winter Career and Internship Fair Wednesday afternoon in Alumni Hall.
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Sophomore business student Owen Hoepfner speaks with Red Frog Events event coordinator intern Samantha Soury about internship opportunities at the Winter Career and Internship Fair Wednesday afternoon in Alumni Hall.
Senior Julia Friedman speaks with a J.C. Penney senior college recruiter about internship and job opportunities. Students spoke with company representatives Wednesday afternoon in Alumni Hall during the Winter Career and Internship Fair.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>President Barack Obama is boosting federal efforts to respond to and prevent campus sexual assaults, an issue IU officials claim is already a top University priority. In a memorandum signed Jan. 22, Obama instructed the creation of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault to help support universities’ procedures and resources addressing campus sexual assaults. One in five college students have been sexually assaulted, while only 12 percent of victims reported the assault, according to a recent report by the White House Council on Women and Girls.At IU-Bloomington, security statistics released in the Annual Security & Fire Safety Reports showed 58 sex offenses were reported in 2012, preceded by 28 in 2011 and 34 in 2010. However, these numbers include only on-campus sexual assaults or those occurring in University-operated or adjacent property. Jason Casares, associate dean of students and director of IU’s Office of Student Ethics, said the report falls short of the accurate number of student-related sexual assaults. “I have a slew of sexual assaults that occur off campus, as well,” Casares said. An IDS investigation from three years ago reported more than 700 people filed reports of sexual assault with Bloomington and IU police departments, respectively, from 2000 to 2010. But Casares said he has seen an increase in sexual assault cases reported to law enforcement and the Office of Student Ethics. “I think we’re doing a better job at getting the information out,” Casares said. IU-Bloomington recently received the 2013-14 Institutional Award of Excellence from the Association for Student Conduct Administration for its success with programs related to Title IX, including the creation and implementation of its sexual misconduct training model.The Office of Student Ethics hears any sexual assault cases involving students, whether the student is the complainant or respondent, and even if the perpetrator was a student from a different university. In partnership with Casaras’ office, Counseling and Psychological Services offers the Sexual Assault Crisis Service, a free 24-hour crisis line that is available 365 days of the year. A student who is sexually assaulted can meet with a sexual assault counselor to decide whether or not to move forward with an investigation and hearing. The office will draw from interviews, police reports, medical evidence, social media and more to investigate a particular case, which will be heard within 60 days. The Office of Student Ethics selects its hearing panels for sexual assault cases from a pool of about 20 people who have received more than 40 hours of training, Casares said. Since the Department of Education released its Dear Colleague letter in spring 2011, the Office of Student Ethics began making sexual assault hearing decisions on a preponderance of evidence. This means the plaintiff in a civil case must provide just enough evidence to prove a claim, as opposed to the previous standard of clear and convincing evidence. “That was a huge game changer, and we immediately adjusted,” Casaras said. “It’s literally 50.0001 percent more likely than not.”It is much more difficult to prove guilt in a criminal case. Unlike student ethics cases, complainants in criminal cases must prove their standard of evidence beyond reasonable doubt. Debbie Melloan, a sexual assault counselor at SACS, said she often helps inform victims of their options when dealing with sexual assault cases. “I would let that person decide which body they want to report to,” Melloan said. “One of my roles is to empower that person and let them make their own choices.”The Office of Student Ethics receives all cases from the IU Police Department. It does not receive all reports from off-campus agencies, such as the Middle Way House, the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office, the IU Health Bloomington hospital and the Bloomington Police Department, unless those students report the event directly to the University. “We are trying to improve that,” Casares said. Casares said his office meets every two months with a Sexual Assault Service Providers Network to share sexual assault information and statistics with its off-campus partners in order to collect accurate data for the annual Clery Report.Melloan said she feels IU and the nation should improve sexual assault prevention by encouraging victims to report cases as they occur. “Historically, there’s been a lot of myths associated with sexual assault and biases that make it hard for victims to come forward,” Melloan said. “Anything we can do to keep it at the forefront of national attention is going to be at the benefit of everybody.”Casares said the White House Task Force is a step in the right direction. “It immediately places an issue like sexual assault at the top of everybody’s radar,” Casares said. “But it’s already been on our radar.”Follow reporter Samantha Schimdt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The group of students stood in silence at Wilkie Auditorium, remembering the late international icon of freedom and equality. In honor of Nelson Mandela’s death Thursday, the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity paused its Crossover Step Show Thursday night to take a moment of silence. The former South African president, who spent 27 years in prison fighting for an end to apartheid, died Thursday at the age of 95, according to The Associated Press. He was “an inspirational leader dedicated to his cause,” junior and fraternity member Dominique White said to the audience of about 400 students. “He deserves our respect.”Earlier in the evening, Eric Love, director of the Office of Diversity Education, was in his office with a student employee when he heard the news of Mandela’s death. “We didn’t talk to each other but we just independently started crying,” Love said. “He represented the absolute best of humanity. His capacity for recognition and forgiveness ... it’s just so rare.”Mandela became a symbol of freedom for the way he sacrificed decades in prison before ending the white majority rule in South Africa. But Love said Mandela will be most remembered for the way he initiated social change — not by seeking revenge with the parties who imprisoned him, but by showing forgiveness to move the nation forward.“He became a symbol around the world for peace and justice and democracy, but also for forgiveness and love,” Love said. As news of Mandela’s death emerged, politicians on the state and federal level expressed words of admiration for his leadership and bravery.“As a promoter of freedom and a voice for the victims of injustice, Nelson Mandela’s contributions to the world will keep his memory alive,” Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., said in a tweet.President Barack Obama called Mandela “a man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice.”There are about 150 to 170 IU alumni in South Africa, Associate Vice President of IU Communications Mark Land said. IU President Michael McRobbie formally launched the University’s first alumni chapter in the nation in September during a week-long stay in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. He also signed an agreement between the Kelley School of Business and University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.During his trip, McRobbie visited the jail cell where Mandela was imprisoned in Robben Island, an island about three miles west off the coast of Cape Town. Samuel Obeng, director of the African Studies Program at IU, said in an email the department’s condolences to the people of South Africa. “A hero to many, a larger than life person, a symbol of freedom, and a father of the New South African nation, Mr. Mandela, one of the greatest humans who ever lived in the 20th and 21st Centuries, gave hope to many and inspired people, the world over, to reach for the heights and to love one another,” he said in the email.Alex Lichtenstein, an IU associate professor of history, has focused researched on the trade union movements aligned with apartheid, “the movement that Mandela supported and that supported Mandela as well.”He has curated an exhibition on display at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures since Sept. 6 of rarely-seen Life magazine photographs from the early days of apartheid. “He combined so many different strands of movements of the 20th century,” Lichtenstein said. “All of these things he was able to draw together in the name of freedom.”Many members of Lichenstein’s generation remember their time in college in the 1980s, in the midst of the anti-apartheid movement and Mandela’s time in jail. “What was the great issue of the day?” Lichenstein said. “It was anti-apartheid. It was ‘free Nelson Mandela.’”Lichenstein said although there will be deep mourning in South Africa and worldwide, the South African people have prepared for this day. “Internationally it will be an excellent opportunity for people to think about the legacy of the anti-apartheid movement,” Lichenstein said. Lichenstein’s exhibition will remain on display for two more weeks before being moved to museums in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. A Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mandela preferred not to think about the past, but rather the future, Obeng said in his email. “He taught us a lesson on love and even though he was the core of a steel, he was humble and dignified,” Obeng said. “He believed that society could accomplish much more with dignity and grace. His life was illustrative of resilience, integrity, and principle.”Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The National Science Foundation awarded more than $614,000 to IU to aid its campus-wide efforts to boost participation in undergraduate science and mathematics programs. More than $516,000 of these funds will directly benefit student scholarships within the respective departments. Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math aim to engage students and faculty within the astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics departments, improving student recruitment, retention and career placement. The collaboration will allow students to network with faculty and students in other STEM disciplines and with high-tech employers in the area, according to a press release. Students will have new opportunities to participate in seminars, career workshops and job fairs, programs within the Women in STEM Living Learning Center, and research and mentorship opportunities. The initiative was proposed in August 2012, following the announcement of the NSF funding program, said Caty Pilachowski, astronomy professor and principal investigator for the grant. Provost Lauren Robel and other administrators encouraged faculty leaders across campus to develop the S-STEM program so IU could apply for the funding. “It was both a goal to get access to scholarship funds but use those funds as leverage to build greater partnerships,” Pilachowski said. The initiative is housed in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Pre-College and Undergraduate Programs office, where Shelley Singell will serve as program coordinator and a faculty steering committee will provide additional leadership. The S-STEM program will begin awarding scholarships for spring 2014, and applications were due about a week ago, Pilachowski said. Directors of several scholarship programs, including the Hudson and Holland Scholars Program, have been encouraged to nominate students to apply for the scholarships. “For subsequent semesters we’re targeting entering students to help them get started on the right foot,” Pilachowski said. S-STEM leaders plan to reach out to high schools and to the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers to recruit students and inform them of the scholarship opportunities now available. Pilachowski said she hopes the collaboration will increase the number of students in science-related majors on campus and broaden the diversity of students across the departments. Certain departments, including the biology department, have lacked students from underrepresented groups, and others tend to enroll low numbers of female students, Pilachowski said. The physics department has received few applications from incoming students with unmet financial need, Pilachowski said. This might be because those students are not aware of scholarships available, she said. “We’re working with each department to understand each department’s targeted goal,” Pilachowski said. Jeremy Bennett is the associate director of science outreach for the College of Arts and Sciences, and collaborates with other science departments on campus for two existing programs, the Science, Technology, and Research Scholars and Integrated Freshman Learning Experience. He said the grant scholarship funds can go a long way in attracting more students, particularly women and minorities, to study science at IU. “While we have good STEM programs at IU already in existence, they tend to be for high-achieving students that don’t typically have the financial need that this NSF grant requires,” Bennett said. Another goal of the program is to examine “bottleneck” courses to improve success rates for at-risk students, Bennett said.“We find some students get lost in the shuffle or need extra support, and we hope this program will alleviate those concerns,” he said. One example of cross-department integration through the initiative is a new course being developed within the Department of English, a “Writing for Scientists” section of the W350: Intensive Writing course specifically catered to students in science fields. Pilachowski said she hopes the program’s efforts will help encourage more students to pursue science-related majors and be more successful in the process. “The scholarships are sort of the icing on the cake,” Pilachowski said. “The real cake is the need to make these transformations within these departments.”Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The School of Public and Environmental Affairs announced a new partnership Friday with South Korea’s elite university, Seoul National University. The collaboration will offer a new dual-degree program for master’s students from IU to take coursework through the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, or Korean students to take IU classes in Bloomington or online.Beginning in fall 2014, students in the program can take one year of study at SPEA and one year at the institution, SPEA Executive Associate Dean David Reingold said. About two-thirds of the coursework is offered through IU and the remaining third will be offered through Seoul National.Reingold and Junki Kim, dean of the graduate school of public administration at Seoul National University, signed the agreement in October in Washington, D.C.“SPEA has a long history of connectivity with South Korea,” Reingold said.Reingold said he credits these relationships largely to professor emeritus Roy Shin’s work with institutions in South Korea, Shin’s home country.Shin, recently appointed IU President Michael McRobbbie’s special adviser on global partnerships, had previously arranged several internship opportunities for SPEA students within the local Seoul government.This is not the first time IU has formed an academic partnership with South Korean institutions. IU currently offers a study abroad program with the Council on International Educational Exchange at Yonsei University, a dual-MBA degree program through the Kelley School of Business and a private university in Seoul, and a partnership through the School of Education, Shin said.The SPEA partnership is one of the first dual-degree programs Seoul National has established with an international university, Reingold said.With a particular focus on nations in the Pacific Rim, it is also part of a larger strategy to connect SPEA and its students with other parts of the world. “We’re making our way around the globe as we stitch together opportunities for students,” Reingold said.SPEA’s international expansion for graduate studies is due to increasing interest in its master’s degree programs, Reingold said.Ranked as the second best graduate school nationwide for public affairs by U.S. News this year, SPEA’s graduate programs have been attracting more and more international students.“We’ve been able to make the most of it by partnering with institutions,” Reingold said.SPEA’s new focus on South Korea is also due to the large contingency of SPEA alumni in the country, Shin said.He said many of South Korea’s top entrepreneurs studied at SPEA, and five IU alums currently hold administrative positions within the nation’s government.“Those alums are eager to see our school continue to evolve,” Reingold said.Shin visited Seoul last month and began exploring the possibility of a partnership between the Jacobs School of Music and the Seoul Arts Center, a concert hall in the city.McRobbie has asked him to continue developing plans, Shin said. At the end of the month IU Provost Lauren Robel will lead a trip to South Korea, and she plans to reconfirm IU’s participation with Seoul National University.She will continue to discuss a possible partnership for the Jacobs School of Music.“The prospect for the partnership is excellent,” Shin said.Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The 18-year-old man arrested for slashing a student with a meat cleaver outside Tulip Tree Apartments Oct. 27 remains in jail with $5,500 in bail bonds. Zesen Shen pled not guilty last week to charges of intimidation and battery by means of a deadly weapon. Kaiyu Luo, Shen’s 21-year-old accomplice charged with intimidation, paid $5,500 in bail the day of his arrest, and was released from jail soon after. Shen and Luo, both formerly international students from China, were suspended last week, Mark Land, associate vice president of IU Communications, said. The two men are no longer considered students, Dean of Students Pete Goldsmith said. As former international students on J-1 or F-1 visas, their legal immigration status depends on their enrollment as students. Since they are no longer enrolled as students, they could be required by the Department of Homeland Security to leave the United States. But since both cases are pending, the two men cannot legally leave the country until their charges have been resolved. Even if Shen pays his bail, he could continue to be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indianapolis, a Monroe County Jail officer said. Shen told IU Police Department officers that the fight was instigated through a series of phone calls early Sunday morning between him and the 21-year-old slashed student. Shen’s girlfriend had arrived at Tulip Tree with the student in a white Audi at 2 a.m., four hours later than Shen expected her to be home, he told police.Upset with the student, Shen followed the Audi, honking his horn. He then proceeded to go inside Tulip Tree apartments and call the student. Shen said the student felt threatened by the calls and came to Tulip Tree with a group of four students, looking to fight Shen. Shen, a Wright Quad resident, then invited Kaiyu Luo, a Tulip Tree resident, to join him in the parking lot. He grabbed a meat cleaver from Luo’s kitchen and at about 3:15 a.m. left with Luo to confront the group. Shen was “afraid” of the group of students walking toward him in the parking lot and he pulled out the knife, prompting the student to run away from him, he said. Shen proceeded to chase the student, slashing him in the back with the knife, the student reported. The slashing left the student with one four-inch cut in the middle of his lower back, and two smaller lacerations on his right shoulder and left arm. The student was treated and released from IU Health Bloomington later that day.Luo reported to IUPD officers he was heavily intoxicated when Shen asked him to help him to resolve the dispute. Police did not charge any of the other four students in the group with the slashed student, IUPD Lt. Craig Munroe said. One student was arrested for underage consumption of alcohol, and it was clear that the group had been drinking, he said. Shen’s initial case hearing took place Oct. 29 where he pled not guilty and testified with the help of an interpreter. His pretrial conference is scheduled for Dec. 17. Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU Faculty Council has made official its long-standing opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.The Faculty Council unanimously endorsed President Michael McRobbie’s decision that IU join Freedom Indiana, a state-wide coalition working to defeat the House Joint Resolution 6, Associate Vice President of IU Communications Mark Land said.McRobbie’s decision was announced Monday, and the Faculty Council voted on its endorsement at its Tuesday meeting, Herb Terry, the group’s co-secretary, said.Terry had drafted the Faculty Council’s resolution with co-secretary Jack Windsor, a professor at IUPUI’s School of Dentistry, prior to McRobbie’s announcement. They were “on the verge” of presenting it to the council, Terry said. After McRobbie’s announcement was released, it seemed fitting to vote on an endorsement at the group’s Tuesday meeting, Terry said.In its resolution, the council affirmed its opposition to House Joint Resolution 6, endorsed the University’s decision to join Freedom Indiana, and urged faculty governance bodies at all IU campuses to adopt similar resolutions.Time was allotted for dissent during the meeting, but no council members expressed opposition to the endorsement, Terry said. “No questions were raised about doing this,” Terry said. IU faculty has publicly expressed its opposition to the amendment since 2007, when the council voted “nearly unanimously” to oppose an equivalent amendment, Terry said. “The council wanted to stand for what it stood for years,” Terry said. “You could say the administration caught up to us.” Members of the Faculty Council will now work to encourage other colleges on campus to announce their support of McRobbie’s decision. “I would hope that faculty groups and staff groups and student groups at least consider whether they want to join in this,” Terry said. “I anticipate several of these coming out from various sources in the next few weeks.” The University has not announced the exact role it will take within the Freedom Indiana coalition. Terry said the University’s action depends on whether the General Assembly will decide to move forward in testifying for the amendment. Terry said the Council supports the fact Freedom Indiana hopes to continue its fight even if the amendment passes. Although the University’s decision reflects many years of faculty support in the fight, McRobbie’s announcement is monumental, Terry said. “We haven’t taken positions on social issues,” Terry said. Terry said many faculty members, especially within the Kelley School of Business, see the potential economic detriment that could come with the amendment. In order to take advantage of its workforce, the state needs to be able to welcome and recruit all types of workers, Terry said. Other faculty members argue the amendment would contradict IU’s policy to encourage a welcoming environment for all students. A state-wide constitutional ban on same-sex marriage would, in turn, make IU unattractive for students, Terry said.“This is a social issue. This is a business issue. This is a moral issue,” Terry said.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The 20-year-old male student who suffered knife wounds after being slashed Sunday morning was treated and released from IU Health Bloomington later that day, said Associate Vice President of IU Communications Mark Land.IU Police Department arrested IU student Zesen Shen, 18, for intimidation and battery, and Kaiyu Luo, 21, for intimidation following the dispute at Tulip Tree Apartments.The two students were involved in a fight against a third student that began at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot at Tulip Tree Apartments on East 10th Street. The fight resulted in the third student suffering a knife wound, Land said.The victim had returned from an off-campus party earlier with a woman in his car, and got into an argument with Shen and Luo over the woman, IUPD Lt. Craig Munroe said.Shen, a Wright Quad resident, and Luo allegedly agreed to meet with the victim in the parking lot to “reconcile” the dispute, Munroe said.“But that’s not what actually occurred,” Munroe said.Shen and Luo began to chase after the victim in the parking lot. Shen allegedly slashed the student with the knife as the student was moving away from him, Land said.A witness at the scene called 911, saying a man was chasing his friend with a knife, and IUPD responded, Munroe said.Witnesses said at least 10 police cars and at least one fire truck arrived at Tulip Tree Apartments.The injured student was taken to IU Health Bloomington Hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.“The wound was longer than it was deep,” Land said. “It was a few inches long.”After speaking with witnesses in the parking lot and investigating the scene, police officers were informed the suspects could be inside the apartment building.Luo and Shen were found in a Tulip Tree apartment with four other students early Sunday morning, and IUPD brought the entire group to the police station for questioning.Officers arrested Shen without incident at about 8 a.m., and Luo was arrested about two hours later, Land said.IUPD initially announced Luo’s arrest shortly after 10 a.m., but incorrectly spelled his name as Kaiyu Lao. The correction was made at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday.None of the other four students in the group are suspects, Munroe said. One student was arrested for underage consumption of alcohol, and it was clear that the group had been drinking, he said.The University sent alert phone calls and emails to all IU students at 4 a.m., informing them that police were in search of armed suspects.IUPD officers put Tulip Tree Apartments on lock-down after the fight.Junior Jay Ahn, a resident of Tulip Tree Apartments, said he had just returned home to the apartment complex between 3:30 and 4 a.m. Sunday. Officers had locked the doors and prohibited any individuals from entering or leaving the apartment complex.Ahn and his friends had to stay outside the building until about 4:30 a.m. He said about 30 students were stuck in the building entrance, unable to enter the doors into the main lobby.Sophomore Ernest Fipps watched the investigation unfold from his apartment window on the sixth floor of Tulip Tree Apartments.He said he had seen a group of six or seven people “messing around” in the parking lot before police cars began showing up. He could hear officers shouting and saw police cars leave shortly after 5 a.m.The all-clear was alerted to students at about 7:30 a.m.Both of the suspects were international students from China, Munroe said.International students are treated just like any other suspects of criminal charges, IUPD Sgt. Brice Teter said.Under federal law, officers were obligated to send a notification of the arrests to the Chinese consulate, Teter said.Both Shen and Luo remained in jail Sunday evening. IUPD continues to investigate the incident.A campus-wide lock-down was difficult because of the many doors and points of entry across the University, Land said, but he encouraged all students to stay inside while the investigation took place.Land said campus residence halls were completely locked down, and Residential Programs and Services officials ensured all doors remained locked during the search period.Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Max Davis climbs onto the three-meter board, pulling up his red Hollister swim trunks.He slowly shifts toward the edge. Sucking in his plump 10-year-old belly, he begins to raise his arms. In diving, there’s a penalty called a balk, or a false start, in which a diver steps forward to dive but then steps back, stalling to rethink the dive. Max knows he’s balking. If this were a meet, he would be docked points.For the next 30 seconds, he thinks about what could happen if the plunge doesn’t go as planned. He could hit his head on the board. He could clip his ankle, like he did while attempting a back dive a few weeks ago. What if he lands in a belly flop, or what if his face hurts when it hits the water?He inches backward, relaxing his muscles.He waits. * * *Max is the youngest member in his diving club, the Indiana International School of Diving. He is one of two boys on the team, which trains divers up to age 17. His coach, 26-year-old Chris Heaton, competed in the 2012 Olympic diving team trials. Heaton said it is rare for male divers to start training at an age as young as Max’s. Max has a stockier build than most divers, Heaton said, but once he grows into his frame, he could be great.Max has only been diving for three months, after giving up football, tennis, soccer and swimming. He wanted to try a new sport, so he looked to his brother, Alex Davis. Alex is a freshmen recruit on the IU nationally-ranked diving team. Max had watched his older brother’s diving meets since he was seven, so he decided to also give it a try. Since there is no diving team in the Davises’ hometown of Terre Haute, Ind., Emeline Davis registered her son for the Bloomington club. She drives the hour and a half to the IU Outdoor Pool for Max’s three-hour practice three times each week. Max’s math homework is in the backseat of the white SUV — sometimes, the drive to and from practice is the only time he has to work on assignments. “It’s pretty exhausting,” he says. The zoned-in concentration for diving doesn’t always come naturally to Max. His mind is even more active than his body. He never stops asking his mother questions, whether it’s about science, his favorite subject, or cooking, his favorite hobby. Emeline Davis sometimes wonders how her son manages to concentrate all of his thoughts and scattered energy on mastering one dive. “Maybe it helps him to focus on one thing — it’s like a quiet in his life,” she says. * * *Max steps back a bit further on the three-meter board, holding his hands at mid-waist. His mouth drops slightly as he spots 14-year-old Alicia DeMars to his right on a board near his, executing what appears to be a perfect pike flip in her red and black one-piece swimsuit. Max doesn’t mind being the only boy in the pool most days, he says — he likes talking to the girls. His two favorites are Franny and Jordan, both about 15 years old, because they’re the ones who talk to him the most. “He’s a stud muffin — a total stud,” his coach said. He’s comfortable around the ladies, he says, but it doesn’t make him any less nervous on the board. “I think about them watching me,” Max says. “I’m thinking about a bunch of other things happening around me.”He thinks about what his coach will say to him as he pops his head out of the water. Max has to do exactly what Heaton says. If not, he could hurt something, like his foot or his head. “But I usually do better whenever my coach is talking to someone else ... when nobody else is watching me,” Max says. Arching his back at the ledge of the board, he tries to forget about his audience. He pretends he is alone — just him, the board and the water below. He has already dived off the five-meter board twice. One time he even made a dive from the seven-meter platform, a board more than four times taller than him. This one should be easy, he thinks to himself, closing his eyes. He takes a deep breath, opens his eyes, and dives. * * *Sometimes Max pictures how Alex would form the same dive. He sees his older brother at the edge of a board that’s even higher, in an arena with a much larger crowd. He remembers watching Alex’s high school meets, running back and forth through the pool bleachers on his Heely’s roller shoes, shooting videos of his brother’s dives and texting them to him. He thinks about the day when Alex first showed him how to reverse flip from the family’s staircase onto the beanbag chair in the living room.Alex always seemed to make the dives look easy — almost as easy as snatching the best controller for playing Modern Warfare video games.“If he does good on a dive, and I do bad on it, then I feel really mad,” Max said. He knows he’s just getting started, but he already thinks he wants to compete in high school. He might want to be a college diver like Alex someday. He’s getting his diving start much earlier than his brother, who didn’t pick up the sport until his sophomore year of high school. Max’s coach thinks his head start could really help him in the long run. He could be as good as, or even better than, his brother. Max thinks he’ll have a different style of diving than his brother, a different kind of splash. Max has a bulkier body structure — he’ll probably be a power diver someday, his coach said. Imagining Alex taking the plunge makes it feel a little bit simpler for Max. “If he can do it, I can do it.”* * * In mid-air, Max creates an arc, keeping his back tight.His body hurls forward into a somersault. He joins his hands, palms piercing the water.It’s a matter of seconds leading to an unpredictable strike with the water. It could hurt, or it could be Max’s best dive yet. Sometimes his coach uses physics to explain perfecting a fast, smooth dive. During one practice he asked Max what he thought is the quickest way to get from point A to point B. The correct answer is a straight line; a diver needs to keep his body aligned to form a fluid dive. But Max thinks there’s a faster way. What if he runs? What if he teleports himself, like in the movie “Jumpers”? The science–lover asked his mother, “Wouldn’t the speed of light be the quickest way?”“The quickest way is not the speed of light,” Emeline Davis told him. “It’s the speed of thought.”Max’s body pierces the water in a vacuum, but it makes a bigger splash than he expected. He just didn’t keep his hands flat enough, he said. He sticks his head out of the pool and grins at his coach. “I’m getting better at it,” he says. Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @SchmidtSam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The University has allocated $1 million to fund graduate student diversity initiatives through the Office of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs. In a Thursday meeting with the IU Board of Trustees, Vice President of DEMA James Wimbush explained the breakdown of funds for the initiative, which aims to encourage timely doctoral degree completion. Included in the initiatives are a diversity recruitment fellowship, a graduate mentoring center and a diversity dissertation year fellowship, Wimbush said. About 40 percent of the total funds, $395,000, will go toward diversity recruitment. $270,000 will fund timely completion initiatives and $239,000 will fund mentoring programs.The rest – about $96,000 – will benefit community building initiatives such as graduate emissaries and a center for faculty development and diversity.Wimbush said they have allocated the funds based on studies showing money, mentoring and family support as primary factors in doctoral degree completion.“We can’t do a whole lot about family support, but we can do a lot about money and mentoring,” he said.Undergraduate retention and graduation rates are also of primary concern for Wimbush, he said. “Certainly when it comes to completion, the numbers are not what we’d like to see," he said. He mentioned how IU's 21st Century Scholars Program displayed a four-year completion rate of 36 percent at the IU Bloomington campus. "For a program that is specifically for four years, and a program that students will not have any out of pocket costs, you’d expect it to be higher," Wimbush said. IU Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs John Applegate led a discussion earlier in the meeting clarifying enrollment percentages, classifications and trends across all campuses."At least half of the committee is new to enrollment reporting," Applegate said. Committee chair James Morris shared his concerns regarding tougher admission rates at the IU regional campuses, specifically at IU East. Reports showed 46 percent of applicants were denied admission this year to IU East, a school that until fairly recently, was open admission, Applegate said. "Those days are gone when, if you couldn’t be admitted to IU, you could be admitted at a regional campus," University Relations Committee Chair James Morris said. Kathryn Cruz-Uribe, chancellor at IU East, was also present at the meeting, and acknowledged her goal of improving both quality of students and access to a college degree. Applegate agreed later in the meeting that IU is faced with difficult goals of broadening access and diversity while also increasing graduation rates. “Traditionally those are goals in some degree of conflict with each other," Applegate said. “The more broadly you create access to education, the more difficulties students have in getting to graduation.”
Professor Jean Camp from the Informatics School talks about the state of privacy and information in America on Thursday at the Asian Culture Center.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU adjunct psychology faculty member Phillip Summers knew the name of every student in his lecture class of 250.Summers, who taught the Introduction to Psychology class since 2001, will be remembered as a caring teacher and role model for involvement on IU’s campus, said James Craig, director of undergraduate instruction for the department.Summers, 74, died at 3:10 p.m. Sunday at IU Health Hospital in Bloomington after suffering a heart attack, the IU Police Department confirmed Monday.Summers was attending a 2 p.m. alumni board meeting at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house, 1720 N. Jordan Ave., when he reportedly experienced chest pains and difficulty breathing, IUPD Lieut. Craig Munroe said.He is survived by his wife, Pat, three daughters, Lynn, Pam and Angela and four grandsons, senior and former Pi Kappa Phi president Sam Wandolowski confirmed. Summers was president of Vincennes University from 1970 to 2001 and after retiring, joined the faculty of IU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Even after retiring, he continued to teach an introductory psychology course at Vincennes.In addition to his teaching, Summers served as national president of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity from 1992 to 1994 and was named Mr. Pi Kappa Phi in 2003, according to the national fraternity’s website.As the IU chapter alumni board president, Summers would stop by the fraternity house every Tuesday and Thursday to visit the brothers, Wandolowski said. “He was more involved than anyone,” Wandolowski said. “He went out of his way to live and breathe Pi Kaps.”As his freshman P101 professor, Summers encouraged Wandolowski to rush with Pi Kappa Phi.Summers helped the fraternity while it was purchasing its current house, Wandolowski said.“This is a man who had bypass surgery twice,” Wandolowski said. “At this point, he could retire, he was just doing it for fun ... I’ve known him for three, four years and I was just so glad I was able to learn from him.”Summers encouraged all of his students to get involved on campus, and would give them extra credit for doing so, his former student, senior Jenna Gatziolis, said.“Randomly throughout the semester he would call someone out in the middle of class, usually catching them off guard, and asking them to explain some life experience they had,” she said. “It was an awesome way to relate to the material being taught in the course.”Each fall, most of Summers’ students would walk with him in the Homecoming Parade, William Hetrick, Chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, said in an email to faculty.At the end of each semester, he would bring the department chair a report detailing the successes and challenges he faced that term. “It was a very thoughtful reflection on his teaching and engagement with the students,” Hetrick said in the email. “He insisted on handing the report directly to the chair so that he could say ‘thank you’ in person.”Freshman Amanda Hardy would have attended Summers’ P101 class today. They would have discussed the recent chapter exam, and Summers told students he planned to make them laugh during the Tuesday class.“He always left us on our toes wondering how we could better understand concepts,” Hardy said. “He would not only know who you were, but where you’re from, and personal information.”The psychology department is working on finding an instructor to replace Summers for his P101 class, Craig said.Summers earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees at IU and a Ph.D at Indiana State University. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1996. He was also president of IU’s Alumni Interfraternity Council.Junior and Pi Kappa Phi president Colin O’Donnell was present at the Sunday alumni board meeting with Summers.“It’s taken a toll,” O’Donnell said. “It’s very sad and solemn and quiet at the house right now. There was a lot of support from the brothers.”O’Donnell said the entire IU chapter plans to travel to Vincennes to honor Summers in his funeral, which will take place 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Vincennes University. O’Donnell will be participating in a presentation during the funeral, and the Pi Kappa Phi song will also be sung during the ceremony.The visitation will take place Wednesday in First Christian Church in Vincennes.Wandolowski said he was shocked to hear the news, but he is grateful for the time he had with Summers, and the lessons he learned from Summers’ work ethic.“I’m gonna miss that man,” Wandolowski said.Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Adjunct faculty member Phillip Summers, 74, died Sunday at IU Health Hospital in Bloomington after suffering a heart attack, the IU Police Department confirmed Monday.Summers was a faculty member in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, and he taught the Introduction to Psychology class, P101, said James Craig, director of undergraduate instruction for the department.Summers was attending a 2 p.m. board meeting at the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house at 1720 N. Jordan Ave., and reportedly experienced chest pains and difficulty breathing by about 2:30 p.m., IUPD Lieut. Craig Munroe said.An ambulance arrived shortly after and transported Summers to IU Health Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 3:10 p.m. Sunday from cardiac arrest, Munroe said.Summers was president of Vincennes University from 1970 to 2001 and after retiring, joined the faculty of IU's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.Summers served as national president of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity from 1992 to 1994 and was named Mr. Pi Kappa Phi in 2003, according to the national fraternity's website. He was also involved in the IU chapter and house, where he was attending Sunday's meeting, Interfraternity Council President Sean Jordan said.Summers earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees at IU and a Ph.D at Indiana State University. He was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1996.— Hannah Smith contributed to this report.
IU students and faculty participate in a discussion titled “Feminism for Men” Tuesday night at the Latino Cultural Center.
Pink flowers were planted a week early for Breast Cancer Awareness Month outside of Showalter Fountain.
Pink flowers were planted a week early for Breast Cancer Awareness Month outside of Showalter Fountain.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The yoga participants took deep breaths as they folded forward into their child’s pose.The group of 23 people gathered Saturday morning in the IU Art Museum Atrium for a free yoga class.Brian Taverner and Ben Forster, two performers in the Blue Man Group, were among the class participants. The performers had arrived in Bloomington on their tour bus early Saturday morning for the weekend’s Blue Man Group production at the IU Auditorium. Carrying their yoga mats and leaving behind their characters’ signature blue make-up and bald caps, they decided to attend the class.Forster said before coming to town he searched for Bloomington attractions on Google and came across the free yoga class. He said he enjoyed the space offered at the IU Art Museum and was glad to have a chance to unwind before his performance.This is the second year the IU Art Museum has offered the free class, which takes place at 11:30 a.m. every Saturday from April to October. The classes are led by volunteer instructors from Vibe Yoga Studio in Bloomington, said Allyson Gergely, a member of the Art Musuem Special Events Support Staff. The classes began last year through a partnership with Orthopedics of Southern Indiana and IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians. “People just loved it so much that we said we had to do it again,” Gergely said. “It’s a free yoga class. If you like yoga, that’s like gold.”The class usually takes place outside and can draw 30 to 50 participants. However, when the temperature drops below 65 degrees, the class must take place indoors — with a capacity of 23 participants. Due to the limit, the instructor had to turn away about a dozen people Saturday, Gergely said. The last class offered for this season will take place Oct. 26, she said. Taverner said Saturday’s class was the first time he had participated in a group yoga class, as opposed to a video instruction or personal trainer. “I needed a good, convenient excuse to do it again,” Taverner said. He said he appreciates yoga because of the body awareness it provides.“A lot of it is injury prevention,” Taverner said. “It keeps you flexible, which is crucial.”Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.
Freshmen Hudson and Holland Scholars, including William Torres and Perri Smith, participate in their seminar class required for the scholarship program. The program has undergone several staffing, curriculum and scholarship changes since last year.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A six-foot globe hangs in the atrium of the Cyber Infrastructure Building, displaying images projected from different sides of the room. The “Science on a Sphere” exhibit uses high-definition imagery and software to seamlessly present global data patterns in a visually interesting way, said Eric Wernert, director for visualization and analytics. Developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the globe is one of 100 spheres of its kind, most of which are displayed at science museums and planetariums across the country. However, IU is one of only four universities currently offering the technology. The total cost of the sphere and related NOAA support was about $150,000 and was funded by the Office of the Vice President of Information Technology, Wernert said. It was installed in April but is being publicized at length this week through Science on a Sphere Week, supported by the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and the Advanced Visualization Lab, a unit of University Institutional Technology and Research.NOAA showed interest in working with IU on the project due in part to the university’s history of international outreach, which will be reinforced through the upcoming School of Global and International Studies, Wernert said. “We found that the ‘Science on a Sphere’ was a very natural way to bring together our strengths in international collaborations ... with IU’s strengths in information technology,” Wernert said. The globe will allow IU researchers, faculty and students to display a wide variety of global data patterns, whether it is oceanographic, atmospheric, political or economic. For example, an IU student performing research regarding global wealth distribution could use the “Science on a Sphere” to visually display related data. Most similar globe exhibits on display at museums present information primarily focused on climate or weather patterns, but IU’s exhibit has aimed to expand beyond geographic and weather data, Wernert said. Wernert said his team has even been working with the English department to display the locations of poets from medieval times.“What I think that opens up for us is a much broader set of data sets and applications,” Wernert said. “That’s something you’re probably not going to see at a planetarium or science center.”Wernert said he hopes students, faculty and researchers on campus will use the globe as a resource for their research. Students can email vishelp@iu.edu regarding their project, and the Advanced Visualization Lab will schedule a meeting to discuss the best way to display the data on the globe. Wernert said he hopes students use Science on a Sphere Week to learn how the lab and exhibit can benefit their research or studies. The week’s activities include several tutorials and lectures from internationally-renowned journalists and artists involved in the project. Students can attend SOS after Dark at 8:30 p.m. Thursday to see the globe lit up in a dark setting. If this project proves successful, Wernert said the University hopes to install other similar exhibits in the new building for the School of Global and International Studies and the Kelley School of Business, as well as in facilities at IUPUI. “They were excited about what else it could do for IU,” Wernert said. “That’s why we’ve been trying to cast a web as wide as possible.”Follow reporter Samantha Schmidt on Twitter @schmidtsam7.