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When freshman Amogh Kedia first stepped foot on campus, an IU employee told him there had been a mix-up.
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When freshman Amogh Kedia first stepped foot on campus, an IU employee told him there had been a mix-up.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Couples representing four different Asian nationalities strutted down the Willkie Quad auditorium stage Saturday night in traditional cultural attire. For the second year in a row, representatives from the Vietnamese Student Association were named the winners of the Mr. and Ms. Asia competition, an event that allows Asian student organizations to display their talents and culture while vying for cash prizes. The pageant was organized by the Asian Student Union and Kappa Eta Phi, a business fraternity. Freshmen Mai Ngo and Vu Bui claimed this year’s titles, along with $300 to benefit their student organization. The Chinese Students and Scholars Association won second place and $200, and the Asian American Association came in third, winning $100. After a jazz dance performance by the X-Power dance team, the contestants each presented a medley of traditional and modern performances for the talent show portion of the pageant. The Asian American Association, represented by freshmen Alice Park and Kenneth Kim, sang Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat’s song “Lucky” and transitioned into a choreographed routine with several backup dancers. Fusing Chinese tradition with modern hip hop, freshmen Amanda Wei and Usher Wang used chairs and elaborate fans to entertain the audience and display their cultural heritage. The Vietnamese Student Association also provided a fusion of genres with a comedic skit and traditional Vietnamese song. The Malaysian Student Association, represented by seniors Rabiatul Abd Patah and Yi-Yang Chua, closed the talent portion of the show with a partner dance routine that reflected both Malaysian culture and 1950s Western rock and roll. The only non-freshmen performing in the event, Patah and Chua said they wanted to make sure their organization was represented, since the Malaysian Student Association did not participate in last year’s event. During the fashion show and question-and-answer portion of the pagaent, each couple presented cultural attire from their respective countries. Bui said he was excited to win the title of Mr. Asia for the Vietnamese Student Association and said he appreciated the opportunity to display the diversity present in the Asian community at IU. “We don’t have a lot of Vietnamese people here, so it’s really great to represent our country and spread our culture,” Bui said. The Mr. and Ms. Asia event has been held at IU since 2003, with the exception of 2010 and 2011. This year’s event was directed by junior Phoena Chong, a Malaysian international student and vice president of the Asian Student Union. Chong said the event has been growing consistently in recent years and it benefited from this year’s collaboration with Kappa Eta Phi. The representation of student organizations changes every year, depending on who signs up to participate, Chong said. The Indonesian Student Association was scheduled to perform in this year’s event but couldn’t make it due to an illness. Last year’s event also included the Indian Student Association and Japanese Student Association, groups that were not present this year. James Tokuda, external relations director for Kappa Eta Phi, said the planning committee marketed Mr. and Ms. Asia to all types of students in efforts to expose them to the diversity of IU’s Asian population. “It’s a fact of life there’s an Asian community on campus,” Tokuda said. “We’re not trying to segregate ourselves. We’re just trying to introduce our culture to people who aren’t familiar.”
Freshman Mai Ngo sings a traditional Vietnamese song for the talent portion of the Mr. and Ms. Asia pageant Saturday night at the Wilkie Auditorium. Ngo and her partner, freshman Vu Bui, represented the Vietnamese Student Association and won the title of 2013 Mr. and Ms. Asia.
Freshmen Cody Gage, Cloe Pippin and Anuj Khemka participate in a "Hindi through Yoga" class during the third World Language Festival. The event, which took place all-day Saturday at Ballantine Hall, was organized by the Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment. The event was organized to celebrate diverse cultures and showcase IU's renowned language instruction program.
Freshmen Mai Ngo and Vu Bui claimed this year’s titles of Mr. and Ms. Asia, along with $300 to benefit their organization, the Vietnamese Student Association. The event took place Saturday night at the Wilkie Quad Auditorium.
Amanda Wei and Usher Wang, freshmen in the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, participate in the question and answer portion of Mr. and Ms. Asia. Wei and Wang were awarded second place in the pagaent, which took place Saturday night in the Wilkie Auditorium.
Seniors Rabiatul Abd Patah and Yi-Yang Chua represented the Malaysian Student Association during the talent portion of Mr. and Ms. Asia Saturday night.
Freshman Mai Ngo sings a traditional Vietnamese song for the talent portion of the Mr. and Ms. Asia pageant Saturday night at Wilkie Auditorium. Ngo and her partner, freshman Vu Bui, represented the Vietnamese Student Association and won the title of 2013 Mr. and Ms. Asia.
Freshmen Cody Gage, Cloe Pippin and Anuj Khemka participate in a "Hindi through Yoga" class during the third World Language Festival. The event, which took place all-day Saturday at Ballantine Hall, was organized by the Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment. The event was organized to celebrate diverse cultures and showcase IU's renowned language instruction program.
India Studies professor Pooja Saxena participates in a "Hindi through Yoga" class during the World Language Festival Saturday at Ballantine Hall. The event was held by the Center for Language Technology and Instructional Enrichment as a way to celebrate diverse cultures and showcase IU's renowned language instruction program.
Project Manager Greg Bover works on the installation of an organ in Alumni Hall, a project that will be complete within the next two weeks. The organ was purchased and moved from a private residence in Portola Valley, California.
The organ being installed in Alumni Hall fuses 18th century French organ design with modern mechanical technology. The project has been in the works since 2010 and was funded with the support of a private donor.
Curator of Organs David Kazimir explains the mechanical process behind playing the organ, which use 44 different stop knobs to control sound. The organ is currently being installed in Alumni Hall.
The organ's keyboard and stop knobs use a mechanical process to control the movement of wind through pipes. The 18th century-influenced instrument is currently being installed in Alumni Hall.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Upland Brewing Co. bartender Fred Risinger poured a tall glass of ale for Bloomington resident Josh Caldwell Tuesday afternoon. Risinger has worked at Upland for 10 years and has witnessed a time of substantial growth for the Bloomington-based brewery. “We are selling so much more,” Risinger said. “Based on how much money I used to bring in, it’s probably quadrupled.”After 15 years of serving the Bloomington community, Upland Brewing Co. is now starting up new locations and more options for its growing customer base. The brewery will open a new pub location in Carmel during the first or second week of April, the first Upland tap house outside of Bloomington offering a full menu, Marketing Manager Andrea Lutz, said. Upland also plans to expand seating into vacant space in the back of its Bloomington pub, located at 350 W. 11th St. The brewer began planning the Carmel restaurant one year ago after realizing the high demand in the region, Lutz said. “A lot of IU grads end up in Indy,” Lutz said. “We thought getting a pub north of Indy would be well received.”Construction of the 2,400 square-foot restaurant began about four months ago. The new location will bring in 40 new employees and seat about 90 people, Lutz said. Upland’s Bloomington Brew Pub location currently employs about 90 people and can seat 140 customers. While the construction in Carmel continues, the brewery plans to renovate its Bloomington tap house to take advantage of the available space, Lutz said. The brewery is aiming to install additional booth seating, a second bar and a new wooden beer cask in the back area previously used for brewing operations. It has already installed new windows that will allow customers in the back room to view the sour ale production process. Lutz said plans are still in the works for the renovations, but the construction will not cause any interruption to business. “We want to keep our operations the same as they always have been,” Lutz said. “Our hope here is to keep our service consistent and improve the experience for clients. The renovations follow a period of expansion for the brewery. Last year, Upland completed a $3-million renovation of its brewing facilities, moving all of its production to a brewery at 4060 Profile Parkway. The move allowed Upland to increase its brewing capacity from 11,000 to 25,000 barrels a year.Sour ale production is the only brewing that remains in the 11th Street facility, Lutz said. “We’re putting a lot of effort into expanding our sour selection,” Lutz said. As the second largest brewer in Indiana, Upland has made plans to host parties around the state in celebration of its 15-year anniversary. The festivities will begin with a launch party in Terre Haute April 6 celebrating Upland’s revival of the pre-Prohibition beer, Champagne Velvet. For Risinger, the revival brings back childhood memories of working in his father’s bar. As a 12-year-old, Risinger would stand on upside-down Coca-Cola wooden crates in order to reach the bar and serve customers. In addition to the expansion and Champagne Velvet revival, Upland is launching a new website with an event calendar and user-friendly pages that allow customers to browse through the beer selection. Caldwell said he is a regular at the Upland Bloomington Brew Pub and believes the new Carmel location will reach a large market of wealthy IU alumni. Expanding the Bloomington location will help cater to the large crowds that gather at the pub, which has become a local staple, he said. “You come here some nights and you have to wait an hour,” Caldwell said. “It’s just a great atmosphere with great beer.”
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Senior Becky Boyle was removed from campus by her parents Nov. 13, 2010. She had packed nothing.She thought she would be returning to class the next day. She didn’t return until January. Boyle was admitted to McCallum Place, an eating disorder treatment center in St. Louis. Now a senior, Boyle began her battle with anorexia her freshman year. The disorder had progressed to a point where she had no other option but to take medical leave. “You’re on lockdown,” Boyle said. “They put you on a ridiculous feeding schedule. They would lock the bathroom doors on us. But it’s either there or the hospital.”She said her struggles did not revolve around achieving a certain body shape. They manifested out of a need to maintain control.This week is “Celebrate EveryBODY Week,” an effort by IU Counseling and Psychological Services to promote positive body images. The week is also National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, but CAPS decided to broaden the focus to encompass healthy body images overall, CAPS Director Nancy Stockton said.“Celebrate EveryBODY Week” is not just about the body, but also the mind, Boyle said.Boyle describes herself as a perfectionist. Since high school, she has taken maximum course loads, has been a competitive runner and has hardly ever missed a day of class.Growing up as a quadruplet, Boyle said she couldn’t help but compare herself to her siblings. She wanted to fix the flaws she saw in herself. But in searching for control, she lost it. During her freshman year, Boyle began counting calories and exercising excessively. The insecurities, depression and anxiety she felt in high school became worse as she struggled to adjust to college life, she said. “I forced myself into a routine every day,” Boyle said. “If I could just cling to that schedule, all of the terrible emotions I felt, I didn’t have to deal with them.”By November of her sophomore year, she had lost 20 pounds, along with her ability to concentrate in class. She started losing hair and feeling constantly cold. She isolated herself from her friends. Her roommate moved out on her.“I was so unstable she didn’t want to be around me anymore,” Boyle said. “I didn’t want to live anymore.”Boyle’s friends staged an intervention and took her to the health center, where she was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa.Stockton said only about two to four students each semester have situations severe enough that require them to drop out of classes for residential treatment.Boyle was one of those students. “Many eating disorders are misunderstood,” Boyle said. “Everyone experiences them differently and everyone needs to be addressed differently.”Most students with diagnosed eating disorders can continue to take classes while also receiving comprehensive psychological, dietary and physical counseling at the Health Center, Stockton said.But it is often difficult for students to perceive that they have a problem, Stockton said. For some students, an eating disorder might consist of extreme workouts or the use of steroids and drugs in attempts to refine their body as much as possible. Wrestlers, for example, can engage in behaviors similar to eating disorders, Stockton said, but most will resume normal behavior after the season’s end, Stockton said.Although it is often more difficult for men to seek out help, eating disorders do not discriminate, Stockton said.Last year, IU Student Association President Kyle Straub used a public service announcement video to open up about his own experiences with eating disorders.During his sophomore year in high school, Straub used extreme dieting as a way to cope with his difficulties coming out as a gay teenager, he said. “It was like I was standing at the edge of the cliff,” Straub said. “The more you fall the harder it is to climb back up.”Men make up nearly 1 million of the 11 million Americans with an eating disorder, according to Eating Recovery Center statistics. Through therapy, Straub was able to fully recover from his eating disorder by the time he finished high school. “I came out of it on top,” Straub said. “But I don’t want to pretend like it never happened.”Boyle said she is now ready to be open about her disorder. Using Tumblr, she has found a community in which she can connect with others battling eating disorders. The last three years have been a continual process of recovery for Boyle. “I know I still have a lot of issues,” Boyle said. “I’m not ashamed but I don’t want people to think it’s all OK now. I don’t think you ever completely get over it.”Boyle continues to see a therapist and has to be careful to not over-exercise. But Boyle said she now uses running as motivation to stay healthy.“It’s the best gift anyone could ever give me, being healthy enough to run and compete again,” she said. One year after she was admitted to the eating disorder treatment center, Boyle raced at a national running club competition and placed second. One year later, in 2012, she raced again. She placed first.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Chuy Vidaurri-Rodriguez is an aspiring surgeon. He graduated from Bloomington High School South in 2011 with a grade-point average above 4.0. He is an IU sophomore and biology major, a recreational soccer player and community food pantry volunteer.Thanks to private merit scholarships and in-state tuition, Chuy is also an IU student. But after starting his freshman year, Chuy had the rug pulled out from under him. With the passing of House Bill 1402 and Senate Bill 590 in the Indiana General Assembly in 2011, he lost access to in-state tuition. Chuy is an immigrant. His family of six left Querétaro, Mexico, for Bloomington eight years ago in search of better education and higher quality of life for the four children. They came in legally with travel visas, Chuy said. They ended up staying. It was a decision Chuy’s parents made, a decision in which he had no say. If it weren’t for the financial help of a generous private donor, Chuy would have had to drop out of IU last year, he said. Undocumented students like Chuy, students who were already enrolled in an Indiana college in 2011, might be given a second chance this fall. If a new state senate bill, Senate Bill 207, is passed today, it could mean about 200 Indiana students would have their resident tuition reinstated, said Angela Adams, an immigration attorney for Indianapolis-based firm Lewis & Kappes. Adams, one of the primary driving forces behind SB 207, said she is fairly optimistic about the success of the bill, thanks to the federal passing of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in June 2012. DACA allowed any undocumented individuals who were brought to the U.S. at a young age and had resided in the country for at least five years, without a criminal record, to apply for deferred action status. These immigrants are now eligible to receive a renewable work permit for two years, a social security number and an Indiana driver’s license. “It’s a whole group of kids who are now lawfully present in the U.S.,” Adams said. “That’s a totally different situation than we had last year.”The Vidaurri-Rodriguez brothers no longer have to fear deportation and can get jobs to help make ends meet for the family, Chuy said. It has provided the family with some relief, but still does not guarantee them access to an affordable education, he said. For Chuy, SB 207 means more than just regaining his own in-state tuition, he said. It could mean there would be enough money left over for a college education for his three younger siblings. This year, Chuy’s younger brother, Lalo, is a freshman at IU. The brothers are currently splitting the private funding from the family’s sponsor. Their two younger siblings, Carlos and Daniela, ages 18 and 16, respectively, also plan to attend college. As of now, they would both have to pay out-of-state tuition, a cost the family is unable to pay. The family donor’s funding will only go so far, Chuy said. “For four children, that’s a lot of money,” Chuy said. “Even with all of us working, it’ll be really hard.” The number of students affected by the bill is relatively small, said Mark Land, IU associate vice president of university communications, but for those students, the benefit would be drastic. The University is fully supportive of the bill, he said.“All they’ve ever known is being an Indiana resident,” Land said. “Hopefully this gives these students a chance to pick up where they left off.”Before HB 1402 and SB 590, undocumented students were allowed to enroll in six out of the seven public universities in Indiana, including IU. Beginning July 2011, college tuition more than tripled for undocumented students across the state. This year, out-of-state IU students pay $30,200 in tuition fees alone, versus $8,750 for Indiana residents — a difference of $21,450 per year.If the Senate and House, passes SB 207, this tuition increase will be reversed. Adams has been working with Indiana students to tell the stories of those affected by SB 207. She has been taking deferred action students, such as IU junior Fred Diego and former IU student Victoria Hicks, to the Indiana Statehouse to shake hands with legislators. At one Senate hearing, Hicks gave a testimony about how she was forced to drop out of IU her junior year after losing in-state tuition. Diego has been helping publicize the bill across the IU campus and the entire state. He currently co-manages indianadreams.org, which Adams funded. The website shows the photos and stories of 50 undocumented students across Indiana, uploaded by the students themselves. “The campaign is about destroying the stereotypes and putting a face to the issue,” Diego said. “The face is not a gang member. It is that of a smiling valedictorian or a future doctor. This individual is being denied the opportunity to reach full potential because of a crime he did not commit.”Adams said one of the main arguments against in-state tuition for undocumented students is the perception that the parents of these students are not legal, contributing members of society. “They’re already in our workforce,” Adams said. “They pay taxes. All they want to do is go to school. It’s in the state’s best interest to educate everyone and not create barriers. Why do we have to look outside the state when we have this talent pool right here? They already call Indiana home.” If the bill passes through the Senate today, Adams hopes the House will consider an amendment that offers in-state tuition to all deferred action students in the state. This amendment could affect an estimated 3,000 potential college students in Indiana, she said. It could make in-state tuition a reality not just for Chuy, but also for his younger siblings. “I worry about what will happen,” Chuy said. “I want them to have the same opportunities as me.”Getting by the last eight years has been a family effort for the Vidaurri-Rodriguez. Their father works 80-hours per week at both Cracker Barrel and Red Lobster while their mother works as a chef for Delta Delta Delta.During the family’s first night staying in their own apartment, they had no furniture or dishes. They sat on the floor together and ate pasta out of one pot. Three years ago, the Vidaurri-Rodriguez family moved into their first house, which was provided to them by Habitat for Humanity and built with the help of the brothers. Chuy and Lalo said they were always their family’s “designated translators,” since they learned English in school in Mexico. The family has only been back to Mexico once. Chuy and Lalo said they would like to go back to visit, but they consider Bloomington their home. “I think I have a right to study in a place that’s my home,” Chuy said. “We grew up here. We’re part of this community, and this is where we belong.”
Members of the Salimot Ojerinde dance group perform a traditional African dance as part of the "HHart Arts Showcase and Gala" Thursday night at the Hutton Honors College. This is the third year the Hutton Honors College and Hudson & Holland Scholars Program have organized the event.
Taylor Harmon and Jack Wittle, of the band Lost Catfish, perform at the "HHart Arts Showcase and Gala" Thursday night at the Hutton Honors College. This is the third year the Hutton Honors College and Hudson & Holland Scholars Program have organized the event.
Senior Natalie Graves observes the artwork displayed at the "HHart Arts Showcase and Gala" Thursday night at the Hutton Honors College. This is the third year the Hutton Honors College and Hudson & Holland Scholars Program have organized the event.