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(06/13/07 9:19pm)
Burglar gets away after eating cheese\nAt 10:36 p.m. Saturday, a family came home from a day at the lake to find their door unlocked and realized someone had entered their home, BPD Sgt. Faron Lake said, reading from a police report.\nThe family noticed the walls of their home on the 2000 block of Cedarwood Drive had been scribbled on with ink and they were missing three ceramic angels. According to police reports, the burglar completely destroyed the family's 7-year-old daughter’s room and cut her doll's hair off. The burglar wrote on the chalkboard in the daughter's room and on the back of the doll's head the phrase "I hate Ashley."\nThe burglar also ate several packages of cheese and left the wrappers on the floor.\nAnyone who has information on the suspect should call the Bloomington Police Department at (812) 339-4477.
(06/11/07 12:35am)
Junior Julius Mayes has been a member of IU’s Groups Student Support Service program since 2005. And even though Groups is geared more toward freshmen and sophomores, he still enjoys the resources it has to offer. \n“(Groups) provides an alternative for resources,” Mayes said. “It’s an incredible experience.” \nGroups summer orientation will begin June 16 and run until Aug. 3. During the summer, Groups usually has 250 to 300 students who are given the opportunity for academic enhancement and a chance to get acclimated to the campus. \nGroups students will stay during the summer and advance their college experience before August. \n“Summer is to provide that opportunity to understand what college life is about and to really get a great footing into what a professor would want out of a student, what it’s like to live in a dorm (and) what it’s like to get involved with diverse students,” said Director Janice Wiggins. \nThe Groups program began in 1968 to provide students a way to gain access to higher education. A select group of faculty was sent out to recruit young students, and the program began after they recruited 43 students. \nIn order to be eligible for Groups, a student must be a first-generation college student from Indiana. Other criteria for admission include coming from a low-income family and/or having a learning disability. Wiggins said in order to even be considered, a student needs a recommendation. \nMayes added that he was able to meet other black students through the Groups and that the program added to his cultural experience on campus. He also said he feels Groups is one of the greatest programs IU has implemented for minorities. \nAssociate Director for Student Support Roger Gildersleeve explained that during the summer, Groups has to set up the students in dorms and classes as well as schedule advising appointments for them. \n“It’s more work to prepare for than it is really to deal with them that day,” Gildersleeve said. \nGildersleeve said the students attend classes two hours a day for five days a week. During select days, they have other activities such as meetings or activities with their class.\n“It’s a very intense program,” Gildersleeve said. “It’s like boot camp – at the end of boot camp, we always say, ‘Ah, it was no big deal,’ but every day we were sweating the load.” \nWiggins added that during the summer, Groups students have to take six to eight credits to contribute toward their electives for graduation. Each student must earn a 2.0 GPA in order to remain in the program, she said. \nAfter the summer is over, Groups provides the students with resources through their sophomore year, and then they move into their academic studies. Students are allowed to come back during their junior and senior years. \n“Once a Groups student, always a Groups student,” Wiggins said.
(06/11/07 12:33am)
Don’t be fooled; these “phishes” aren’t looking for a hook. They’re looking for user names, passwords, credit card information, and social security numbers. \nThe School of Informatics conducted a study in 2005 regarding “social phishing,” during a time when social networking was not as popular as it is today. \n“Social phishing” is defined in the study as “a form of social engineering which an attacker attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information from a victim by impersonating a third party.”\nThe study was headed by associate professors of informatics Filippo Menczer and Markus Jakobsson and graduate students Tom Jagatic and Nathaniel Johnson. The main idea was that these students would click on a link outside of the IU server and be asked to enter their user names and passwords. \nMenczer explained that they gathered information from a Web site for the study and built a network to ‘phish’ these students. Jagatic and Johnson sent e-mails to IU students that appeared to be from other IU students. \n“The purpose of the study was to see how easy it was to get information,” Menczer said. \nAccording to the data in the study, 349 students out of the 487 that were targeted clicked on the link in the e-mail and authenticated with their valid IU user name and password. The study targeted college students between the ages of 18 and 24 and were selected based upon the amount and quality of information that they disclosed about themselves. \nJagatic, the principal investigator of the study, explained that even though the information provided on social networking sites is intended for friends and relatives, it can be used in many other ways. \n“I think users of social networking Web sites should be cognizant that the information they disclose about themselves may be available in the public domain,” Jagatic said. \nThe study itself took about a semester to complete. After attaining approval from University Information Technology Services, designing the Web sites and writing out proposals, Jagatic and Johnson planned the “phishing attack,” which consisted of them sending out the e-mails that asked for user names and passwords. The “phishing attack” took about three or four days. \n“We expected it to last longer,” Menczer said. “We had so much data, we stopped as soon as we could.” \nJagatic added that there’s an anti-phishing group on campus that has conducted other research in phishing attacks and counter-measures, but even though they have these studies, students may still find it hard to filter out phishes. \n“At the end of the day, I think technological countermeasures can help lessen the effect of phishing attacks, yet defending against deception in a place like the Internet is intrinsically difficult,” Jagatic said.
(06/11/07 12:30am)
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. \nTony Sams, editorial adviser and production director at the Indiana Daily Student, explained at one point last week that many hearts were broken after the unexpected loss of IU Student Media Director David Adams, referring to a quote from “The Wizard of Oz,” one of Adams’ favorite movies.\nAdams’ memorial service was held Friday at Unity of Bloomington, 4001 S. Rogers St., a center for spiritual growth. Red and yellow roses lined the altar, filling the air with their aroma as more than 150 friends, family members and colleagues filled the room to celebrate Adams’ life.\nFormer Dean of the IU School of Journalism Trevor Brown, Chancellor Ken Gros Louis and Dean of the IU School of Journalism Bradley Hamm began the memorial service by speaking about Adams’ professionalism. \n“Teachers teach, and the lessons and the values they give to us stay with us,” Hamm said. “As Dave showed, we simply must put these into action for the good of our students and our community.”\nFall 2006 Editor-in-Chief Michael Zennie spoke at the service on behalf of students and alumni who knew Dave. Zennie explained Adams’ patience and kindness toward his students. \n“Never did I hear him speak ill of any student or any decision any student made, even recalling some of the absolute nightmarish scenarios in journalism that he experienced,” Zennie said. “He dismissed it as ‘Oh, it was an experience. It was a mistake. It was a good learning experience.’” \nThe Rev. Lynn Carlson explained she met Adams outside of the University and had known him for about 10 years. She said although she didn’t spend a lot of time with him, she had a heart-to-heart connection with him and understood him spiritually. \nThe memorial service in the chapel ended with soloist Ginger Curry singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and two prayers.\nIU Student Media invited all guests back to the Indiana Daily Student newsroom to record memories. The memories will be distributed for anyone who would like a copy. \nHamm explained that even though they do not have an immediate replacement for Adams’ position, IU will look nationally for the best person to lead the IDS and continue the tradition of excellence Adams built. \nAfter the service, Rev. Carlson invited guests to share memories at an open forum downstairs in Unity. \nAbout 20 people stood in front of a crowded room to share their favorite or most memorable experience with Adams. Ron Johnson, a professor at Kansas State University, said he met Adams while attending Fort Hays State University. \nJohnson explained how he’s following in Adams’ footsteps. Johnson said he took Adams’ position at Fort Hays State University four years after Dave left in 1985. In 1989, he again took the position Adams vacated at Kansas State University. \n“He had a rather profound influence on us,” Johnson said. “He may not be here, but his influence will be there for the rest of your life.”\nDave’s brother Charlie Adams explained how he was one of the more fortunate people who knew Dave because he knew him for his entire life. \n“Today’s ceremony began with a rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow.’ We had rain outside. There will be a rainbow,” Charlie said. “Dave has crossed over. Let’s celebrate his memories.”
(06/11/07 12:29am)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Paul Newman challenged IU’s policy on mandatory retirement five years ago when he became interested in a part-time position as associate dean of the faculties. Newman was told he was ineligible because he was too old. \nNewman said he believed this was illegal, so he took his complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After two years, the EEOC ruled in Newman’s favor and IU was forced to revoke its policy. In its place, IU adopted a new retirement policy applicable only to high-level administrators. The current policy, implemented for a 5-year trial period five years ago, states that all high-level administrators must step down from their positions by age 65.\nBloomington Faculty Council President Lisa Pratt said in an e-mail that she has no substantive comment on the retirement age issue, but she suspects the topic will be revisited by the BFC this year as part of rewriting the policy on benefits.\nPresident of the board of trustees Steve Ferguson explained that the policy has not been lifted because there isn’t a new policy to replace it. Ferguson said the policy did not expire in five years – it was just set forth as a subsequent amount of time to review it. \n“(We’ve) gone through extensive discretion with the faculty council,” Ferguson said. “(Changing the policy) has not been on the agenda.” \nHistory professor Bob Eno, who was president of the BFC five years ago, explained that the only reaction he’s heard to the mandatory retirement clause is that it’s a good idea, even though it hasn’t yet undergone an administrative review.\nEno said he believes if there were no review process, the University would think it better to automatically retire people. \nFerguson said he feels the policy in place does not violate IU’s equal employment opportunity and affirmative action policy, which states “IU prohibits discrimination based on arbitrary considerations of such characteristics as age, ” or federal and state standards. \n“The rule we have – if it didn’t apply, we wouldn’t have it,” Ferguson said. \nThe question Newman wants answered in regard to the retirement clause is “What purpose does the new policy serve?”\nFerguson said in the last five years, nobody has complained about the policy, and many of the trustees are not taking a position on the issue one way or another. \n“There are benefits with mandatory retirement for top executives.” Ferguson said. “It gives them an opportunity to plan and the University to plan.” \nFerguson explained that, under outgoing IU President Adam Herbert, the University created a leadership training program for employees. He said in case the University needed to replace an executive, they would have someone that’s been through the training. \nNewman said he believes that some people can be more effective at their job later in their life.\n“People burn out at different ages,” Newman said. “Some hit their prime at 65.”
(06/11/07 12:27am)
Starting Tuesday, for the next six weeks nearly between 6,000 and 7,000 new IU students will come to campus for Freshman Orientation in preparation for their August move-in day.\nAssociate Director of Orientation Programs Melanie Payne explained that all orientation programs are two days, and there are 41 separate programs. Payne said Orientation helps acclimate students not only to campus but also to the services and programs IU offers.\n“Our role is to help their transition as best we can by helping them think who they’re going to be here and the decisions they’re going to be making and make sure that they know that IU has support systems in place,” Payne said. \nThe program employs 48 leaders, 34 of whom live in Wright Quad and who facilitate scheduled activities over the two-day program. \nRecent graduate Joe Lovejoy is currently an office assistant for the Orientation program. Lovejoy has been with the program since 2004 and started as an orientation leader. \nHe explained that orientation leaders have the first contact with new students and they serve as IU representatives to make transitions from high school to college more successful. \n“I think it’s really important, especially in the first year,” Lovejoy said. “(Students) don’t know what to expect.” \nDuring the first day of Orientation, all students go through required academic testing and then meet in a small group with their orientation leader to look at an overview of their day. \nStudents receive materials such as their academic program planner, course description books and support information. Orientation leaders will lead ice-breaker exercises so the students get to know each other and feel more comfortable. \nPayne said even though a lot of schools will put a group of students with an adviser and go through the basics, IU’s orientation program is based on being personal. \nPayne said she gets phone calls once in awhile from students who do not want to be at Orientation for two days. She said they could condense it into a one-day program, but then it would have to consist only of advising and registration, and to her, that’s not enough. \n“At Orientation, they’re coming into a new world for them, and whether they’re confident about it, excited about it, nervous about it, scared to death about it, it’s a different world,” Payne said. “They will be a different person here.”\nOrientation leaders bring the freshmen to sessions on student success and talk about the Indiana Promise. The Indiana Promise is a three-part promise the Orientation leaders ask students to make for themselves regarding ethics, respect for others and personal responsibility. \n“It’s all about being successful at IU,” Payne said. \nToward the end of the first day of Orientation, the students will go through the “Hoosier Experience,” a series of skits geared toward a year in the life of a freshman. Orientation leaders will look at different stereotypical students, such as the slacker student or the over-involved student, and will describe what those students \nare doing. \nOne performer will be “voted off” the Hoosier Experience, and then later in the skit, leaders will check back in on those students to see how they have been doing since they were voted off.\n“We’ll talk about decisions, things they do, things that they do that aren’t so helpful,” Payne said. \nAfter the Hoosier Experience, the students will go back into their small groups and talk through some of those issues and more generally about life as a student. \nAs the last event for day one, the program hires real actors to provide an interactive theater, geared toward safety, particularly sexual assault, diversity and other decisions that students make. \n“It can be really intense sometimes, and it’s just a very different way to help us talk about things that students are making decisions about every day,” Payne said. “ It kind of gives us a chance to help them think about things as a \ncollege student.” \nDuring the second day of Orientation, students go through their one-on-one advising appointment. Payne said these appointments are one of the most important parts of the Orientation process.\n“For a very large campus we try as hard as we can to personalize some things, and that’s one place where we get to do that,” Payne said. \nAfter students go through their advising meetings, they receive their CampusAccess cards, register for classes, get to see the campus and learn a little about IU’s culture. \nAll freshmen have to attend one of the 41 Orientation programs. IU holds a fall program for those unable to attend. Payne said the fall program will have about 800 attendees, most of them international students. \nThe last day of the summer program is reserved for Transfer Transitions, which is the program for transfer students. The program is only one day because orientation leaders are not talking to them as much about academic adjustments, but more generally about the \nIU campus. \nPayne said she hopes Orientation will have incoming students thinking of situations as college students, instead of as high school students. She said that even though they pack so much information into two days, she can only hope the students remember a small percentage of it. \n“A lot of people are really surprised at the difference when they come here,” Payne said.
(06/08/07 4:57pm)
The Monroe Bank in Highland Village, 4191 West Third Street, was robbed at around noon Thursday. \nA man entered the bank and immediately walked towards the teller on the left. The man pepper-sprayed a patron and the teller, BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada said. \nThe suspect got behind the counter and had the teller empty out her drawer. The suspect then fled the bank, possibly on a bicycle, and traveled in an alley behind the bank towards Curry Pike. The amount of money that was stolen is not known at this time. \nThe suspect was described as a black male, around six feet tall wearing baggy pants, a red long sleeve pull over and a blue and white baseball cap.\nBPD is reviewing the bank videos for further information.\nIf any information on the suspect is known, please contact the Bloomington Police Department at 339-4477.\nKeep watching idsnews.com for more information.
(06/07/07 3:09am)
Family, friends, and colleagues will gather on Thursday and Friday to pay their final respects to IU Student Media Director Dave Adams. \nAdams came to IU in 1989 to teach journalism courses and supervise the Indiana Daily Student and the Arbutus yearbook. He was found Saturday evening unresponsive in his backyard pond. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. \nThe visitation begins at 5 p.m. and lasts until 8 p.m. on Thursday at Allen Funeral Home, 3000 E. 3rd Street. \nDuring the visitation, friends, family and colleagues will be able to look at pictures, a slideshow and have the chance to talk about Dave’s life. \nThe memorial service will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday at Unity of Bloomington, a center for spiritual growth, 4001 S. Rogers Street. \nAssistant Director/Business of IU Student Media, Susan Elkins said there will be time to reflect on Adam’s life during the service. Elkins said University Chancellor Ken Gros Louis, Dean of the IU School of Journalism Bradley Hamm and former Dean of the IU School of Journalism Trevor Brown will be speaking on Dave’s professional life. \nElkins, who was a cancer patient in 2004, said every time she had surgery, Dave would sit with her husband and children. \n“It was special to take the time out of his day to do that for me,” Elkins said. “But that was the type of person he was.” \nEditor-in-Chief Zachary Osterman said he thinks the outpouring of support the IDS has received suggests there will be a lot of people coming to Bloomington to pay their final respects to Dave. \n“It’s a testament to the man to show how well liked he was and how good he was at his job,” Osterman said. \nOsterman explained that Dave was loved because he was both professional and personal, and there was never any concern too big or too small for him. \n“We never worked for Dave,” Osterman said. “We worked with Dave.” \nDirector of Communications, Beth Moellers, said a couple of alumni have mentioned doing another service in the fall for students who are not in Bloomington this summer. Although nothing is confirmed, she said it is definitely an option. \nUnity of Bloomington’s parking lot holds around 70 cars, and visitors are allowed to park behind the building. If needed, overflow parking will be at Batchelor Middle School across the street. \nIU Student Media is coordinating transportation to and from the Indianapolis airport this week for the visitation and memorial service. If anyone needs a ride or wants to share a ride, please contact Support Services Director Rebekah Spivey at 812-855-0767 or through e-mail at spiveyr@indiana.edu.
(06/07/07 1:19am)
Fall 2007 Editor-in-Chief senior Trevor Brown feels the loss of Dave Adams is going to leave something missing. \n“There will be a big hole that will be hard to replace,” Brown said. “Adams played such a huge part in college media and allowing the students at the paper to grow.” \nAdams, 59, was discovered unresponsive at his home on Saturday night. Ambulance, fire and police responded to a call at 9:55 p.m. that Adams was unresponsive in his backyard pond, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Faron Lake, reading from a report. \nWhen officers arrived, Adams’ partner, Chunming Chou, said he tried to resuscitate Adams and get him out of the pond. Chou stated that, earlier in the night the two had been drinking and he told Adams that he had been drinking too much, according the report. \nJack Dvorak, neighbor and friend of Adams, said since Chou is native Taiwanese, when he called 911 he was hysterical and his English was broken, so he couldn’t effectively communicate with the dispatchers. \nChou went to Dvorak, who lives two doors down, to try to help Adams out of the pond. \n“Within a few minutes, I heard the medics coming,” Dvorak said. “And they took over and did their best.” \nDvorak said the medics worked on Adams for about 45 minutes. \nAn autopsy will occur Monday morning in Terre Haute, and Adams’ remains will be sent to Allen Funeral Home on East Third Street. The cause of death is still unknown. \nDave came to IU in 1989 after leaving a tenured professorship at Kansas State University. He came to IU to teach journalism courses and supervise the Indiana Daily Student and the Arbutus Yearbook. \nDave Adams’ son, John Adams, 33, said students have always been an enormous part of his father’s life, and he can remember students from 20 years ago with whom he still kept in touch.\nHis passion for journalism didn’t stop with the newspaper or the yearbook. He extended his generosity to students as well. \nIn February of 2006, current IDS City and State Editor Alberto D. Morales and five other students sat in a teachers lounge at Ocean County College in Toms River, N.J. Dave, who was on the task force for the College Media Advisers, was visiting to investigate First Amendment violations regarding the firing of Viking News Adviser Karen Bosley.\nBosley met Dave through the College Media Advisers committee and has known him for 35 years. \n“He’s a warm and friendly person,” Bosley said. “He was a person I cared very much about.” \nMorales said Dave proudly showed the room full of students at OCC a copy of the IDS. Dave, who reached out to students who were passionate about journalism, gave Morales his business card and contacted him regarding his writing. \nDave told Morales to consider applying to IU when he was done with OCC. Morales simply replied, “Trust me, I’m done with OCC.” \nMorales transferred to IU in the spring of 2007. Morales said that if it weren’t for Dave, he wouldn’t even be at IU. \n“He gets close to people in situations like these,” Morales said. \nMorales explained that Dave was like a father to him. He would sit him down if his grades were poor and tell him they needed to get better. \n“(Dave) went beyond his job title,” Morales said. \nEven when Dave wasn’t recruiting new talent or fighting for the First Amendment, he was helping students in the newsroom. \nSpring 2007 Editor-in-Chief Kacie (Foster) Axsom said she became close with Dave during the spring semester. \n“If I didn’t know what to do, he’d help present different options for me,” Axsom said. “(He) took me in as more than an editor. We were friends.” \nDean of the IU School of Journalism Bradley Hamm said that he always heard of Dave because he was so well known in college media. Hamm said he met with Dave about a week ago to talk about projects with student journalists. \n“What I relate Dave to is energy and passion,” Hamm said. “He applies that to everything related to students and journalists.” \nHamm explained that he believes it is impossible for most people to comprehend what a force Dave was. \n“He was inducted into the College Media Advisers Hall of Fame when he was in his forties,” Hamm said. “That’s just unheard of.” \nHamm added that Dave had done so much by the time he was 50 that he had become a legend in student journalism. \n“The thing to me that captures Dave is just the general excitement in his voice about what students were doing and how they were developing,” Hamm said. \nDvorak, who is also a professor and director of the IU High School Journalism Institute, explained that Dave had an enormous amount of energy and was an excellent educator and a very dynamic person in terms of his profession. \nHe said that Dave left an imprint on the Indiana Daily Student because of all the things that he accomplished. \n“The IDS won all sorts of national recognition,” Dvorak said. “It speaks volumes about his leadership and about the talent at the paper.” \nVince Filak, faculty advisor of the Ball State University Daily News and executive director of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association, said Dave was always proud of the IDS, and he really did believe it was the best college paper in the country. \nFilak said three years ago the ICPA held an awards ceremony in Bloomington, and the IDS won top newspaper, top online newspaper and Arbutus won \nbest yearbook. \n“There’s a picture of Dave (after the awards) with a bunch of kids – I’ve never seen a man smile bigger.” \nFormer Dean of the IU School of Journalism Trevor Brown (no relation to Editor-in-Chief Trevor Brown) said he worked very closely with Dave during his tenure and continued to stay in touch with him after Brown retired. \nBrown explained that Dave was interested in making both the IDS and the Arbutus more financially secure. \n“Dave came to the IDS and took a strong role in leadership of Arbutus and the IDS,” Brown said. “Both (publications) were struggling financially.” \nBrown said one of Dave’s defining characteristics was how caring he was, as well as how willing he was to share his private difficulties with students to help them through their own struggles. \n“They’re not an easy set of accomplishments to replace,” Brown said. \nIU President Adam Herbert released a statement regarding Dave’s death. Herbert said Dave was more than just a teacher. He was a mentor, a coach and a friend who had a very special impact on two generations of students. \n“Indiana University has had cause to be enormously proud of the quality and professionalism of the newspapers and yearbooks produced by Dave’s student staffs over the years,” Herbert said. “We will all miss him dearly.” \nAnd though he wasn’t born in Indiana and came to the state later in his life, his step-mother Betty Adams said Dave Adams died a Hoosier. \nDave recently lost a tooth eating popcorn, she said, recalling one of her favorite stories about her step-son. One of the last times Betty Adams, 79, saw Dave, he smiled broadly, showing the space in his teeth. \n“And he said joking, ‘Mom, I’m a real Hoosier now,’” Betty Adams said. \nDave had a good sense of humor about the missing tooth, but hadn’t been able to get it fixed it yet, she said.\n“And now, bless him, he’s gone to his grave as a Hoosier,” she said.\nDave Adams is survived by his partner, Chunming Chou, son John Adams, brother Charlie Adams and step-mother Betty Adams. \nFuneral arrangements are pending.
(06/07/07 12:45am)
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. That’s what docent Tina Jernigan said inspired the “Death and the Otherworld” tour on Saturday at the IU Art Museum. \n“Everybody is going to die and we have to deal with it in some manner,” she said.\nWhen Jernigan signed up for the themed tour in October, she had just redone her will and was getting ready to plan her funeral. She explained she got obsessed with the idea of death and the way cultures perceive it.\n“Everybody dies – it’s a reality,” Jernigan said. “That’s the one thing every civilization has in common.”\nTen people showed up for the themed tour, and Jernigan guided them through art from Chinese, Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures.\nJernigan explained all the works of art during the tour were somehow related to death, the burial practices or the cultural belief in the afterlife. \n“(Death) binds all civilizations together,” Jernigan said.\nThe tour began with Chinese art, and Jernigan guided everyone through three different collections of burial pieces, featuring the lid of a mummy tomb, and the metallic piece, “Wagon with Oxen.”\nJernigan spent the majority of her time discussing the Greek burial rituals and then moved onto the Etruscan culture. Jernigan ended the tour talking about a sarcophagus, which was used in Roman culture.\nJunior Britteny Godar explained that she has always been interested in investigating the religion of ancient cultures. Godar said she learned a lot of interesting information from the tour.\n“It was interesting how, across the different cultures, there were similar themes,” Godar said.\nDiara Nicholson, a friend of Godar’s, tagged along because she was in town visiting. Nicholson explained that it was her first trip to the IU Art Museum, and she thoroughly enjoyed the tour.\n“I feel like I’ve taken history for granted, and I want to learn more about it,” Nicholson said.\nDocent Nancy Quigle was present at the tour and explained that, even though she’s a docent herself, she comes because no matter how much she’s studied, she learns something new each time.\n“The person doing the theme studies especially on different facts,” Quigle said. “We like to come because we see things we pass by all the time.”\nQuigle said the docents at the museum lead about 16,000 people on planned tours during the year. The crowd usually consists of school children, so the tours have to follow a curriculum for schools, she said.\n“It’s a really big thing, the educational program of this art museum,” Quigle said.
(06/07/07 12:24am)
Man arrested for battery\nA man was arrested June 1 after attempting to withdraw money he claimed was from God at a local bank.\nAnthony Andrews, 27, was arrested for impersonating a public servant, two counts of battery, trespassing and resisting law enforcement.\nAndrews entered IU Credit Union, 105 E. Winslow Rd., and told a teller he wanted to take out the $55 million he said God had put into his account, Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.\nWhen two bank managers tried to escort him out the bank, Andrews punched one of the managers in the face and shoved the second manager. \nBPD Officer Christopher Scott was dispatched to the area. When Scott found the suspect, Andrews said, "I'm with the FBI. Don't violate my rights."
(05/31/07 2:48am)
Arson reported at Arlington Heights Elementary School\nArlington Heights Elementary School, 700 W. Parrish Rd., received partially burned mail Saturday, said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report. \nThe principal of the school said this is the third case of arson the school has had within a year. In May, a dumpster was set on fire and another dumpster had been set on fire about a year before that, Canada said. \nThere are currently no suspects, and the school has requested that police provide extra patrol of the area.
(05/31/07 12:30am)
After summer orientation, all incoming freshman students will be required to take an online class called AlcoholEdu. \nIU received a $331,076 grant May 22 that will help finance the online class for two years. Dick McKaig, dean of students, said only a portion of the grant is going toward the alcohol education class. \n“The grant funds not only the program but funds a faculty-oriented research program,” McKaig said. \nMcKaig said Ruth Gassman, the executive director of the Indiana Prevention Resource Center, will be heading the faculty that will be doing an evaluation to see whether or not the program is effective in changing abusive alcoholic behavior on campus. \n“There’s no sense in spending money if it’s not making a difference,” McKaig said. “You gotta go with something harder than data. Do a check on issues you can document: blood alcohol content, property damage in residence halls. Check on them before and after, and see if it makes a difference.” \nBrandon Busteed, CEO and founder of AlcoholEdu, explained that after he graduated from Duke University, he became frustrated that alcohol played a big part in social life at school. \n“(Alcohol was) limiting the potential of bright people,” Busteed said. \nBusteed said he wanted to give students the benefit of the doubt, and that’s why he started the online class. \nBusteed explained that IU students will have to log in to access AlcoholEdu. The program will have a series of questions that will personalize the experience for the student, asking them about personal alcohol consumption and awareness. \n“It will be realistic,” Busteed said. “It’s not a program that’s going to change a student in a black or white way.” \nMcKaig explained that students will hear about the program during orientation and will be required to complete it prior to returning to campus for the fall semester. Although the University hasn’t decided what the final punishment for not completing the course will be, McKaig said other universities have barred students from registering for second semester classes until the course is completed.\nIUPD Capt. Jerry Minger explained that it is hard to say whether or not the program will be beneficial because it has never been used at IU. At other universities, it has caused statistics related to alcohol abuse to go down. \n“Educational aspects seem to be beneficial to the incoming population,” Minger said. \nAccording to the reports on the IUPD Web site, in 2006 IU made 391 arrests and 999 disciplinary referrals on campus for public intoxication, illegal consumption and false identification. \n“(AlcoholEdu) will guarantee all incoming freshman have a common, base understanding about alcohol and alcohol terminology, and we can build on that with our programming in the fall,” McKaig said. \nMcKaig said that there have been recent instances of freshmen registering dramatically high on BAC tests, and he hopes to see this decrease.\nBusteed added that AlcoholEdu will have new features, such as a social networking site for students who don’t drink and are not interested in partying. \n“Connecting people who aren’t in the alcohol scene could be a very valuable plan,” McKaig said.
(05/25/07 2:01am)
On May 18, The Bloomington Faculty Council announced Lisa Pratt as its new president for the term of 2007-2009. \nPublic affairs professor Ted Miller has been the president of BFC for the last two years and will be retiring once his presidential term is completed. \nAccording to the BFC home page, the council began in 1975 and is a representative body of elected members from the Bloomington campus. \nNewly elected Agenda Committee members are Julie Bobay of the libraries department, Laura Ginger of business, Kevin Hunt of anthropology, Alex Tanford of law and Herb Terry of telecommunications. \nPratt, a professor of geological sciences, is the first woman to hold the office in almost 20 years.\nKelly Kish, chief of staff of the BFC, explained that the last female who held the council’s presidency was Myrtle Scott from the School of Education during the 1990-1991 term. \nKish said three other women held office before Scott, and including Pratt, there have been five women total during the last 30 years. \n“There hasn’t been a woman elected in the last few years because there hasn’t been a woman’s name on the ballot,” Kish said. \n Kish said the council is in a transition phase right now, with Pratt working alongside Miller before she officially assumes the role.\n“Usually we elect presidents earlier,” Kish said. “We had some delays in the election, and usually it’s a stable transition.” \nPratt said it is too early to say what she plans to do in the future, but there will be a number of continuing items that the BFC will pick up. \n“One of the items we’ll be monitoring will be the general education requirements,” Pratt said. \nIn October 2006, the BFC approved a set of general education requirements for all Bloomington students that will eventually be incorporated into all degree programs. \nPratt added that, with new President-elect Michael McRobbie and a new provost on the way, the BFC will have to see what matters they plan to address, and from there they will prioritize in what order they want to address them.
(05/25/07 1:58am)
IU security guard Bryan E. Kern, 39, was arrested May 11 for a misdemeanor battery charge and impersonating a law enforcer.\nOn May 8 at 2:22 a.m., Bloomington Police DepartmentBloomington Police Department Officer Walter Harris was dispatched on a call for an assault. Harris was told two suspects in a silver Jeep were leaving Steak ‘n Shake, 1919 N. College Ave., going southbound on northbound College Avenue.\nHarris stopped the Jeep at 17th and College. IUPD Officer Brian Oliger informed Harris that both suspects in the silver Jeep were IU security guards. Oliger stated Kern was wearing a black uniform with the security patch on shoulder, a black duty belt and a shoulder microphone.\nAccording to police reports, Kern stated he pulled into the drive-through at Steak 'n Shake and asked the employee at the window for two separate orders. The employee explained company policy allows only one order per vehicle. Kern stated he pulled up to the window where they talked again, and when he refused to make an order, she slammed the window closed.\nKern then parked his vehicle and walked into the restaurant, where he walked up to the employee and asked her why she had an attitude.\nKern said that while speaking with her, another employee intervened and she began bumping him with his body. After she told him to leave the serving line, Kern said she pushed him and he left the establishment.\nHarris went to Steak 'n Shake to speak with the employees who were there. The employee who had been at the drive-through window said Kern refused to place an order and came into the establishment, pointing his finger in her face.\nThe victim said another employee intervened and told Kern to leave the service area, and if he didn’t, she was going to call the police. Kern reportedly replied, “I am a police officer.”\nAfter Kern stated he was a police officer, he put his hands on her chest and pushed her away.\nA witness stated she saw Kern come into the restaurant and place his finger in the victim’s face, saying he was a police officer and she should never be rude to him.\nThe witness also said Kern yelled at the employee who intervened and he did shove her.\nIUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said Kern was suspended immediately with no pay.
(05/24/07 12:57am)
A man exposed himself on 10th Street and Indiana Avenue on May 19 at approximately 10:47 p.m, BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report. The complainant was walking east on 10th Street going toward Indiana Avenue when a man pulled down his shorts and began to dance in front of her, Canada said.\nShe screamed, and he ran behind Yogi’s Bar and Grill. Police officers did not locate anyone afterward.\nThe man was described as being in his mid-40s, 5 feet 7 inches tall, extremely skinny with a light-colored beard, short blonde hair on the side of his head and balding.
(05/24/07 12:50am)
The American Red Cross of Bloomington, 1600 W. Third St., canceled its blood drive for the second time and has yet to reschedule it. \nOriginally, the blood drive was scheduled for May 19 at the Army Reserve Center, 520 S. Woodcrest Dr. Once that drive was cancelled, it was rescheduled for this Saturday at College Mall, 2894 E. Third St. \nDon Creek, donor representative at the American Red Cross of Bloomington, said the last time they had a blood drive at the mall, only three donors showed up. \nCreek also added that the organization has no control over signage in the mall parking lots and that it might have been difficult for potential donors to find the correct location. \n“They wouldn’t let us have yard signs to let people know,” Creek said. \nAccording to http://www.givebloodnow.org, the American Red Cross in the River Valley Region, of which Bloomington is a part, has an overall blood supply of 1.18 days, an amount that is considered low. The blood types that are critically low are O+ and O-. The organization updates http://www.givebloodnow.org daily with overall blood supply. \nIn a May 17 Indiana Daily Student article, Creek said the Red Cross needs 650 to 700 units of blood every day during the work week. He also said that throughout the weekend, they need 200 to 250 units of blood. According to the article, there were more than 50 blood drives on campus last school year, during which about one-third of students gave blood.\nHowever, in the community as a whole, not enough people are giving blood. \n“The demand for blood is increasing, and only 5 percent of the population is donating,” Creek said in the article. “We accept responsibility for that – for not reminding people.”\nCreek said the problem with low donor turnout is that this generation has not had a proper education program to make them aware of the need for blood.\n“We’re losing a generation of donors,” Creek said. “And we haven’t had enough education to teach the younger generation.” \nHe said he would like to hold the largest blood drive in Indiana as part of an IU versus Purdue challenge and that, after the drive, IU would never lose to Purdue again. Creek also said in the article that he hoped he could set up a competition between all of the Big 10 schools.\nFrom 1-6 p.m on May 29, AMVETS, 5227 W. Airport Rd., will host another blood drive.\nAccording to Red Cross’s Web site, the three basic requirements for donating blood include being at least 17 years old, weighing at least 110 pounds and being generally healthy. To donate blood to the American Red Cross of Bloomington, call (812) 331-1300.
(05/24/07 12:03am)
Senior Michael Richardson studied abroad last summer for six weeks in Dublin, Ireland, and he doesn’t regret the decision. \n“(Studying abroad) is an opportunity to get new perspectives and attitudes,” Richardson said. “They definitely aren’t the same (as IU).” \nAccording to IU’s Overseas Study Web site, http://www.indiana.edu/~overseas, during the 2004-2005 school year, 2,082 students from eight IU campuses enrolled in year-long, semester-long and summer study abroad programs. \nKendra Nelson, assistant director at the office of overseas, explained that there are about 500 students who study abroad in the summer. The most popular places to go abroad in the summer are England, Ireland, Wales, Spain and Italy. \nSenior Katie Mis, another student who went abroad to Dublin, said that she initially decided to go because she has family there whom she never met. \nAside from meeting her family, Mis explained that going to Dublin was one of the greatest experiences she’s had. \n“On the weekends, myself and others from my program would go to different parts of Ireland and Scotland,” Mis said. “That was awesome exploring the entire country.” \nMis and Richardson both agreed that visiting Northern Ireland was one of the best educational experiences they’ve ever had. Richardson explained that he learned about the problems that Northern Ireland had, and he actually witnessed them first hand when he went. \nNelson explained that there are different requirements for different programs that IU offers. She also explained that prices for summer programs vary between how many credits you’re taking and where you’re going. \n“That’s the thing for summer programs even though it would cost less to do a summer program,” Nelson said. “When you look at time spent and number of credits, it’s usually more cost-effective to do a longer program.” \nNelson explained that when students come in to discuss studying abroad, they want to push students to spend as much time as possible in another country. \n“We always encourage students,” Nelson said. “If they’re thinking about a summer, they should think about a semester. If they’re thinking about a semester, they should think about a year.” \nRichardson explained that studying abroad is an incredible experience because not everyone in Europe has the same views and you get a broader perspective on things. \n“(Ireland) is relaxed socially,” Richardson said. “They didn’t worry about trivial matters that IU stresses over.”
(05/23/07 11:25pm)
Fifteen artists gathered around an L-shaped table Tuesday night in the John Waldron Arts Center as Kelley School of Business professor Carolyn Wiethoff asked them about their business goals. Weithoff encouraged the artists to develop a marketing plan for future business endeavors. \n“This session is about thinking in a very program-planned way about marketing your work,” Wiethoff said. “And so come thinking strategically how you’re going to place and promote your work becomes kind of important.”\nThe meeting was part of a monthly program held at the center called “Artists After Hours,” said Jonna Risher, director of arts at the John Waldron Arts Center. Risher explained that “Artists After Hours” is a program that was developed for the different art organizations and artists around Bloomington to promote their works.\nAfter learning that most of the artists were interested in finding a way to get their businesses or goals off the ground, Wiethoff gave a mini-lecture based on the “four P’s of marketing”: price, production, place and promotion.\nWiethoff started with an example about how to market water. Wiethoff explained that if you’re going to market water, you’re not marketing the water itself, but the need that water is filling.\n“What need are you reaching?” Wiethoff asked. “Usually with art, it’s emotional. What feeling am I trying to sell?”\nWiethoff explained that product definition drives everything else you’re looking for. All of the other “P’s” fall into place once you know what need it is.\nWood artist Velma McGlothin recently relocated to Monroe County from Artists Switzerland County, Ind. She explained that her work with wood art over the past six years has only been a hobby, but now she wants to get serious about it.\n“I want to learn how to go step-by-step without trying to get to the top and then falling flat on your face,” McGlothin said.\nMcGlothin owns Two Pond Ridge Wood Art, located on Kent Road. She will have two original design articles in the August 2007 issue of Creative Woodworks & Crafts Magazine.\nSusie T. Seligman began working as a textile designer after graduating college. She spent the last six to seven years developing a furniture line and currently owns a furniture company called Tesoro Mio.\nShe explained that she began working on prototypes when her daughter was in high school. She brought them to companies to get them produced in quantities. She \nis currently working with Best Chair Company and Jasper Seating Company.\n“It feels like we took a quantum leap in my development and in the development of my company,” Seligman said. “We got out production people, we got some designs, we have our wholesale fabric sources. Now we’re down to marketing.”\nSeligman explained that. although her work has received great feedback at art shows, she wanted to create a company. With the \nguidance of the organization “Artists After Hours,” that’s what she \nis doing. \n“For the first time this year, I can say everything has just come together after eight years of very long work,” she said.\nWiethoff said the only problem with small businesses is that people remember the work but they don’t remember who did it. Wiethoff suggested making postcards, so the name of the artist or art organization would be there with a visual. \n“This kind of program, the reason I do it is because it just makes Bloomington a better place to live,” Wiethoff said. “We just have more out there, more art opportunities. It’s just one of those things, I think, where the whole culture of the city benefits when the artists are successful.”
(05/21/07 1:46pm)
Each year the IU Foundation awards one of the largest merit-based student scholarships. This year, as the 2007 scholars await announcement, the 2006 scholars offer their experiences with the scholarship that pays for 75 percent of the student’s total school expenses. \nLolita Christopher, an employee of the IU Foundation, said that the Cox Scholarship began when Jesse and Beulah Cox gave a $15 million endowment to start the program. \nChristopher added that both Jesse and Beulah wanted to invest in students. \n“They really believed it would build a sense of character and achievement,” Christopher said. \nWhile the Cox Scholarship pays for 75 percent of the student’s total expenses, the students must work to pay for the other 25 percent. The winners for the 2007 school year will be announced in the fall, but for the past year, the 2006 winners have been working to maintain this scholarship.\nSenior Julianne Martin, a 2006 Cox Scholarship winner, left for Italy on May 18 to study abroad. She said she worked during the school year to pay for half of her trip and for some spending money. \nAlong with the Cox Scholarship, Julianne Martin receives other scholarships that help her with school expenses. \n“(During the academic school year) I work two different jobs,” Julianne Martin said. “I’m a Latin tutor at the academic support center in the dorms and I work at the Hoosier Café.” \nJulianne Martin added that, during the summer, she also holds various other jobs. \n“I’m really happy to be a Cox Scholar,” she said. “I was surprised. It’s a really good program.” \nThe scholarship has specific eligibility requirements. Each student who applies for the scholarship must maintain a 3.0 GPA and must be enrolled as a full-time student working toward their first undergraduate degree. \nEach applicant must also be an Indiana state resident, and they must be working to contribute around $4,000-$4,500 to their education. The Cox Scholarship is available to students on the Bloomington campus and the IUPUI campus. \nSenior Kathryn Martin, no relation to Julianne Martin, said that, when she found out she won the scholarship, she was surprised. \n“I didn’t think I was going to get it,” Kathryn Martin said. “I was not confident.” \nKathryn Martin said she received the Cox Scholarship just last year. Her first job was at Macy’s, but she quit to work at the psychology department with the Wellman lab with professors Cara Wellman and Jo Anne Tracy. \n“Researching neuroscience didn’t bring as much income in,” she said. “But (it was) better for my career.” \nKathryn Martin plans on attending graduate school for neuroscience diseases, but she has not yet ruled out medical school. \nChristopher added that the Cox Scholars program awards 21 scholarships annually. About one-third of them are awarded to students at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis and two-thirds of them are awarded to students at IU-Bloomington. \nThe award is renewable for three years and is fairly competitive. \n“We have a great pool to choose from,” Christopher said.