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(06/17/08 10:03pm)
Children and teenagers made bracelets, learned traditional dances and sampled traditional Burmese food June 13 during the Asian Cultural Center’s eighth annual Culture Camp for Children.\nThe free camp, which runs between June 10 and July 25, offers two two-hour sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays and one two-hour session on Wednesdays. During each session, students are put into groups and go to different stations in the Asian Cultural Center to learn about history and traditional language, food and crafts.\n“We wanted children to learn and realize the importance heritage plays in someone’s identity,” said Asian Culture Center Director Melanie Castillo-Cullather.\nThe program, which is in its eighth year, usually hosts about eight to 15 children per session and is open to students in first through ninth grade.
(06/17/08 9:35pm)
This week, a group of 490 students are flocking to campus. And they’re not incoming freshmen.\nMini University is in its 37th year and partners with IU Bloomington Continuing Studies and the IU Alumni Association, according to an IU news release. The program, which sold out in April, offers the chance for anyone 18 and older to choose between more than 100 classes to take for a week.\nClass offerings in the Mini University directory include “Captain Kidd to Columbus: Establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Dominican Republic,” taught by Office of Underwater Science and Educational Resources Director Charles Beeker, “Data Surveillance and National Security: Is Privacy Dead?” taught by IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research Director Fred Cate and “Turning Big Red Green: The Campus Sustainability Movement,” taught by geological sciences professor Michael Hamburger.\nThe program runs between June 15 and 20 and features a picnic, a faculty reception on Thursday, opportunities for students to mingle and a commencement reception on Friday, according to the news release.
(06/15/08 11:17pm)
Various alumni who have contributed to the IU Alumni Association and their respective communities were honored this weekend during IU’s annual Cream and Crimson \nAlumni Weekend.\nFive former students were presented Friday with the Alumni Association President’s Award \nfor their contributions to the Alumni Association, according to an IU news release. Don Goelzer, Paula Griesel, Ronald Lind, Lindy Moss and \nOneita Phillips won the award.\nAnother five alumni were given the Distinguished Alumni Service Award at a dinner on Saturday, based on their University, community and personal accomplishments, said Mike Wright, an Alumni Association representative. Recipients included Sallie Rowland, the first woman to serve as president of the Indianapolis Historic Preservation Commission and the Economic Club of Indianapolis, and Tony Mobley, who led the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation \nfor 26 years. Others presented with the award were former Alumni Association President Kenneth Beckley, Joseph Russel, who created various \nIU African American departments and programs, and Desmond Wong, president and CEO of Chicago’s Sino Strategies Group.\n“It’s the highest award the University reserves strictly for alumni,” Wright said.\nAt a barbecue on Saturday, alumni Hank Warren and Becky Hart Fox also received the Bill Orwig Medal and the Gertrude Rich Award, respectively, for their contributions\nto IU, according to the news release.\nThe annual weekend featured breakfasts in various schools across campus, a barbecue at the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center, an Alumni Association Executive Council meeting and various reunions, Wright said. Alumni who graduated 50 years ago were also \ninducted into the Alumni Association Emeritus Club, according to the news release.
(06/15/08 8:55pm)
The Indiana Business Research Center in IU’s Kelley School of Business recently collected statistics about fathers in Indiana and in the U.S., according to an IU news release.\nThe center works with the national State Data Centers and the Census Bureau to provide economic and demographic data for the government, businesses and organizations throughout the state, according its Web site.\nThere are about 64.3 million fathers in the U.S., with 1.5 million living in Indiana, according to the release. The research center collected specific statistics such as how many fathers live with their biological children, the number of single fathers and other family-based numbers which calculate the level of fathers’ involvement with their children and families.\nAbout 85 percent of fathers nationwide live with their biological children, while the rest live with step-children and adopted children, according to the release. With 19 percent of single parents being male, 42 percent are divorced while 38 percent never married, according to the release. \nThere were an estimated 159,000 stay-at-home dads in 2006, with 60 percent caring for two or more children, according to the release. An estimated 11.3 million mothers of preschool-age children were employed, while a quarter of the pre-school children are cared for by their fathers, according to the release.\nThirty percent of children younger than six years of age in 2003 with married parents ate breakfast with their fathers every day, while 64 percent ate dinner with their fathers every day, according to the release.\nThe release also mentioned the number of places of Indiana where children could buy their fathers popular Father’s Day gifts. Indiana has 152 clothing stores where children can purchase ties and 351 hardware stores where children can buy their dads tools, according to the release. Indiana also has 471 sporting goods stores to purchase fishing rods and golf clubs, according to the release.
(06/05/08 3:03pm)
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded IU $100,000 to train 72 U.S. military officials on Afghanistan’s language and culture, said IU Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region Director Paul Foster.\nThe officials will learn Afghanistan’s two main languages, Pashto and Dari, through the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region before they travel to the country doing humanitarian work, such as repairing school buildings or in hospitals.\n“The U.S. military realizes this type of training is incredibly important,” Foster said.\nThe program will work to teach the officials certain aspects of the Afghan culture and a few key phrases. Foster said the goal is to correct miscommunication problems that have happened in the past between U.S. soldiers and Afghan citizens. \nThe grant’s announcement comes after the IU Reserve Officer Training Corps was given a grant of $481,630 last May to teach cadets the languages and cultures of countries they may be stationed at in the future. Both grants are part of the development of IU’s Strategic Languages and Cultures Task Force, which was created last year, according to the release.\nThe Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region is part of the College of Arts and Sciences and is one of 15 Title VI Language Resource Centers in the U.S. Each center specializes in teaching the languages of certain regions of the world, from Middle Eastern to African languages, Foster said.
(06/02/08 12:20am)
The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute will be able to conduct new research, thanks to a five-year, $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.\nThe National Institutes of Health announced the award May 29, according to an IU news release. The Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, which is part of the IU School of Medicine, partners with IU and Purdue University to do “translational research” – turning scientific discoveries in the laboratory into real-life treatments, according to the release.\nThe universities collaborate with local programs such as Clarian Health, Eli Lilly and Company and BioCrossroads to work on medical research projects.\n“The institute harnesses all of Indiana’s major life sciences research centers into a commonly focused enterprise that will give Indiana’s research scientists many new advantages in finding ways to do their work more effectively and efficiently,” IU President Michael McRobbie said in the release.\nThe Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute will conduct the research through “project development teams,” according to the release. The teams will focus on research ranging from children’s health to helping doctors implement their research findings. Another goal of the institute is to teach researchers to use new technologies including molecular medicine and community-based trials, according to the release.\nThe new research will expand on the Indiana Genomics Initiative, which includes genetic mapping research, and Purdue’s Discovery Park, which involves researchers from every academic field working to solve “large-scale problems,” according to the release.\nConnie Weaver, head of Purdue’s Department of Foods and Nutrition, will lead the institute at Purdue, and IU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Bennett Bertenthal will lead the institute at IU, according to the release.
(05/28/08 11:37pm)
IU’s research in “cybersecurity” and its efforts in phishing-scam prevention have finally paid off.\nThe National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security named IU as one of 22 universities in the country to be the first National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research, according to an IU press release.\nIU, along with the other universities, will be honored at the annual Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education conference June 2-4 at the University of Texas in Dallas. The universities’ assignments have the duration of five years, according to the release.\nIn a response to President Bush’s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security teamed up to form the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research programs in 2004. They came together to promote higher education in online information security and produce more professionals with expertise in protecting confidential information from unauthorized users, according to the release.\nIU was designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence for Information Assurance Education in 2007, said Fred Cate, director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. He is also an IU law professor.\nCate credited the faculty for its research and work with information security. He also credited the School of Law for its efforts and testimonies before Congress, stating which cybersecurity laws are needed.\n“We worked to protect the government, industries, universities and individuals,” he said. “We have a lot of faculty doing research on security problems. We’re always trying to work to identify and fight new threats.”\nBeing one of the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research makes IU and the other colleges eligible for grants and scholarships through Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship programs, according to the release.\nCate said much of the research IU conducted dealt with phishing scams on the Internet, in which scammers trick users into exchanging personal information, while the scammer disguises himself as a representative of a popular company or Web site. \nIn 2005, IU researchers used the tactic of contacting Facebook users under names found on the users’ friend lists, Cate said. He said researchers found that users were six times more likely to freely give out their information if they were under the impression it was from a person they knew. He also said these findings encouraged Facebook to adopt some anti-phishing initiatives.\n“Unfortunately, students and faculty fall for these scams all the time,” he said.\nCate said he hopes IU will continue the initiative to keep cyberspace safe for users and will be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence again in 2013. However, he encouraged individuals to practice self-protection on the Internet.\n“Use common sense,” he said. “Don’t give out information you wouldn’t give out in real life.”
(05/22/08 12:48am)
Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission vice chairman and director of The IU Center on Congress is scheduled to appear at C-SPAN’s Campaign 2008 Bus campus tour stop May 22. The bus, which normally travels around to different cities and features talks with representatives from C-SPAN and presidential candidates, will offer a chance for students to see how the bus works, said Jeremy Art, a C-SPAN marketing representative.\nThe bus will be parked from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the circle drive of the Indiana Memorial Union. Thousands of students and teachers and four presidential candidates have stepped on the bus, which started its tour in January 2007, according to an IU press release. The bus has been to 71 universities and 95 schools around the country, according to the release.\nArt said the bus has two functions -- the first is a traveling production studio that features talks with candidates. When no candidates are available, Art said, students of all ages can step on the bus to see a presentation of the function it normally serves.
(05/21/08 11:46pm)
Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission vice chairman and director of The IU Center on Congress, is scheduled to appear at C-SPAN’s Campaign 2008 Bus campus tour stop May 22, said Jeremy Art, a C-SPAN marketing representative. The bus, which normally travels around to different cities and features talks with representatives from C-SPAN and presidential candidates, will offer a chance for students to see how the bus works, Art said.\nThe bus will be parked from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the circle drive of the Indiana Memorial Union. Thousands of students and teachers and four presidential candidates have stepped on the bus, which started its tour in January 2007, according to an IU press release. The bus has been to 71 universities and 95 schools around the country, according to the release.\nArt said the bus has two functions -- the first is a traveling production studio that features talks with candidates. When no candidates are available, Art said, students of all ages can step on the bus to see a presentation of the function it normally serves.
(05/18/08 10:29pm)
The College Democrats of America have spoken. Their endorsement: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.\nIn a video posted May 13 on YouTube, College Democrats President Lauren Wolfe and Vice President Awais Khaleel gave their endorsement for the 2008 election, saying the senator’s position on issues affecting young people, including college affordability and the Iraq War, helped them make the decision.\n“Sen. Obama has included young people in his growing coalition that is ready to get this country back on track,” Khaleel said in the video.\nWolfe and Khaleel, who are also superdelegates, posted a YouTube video April 28 asking college students whether they thought the College Democrats should support Obama or New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. Wolfe and Khaleel said they received more than 5,000 e-mails, 1,000 Facebook messages and a variety of YouTube response videos.\n“We knew that this was a way to reach college students in a way that was accessible to them,” Wolfe said in the endorsement video.\nWolfe also noted the overwhelming support of college students for Obama as a reason to endorse him.\n“College students have turned out in record numbers for him in every primary contest,” she said.
(05/14/08 11:20pm)
Saturday Highlight Tours\nWHEN: 2 p.m. every Saturday\nWHERE: IU Art Museum\nMORE INFORMATION: Take a tour of the Art Museum’s collections, which begins at the information desk on the first floor. This event is free and open to the public.
(04/30/08 8:20pm)
Due to the high demand for early voting on April 24, students will once again have the opportunity to wait in line to vote early Tuesday at the Union.\nStudents can vote from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Alumni Hall if registered in Monroe County. Students must bring with them their student ID or an Indiana driver’s license to cast their vote for the May 6 primary.\n“There were hundreds of students that came out to vote last time,” said senior Tim Granholm, president for IU Students for Barack Obama.
(04/17/08 4:24am)
For $7, students will be able to stuff themselves full of pizza from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday during the second-annual pizza-tasting competition put on by the student group Pizza Mania.\nPizza Mania was started by four business students last year, said junior Elisabeth Millar, Pizza Mania’s marketing manager. The competition will feature pizzas from 12 area pizzerias that students will be able to taste and vote on.\n“The 12 pizzerias have donated over 300 pizzas and 1,000 breadsticks,” Millar said.\nThe proceeds from the competition will go toward the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which helps veterans and families with injured military personnel, she said.\nThe event raised $3,000 last year, Millar said. Proceeds went to the Salvation Army and a Kelley School of Business staff member who had more than $100,000 to pay in hospital bills for her infant daughter, according to an April 16, 2007, Indiana Daily Student article about the event.\nThe pizzerias will have booths set up around Dunn Meadow, and three live bands will be featured this year, Millar said. A raffle will also provide an opportunity for students to win items from local businesses. After they get their fill, students will be able to choose the pizzerias with the “best cheese,” “best specialty” and “best pepperoni,” among other categories, Millar said.\nStudents also have the opportunity to purchase a ticket for a lower price before the event, Millar said. Tickets can be purchased for $5 today at a Pizza Mania booth set up in front of Ballantine Hall.
(04/16/08 4:23am)
This fall, students on the IU-Bloomington campus will be borrowing directly from the federal treasury instead of Sallie Mae, a private lender, said Roger Thompson, vice provost for enrollment management.\nThe switch, Thompson said, is the result of uncertainty in the amount of funding Sallie Mae will be able to provide. Sallie Mae was chosen as IU’s primary lender four years ago because students weren’t charged a processing fee, Thompson said. However, Sallie Mae recently informed the University that, starting in the fall, students would be charged a minimum processing fee of 1 percent or more. The federal Direct Loan Program will allow students to borrow at a rate of a half percent, Thompson said.\nThompson said the administration kept students’ best interests in mind during the change from private to federal loan funding.\n“We wanted to keep student costs as low as we could,” he said.\nOver the past few months, Thompson said banks have also begun to pull out of the Federal Family Education Loan Program, which partners private and public lenders to provide student loans. There’s a lot of “turmoil and uncertainty” in private lending at the moment, IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said.\nAbout 39 percent of IU-Bloomington students will be affected by the change, according to an IU press release. But, MacIntyre said, students shouldn’t notice a change in how they obtain loans.\n“It will probably be exactly the same in terms of how money is applied for and accessed,” MacIntyre said. “The student doesn’t see a difference under the federal loan.”\nStudents will still have to fill out a FAFSA form, Thompson said. The only difference will be that they will be borrowing money directly through the Department of Treasury rather than through a lending institution such as Sallie Mae.\nIU’s seven other campuses have not yet decided to make the change, Thompson said, but could decide to do so in upcoming weeks.
(04/14/08 3:41am)
Emergency response vehicles were dispatched at about 3:55 p.m. Friday to Alpha Tau Omega, 720 E. Third St., after a man was reported to have fallen three stories from the building’s roof, said IU Police Department Capt. Jerry Minger.\nAlthough police are not sure exactly how the accident happened, at one point officers were told that the subject might have been a roof area where there were high winds, Minger said, reading from the police report.\nThe male subject, who was said to be a visitor to campus, appeared to have at least a broken arm and was transported to Bloomington Hospital. His injuries did not appear to be life threatening, according to police reports.\nMembers of Alpha Tau Omega declined to comment on the incident.
(04/14/08 3:40am)
Thirty Kappa Sigma members were not expelled from their house April 8 but instead are suspended until they can appeal the eviction, which will be in the fall.\nThe April 11 IDS article “IU confirms 30 members kicked out of Kappa Sigma” stated that the members were expelled for “excessive damage to the facility” and “communicated threats to property and staff,” according to a Monroe Circuit Court document filed April 7. \nSophomore Leif Melvin was one of the 30 members who received the eviction notice. He said the damages occurred last semester and couldn’t be connected specifically to the 30 members.\nAll 30 members attended a trial on April 9, during which the eviction was overturned, Melvin said.\nAccording to the April 11 IDS article, Dean of Students Dick McKaig said he did not know details about the situation, but he knew about the fraternity’s decision. He said he would be receiving the list of members’ names to check whether or not they violated University code. Melvin said he hasn’t heard from the University and doesn’t believe he broke any rules.\n“I believe right now and before that I’m innocent,” \nhe said.
(04/12/08 6:40am)
Emergency response vehicles were dispatched to Alpha Tau Omega, 720 E. 3rd St., around 3:55 p.m. Friday after a man was reported to have fallen three stories, said Captain Jerry Minger of IUPD. Although police are not sure exactly how the accident happened, at one point officers were told that the subject might have been in a roof area where there were high winds, Minger read from the police report. The male subject, who was said to be a visitor to campus, appeared to have at least a broken arm and was transported to Bloomington Hospital. His injuries did not appear to be life threatening, according to police reports. \nMembers of Alpha Tau Omega declined to comment on the incident.
(04/01/08 5:14pm)
“Entourage” star Jeremy Piven is coming to IU Wednesday morning to stump for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama.\nPiven is slated to speak at two different locations on campus Wednesday. His tour of IU will start at 11 a.m. at Alpha Tau Omega, said Tim Granholm, president of the IU Students for Barack Obama. Piven’s speech will conclude at noon at Beta Theta Pi, he said.\nThe event is free, but seating is limited.\nFormer president Bill Clinton will also be on campus Wednesday stumping for Sen. Hillary Clinton at 2 p.m. in Assembly Hall.
(03/27/08 4:26am)
Students should not reply to an e-mail requesting Webmail password information, University Information Technology Services Macintosh Consultant Jim Robbins said.\nThe e-mail tells the recipient to “verify” his or her account by replying with his or her username, password, date of birth and country or territory.\n“Whoever’s doing the spamming has to do with the University,” he said, but UITS does not yet know who it is.\nIf a student replies to the e-mail, his or her Webmail account becomes locked. Robbins advised students who have received the e-mail to delete it. However, Robbins said students who have responded to the e-mail should change their password or passphrase immediately and e-mail valid@indiana.edu with their name, username and what happened.
(03/24/08 3:02am)
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and actor Sean Astin will visit IU on Monday to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to an e-mail sent by the IU College Democrats to its members.\nBoth celebrities will be in the Grand Foyer of the IU Auditorium from 6:45 to 8 p.m.\nAstin is known for his starring role in “Rudy” as well as playing Samwise Gamgee in the “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.\nIndiana’s May 6 primary, with 84 delegates at stake, could be the last battleground in a long and bruising Democratic primary season.\nClinton and her opponent for the nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., are running tight with 1,498 and 1,617 pledged delegates respectively, according to The Associated Press. Both are well shy of the 2,024 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.\nIU Students for Hillary Clinton President AnnElyse Gibbons said the Clinton campaign contacted her Friday about Chelsea Clinton’s appearance on campus.\nAstin and Clinton’s speech could help convince IU students to vote for Clinton. Exit polls show Obama has taken large majorities of college-age voters in nearly all of the Democratic primaries so far. \n“There’s not a lot of awareness about the Clinton campaign on campus,” Gibbons said. “This is a great way for college students to get both sides of the argument.”