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(11/17/10 11:51pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It was the first acting job for most of them. But the film series they took part in sparked a worldwide craze, making them recognizable to fans from numerous countries. They started as Harry Potter’s classmates; most of them receiving their first 15 minutes of fame. However, few have moved past the Harry Potter films.These are the Harry Potter kids.Neville (Matthew Lewis) – The sad sack of the Harry Potter crew. Lewis acted in four television series and one made-for-TV movie before Harry Potter. He also had a side role in “The Sweet Shop” (2010), which was filmed in the UK.Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) – Harry’s Slytherin nemesis. Besides his cameo appearance in “Get Him to the Greek,” Felton actually has a promising career ahead of him. In 2010, he starred in the UK film “13Hrs” and can be seen in the upcoming films “The Apparition” and “Evac.”Gregory Goyle (Josh Herdman) – Malfoy’s lackey. Herdman acted in two television series between Harry Potter films and starred alongside Rupert Grint in “Thunderpants,” a 2002 cartoon movie.Seamus Finnigan (Devon Murray) – A member of Gryffindor and Dean Thomas’s best friend. Murray played a small role in “Angela’s Ashes” in 1999 and in the short film “Gone Fishing” in 2008.Oliver Wood (Sean Biggerstaff) – Keeper and captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Biggerstaff went on to star in the UK film “Cashback” in 2006, along with other acting jobs before and after his Harry Potter time.Ginny Weasley (Bonnie Wright) – Ron’s little sister and Harry’s love interest. Wright starred in two made-for-TV movies during the Harry Potter series and the 2010 film “Geography of the Hapless Heart,” in which five directors shot five films about intimacy in international locations.Fred and George Weasley (James and Oliver Phelps) – Twin pranksters in the Gryffindor house. While James has not starred in anything besides Harry Potter, Oliver has a minor role in the 2011 film “Latin Quarter,” an account of Pablo Picasso’s years in Paris.Colin Creevy (Hugh Mitchell) – Gryffindor student/photographer who dies during a battle in the seventh novel. Mitchell had small roles in “The Da Vinci Code,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” and “Tormented” and is still acting.Dudley Dursley (Harry Melling) – Harry’s muggle cousin. Melling acted in a made-for-tv movie “Friends & Crocodiles” in 2005.Moaning Mrytle (Shirley Henderson) – A ghost who haunts the second floor girl’s bathroom. Despite her role in the Potter films, Henderson is hardly a “child actor.” She was born in 1965, has been working since 1987 and has appeared in films directed by Danny Boyle, Mike Leigh and Sofia Coppola.
(11/04/10 4:49am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>While 268 students moved into floor lounges they would share with three or more students on move-in day in August, about 100 bed spaces remained empty.“We had about 100 people cancel between Aug. 12 through 25,” said Sara Ivey Lucas, assistant director of assignments for Residential Programs and Services.But because of confusion surrounding the placements, Ivey Lucas said lounge-dwellers could not be moved to actual rooms until after the school year began.At the beginning of the year, every residence hall contained students living in lounges. Sarah Wells, Read Center president, said at least 11 of the 17 floor lounges in Read were being used as housing at the start of the year.“When we had floor meetings, half of them didn’t even know where the meeting was,” she said. Placement in a lounge is on a last-come, last-serve basis, Ivey Lucas said. Students who apply for housing close to the start of the semester are most likely to end up roomless. And those who do get placed in lounges are told of the situation before Aug. 10, she said. In return for the inconvenience, students receive a 20 percent reduction from their housing cost. For a room in Forest Quad, a student living in a lounge would pay $4,014 instead of $5,018. “I think that’s fair,” Ivey Lucas said. “That’s pretty standard across the Big Ten universities.”Freshman Lauren Delprete, an out-of-state student, said she would not like living in a lounge but understands it’s the luck of the draw.“It’s a lottery,” she said, “and if you get it, it’s not that big of a deal.”But some students argue getting moved from a lounge to a dorm room isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.Though RPS tries to place students from lounges to rooms in their neighborhood preference, Ivey Lucas said a group of male students living in a Briscoe Quad lounge complained about their move to Forest Quad, saying they belonged in the Northwest neighborhood.While no other measures can be taken to improve the remaining overflow situation, Ivey Lucas and other RPS employees are working on a plan for the predicted overflow next year, as well as options to create 180 bed spaces to make up for the Briscoe renovations. The team will present its ideas to the Residence Halls Association Space Utilization Committee on Friday.RHA President Katie Lambert said the association has a lot of student voices on the committee, and even though the 180 spaces will be temporary, she thinks permanent measures should be taken about the number of students admitted to campus.“Overflow is caused more by admissions or housing,” said Cerwin Rush, Eigenmann Hall president. “It’s a communication disconnect up there. It should have been fixed up top before it was brought to us.”RHA members are hoping to take their concerns to Dean of Students Pete Goldsmith, Lambert said.However, in an e-mail, Goldsmith said, “I think the RHA should use the good offices of the Residence Hall Administration to express their concerns to Pat Connor and the leadership of RPS.”As students, RHA members know best about dorm life, Lambert said. With the changes next year, she said the quality of resident life will significantly decline. “We want to harness our student power in a professional manner to address our concerns in a way administration can understand,” she said.Some of the plans for a new dorm, which is part of a 15-year plan and is proposed to open in fall 2013, as well as the renovations in Briscoe Quad, have concerned Lambert. For the new residence hall, Lambert said she believes it will help as long as the problem with the number of students admitted to the University is addressed.“I appreciate that RPS is trying to accommodate all types of students,” she said. “But I think the bigger picture is how many students can we hold?”Wells agrees that the University is not utilizing the space as well as it could.“A lot of us were surprised they didn’t make more housing in Union Street,” she said. “I think they need to pull the focus back toward more housing. If they keep that in mind, it will help the overflow problem. But if the focus is too much on how it’s going to look, that could be a problem.”The new dormitory is part of a master plan but has not been finalized, said Philip Eskew, chair of the facilities committee for the Board of Trustees. “We’re thinking about putting in a new dormitory,” he said. “It was mentioned by someone that we’re considering a new dorm. But we have not taken any official action.”However, Eskew said it will most likely be similar to Union Street with two, three and four bedroom suites. Like the new suites to open in Briscoe Quad, the dorm will be available for freshmen.“Over time, we hope to convert all of them to more livable situations as opposed to a whole row of rooms with a bathroom at the end,” he said. Eskew said the board is not heavily involved in the building process for new projects, and decisions are left to people like Tom Morrison, vice president for capital projects and facilities.“Usually, Tom Morrison comes to us and says we’re going to have a new dormitory, and we, as a group — usually not all of us — will meet with other people to choose the architect,” Eskew said. “We talk about what we’d like to see in the building. ...then Vice President Morrison listens to what we need to say.”A housing summit to discuss the new dorm will take place on Nov. 13 and will include 10 members of RHA. “I think they’re doing everything they can with the 15-year plan,” said Wyatt Jackson, Forest Quad president. “They’re handling it with respect. As long as they continue to work with students, I think they’re doing a good job.”
(11/02/10 2:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU’s Residential Programs and Services has a lot on its plate.Renovations at Briscoe Quad began in May. Final construction stages of the Union Street Center ended days before the fall semester. Plans for a new residence hall will go into effect in the next few years. And through all of the construction, Assistant Director of Assignments for RPS Sara Ivey Lucas and her team have to deal with student placements.“What we’re looking at for the 2011-12 academic year, and maybe the next two to five years after that, is being in a similar tight housing situation,” Ivey Lucas said.At the beginning of the 2010 fall semester, 268 students who chose on-campus housing did not have a place to stay. Following the Briscoe renovations, the complex will have 180 fewer bed spaces. With the continuing goal of admitting 7,200 to 7,300 freshmen next year, the overflow problem will not end soon.So, how does RPS help deal with this issue?Overflow causesFor the past two years, some overflow issues have been a result of rolling admissions, where IU admits students as they apply to accommodate changing class sizes. When applying, students do not initially list their housing preferences but instead receive information on options after they have been admitted.IU has also seen a higher percentage of students choosing to return to on-campus housing in recent years, along with the required freshmen who live more than 25 miles away from campus. A final cause is the Briscoe construction, which closed off 525 beds due to scheduled maintenance. But for now, efforts to place overflow housing students in residence hall rooms has ended for the fall semester. As of late September, all of the women living in hall lounges have moved and all the remaining men are living in the lounges for the rest of the semester. No additional male rooms were available.New residence hallAn unnamed new residence hall is set to open in fall 2013 in the Southeast neighborhood among the Wendell W. Wright Education Building, Willkie Quad and Read Center. Its five-year plan includes renovations to existing residence halls and the construction of three new apartment buildings. The new residence hall is being built to accommodate IU's growing number of incoming students. The entire plan is estimated to cost $140 million.Funding for the new residence hall, along with the Briscoe renovations, will come from private philanthropy and reserve funds that were already in place. Student tuition rarely funds the projects.The new building will house 400 to 450 people and have a similar floor layout to Teter and McNutt quads, complete with bathrooms that are single occupancy but are shared by everyone on the floor.However, officials are still determining if the Southeast neighborhood is the ideal spot for the new building. Future plansIn early August, Ivey Lucas and other RPS employees began to review rooms that could serve as additional bed spaces to make up for the 180 fewer Briscoe will have to offer next year. After a meeting with the Residence Halls Association General Assembly on Oct. 14, they narrowed down the possible spaces to 125.The possibilities still include turning triple rooms in Eigenmann Hall into quadruples and having residential assistants live in single rooms instead of double-singles. The current plan calls to have approximately 100 fewer double-singles campuswide, leaving the double-single rooms in living-learning communities intact. Ivey Lucas said RPS will approach RHA’s Space Utilization committee with a final plan in early November and will announce the new changes by e-mail to students interested in on-campus housing between Nov. 10 and 15 before the residence hall renewal process begins Nov. 29.
(10/31/10 8:21pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The credits for “8 Wheels of Death” rolled after 36 minutes, and I sat on the couch with my mouth slightly agape thinking, “What did I just watch?”The zombie thriller, made by Bloomington locals, seemed to try for the classic, laughable horror film along the lines of “Grindhouse.”But where you see solid, well-produced short films being made by numerous telecommunication majors, this was not one of them.The movie told the story of the Bleeding Heartland Roller Girls, a Bloomington roller derby team played by the girls themselves, who turned into flesh-eating zombies. The disease spread from contaminated Pabst Blue Ribbon into the quarries, where a derby fan picked up the virus. After biting one of the roller girls and a few other fans, zombies started popping up all around the arena.I couldn’t help but think that, to come up with the lines for this film, writer Tony Brewer and director Chris Rall sat around in a basement coming up with as many death puns as they could.“Oh, wait dude, I got one,” Brewer might have said. “You guys look like the living dead out there.”“Yeah,” Rall would have responded. “Totally use that!”I will admit; it made me laugh. PBR killing people? Come on, that’s funny!So, if you know anyone involved in the film and want to have a good laugh at them, the movie will premiere at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, followed by an aftershow performance by girl group The Vallures.Rollergirls eating people; it’s not something you’ll get another chance to see.
(10/28/10 12:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It’s 9 a.m. and zombies have already invaded Bloomington. That killed your morning, literally. So grab a baseball bat and follow me, we’re finding somewhere to live.First, you might think that your dorm or house is the best place to stay. You’d be wrong. Unless you live in a dorm room with at least two exits and cases of nonperishable foods or a house with minimal windows and all the weapons you need, don’t stay where you are. You next might think, “Oh, Wal-Mart is a great place to go! It has food and weapons and everything.” No. Wal-Mart, Kmart and countless grocery stores are open spaces with nowhere to hide. They might have the necessities, but 50 zombies running through the front entrance aren’t going to take too long to find you crouching behind the video rack.Go to the Union. “You’re crazy!” you might say. “The Union’s so big with so many entrances. You’d never be able to protect yourself.”But you, my friend, aren’t up to the challenge. The Union is rather large and cumbersome, but with a small group of about eight people, it’s possible to manage. First, the Union has a surveillance room. Get to it. With one or two people constantly watching the screens, there’s no way zombies can get through without you knowing. I’m not saying don’t block up any and all entrances you can find. Do that, but if the zombies do get by, you’ll know. Second, it has an eighth floor that you can only get to by taking the elevator up to the seventh, then walking up a flight of stairs. My guess is unless zombies start growing brains back, they won’t know how to use the elevator. The eighth floor also leads to the roof, the ideal spot to attract help.Third: provisions. The Union has everything from food in eight different restaurants to beds in the hotel. It has clothes in the bookstore and computers (if the Internet is still working) in the lab. If the Union seems too daunting, go to the mall.That may sound cliché, but with Target and Dick’s attached to College Mall, going there is a great option. Regular malls have fast food courts with perishable foods, but Target, with its new fresh produce section, has food that will keep you living longer. And Dick’s will provide you with guns, fishing poles, baseball bats and other weapons that you can stock up on. But like the Union, get to the surveillance room and limit yourself to one section. Block off as many entrances as you can, take your provisions to one store with a few exits and places to hide and stay there.If you’d rather be saved and realize army trucks aren’t going to come rolling down Kirkwood Avenue, head to the intersection of SR-37 and the Bypass.There’s a Hampton Inn on Walnut Street near the intersection where you can stay. It doesn’t offer food, so stock up before you go.Weapons you needLawyers. Guns. Money.Warren Zevon, who would have been a phenomenal zombie fighter in his own right, had the right idea in case of emergencies. It’s hard to go wrong with that unholy triumvirate at your side.But in the case of a zombie apocalypse, guns are your best bet because the lawyers (along with their money) will be the first ones chasing you down trying to eat your flesh.You can fulfill some of your apocalyptic firearm needs at Dick’s and local pawn shops, but here in Bloomington, our second amendment friends are in short supply, so other options must be considered.Thus, I encourage you to look to Bloomington Hardware and the like as weapon oases during any zombie attack. There you can find any boards, nails, nail guns, hammers and, well, you get the idea. Dick’s supply of baseball bats would also prove fruitful.When dealing with these kind of short range combat weapons however, one must be careful. Zombies are good at capitalizing on any reach advantage, and all they need is a small bite. They’re also ruthless fighters, since they’re bloodthirsty killers and all that.But if you’re not fortunate enough to be close to the College Mall area, you’re going to have to get even more creative.All of the buildings on campus have utility cabinets for the custodians. Use them. A mop might not be much, but the sharpened pole you can fashion it into will do some damage. Aerosol cans are good for temporary blindness or makeshift flamethrowers. Any variety of shovel or gardening tool would also be serviceable in a pinch.The most important thing to remember when battling zombies is to stay on your toes. You can never be too aware, and you can never be too well-armed. So remember, next time you’re picking out your new desk lamp, make sure to consider its potential utility during a zombie apocalypse.If you go here, you’ll liveEigenmann Hall — The residence center has a C-store with nonperishable foods as well as a kitchen. It also has Outdoor Adventures where you can find weapons — bows and arrows and such. Apartments on Kirkwood — A lot of the apartments above restaurants on Kirkwood have hidden staircases. If you could find an apartment with two exits and a way to get to the roof, you’d be solid.Fire station — Fire stations have all the necessities plus big fire trucks that you can trick out into massive zombie-killing machines. Block off all the sides of the truck and use the roof or eyeholes to shoot zombies as you go. And feel free to grab some guns from the police station.If you go here, you’ll die Kilroy’s — You’ve seen “Shaun of the Dead;” therefore, you know bars aren’t a good place to hideout. There are no weapons, there’s no substantial food and there’s the bro in the corner who’s talking about how he laid some zombie chick the night before. Do not go there.Ballantine/Wells Library — Both buildings are huge and have numerous places to hide, but they don’t have enough food, weapons or other essentials. Wells would be a better fit, with the cafeteria in the basement and the food kiosk on the first floor, but unless you want to kill zombies with a pile of books, I’d head somewhere else.A basement — You might think locking yourself down in a basement with a bunch of provisions is a good idea, but you’re putting yourself in an inescapable corner. Basements only have one exit, and zombies can sometimes be smarter than you think, especially if they’re the diseased-ridden ones and not the slow, dead ones.
(10/21/10 4:39am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Construction in Briscoe Quad will leave the residence hall short 180 bed spaces for the upcoming fall semester — spaces that will have to be made in other residence halls.“We’ve had our overflow housing situation for four of the last five years,” said Sara Ivey Lucas, assistant director of assignments for Residential Programs and Services. “And what we’re looking at for the 2011-12 academic year, and maybe the next two to five years after that, is being in a similar tight housing situation.”In early August, Ivey Lucas and a team of colleagues began to review dorm rooms that could serve as additional bed spaces. After eliminating some of the less ideal options, Ivey Lucas said RPS met with the Residence Halls Association’s General Assembly on Oct. 14 to propose 224 possible spaces. The proposal, Ivey Lucas said, looked at turning triple rooms in Eigenmann Hall and Collins Living-Learning Center into quads. They also considered making the rooms in Ashton Center that are connected by three single doors capable of fitting four residents.After reviewing the 224 possible spaces, it was narrowed down to about 125.“The Ashton singles becoming quads was a bad idea,” Ivey Lucas said. “Large triples as quads was a bad idea. Using large doubles in Collins as triples was a bad idea. People are going to feel sardined in and that’s not desirable.”The triple rooms in Eigenmann Hall becoming quads, while not ideal, would be doable, Ivey Lucas said. The change would allow six more spaces on each floor — a total of 66 more spaces.Another big decision still on the table is having residential assistants live in single rooms instead of double-singles.At another General Assembly meeting on Wednesday, the RA decision was brought up again. Ivey Lucas told the group of resident hall presidents and delegates that IU is one of four campuses in the Big Ten that still places RAs in double-singles.Destiny Powers, the vice president of programming for RHA, said with RAs not in the middle of the hallway, she is afraid students will not engage with them as well.Monica Woodrick, Teter Quad president, said RAs in Teter are at the end of the floor and there are no problems.“I think it’s fine, and we see her all the time,” she said. “I see it as more of a learning experience than a huge detriment.”The current plan calls to have about 100 less double-singles campus wide, Ivey Lucas said. “We’ll allow them in learning communities but not in general residential space,” she said.Students on the General Assembly also questioned whether precautionary action was taken.Though RPS is in charge of creating spaces to handle overflow, Ivey Lucas said the IU administration and Board of Trustees made the decision of how many new students to admit.This year, the goal for the IU Office of Admissions was to admit 7,200 to 7,300 new students, Ivey Lucas said.Ivey Lucas said the office was disappointed when they were below that number and will try to bring in a larger number of students next year.Katie Lambert, RHA president, said RHA’s next step will be to go to the administration and address their concerns.Another question brought up at the meeting dealt with the current Briscoe construction and why RPS decided to continue with the plan despite the overflow issues.“The decision was made to move forward while the political will and resources were still available,” Ivey Lucas said. “The fact of the matter is we’re six to eight years behind that plan. We could have beat this baby boom of students, gotten ahead of you all. But we got behind.”Ivey Lucas said she would like to send an e-mail to students interested in on-campus housing to let them know about the new changes between Nov. 10 and 15, before the residence hall renewal process begins on Nov. 29.RPS is also bringing the discussion to students on the RHA Space Utilization committee, which includes four members of the General Assembly.Though students’ opinions will be considered, Ivey Lucas said RPS is prepared to make the final decisions.“But we want people to buy in and see where we’re coming from,” Ivey Lucas said.In regards to Collins, Ivey Lucas said part of the dorm’s charm has always been the small, community-like atmosphere. Seven or eight years ago, she said Collins did not have a waitlist and had a lot of open spaces.“Now it’s a place that a lot of students want to live,” she said. “It has a 50 percent retention rate. On top of that, they have generally 400 to 600 new students who want to live there. In a community whose size is going to max out and can’t get larger than 520 people or so. ...physically there isn’t any way to get more than 540 beds in the building that is Collins.”Ivey Lucas argued that it would be potentially better to have four students who requested Collins living in Collins’ lounges than in a lounge in Teter.“And people will either agree or disagree with that,” she said. “It’s that whole what’s ideal versus what do we need to do. This is a perfect example of ‘not in my backyard.’ I understand that you need to make 180 spaces, just don’t do that in my center.”However, Ivey Lucas said the administration appreciates students’ opinions.“I know its not comfortable or ideal, but we have to come up with what is going to be the most helpful to us and cause the least amount of harm to our communities,” she said.
(10/19/10 4:53am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For Debra Ann Tyree’s fourth period U.S. History class at Bloomington High School North, there’s been a change of plans.Instead of giving group presentations, an outdoor activity is on the schedule for the class of about 25 students.“What are we doing right now?” one student asked.“Throwing marshmallows at each other,” said IU senior Taryn Drazewski, the class’s student teacher. “It’s pretty easy.” With controversy surrounding budget cuts, the class’s activities aren’t the only changes being made in the Monroe County Community School Corporation.In response to teacher cuts, increased class sizes and a dwindling budget, the corporation proposed a Nov. 2 ballot referendum, approved by the MCCSC board June 23. The referendum would increase the property tax levy by 14 cents per $100 for the next six years. The money from the tax increase will replace funds the schools previously lost — a total of $7.5 million.“The referendum is an opportunity for voters to determine if they are going to take on a tax increase. ...specifically for schools,” said David Pillar, principal of Jackson Creek Middle School.If the referendum doesn’t pass, MCCSC teachers could face even more cuts, but how could these effects reach future teachers at the IU School of Education?“If the referendum doesn’t pass, there will be less positions for them to teach in,” Pillar said. “When we have to make cuts, unfortunately faculty is one place you have to go. But it transcends traditional student teaching placement. It’s going to affect graduate students and Ph.D. students as well. It’s bigger than that and will affect more people than just seniors in their last semester.”Through all of the debate surrounding budget cuts and the referendum, Tyna Hunnicutt, director of the Early Field Experiences program at the IU School of Education, said she has not seen an effect on the number of students requesting to teach at MCCSC schools.“We knew our students would still want to be in MCCSC,” Hunnicutt said.Letha Taylor, director for the Office of Student Teaching in the education school, said the number of students who request MCCSC varies from year to year, along with the number of placements the schools offer. There’s no set number for how many students request MCCSC each year, Taylor said. It depends on enrollment. However, most out-of-state students request MCCSC because they have to teach in Indiana, Taylor said.Drazewski said she is an out-of-state student from Illinois and was told by friends to put MCCSC as her first choice out of convenience.“So I put MCCSC first and didn’t know anything about it,” Drazewski said. “I got here and learned more and more about the (referendum). Even if I did a fantastic job here, they can’t hire me.” At the beginning of the year, the schools did not know what teacher would be in what classroom, Taylor said, making student teaching placements difficult.When teachers change from teaching third to fifth grades, Hunnicutt said, they need time to adjust and cannot take on a student teacher.“It made it a bit slower, but we’re still getting the placements,” Taylor said.The dismissal of the referendum would not only mean less IU placements, Pillar said, but it would also bring about larger MCCSC class sizes.“It’s easier when there are 24 kids than 38 to 40,” Pillar said.Drazewski said she teaches three subjects: three U.S. History classes, two psychology classes and one sociology class. While her history classes have less than 30 students, her other two subjects have 40 or more each.“That many students are tough to manage,” Drazewski said. “I can’t even imagine having more than that.”Though midterm elections historically have low voter turnout, Pillar said with the open senator position, more people might come out to vote.“With early voting, there’s no excuse not to vote if people support it,” Pillar said.If the referendum fails to pass, however, Pillar said future teachers could look at this optimistically.“We’re going to need more volunteers,” Pillar said. “A teacher with 35 to 40 students in their class might need an IU student. The students might be a lifesaver. But ultimately, we want the referendum to pass so more placements are made available. We need the referendum to pass."
(10/12/10 4:58pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Another fish in the Showalter Fountain is down, and this time IU Curator of Campus Art Sherry Rouse knows the culprit - more than 2,000 students racing in the Nearly Naked Mile.Rouse arrived to the destruction scene at 6 a.m., about seven hours after the fish fell into the fountain because of students playing in the fountain during the race Monday. “Guys were there from midnight or after,” Rouse said. “It took several people all night long to get it back up.”The statue was broken from it’s base, and workers had to drain the pool and re-weld the fish. “It’s not up and running, but it will be soon,” Rouse said. “It’s reattached. Mutilated, but nonetheless reattached.”The fountain will be shut down after this weekend for winter repairs and cleaning, Rouse said.So far, IU has had to pay at least four workers overtime while they fixed the statue, Rouse said, and more expenses are to come. “Everything has an expense associated with it, this will just add onto the fix we were planning over the winter anyway,” Rouse said.With potential students, families and alumni visiting campus daily, Rouse said the act is a devastating form of vandalism. “I want to put it back together the best we can so we won’t disappoint any of the alumni,” she said.Though Rouse is in charge of fixing the statue, she said she does not know what consequences will result from the accident.“My personal feelings are that there should be consequences,” she said. “My job is to take care of the fish and not the students. I can’t stop a mob of students, but I can certainly make it harder for them.”
(10/12/10 3:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ten minutes till the end of the Hawaii Five-0 episode Monday, a picture of the University of Maryland marching band, the Mighty Sound of Maryland, appeared on the television screen. Results for the CBS Hawaii Five-O “Marching Band Mania” contest, which began on Sept. 19, were announced during the program and IU’s Marching Hundred did not take home the $25,000 prize.
(10/06/10 3:05am)
There wasn’t any major reason why senior Hannah Thompson decided to study abroad in Quito, Ecuador.
(09/20/10 3:42am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Roughly 100 members of IU’s Army ROTC chanted as they did drills and stretched in uniform lines near one of the goalposts at Memorial Stadium. Across the field, IU’s Air Force ROTC cadets, a group half the size of the Army ROTC, huddled in a circle with a few members stretching on the outskirts.Nearing the starting point of the first of many Hoosier Patriot Games, Lt. Col. Michael Ogden, commander of the IU Army ROTC program, called both teams to the 50-yard line.“Oh my gosh, there’s so many of them,” a member of the Air Force ROTC said.On Friday, cadets from both ROTC’s met to go head-to-head against each other in a friendly, competitive game.“You may not know the face of everyone across from you, may not know the name, but you know the heart,” Ogden said to the crowd. “Your ability to work with anyone around the world without hesitation makes this the greatest volunteer force ever to be created.”At the end of his speech, however, Ogden had a surprise for the cadets.“It’s going to be freshmen and seniors against sophomores and juniors,” he said. “You might go head-to-head, but that’s not going to be today.”Ogden told the teams they would bring their competitive spirits to a game of speedball, played with the same rules as Ultimate Frisbee except with a football instead of a disc.“More people can handle a football than a Frisbee,” Ogden said. “The game takes speed, strength and endurance. It’s good training. It gives them a fun chance in peacetime to work as one.”The groups separated by age on different sidelines and were handed orange or blue jerseys, orange going to the sophomore and junior team.“Let’s go, y’all are moving like pond water,” Cpt. Bruce Baltis of the IU Army ROTC yelled from the center of the field.Baltis said the Patriot Games are a chance for the two ROTCs to work together in training.“It’s a way to build up camaraderie and have some fun doing it,” he said.The two teams used different strategies during the hour-long game. The freshmen and seniors team separated into set A, B, C or D lines and played with the same group each point. However, the sophomores and juniors lined up on a point-by-point basis. At halftime, the freshmen and seniors team led the score by one point.Army ROTC cadet and sophomore Patrick Sweeney took matters into his own hands to pump up his team.“Try to pick someone with your speed and stick with them,” he said. “If you see someone doing a lot of running and you don’t want to, don’t stand next to them.”Sweeney played the first point after halftime but coached from the sideline for the rest of the half.“We need to work it up slowly,” he said.After a great play by his team, Sweeney ran onto the field.“There it is,” he yelled. “Jesus would be proud.”With 10 minutes to go, Ogden said the next point would win. Though the teams went point-for-point most of the game, the freshmen and seniors took away the victory. This game, however, will not be the last for the Army and Air Force cadets.“The Army and Air Force may challenge the track team or the basketball team. We might accept a challenge from greek row,” Ogden said. “If I challenge a Big Ten athletic team, they won’t turn it down. What they lack in numbers, they make up for in talent.”
(09/16/10 4:27am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Sleeping on her couch one night last year, senior Lizzie Shipley woke up at about 5 a.m. when she heard the door to her house open. Nothing was stolen from her that night, but during the course of her junior year, a laptop and money were taken on different occasions while living with two other roommates in a house on the south side of Bloomington.“The locks at our house never worked, and the managing company never did anything about it,” she said. “We were in and out all the time. Then weird stuff started happening. I had $60 stolen from me.”Eventually, she said, the roommates got fed up with the situation and each got locks for their bedroom doors.IU Police Department Sgt. Rebecca Schmuhl said based on her experiences, a majority of cases involving stolen property from students’ rooms happened when the students had visitors or left the door unlocked. “Very few were forcibly entered,” she said.Schmuhl also said many students have the habit of not locking their doors on a regular basis.Freshman Allie Medellin is one such student. Medellin lives in Ashton Center and said she feels safe leaving her door unlocked.“I feel like I don’t have anything to worry about,” she said. “Most of the time I’m not too far away. Well, I lock it if I know I’m going to be gone for the night or if I’m going to be gone for a long time. I don’t usually lock my door, but I always have my key with me for some reason.”Though she locked the door every time she left her dorm for the first week, Medellin said she stopped after meeting the other girls on her floor.“So far I don’t think Ashton has a reputation like some dorms that people talk about,” she said. “Ashton is kind of safe, nothing bad happens.”While Schmul said she thinks many students do not take the precaution, Sara Ivey Lucas, residence manager for the Division of Residential Programs and Services, said she believes most students heed the warning and lock up.“I know that’s our policy, and what our student staff tells folks is you need to lock your doors,” Ivey Lucas said. “You need to use common sense if you want to keep things protected. My sense is that most people are paying attention and heeding the advice that we’ve given them.”Three RPS residence centers — Willkie Quad, McNutt Quad and Union Street Center — now have features that make students’ doors lock automatically, Ivey Lucas said. “Anytime they leave, it works like a hotel door,” she said. “You have to use your student ID to gain access to your room. As we renovate other buildings, we’re looking to do that.”Michel Maier-Bode, an exchange student from Germany and first-year graduate student, said he does not lock his doors when he leaves his house.“The other guy in the house just said we don’t like it,” he said. “I just did what they told me to do. I don’t live really central, so I just feel like there’s not that many people coming around. In Germany, I would never leave it unlocked.” He paused before he changed his mind.“Actually, no I didn’t. OK, but if I think about it, I would,” he said.Maier-Bode said the mentality of Americans is that it’s normal to leave the door unlocked — or at least the back door. But in a city larger than Bloomington, he would never leave it open.David Kerber, a manager for Varsity Properties, said he’s sure some students living in the Varsity Villas apartments leave their doors unlocked.“You have four or five people running in and out all the time,” he said. “Generally, student culture is very much in and out, friends, roommates coming and going. I always recommend treating it like you’re at home; lock the doors behind you.”Kerber said students’ doors are open to anyone when they leave them unlocked. “You don’t know who you’re inviting in,” he said. “You don’t want to invite that type of activity.”Freshman Raymond Hayes, who lives in Forest Quad, said he knows all the guys on his floor and trusts them.“A fair amount of guys don’t leave their doors locked,” he said. “I don’t have that feeling of someone you don’t know coming in and grabbing anything they could take.”Hayes said he has yet to hear of horror stories from someone who left their door unlocked.“I’d probably start doing it if I heard of it happening,” Hayes said. “They always warn you about it, like it’s going to happen.”
(09/15/10 4:26am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After voting against fellow Democrats on a bill, Congressman for the 8th District of Indiana Brad Ellsworth was grabbed by the arm and told to change his vote.“I said, respectfully, kind of, you need to take your hand off me or we’ll end up on C-SPAN,” Ellsworth said to a small crowd of students.The Democratic congressman, currently running for U.S. Senate, answered questions Tuesday in the Indiana Memorial Union Walnut Room to bring his campaign to campus. Senior Kelly Smith, president of the IU College Democrats, said the club worked with Students for Brad Ellsworth and Students for Baron Hill to coordinate the campus visit.“He’s really excited to be here,” Smith said. “It’s important for students of Bloomington to meet their candidates. He realizes the student vote is really important.” Instead of focusing on his three years in Congress, Ellsworth is basing his campaign on the more than two decades he spent at the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department.“Think about when someone calls 911 when there’s a car accident or someone sees a car accident or there’s a domestic dispute,” he said. “We go out there and try to fix the problem. We didn’t ask are you black or white, gay or straight.”Ellsworth said he wants to bring this sense of partnership to the Senate.“People focus their energy on how to beat the other side,” he said. “You have to be willing to work with other people. I’d love to come out of these bills singing ‘Kumbaya’ and hugging each other.”In addition to answering the question of his outlook on working with Republican party members, Ellsworth spoke on his stance on Social Security, Medicaid, education and tax cuts.Senior Ryan Madden, a member of the IU College Democrats, asked Ellsworth his thoughts on the tax cuts passed by the former President George Bush, which will be expiring this year. There is currently a debate on whether the cuts should be continued for 95 percent of the population over the course of the next three years.“In this fragile economy, I’d extend them to everybody right now,” Ellsworth said. Though Madden said he agreed with Ellsworth, he would not extend the tax cuts.Madden said he first heard about Ellsworth in May when the congressman announced his campaign for Senate. In his visit, Madden said he thought Ellsworth answered many of his questions.Though the crowed of students who attended the event was small, Madden said he can use the talk to inform his friends and classmates on Ellsworth’s position.“I think as far as people in this room, they’re going to vote for him anyway,” he said. “Now I can go out and tell my friends what he said.”
(09/06/10 4:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ultrinsic Motivator Inc., a website that allows students to gamble on their grades, is under fire from the IU Administration, which is demanding a cease and desist from the website.Associate General Counsel Beth Cate, an in-house attorney for IU, sent a letter last week to the founder of the website asking to break their connection with IU.Ultrinsic is a website that encourages students to use their own money to bet on their academic expectations.Students must provide Ultrinsic with their username and password for their online school account, which authorizes “Ultrinsic to access the account and to view and record any information in your account,” according to the Terms of Use provided by the site.These terms violate IU’s policy on prohibiting the sharing of credentials, Cate said.“Encouraging students to provide Ultrinsic with their credentials promotes violations of University policy by the students, which are punishable under our student code of conduct and threatens the privacy, security and integrity of student records and University computing systems,” she wrote in the letter. “Any access to Indiana University student accounts or other systems will be deemed an unauthorized access of University records and facilities, and will be addressed accordingly under applicable law.”The “About Us” section of the website lists schools including Michigan State University and New York University where Ultrinsic is currently available.However, Cate said it is in no way endorsed by IU.“In the letter, I asked for a clarification that this is not something through IU,” she said. The letter calls for a response indicating whether or not Ultrinsic has received any IU account credentials and identifying the student accounts that are involved so they can be changed. The letter also asks Ultrinsic to stop asking students to share their accounts with the company and to modify its terms of use. IU also asks Ultrinsic to include an announcement on its home page informing students they are not to supply the company with any University account information.Cate said she has also spoken to colleagues at North Carolina State University and Oregon State University who have sent similar letters to Ultrinsic in the past few weeks. “My thought was I don’t know whether the people at Ultrinsic had thought this through or not,” Cate said. “I don’t know them from a hole in the wall. We don’t have any way of assessing security measures they may have.”As of Thursday, Steve Wolf, CEO at Ultrinsic, said he had not received any communication from the administration at IU. “It would be our pleasure to meet with administrators at Indiana University to explain how Ultrinsic works and can further benefit Indiana University,” Wolf wrote in an e-mail. “We believe that if they take the time to understand the value that Ultrinsic brings to the educational process, they will embrace our service.“
(09/01/10 3:36am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A cyclist was struck by a car about 3:28 p.m. Tuesday while riding in a bike lane on Jordan Avenue near the Herman B Wells Library. Two IU Police Department officers arrived on scene at 3:32 p.m., said Lt. Craig Munroe. Sophomore Mike Waymire said he was traveling south on Jordan Avenue when he saw a driver pulling out of the library parking lot. Waymire said he could not swerve out of the way fast enough.“I hit the windshield and rolled,” he said. “I had to swerve out to miss the car but didn’t quite make it. I’m just kind of shocked right now.”Munroe said the driver checked left and saw the cyclist was far away. He checked right and saw a car stopped in front of him but did not look left again before pulling out.Waymire said his right arm was sore, but he did not plan on going to the hospital. He added that both he and the driver were shook up following the incident.Though he said he frequently bikes on campus, Waymire said he has never been hit before.
(08/30/10 4:19am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It was down to three students on each team, cream versus crimson, fighting to be the winner of IU’s largest game of dodgeball ever. They had each come a long way, beating out nearly 700 other people during the fund raising event organized by the Samaritan’s Feet chapter at IU and Btownmenus. The game began with students covering the entire field at IU’s Memorial Stadium, and after about 45 minutes of play, it consisted of a small rectangle in the middle of the stadium.Members of Samaritan’s Feet stood amongst the crowd of students watching the final round. During the game, the volunteers spread through the crowd to make sure participants followed the rules.“We had to do some enforcement,” said sophomore Emily Steele, a member of Samaritan’s Feet. “There’s only a certain number of us, like 20. But I got my whistle, so it’s all good.”In the end, freshman Ross Burns from the white team took home the champion title and a free T-shirt. “It feels awesome,” he said. “I wanted to come out and set a world record and have fun with some friends.”Many students attended the game for the same reason as Burns: to help set a Guinness World Record for the largest game of dodgeball. The goal was to have 2,000 participants, 800 more than the current record set by the University of Alberta in Canada.“Obviously, our goal was to break the world record,” said senior Broderick Thompson, co-president and co-founder of Samaritan’s Feet at IU. “But our main goal was to help as many kids as possible.” He said the kids that benefit don’t care if a world record was broken, so it wasn’t a loss.Samaritan’s Feet is a non-profit organization that gives shoes to children around the world who do not have any. And Thompson said the group will continue to try to break the record.“We definitely want to attempt it again and possibly other world records,” he said.While the record remained intact, the organization raised about $700 for their cause.“It costs $5 per pair of shoes,” said sophomore Katrina Gerlach, co-president and co-founder of Samaritan’s Feet at IU. “Due to inflation, shortly it will be $10 to buy, ship and distribute each pair.”Samaritan’s Feet buys athletic shoes in bulk and at cost from different companies, such as Walmart, which makes them cheaper to buy, Gerlach said. “It’s likely the only pair of tennis shoes people overseas or new pair of shoes people here will ever own,” she said. “If they can last longer, the better it is. We want them to feel like they’re getting the best there is.”
(08/30/10 1:35am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Today’s large-scale dodgeball game, organized by IU’s chapter of Samaritan’s Feet and Btownmenus, failed to meet expectations. The fund raiser was designed to set a Guinness World Record for the largest game of dodgeball. While the goal was to have 2,000 participants, only 700 people attended. In order to break the previous record set by the University of Alberta in Canada, the game needed more than 500 additional players. “Obviously our goal was to break the world record,” said senior Broderick Thompson, co-founder and co-president of Samaritan’s Feet at IU. “But our main goal was to help as many kids as possible.”
(08/27/10 4:15am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“Who wants to go to Kirkwood? Let’s go! What about you guys, what are you doing? Don’t cross the street!”Junior David Block stood outside Foster Quad shouting at freshmen to board a Bloomington Shuttle – to take them to-and-from the Campus Candy store downtown.Block, along with juniors Jon Stein and Matt Strombelline, works as a marketing team for Campus Candy, which opened in March. To bring in new students during Welcome Week, the boys rode the shuttle around campus promoting the store and giving students free rides from 4 to 9 p.m. The shuttle will also run Friday and Saturday.“We make stops at each dorm, we made a stop at CultureFest,” Stein said. “We’re just doing Northwest today. We’ll do the other neighborhoods the other nights.”At the Foster stop, Stein approached two freshman girls. After chatting to them for a minute or so, one girl shrugged and looked at her friend. They both entered the shuttle.“I’m obsessed with candy,” freshman Megan Kasler said, then pointed to her friend. “I told her yesterday that we have to go.”A couple of minutes later, the marketers had almost decided to give up and move on to the next stop when three more freshmen agreed to join. “Hey, I’m Drew, what’s your name?” said freshman Drew Phillips while walking up the stairs of the shuttle. “Where do you guys live? I’m in McNutt.”The next stop happened to be his dorm.“I should get my whole floor to come,” Phillips said. “My whole floor would have listened to me. I’m president of my floor. They all hang out in my dorm every night.”At the quad, Block and Stein resumed their role – yelling at passing students to catch their attention.Block stopped one girl in front of the shuttle’s door, trying to convince her to join. Inside the shuttle, Phillips laughed.“David is mackin’,” he said.After two stops, it was time to head back to the store.Conversation flowed between the freshmen and marketing team, jumping from topics such as TOMS shoes and “Jersey Shore.” The shuttle neared Kirkwood Avenue, and Block began to inform the passengers about Campus Candy.“When you get yogurt, the whole store is your topping,” he said.“I’m sold,” Phillips said. “So this is more like campus orgasm than Campus Candy?”The shuttle pulled up to the front of the store, and everyone went inside. “I think it’s awesome,” Phillips said. “I plan on coming back when I have the munchies.”
(08/27/10 3:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>One thousand two hundred students at the University of Alberta in Canada broke the Guinness World Record for the largest game of dodgeball in Feb. 2010. Now, IU students are looking to double that number in the biggest dodgeball game to date.“I realized that we could break the record at IU to help kids around the world who don’t have shoes,” said senior Broderick Thompson, co-president and co-founder of the Samaritan’s Feet chapter at IU, the organization planning the game.The event will be at 4 p.m. Sunday inside IU’s Memorial Stadium, and students are asked to donate a dollar to participate. All of the proceeds will go to Samaritan’s Feet, a non-profit organization that gives shoes to children all over the world who go without. “We started a club, or chapter, here at IU to support the organization,” Thompson said. In order to participate in the game, students should arrive at 3:30 p.m. for check-in and should wear a “cream” or “crimson” colored shirt.If more people wear red shirts than white shirts, however ...“Then the red team gets an advantage, I guess,” Broderick said.Samaritan’s Feet is not the only group involved in the event. Btownmenus.com jumped on board to help raise money for the less fortunate.“We want to do big philanthropy projects throughout the year,” said Mike Rolland, co-founder and president of marketing at btownmenus.com. “We’re at the point where we like getting involved in the community as much as possible.”Rolland said he hopes that using Btownmenu’s brand name in marketing the event will help spread word about the cause.But why raise money through dodgeball?“I know a lot of people think of getting hit in the head during dodgeball,” Rolland said. “But most sports you can’t organize like that. Not as many people could play. I think it’ll be a friendly game."
(08/25/10 10:45pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The 2010 IU Student Involvement Fair invites all students to attend and learn about more than 250 student organizations, local non-profit agencies and IU offices that offer involvement opportunities from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 8 in the Indiana Memorial Union parking lot near Woodburn Hall. Students participating in the fair will be able to meet current student leaders, IU administrators and Bloomington community members, including members of the Boys and Girls Club, Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, Middle Way House, Red Cross Club, Model United Nations, Hip Hop Congress, the Indian Student Association and representatives from IU fraternities and sororities. The fair is sponsored by a committee including representatives from Student Activities, the Indiana Memorial Union, Union Board, the Commission on Multicultural Understanding, the Office of First Year Experience Programs and the Office of Diversity Education. For more information, contact Colleen Rose at Student Activities, 812-855-4311 or rosec@indiana.edu.