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(01/22/14 3:28am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Union Board filled 16 positions for the Union Board of Directors Friday during a retreat to Bradford Woods.A team of leaders in charge of organizing campus events like Little 500, guest lectures and film series at the Indiana Memorial Union, Union Board is the largest student programming body on campus. This will be its 105th year serving the IU student body, junior and new president Lexy Parrill said. Parrill said the Board’s goal for the year is collecting more student input and getting Union Board more involved with other student organizations on campus. “I plan to work a great deal with the Union staff to highlight the fact that the Union is the center of campus life and make students more comfortable there,” Parrill said.Parrill has been on Union Board since the spring semester of her freshman year. She has served as an assistant director twice and as the director of service. “You can really work your way up,” Parrill said. “I can’t even describe how much Union Board impacted my undergraduate career.” She said the Board hopes to survey students more effectively and build a relationship with the student body. The Union Board of Directors comprises four executive director positions and 12 other director positions. These directors cover all facets of student life, including Late Night, Live From Bloomington, IU Traditions, Campus Unity and Canvas and Arts. Freshman Paul Yoon is the vice president of marketing, a new position on Union Board. Yoon said he is in charge of Union Board’s social media, advertising upcoming events and marketing the Union Board brand. He was the only freshman to obtain an executive director position this year. “My personal goal is to let more people know about Union Board events,” Yoon said. “We want more people to know about Union Board and all the events that we plan.” Members of Union Board will attend the Winter Welcome tonight in the IMU to offer games and activities and connect with students. Union Board meets at 6 p.m. every Thursday.Meetings are open to the public, and Parrill said that Union Board encourages students to attend and provide feedback. “Union Board means so much to me,” Parrill said. “I’m so excited to be given the opportunity to serve my fellow IU students.”
(01/17/14 4:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A woman’s BMI and weight can affect the way that emergency contraception, specifically the Plan B morning-after pill, works, according to recent studies.Plan B becomes significantly less effective for women whose body mass is over 25 or body weight over 165 lbs, according to experts Judy Klein and Kathryn Brown from the IU Health Center, For women over 176 lbs, Plan B loses effectiveness completely. Klein, a physician at the IU Health Center, defined BMI as “a way of trying to look at weight appropriateness for height.” She cited a healthy BMI as between 18 and 25.The solution for overweight women, Klein said, is a morning-after pill with a different mechanism of action. Plan B contains progestin only. However, medicine with a different chemical makeup, such as the emergency contraceptive Ella, is better for larger women. “We don’t know why, except that different chemicals are metabolized differently and weight can influence how drugs are metabolized,” Klein said. Klein said that at this point, she can only guess why progestin-only emergency contraceptives are not as effective for women with a higher BMI. “It probably has to do with changes in the liver, which is responsible for breaking down or metabolizing medications as people become heavier,” Klein said. “But no one really knows.” Although this study was published in 2011, companies have only now started to take note, Klein said. European manufacturers just started publishing warning labels about the decrease in effectiveness based on a woman’s weight.Klein said that the FDA has not yet changed any warnings or labels on American emergency contraceptive packaging. However, she said it is information that users cannot ignore. “The fact is, we now have this information,” Klein said. “Regardless of what the FDA does, there is this study that we need to pay attention to.”Brown, an IU Health and Sexuality educator, said that the IU Health Clinic first became aware of this study in December 2013 and immediately discussed getting the word out to their patients. According to a Center for Disease Control study that used data from 2006 to 2010, women aged 20–24 were most likely to have used emergency contraception. About 23% of women said they had. Plan B and Ella are both available at the IU Health Center’s pharmacy. Klein said that although students need to factor in their BMI to the equation now, the IU Health Center continues to recommend the morning-after pill in the cases of unprotected sex. “There will always be a need because condoms break,” Klein said.Klein recommends a “highly effective contraceptive method” and condom use to every sexually active student. According to Brown, the most effective birth control available currently is an IUD. Although IUDs are initially pricier options, the Affordable Care Act, prescription birth control is free to women with health insurance, and Brown said that she encouraged patients to take advantage of this.For cases of unprotected intercourse or a malfunction in a condom, both doctors said that an emergency contraceptive is the right step. “Emergency contraceptives will always be needed and with these circumstances, the new reality is that we will have to look at the weight issue and give the best advice about what would be most effective,” Klein said.
(01/16/14 4:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU senior Carlie Jensen won first place at the National Retail Foundation’s Next Generation Scholarship this weekend, taking home a $25,000 prize. The Next Generation scholarship “recognizes outstanding students currently pursuing retail careers, who have the skills, insights and interests to make an impact on the retail community as a future leader of the industry,” according to the NRF website.Jensen was awarded this honor in New York in front of 3,000 people, including her peers, retail executives, media and other industry partners. “It was one of the best moments of my life,” Jensen said.After she was chosen as the IU nominee, Jensen entered a competitive application process that included three essays and two letters of recommendation. Upon being selected as a finalist, she flew to New York for an interview with the previous CEO and president of Saks Fifth Avenue, the current CEO of HSN, a senior vice president of NRF and an executive at Macy’s. “It was the most intense and thrilling interview,” Jensen said. “I was so honored to be interviewing with some of the retail industry’s most influential people.”Eloise Paul, professor of apparel merchandising and interior design, attended the award ceremony with Jensen. Paul said she has known Jensen for almost two years.“Carlie has a wonderful mix of strength in her academic pursuits, strength in leadership skills and a strong and successful retail background, including internship positions both at Nordstrom and at Kohls,” Paul said. “Carlie is also extremely well-spoken, poised, confident and clearly passionate about the retail industry.”Jensen said she attributes her success to her IU education and the connections she made at school. “I have some of the most incredible professors that always push me out of my comfort zone to be the best student I can be,” Jensen said. “There are so many opportunities for students to connect with the retail industry if you are motivated and driven to take them. I have leveraged every opportunity the program has to offer, and I am so thankful.”Jensen said she has accepted a full-time offer with Kohl’s Corporate Headquarters in their Product Development Division. She will move to Milwaukee in August to start her new job. “Being chosen as the NRF Next Generation scholar is an unbelievable honor, and it was truly one of the best and most insightful weeks of my life,” Jensen said. “I couldn’t be more excited to start my career in retail.”
(01/14/14 9:24pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A new Living-Learning Community for students interested in teaching, leadership, education policy and working with youth will start fall 2014. This new housing option, called the INSPIRE LLC, is a partner with the School of Education. It will be IU’s 10th Living-Learning Community. “The idea is to use this resource to recruit the kind of students we want to recruit into education and provide them with the holistic preparation they need to teach,” said Gerardo Gonzalez, dean of the School of Education. Members of the LLC will be housed in one wing of Rose Hall, which can accommodate up to 54 students. The staff is expecting 40 incoming freshmen and 14 upperclassmen. The LLC will require residents to enroll in a one-credit class. Judy Crow, staff assistant director of the INSPIRE LLC, said though the details are not finalized, the class will focus on a broad interpretation of education and not be limited solely to teaching in the classroom.“We want to recruit a diverse group because everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach,” Crow said. In addition to the class, members of the INSPIRE LLC will do some hands-on work in the community and partner with other established groups on campus, with the goal of exposing the students to new environments and people.“What it means to learn and live in the 21st century is undeniably about learning with and from each other across backgrounds, cultures and perspectives,” said James Damico, director of INSPIRE LLC staff. That practice of diversity is integral to INSPIRE LLC, Crow said. “Classrooms today are not only multicultural, they are multilingual,” Crow said. “We want our students to become comfortable around all different groups of people from a variety of backgrounds.” Gonzalez said another perk of the LLC is its proximity to the School of Education. “It is literally next door,” he said. “You can look out the window and see the school. It truly feels like an extension of it, and that is an important and tangible element.” Gonzalez said the LLC was made possible by a former IU alumna of the School of Education who donated the money for the start-up and scholarships for itsstudents.Crow said she hopes it inspires students who weren’t planning to go into teaching to get involved in working with youth. “We want people interested in making a difference,” she said.
(11/14/13 5:45am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Tibetan snow lion leaped along with the percussion music in the basement of the Catholic church. A group of Tibetan monks wore the multi-person lion costume as part of a traditional performance. Earlier Wednesday, they shared pizza with students while dressed in their Tibetan red robes. One monk wore an orange IU sweatshirt over his floor-length garment.The group of seven monks visited St. Paul’s Catholic Church with the Tibetan Mongolian Cultural Center. They are visiting from northern India, where they live with 124 monks in their monastery. They came to deliver a lecture about compassion and perform a traditional dance for the students. “The goal is to teach our community about the positive aspects of interfaith collaboration and friendship,” said Lisa Morrison, the center’s director of marketing and public relations. The monks have been touring the United States since April. Though they have been staying in the TMCC in Bloomington during their time in the U.S., they have traveled to about 18 cities, including New York, Houston and Chicago to present their culture. Morrison said the monks have been attending St. Paul’s for programming since 2007.Rev. Simon-Felix Michalski, known as Father Simon, is an associate pastor at St. Paul’s. He said a late St. Paul’s pastor first fostered the relationship with the TMCC. “There is a great Christian-Buddhist dialogue going on in the world right now,” Simon said. “We share a lot in common with the Buddhists.” A group of students and church staff mingle around the table, slices of pizza and plastic cups in hand. Some students stop to talk to the monks.The ones who speak English respond with quiet enthusiasm. Outside the room is a selection of colorful gloves, scarves and crafts, hand-woven by the monks for purchase by the students.After eating dinner, buying Tibetan crafts and interacting with the monks, the students were taken into a larger room to watch the traditional Tibetan cultural dance. “Snow lion is the national animal of Tibet,” Tenzin Dawa, one of the monks, explained. Dawa is 25-years-old, but he has been with the monastery since he was about 4-years-old. This is his second time visiting the U.S. “In the U.S. there are so many Tibetan centers,” Dawa said. “And so many Americans want to know about us, so we came here so the American people can learn about Tibetan Buddhists, so we can share our compassion and our love.” Dawa described the cultural differences between being a college student in America and being involved in the monastery. Parents tend to be stricter and more involved in their children’s lives than in the United States, Dawa said, and he usually starts his day at 5 a.m.“It’s very hard, but that’s the culture,” Dawa said regarding his home country. “The United States is very free.”After the dance, one of the monks spoke about compassion with the help of a translator. He explained that compassion should not only be thought of as a religious component and described how releasing self-negativity could improve the rest of the world. “It’s very important to understand negative emotions,” he said. “If you know the negative emotions, you can distinguish them.” Morrison said this program has been received well in the past and that the center hopes to have the monks return to Bloomington next year. “This is a rare opportunity to see a true Tibetan group of monks who are presenting ancient culture and customs,” Morrison said. “I think being able to go and be with St. Paul’s is again furthering the mission of Tibetan culture to promote different religions and culture together.”