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(10/03/02 7:08am)
The tight, 24-hour security system surrounding the $50,000 Corvette purchased by the IU Student Association may not be so safe after all.\nThe red sports car, which according to IUSA is monitored by two security cameras and an increased police presence, will be moved to a secure location for a month, IUSA vice president Judd Arnold said Wednesday.\nThe move comes amid questions about the authenticity of two cameras mounted on the car, which was purchased to increase student voter registration as part of the group's Project Vote Hard campaign. After learning the contest might violate federal election law, the Corvette became the centerpiece of a campus-wide raffle.\nArnold would not publically say whether the cameras are real.\n"I know the car is incredibly well-protected," Arnold said. "We don't want to disclose specifics due to security concerns."\nThe budget for the project included $1,000 for security, Arnold said, adding there has been no vandalism to this point.\nEarlier, Study Body President Bill Gray said the cameras surrounding the Corvette would be on 24 hours-a-day as well as set-up in three locations around the car to protect it from would-be vandals. The IU Police Department was also alerted to increase its patrol around Dunn Meadow, where the car is housed in a makeshift chainlink fence.\n"They're doing random and frequent sweeps of it," Gray said. "If you try to do something, you'll more than likely get caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law."\nFormer IUSA Vice President Jeff Wuslich said he would be disappointed if he learned that the security cameras weren't real.\n"If they are fake, at least they saved some students some money there, but I would like to know where the rest of it is," Wuslich said. "It would be really disappointing to find out that they were misleading the students on this issue. The current administration's credibility would be hurt."\nBut Wuslich said he was worried that the security issue could take away from the bigger issue that IUSA spent $50,000 for the Corvette.\nThe car will reappear about a week before the November elections begin Arnold said, to emphasize voter participation among students.\nHe said the Corvette has done its job so far by creating voter awareness for IU students.\n"Why is there a car out there?" Arnold said. "Because tuition is going up. We're doing it because we're scared to death that people are not going to be able to go here next year." \nArnold said IUSA has helped more than 10,000 IU students register to vote and hopes this will encourage students to participate in the democratic process.\n"Whether you like the car, whether you don't like the car, there's a good chance that if tuition goes up, there's going to be a lot of people that won't be able to go to Indiana anymore," Arnold said.
(10/01/02 5:32am)
The father of the Little 500 and founder of the IU Student Foundation, Howard "Howdy" Wilcox, died Monday morning in Indianapolis. He was 82-years-old.\nWilcox was considered one of the legends of the University by his peers, serving as president of the IU Foundation through the late 1940s and into the early '50s, establishing the IUSF in 1950 and serving as a member of the IU Board of Trustees from 1962-65. \nBut perhaps his most endearing legacy is organizing the first Little 500 in 1951, now considered to be the World's Greatest College Weekend.\nAlex Ihnen, the Little 500 coordinator and assistant director of IUSF, said the start of the Little 500 began out of sheer chance when Wilcox noticed a group of college students riding their bikes around Hickory Hall, a dormitory that is no longer standing.\nThe hall's east and west wings were racing to see which one would give up first when Wilcox grasped the idea of a University-wide bicycle race.\n"He literally called people in the middle of the night, different administrators, giving them ideas," Ihnen said. \nThat idea transformed into what is now the Little 500, modeled after the Indianapolis 500, a race Wilcox's father had won in 1919.\n"He's the reason we have the Little 500, and I don't know if everyone knows that," Ihnen said. \nOne year before the first Little 500, Wilcox established the IUSF to attempt to forge a bond between the students and the University by sponsoring campus-wide events like the Little 500, and raising money for working students.\nToday, the IUSF is housed in the Wilcox House, named after its innovator.\n"If we have a legend, certainly one of the legendary figures in the University system is Howdy Wilcox," said Dick Bishop, executive director to the president of IUF. "He was just one of those figures in University history that meant a lot to a lot of people."\nBefore he began changing the landscape of IU, Wilcox received his bachelors degree in journalism from the University in 1942. \nWilcox was also a member of Alpha Tau Omega during his undergraduate years and was an active alumnus for the last sixty years.\nMatt Hendy, a junior in ATO, along with about 10 other members of his fraternity met with Wilcox on Saturday in Indianapolis, only two days prior to his death.\nHendy said Wilcox was in good spirits when they met. He reminisced about his days at IU and the first Little 500.\n"He was such a great guy," Hendy said. "He meant so much to so many people I don't even know. Anytime you can be around someone with that much wisdom, it is very beneficial."\nA room in the ATO house is specifically dedicated to Wilcox, Hendy said, and the fraternity is now planning to rededicate the room to their famous alumnus.\nPlans are currently underway to memorialize Wilcox during the upcoming Little 500 race, but the University is unsure of exactly what they will do.\n"It seems such a natural and fitting way of remembering Howdy (at the Little 500 race)," said IUSF director Jonathan Purvis. "With a figure like Howdy Wilcox, you want to memorialize him, not just at one race, but forever."\nBishop said he agreed that Wilcox will be the focal point of the 2003 race.\n"If we weren't blessed with Howdy Wilcox, we would not have a Little 500," Bishop said. "He passed the baton. It's ours to take care of now."\nA viewing will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, and a service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Flanner-Buchanan Morturary in Indianapolis.
(09/19/02 5:57am)
Since May 31, 2000, the Monroe County chapter of the American Red Cross has been at the side of workers and volunteers who are continuing the search for missing IU student Jill Behrman and is about to receive even more help from the Bloomington community.\nFor more than two years, the Red Cross has provided search workers with water, food, insect repellent and any other necessities the workers need to bring Behrman home.\nBehrman was last seen riding her bike at 9:30 a.m on May 31, 2000. \nSigma Pi fraternity has decided to pitch in and help with the continuing search at Salt Creek by holding a Miss-A-Meal to provide the workers with the goods they need. The fraternity is also urging other IU Greek houses to join them.\n"If we keep the workers fed and energized, they're going to keep at it until it's done," said Sigma Pi house director Anne Vande Sande. "The family needs closure really bad, and the community does too."\nThe fraternity is planning on donating the goods from the Miss-A-Meal directly to the search workers, and may also donate money as well.\nVande Sande said a few of the students in Sigma Pi knew Behrman personally and wanted to help in any way they can.\n"We spoke with the Behrmans and they thought that it was a wonderful idea," Vande Sande said.\nVande Sande's husband, Ed Vande Sande, a worker for the local Red Cross has had his workers helping the search effort since the first day Behrman went missing.\n"Whenever there has been an official search effort, Red Cross has gotten involved," Vande Sande said. "We've been asked to provide a good safe lunch and drinks."\nThe organization has been serving about sixty meals a day to the workers, keeping the search party working as long as possible.\n"That really is keeping people motivated and keeping them on the job site," Vande Sande said. "It really does help with morale and spirits."\nBloomington Fire Department's Deputy Chief Jon Musgrave has been working at the site for the last five days and said the Red Cross has more than helped the search effort.\n"Providing food and drink on site is always helpful," Musgrave said.\nVande Sande said his organization is primarily looking for bottled water, Gatorade, and soda. The community is also pitching in once again with the Jill Behrman Run for the End Zone 5K run/walk and 1K walk, on Saturday, Oct. 5.\nThe race begins at 10 a.m. and begins at the Mellencamp Pavilion. The track runs down North Jordan and loops around the northern part of campus, ending back at the pavilion.\nCommunity members interested in participating can register at either the HPER building or the SRSC, said Chris Wynn, an employee of the SRSC.\nThe 5K run costs $15 and the 5K walk and 1K walk are $10. But after Oct. 2, both races cost $3 extra.\nWynn said they expect over 1,500 people to participate this year. All the money raised goes toward the Jill Behrman Emerging Leader Scholarship fund and to Jill's House, a home-like residence for patients undergoing outpatient therapy at the IU Proton Therapy facility.\nAnyone wanting more information about the race can call the SRSC at 855-2371. Anyone wanting to donate toward the search effort can call Sigma Pi at 323-1842.
(09/13/02 6:08am)
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today for the Counting Crows live in concert Thursday, Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. in the IU Auditorium.\nThe Crows were scheduled to play at the auditorium last year, but issues concerning the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 and work on their new album, Hard Candy, got in the way and the band cancelled the show the same day tickets went on sale.\n"There was overwhelming support last year from the student body for the Counting Crows to come," said Union Board director of concerts Adam Blake. \nBlake said the Union Board was still very interested in bringing the band back to IU this year despite last year's cancellation.\nLast year, tickets for the show went on sale on Sept. 14, only to be cancelled later that day despite the sale of over 2,000 of the 3,200 seats in the auditorium.\nUnion Board's marketing director Scott Dittmer believes the demand to see the Crows is still high at IU.\n"I think we're going to sell a lot of tickets the first day," Dittmer said. "I think we made the right choice (to bring the band back) because we saw the demand."\nTickets are available to both IU students and the public at the IU Auditorium, the Student Activities Desk in the Indiana Memorial Union and through any Ticketmaster location.\nIU Auditorium's general manager Doug Booher said students can bypass the Ticketmaster convenience charge by coming directly to either the auditorium or the Union to buy their tickets.\nTickets are $35 for the public and $30 for IU students.\nBooher said he doesn't foresee any problems this year concerning the Crows' performance.\n"The band is very dedicated to their fans," Booher said.\nTouring behind their new album, Booher said he thinks the show will definitely sell out.\n"I'm really excited because the students have worked really hard to get the Counting Crows back on campus," Booher said.\nBlake said with the Crows being one of the most popular rock bands out today, he believes the show will go extremely well.\n"If people are really serious about going to see the Counting Crows, they should be there early for the sale at 10 a.m., because if last year was any sign of what's going to happen this year, this show will sell out very soon," Blake said.
(09/11/02 5:07am)
To commemorate and remember the lives of those who lost their lives during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon one year from today, IU will hold campus-wide gatherings and programs all day today to create a sense of caring and community at IU and within Bloomington.\nThe day's events are focused around a 4 p.m. remembrance ceremony held at Showalter Fountain, with Chancellor Sharon Brehm, IU President Myles Brand and Student Body President Bill Gray scheduled to speak. Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez is also planning to attend.\nAll professors who hold class during the ceremony were sent a letter by Chancellor Brehm and Professor Robert Eno, president of the Bloomington Faculty Council, asking them to be lenient on students wishing to attend the commemoration.\n"The campus will not officially cancel classes, but we ask that those of you who teach Wednesday at the hour of the campus ceremony make every effort to accommodate students who wish to participate," the letter said.\nEno said he realized there may be classes that are tightly scheduled, with professors not able to let their students attend the ceremony.\n"We left it to the faculty members to make their best judgment," Eno said.\nDean of Students Richard McKaig was placed in charge of organizing the remembrance ceremony along with creating a committee of faculty, staff and students to plan the event.\nMcKaig said the ceremony will be similar to the commemoration that took place soon after the terrorist attacks last year.\nBill Stephan, IU vice president public affairs and government relations said he hopes the ceremony will take the tone of last year's commemoration, which had a good response from IU's students and the community.\n"These are the kinds of moments and experiences in one's college life that can have an impact for a lifetime," Stephan said.\nGray said he believes the day's events will help in the healing within the IU community.\nGray and others will be joined by faculty, students and community members in presenting remarks, readings and music.\nThe ceremony will also recognize the first three recipients of the new Sept. 11 scholarships, established earlier this year through proceeds from the 2002 Little 500 bicycle race as well as private gifts.\nThey were created to commemorate the fathers of three IU students who died in the terrorist attacks.
(09/10/02 10:39pm)
At 10 a.m. Sept. 11, 2001, then-sophomore Jessie Moskal woke up to begin another day in Bloomington, unaware she would soon learn two airplanes had been hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center where her father had been working on a business trip.\nEarlier that week, Bill Moskal had been excited to travel to New York, telling his wife and daughter how happy he was to work in the World Trade Center.\nBill last talked to his wife about an hour before the first plane hit, the last time any of his family would speak to him.\nMoskal's father worked as a safety consultant for Marsh USA Inc. He was one of the vice presidents out of the Cleveland office.\n"I really held out hope (that he was alive) because he was a really together guy, and he was smart about stuff like that," Moskal said. "He would've known what to do in that situation."\nHer father was on the 100th floor of the North Tower, just a few floors away from where the plane hit.\n"He was really close to where the explosion was," Moskal said.\nAfter realizing that her father might be in trouble, Moskal began to do whatever she could to make contact with her father.\n"I was really hysterical," Moskal said. "It's hard for me to remember anything that was going on because I wasn't really thinking. I lost all control of myself."\nMoskal tried to contact her father through his cell phone, but couldn't reach him.\n"I watched the news all day just looking for my dad," Moskal said. "Eventually, we just realized there was no way out."\nMoskal eventually got in touch with her mother Lorraine.\n"My mom was extremely strong, and she is amazing," Moskal said. "She's still the exact same Mom."\nA sliver of hope came for the Moskal family soon after the terrorist attacks when her father's name showed up on a "safe list" by his company.\nBut with all of the confusion in the aftermath of the attacks, her father's name was inadvertently put on the list, sending the Moskal family on an unnecessary emotional roller coaster.\n"I figured that he just got out, and that he was in a hospital or something," Moskal said. "I didn't sleep or anything. I just kept calling hospitals. I didn't know what to do so I just kept doing it, and eventually, we just started to figure it out."\nThe emotional strain of what happened to Moskal's father forced her to withdraw from IU for a semester.\n"I withdrew for the semester because I thought I was losing my mind and I was like 'I can't do this.'"\nMoskal and her family traveled to the site of the World Trade Center soon after the attacks.\n"I couldn't cry or anything," Moskal said. "I was just paralyzed because I almost didn't want to look at it. I still didn't want to accept that my dad might've been a part of it."\nMoskal said when she visited New York, she still had hope that she would find her father.\nShe and her family visited Red Cross shelters and hospitals while in New York, searching for any clue that her father might still be alive, but eventually the Moskal family gave up hope.\nIn honor of Moskal's father and two other fathers of IU students, the IU Student Foundation set up three Sept. 11 scholarships in remembrance of the three victims.\n"In awarding these scholarships, Indiana University expresses its deep sympathy to the families of the innocent victims who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001," said Chancellor Sharon Brehm in a statement regarding the scholarships. "I know that all the recipients of these scholarships will feel deeply honored to receive them."\nMoskal said her father would have been very honored to know he now has a scholarship in his name at IU.\n"My dad loved this school so much, and he always told me how lucky I was to go here," Moskal said.\nMoskal's former journalism professor, Owen Johnson, said speaking with Moskal about the events of Sept. 11 helped change the way he teaches his classes.\n"I think she's had a strong commitment to be a kind of witness to help people remember, but remember in a positive way," Johnson said. "Her experience and knowing her has given me an added perspective that I've been able to employ in classes I teach."\nWith the first anniversary of Sept. 11, Moskal will be forced to relive what happened one year ago, but still can remember what made her father great.\n"He was a great person, and I feel like I learned so much from him," Moskal said. "He was just a fun-loving guy, and I really miss him"
(08/30/02 7:07am)
As he waited for his first IU Board of Trustees meeting to begin, 24-year-old Jamie Belanger began rubbing elbows with the same administrators and staff he answered to as a student just two years prior.\nBelanger is the newest member of the IU Board of Trustees and the first trustee elected from outside of Indiana. \nWith his parents and girlfriend close by, Belanger began getting acquainted with the eight members with whom he now shares the board.\nAnd he still doesn't believe it's happening.\n"You've got to pinch yourself sometimes," Belanger says. "It's still weird to be here."\nAt 24, he is currently the youngest member of the trustees, giving the board a jolt of youthfulness. Belanger ran much of his campaign around the lack of youth on the current board.\nBelanger was elected to the board in June, beating seven other candidates who were vying for this year's open spot. He received over 7,000 of the 28,000 votes cast by the University's alumni.\nBack in May, Belanger put the spotlight on the trustee race when he accused another nominee, John Nash, of using unauthorized mass e-mail lists to campaign.\nBelanger said he believed the e-mails were unfair because they were not accessible to all candidates.\nHe defeated his closest competitor, Nash, by more than 3,000 votes.\n"He resoundingly overwhelmed seven other candidates, and we're happy he is with us," said Frederick F. Eichhorn, president of the board of trustees.\nBut Belanger never believed he would beat his competition by so large a margin.\n"I don't think I ever expected to win," Belanger said. "I think everyone was still a little shocked when they actually found out that I won."\nBut those who know Belanger best weren't shocked.\n"I don't think any of us are surprised (he won)," said Belanger's mother, Cindy Brown.\nBrown said her son's love for the University drove him to become a trustee, even though Belanger didn't want to come to IU until late in his senior year of high school.\nBelanger was born in Canada and his family moved to Michigan when he was in elementary school. \nThey lived twenty minutes outside of Ann Arbor, Mich., the home of the University of Michigan, a school Belanger planned on attending until he decided to visit Bloomington in April of his senior year to learn more about IU. He was so impressed he decided to attend.\n"I look back now, and I can't even imagine what life would be like had I not attended IU," Belanger said.\nDuring his years in Bloomington, Belanger was the treasurer and president of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and also rode in the Little 500 twice. He graduated from the Kelley School of Business in 2000 with a degree in finance.\nImmediately after graduation, Belanger moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he became a financial analyst and then a profit forecaster for the Iams Company.\nEven though he'll be living a state away, Belanger looks at the distance as a welcome challenge.\n"I know it's going to be a lot of driving and just a lot of work in general," Belanger said.\nFor the past couple months, Belanger has been getting accustomed to the job of a trustee, visiting IU's campuses, meeting with administrators and trying to get up to speed on the responsibilities of being a board member.\nBelanger is also getting used to working with people like IU President Myles Brand on a routine basis.\n"We actually shook hands one time at a football game, but I doubt he remembers," Belanger said.\nBelanger said his main goals are to make sure the needs of alumni are addressed, as well as battling with the state for funding for higher education.\n"I'm anxious to actually get to the point where I can contribute a little more," Belanger said. "It's such a steep learning curve"
(08/30/02 7:07am)
The former department of Afro-American Studies is heading toward a new direction with the appointment of Dr. John Stanfield II as chairman of the department.\nThat new direction includes an early and bold move by Stanfield, changing the department's name to the Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies. \nStanfield said he believes the name actually explains where the field of African-American studies is heading.\n"(The title) is what I call the internal and external globalization of African peoples," Stanfield said.\nThis type of sentiment seems to resonate with the faculty in the department as well.\n"The name change has been hailed by all and sundry in the department because the old name was a bit archaic and, also, was not reflective of our new realities and vision," said A.B. Assensoh, a Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies.\nStanfield's parents weren't given the opportunity to go to college, but they pushed their son to get an education. \nStanfield decided to enroll at California State-Fresno University, not sure of what he wanted to study.\nThe day before his first university classes began, Stanfield bumped into the chairman of the sociology department when walking through campus. The chairman persuaded Stanfield to take one of his courses.\n"I was so impressed by the personal touch that I decided to enroll in his 7 a.m. Intro to Sociology class," Stanfield said. "And being a freshman, you don't know any better."\nThat meeting with the chairman pushed Stanfield to study sociology, which has turned into his passion for the last 30 years.\n"He really inspired me to understand that sociology was to make this world a better place," Stanfield said.\nStanfield graduated from Cal State and moved to the midwest where he received his doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University.\nAfter teaching and researching across the country, Stanfield found himself at Morehouse College, the only college specifically for African-American males and the same university Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. attended.\nStanfield became the chair of the sociology department and the director of the Morehouse Research Institute.\nAfter four years, Stanfield said he did all he could at Morehouse and decided it was time to move.\n"I wanted to come to a big university in a small town, not far from a big city," Stanfield said. \nAnd Bloomington seemed to be the perfect fit.\n"We have other universities struggling with the idea of the validity of African-American studies," Stanfield said. "And you see IU Bloomington who has an entire department."\nStanfield plans to revamp the department's undergraduate courses and degree requirements and to add more faculty and staff. He also wants to make sure students understand African-American studies courses are open to everyone.\n"We want to become a place where people learn how to reflect very critically and how to develop anti-racist lifestyles, institutions, communities and societies," Stanfield said.\nIU Vice President for Public Affairs and Government Relations Bill Stephan said bold moves like changing the name of the department seem usual for Stanfield.\n"He does have the reputation for being someone who is very much an innovator," Stephan said.\nFrederick McElroy, a professor of African-American studies, called Stanfield a "human dynamo."\n"He seems to never sleep," McElroy said. "He's well-rounded in almost every aspect of African-American history and culture."\nAfter working in universities across the country, Stanfield said he believes Bloomington will become his permanent home.\n"I think this will be my last university," Stanfield said. \nOne of the reasons he said he wants to stay is the quality of the students he has encountered the last few weeks.\n"I have never met such dynamite students since I've come here," Stanfield said. "It makes me more proud to want to do all I can"
(08/28/02 4:42am)
In the first meeting of the new academic school year, the IU Board of Trustees laid the foundation for the upcoming year.\nThe Aug. 15 meeting was highlighted by electing current trustees to new positions: Frederick Eichhorn as president and Stephen Ferguson as vice president.\nEichhorn filled the vacancy created when former president James Morris left the board last spring to head the World Food Program. Eichhorn was elected unanimously.\n"I want to thank you all for the honor you've bestowed upon me," Eichhorn said.\nFerguson won a contested election for vice president, defeating trustee Cora Breckenridge 6-2. Ferguson is expected to help lead the board the next two years.\n"This is a job we all have to join together and do," Ferguson said. "We've got a long way to go."\nThe board also added youthfulness as 24-year-old Jamie Belanger took his seat with the board as the youngest trustee. Belanger won the June trustee election between alumni, beating his closest competitor, John Nash, by more than 3,000 votes.\n"He resoundingly overwhelmed seven other candidates and we're delighted he is with us," Eichhorn said. "He has a great love for the University."\nBelanger, who resides in Dayton, Ohio, will be the first trustee to serve his three-year term outside of the state of Indiana. Belanger is excited about the challenge.\n"I'm anxious to actually get to the point where I can contribute a little more," he said. "It'll take awhile before I'm up to speed on everything. It's such a steep learning curve."\nBelanger works as a profit forecaster for the Iams Company and plans to commute from Dayton to the board meetings.\n"The biggest goal I have going in is just to remain open to the alumni," Belanger said. "Obviously, [they're] the reason why I'm sitting here."\nAs the board prepared to look toward the upcoming academic year, IU President Myles Brand called the ongoing struggle with state funding a challenge.\n"We're going to have to be strong, aggressive and very focused," Brand said.\nEichhorn said he hopes for another strong year for the board as well. He and trustee Patrick Shoulders were reappointed to the board by Gov. Frank O'Bannon to serve three-year terms.\nEichhorn said the trustees have work to do.\n"You don't have to be sick to get better," Eichhorn said. "We're not sick, but we can get better"
(08/01/02 3:27am)
As Director of Athletics Michael McNeely takes his daily jog, he notices a part of campus that doesn't seem to fit, a section of campus that seems miles away from the University's dormitories and classroom buildings. \nThat section is the current northwest block of the University's athletics department and plans are underway to blend that block into an extension of campus, making it look and feel more a part of the University.\nThe "Masterplan" is the brainchild of McNeely and has two main goals.\n"One, how can we better integrate this part of campus with the main part of campus?" McNeely said. "The second is how can we better create a synergy with the program here?"\nThe current plan will attempt to consolidate the 11 athletic facilities of the University into a tight, universal block. The softball and baseball diamonds will be moved toward the northwest side of the current tennis courts, to make them closer to the the other facilities.\nMemorial Stadium will also get a facelift with added seating on the north side of the stadium, making the stands into a U-shape.\nBut the focal point of the plan will be the addition of a $40 million student-athlete center, directly at the heart of the athletics block.\n"The idea is here that either an alum or a student or someone thinking about coming to school, they can come into this facility and really relive the traditions and IU Athletics and what makes it a special place," McNeely said.\nHe said the center will be a state-of-the-art facility designed to create an athletic focus for the University, a place where students and faculty can naturally interact.\n"There's that connection that when you're there, people will start to recognize each other," Athletics Media Relations Director Jeff Fanter said.\nThe building, which will contain a theater and retail shops, will be a training facility for all student-athletes.\nThe plan also calls for an extension of Woodlawn Avenue, which would eventually end at 17th Street. Woodlawn would then turn into a walkway toward the student-athlete center.\n"If you're at the Memorial Union, you could either walk or potentially drive all the way up to this part of campus," McNeely said. \nThe walkway will travel past a new amphitheater, designed to hold concerts and performers throughout the year.\nThe plan will also create walking trails and tree-lined parking lots to help blend the northwest corner into a part of campus.\nThe department is looking at a five to 10 year span to put in place all of the components of the plan. Improvements have already taken place with the addition of corporate suites and club seats in Memorial Stadium, a motion approved by the Board of Trustees Saturday. A $3.5 million upgrade will improve the press box and the west stands of the stadium.\nAny other improvements must eventually be approved by the Trustees, improvements that the board seems to think are necessary.\n"Both President Brand and the Trustees are supportive in the direction Michael McNeely's going," Vice-President Bill Stephan said. "We certainly applaud the vision."\nMcNeely's vision will be solely funded by individual donors. The plan will not be funded by tax dollars or University funding.\nGibran Hamdan, a senior football player, said he believes the improvements will help attract new student-athletes, a main goal of the plan.\n"I don't think (McNeely) wants a question of 'Can we get the best student-athletes in the nation?'," Hamdan said.\nIn planning the improvements, McNeely said he kept in mind prospective students.\n"We always look through the eyes of a prospect or a prospect's parents," McNeely said.\nFanter said the excitement of the "Masterplan" has given him a new reason to work for IU Athletics.\n"Knowing that this is what we're all working toward, for the best possible atmosphere for student-athletes, to be honest, is what drives me every day I come to work," Fanter said.\nMcNeely said he hopes that within the next decade, the "Masterplan" can help vault the athletics department to greater heights.\n"We're very sensitive to providing quality opportunities for all student-athletes who come to Indiana," he said. "We aren't interested in necessarily having the biggest or the most expensive. What we want to have is quality facilities that serve the purpose of what we're trying to do here."\n\n
(07/29/02 3:33am)
The University's Student Code of Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct will be getting a facelift soon as IU Bloomington and IU-Purdue University in Indianapolis form committees to revise and update portions of the code.\nThe committees, which will be formed sometime in August or September, will consist of two main groups, one from Bloomington and one from Indianapolis, both including students, faculty and staff.\n"There are people out there that think this code should be changed," Dean of Students Richard McKaig said.\nThe code, which governs seven of the eight IU campuses, was adopted in 1990, with changes being made in 1993 and 1996. IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne is not affected because it is governed by Purdue University.\nSome topics in need of revision have already been brought to McKaig's attention, such as whether classroom disruption should be considered a violation of student code, whether harassment through University technology, such as indiana.edu e-mail, should be included as a violation and whether selling class notes for profit should also be added as misconduct.\nRecently, some community members have complained of student misconduct off-campus in Bloomington's residential neighborhoods. McKaig said his committee is planning to take a look at student off-campus behavior and how it can be better mandated within the code.\nSome universities have been doing the same, such as the University of Maryland who recently cited expulsion as the primary punishment for students found guilty of post-game misconduct, like the riots that took place on Maryland's campus during the Terrapins' run towards the 2002 NCAA men's basketball championship trophy.\nMcKaig said he was unsure if post-game rioting would be looked at by his committee, even though IU has seen its share of off-campus misconduct following this year's NCAA men's championship tournament.\nIUPUI will be forming the same kind of committee as IU, which will be headed by IUPUI's Dean of Students Karen Whitney. Whitney would not elaborate on IUPUI's initial plans for changes in the code, but said there are plans to streamline the student legal process and to make the entire code easier to read and work with.\n"The last thing (students) would want would be a code that's out-of-date," Whitney said. \nWhitney said she hopes she can help make the code less intimidating to students, as well as making the student legal process more user-friendly.\nSenior Justin Barnes, IU Student Association's director of student rights, believes that making the legal process more user-friendly means shortening the process and giving students fewer options within the system, which he doesn't believe would work here in Bloomington.\n"We wouldn't allow it to go through," Barnes said. Barnes said he is concerned about the code even though he will graduate before he sees any new changes come into effect.\n"I'd like to see it be made simpler, more effective, and a little bit easier to deal with," Barnes said. \nBarnes and his student rights committee will even be making presentations to students at the beginning of the school year called "Campus Concerns" in which they will ask for student feedback on the code and how it can be improved.\n"This is something that students need to be concerned about," Barnes said.\nThe presentations will be made all over campus, including Greek houses and dormitories.\nThe two committees plan to meet separately and produce their own suggestions for improvements in the code. Bloomington's committee will present its suggestions to the Bloomington Faculty Council as well as the University Council. IUPUI will present their suggestions to the University Council as well. The suggestions will then be sent to the Board of Trustees, which will be voted on for approval. The entire process will take close to a year.\nMcKaig said he hopes to have his committee complete their suggestions by November, with presentations to the Bloomington Faculty Council by January and a vote by the Board of Trustees to occur sometime next summer.
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Former IU Alumni Association president and beloved friend of the University Jerry Tardy will be memorialized in a service today at the Musical Arts Center. After the service, a reception will be held in the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center -- a building that stands as one of his many legacies.\n"He probably wanted the reception here," said Rebecca Keith, Tardy's former secretary.\nTardy, 62, died Sept. 7 after a lengthy bout with cancer.\nStudents and faculty are urged to attend the service, which begins at 3 p.m.\n"Anyone is welcome," said Karl Zacker, assistant director of the Alumni Association.\nThe service will be officiated by Kent Millard, senior minister of St. Luke's United Methodist Church.\nLadies First and Straight No Chaser, two IU a cappella groups, will perform during the service. Both are sponsored by the Alumni Association.\nSeveral speakers, including IU President Myles Brand and former president of the board of trustees John Walda, plan to attend.\nTardy's secretary of three years believes everything is in order for today's service, despite its delay because of the terrorist attacks.\n"We moved forward after an appropriate period and out of respect for that tragedy," Keith said.\nThe service was originally planned for Sept. 12.\nTardy, who became alumni president in 1987, made many friends at the University and across the nation.\n"He has so many colleagues and so many people in the University and all over the country who are close to him through his position here," Keith said. "There would be no way we could fit everybody in (the Alumni Center)."\nBorn in Indiana and raised in Bloomington, Tardy was a graduate of IU. His "deep pride in Indiana University" and the close relationship with colleagues was evident, Keith said. \n"I really appreciated the confidence he had in me," he said. "I enjoyed the respect he had for me and I for him."\nJohn Hobson, senior vice president of the Alumni Association, was a close friend and colleague of the former president.\n"Our relationship goes back to the 1970s, although I didn't work with him closely until 1987," Hobson said. "I had a good professional relationship with Jerry."\nHobson and Tardy shared the same goals for the Association and the University. Many of those goals were realized.\n"He had a great vision for the Alumni Association," Hobson said. "He wasn't thinking about what we should be doing next week, or next month. He was thinking more long term."\nThose dreams included funding and building the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center, helping build Bill Armstrong Stadium and acquiring 100,000 Alumni Association members by the year 2000.\nHobson said Tardy's legacy can not be defined by any single event.\n"He was a dreamer but he also had an action plan to make the dream come true," Hobson said.
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Three shades of white cover classroom walls. Layers of paint are chipping away. Years of traffic have caused each main staircase step to dip in the middle.\nA staple of IU's Old Crescent, Kirkwood Hall has seen better days.\nRenovations to the structure, which was built in 1894, are still at least two years away, because the building has to wait its turn.\nKirkwood is the last building in a $28 million state-funded renovation project that began in 1990. \nThe Student Building, Lindley Hall, Rawles Hall, Swain West, Wiley Hall and Owen Hall have already been renovated, said Terry Clapacs, vice president for administration. After Maxwell Hall, Kirkwood Hall will be renovated.\n"It may be run down now, but it's part of the academic plan for the campus," Clapacs said.\nFermin Recarte, who teaches Spanish in Kirkwood, said he knows the building all too well.\n"Sometimes you can't open the windows," Recarte said. "I try to open the window, and the glass comes off."\nRecarte said his students are sometimes distracted by Kirkwood's heating system.\n"When the heat comes on, it's very noisy," Recarte said. "So, it can get very noisy when you're trying to teach."\nRecarte also teaches in Ballantine Hall, a building that is much younger.\n"You see (Kirkwood Hall), and you see Ballantine, and you can tell the difference," he said. "This is just an old building, and that's it."\nKirkwood is one of the oldest buildings on campus, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. Kirkwood, which was originally built to relieve overcrowded classrooms, began to deteriorate in the early 1900s.\nIn 1921, architect Robert Frost Daggett was asked to come to campus to inspect the building, according to the IU Archives. Daggett suggested the main stairway needed strengthening and that the building needed to be fire-proofed. The board of trustees approved his suggestions.\nKirkwood Hall has not undergone major renovations since.\nOnce again, the hall is in need of refurbishing, Clapacs said.\n"The roof will be replaced, the windows will be replaced or refurbished and some other work will be done inside," Clapacs said.\nThe current plan also calls for the entire infrastructure to be refurbished and to bring the building up to safety code.\nBut renovations on Maxwell Hall will come first, according to the order of projects set by the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1990, Clapacs said.\nRon English, a custodian who regularly cleans Kirkwood, said he has noticed the building's disrepair.\n"The walls are cracking, the ceiling and floor tiles are coming up, and it's not handicap accessible," English said. "The frames around the windows are real loose, and when the wind blows the windows rattle."\nUnlike most buildings on campus, Kirkwood does not have an elevator or central air conditioning. \nDuring the first semester, Recarte and his students suffered through the heat not only because the building lacks central air, but because many of its windows do not open. \nBut there are still those who enjoy teaching in Kirkwood.\nAndrew Lenard, a professor emeritus, taught in Kirkwood for many years and now returns to fill in for fellow professors.\n"I think that the building has some structural problems like the safety features," Lenard said. "My general impression of Kirkwood Hall is that it's a nice, old building"
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IU and Purdue are competing again. But this time, it's not for championships or banners. This time, they are out for blood -- donations, that is.\nThe blood drive, which started Oct. 27, runs until Nov. 17. The two rivals are competing in the fifth annual Blood Donor Challenge, sponsored by the alumni associations from both schools.\n"We're actually doing this in blood centers and everywhere else," said Jacinda Musgrave, who is a phlebotomist for the Indiana Blood Center, referring to all of the Indiana Blood Center's facilities across the state.\nA phlebotomist specializes in opening veins.\nThe Indiana Blood Center has worked the blood donor challenge all five years.\n"At the centers, we ask people who they want to donate for, and then they'll announce the winner at the Nov. 24 football game (between IU and Purdue)," Musgrave said.\nMusgrave works out of Columbus, Ind., which is a blood center off of the main facility in Indianapolis, where all of the state's donated blood is shipped.\nPrimarily, the students are the ones that donate the most blood, Musgrave said.\n"It's the students that usually get this organized," Musgrave said. \nThe football game, which is played between IU and Purdue in Bloomington, will have a halftime presentation, where the president of the winning alumni association will be honored.\nPurdue has taken the championship the past three years, while IU only won the first year.\nThe blood drive, which began in 1997, has grown each year.\n"This will be the biggest year," said Scott Siegel, who is the director of student programs and the assistant alumni director. "I know that this year we have already surpassed the total amount from last year.\n"This is an opportune time to do this and to not only do something that's good for people in the state, but to assist the school in a friendly competition with our rivals from West Lafayette and to do something good and meaningful at the same time."\nSiegel said that the blood drive came out of a desire for cooperation between the two alumni clubs.\n"They wanted to do a joint, community service type project. So there was a decision made to do this blood drive and to make it a friendly competition between the two schools," Siegel said. "Primarily, it's a project that's undertaken by the two alumni clubs in Indianapolis."\nAs of this week, Purdue had received 915 blood donations and IU had brought in 324.\nOne of the main reasons IU is behind, according to Siegel, is because Purdue has an actual Indiana Blood Center facility in West Lafayette, whereas IU has to assign random locations for the donations.\nBlood has already been donated throughout this month at Read Center and Assembly Hall. The last location to donate blood blood on campus will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13 in the Indiana Memorial Union Solarium. \n"The solarium should be a good place to take donations because it's a big area," Siegel said.\nRoshni Patel, a senior living in Foster Quad, found the donation site in Foster's formal lounge by accident Thursday and decided to give blood.\n"I came in to study and I just happened to see it going on," Patel said.\nPatel has given blood before and said she realizes the need for blood in Indiana.\n"I think it's for a really good cause. I think that a lot of people have common myths that it's going to be painful or they that they don't know what to expect," Patel said. "With the tragedy that happened Sept. 11, a lot of people still need blood." \nSiegel agrees.\n"I think there has been and will continue to be a need for blood donations in this state and across the country," Siegel said. \nAlthough both universities are competing to win, the main goal of the competition is to help out the region and central Indiana, Siegel said.\n"The key thing is that the two schools are working together in a community service project that was started by the two clubs in Indianapolis to benefit central Indiana and the state," he said. "The need for blood has been there for sometime"
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In a small brick house at 1212 Maxwell Lane, Professor Henry Hayman Herman Remak steps out and begins his daily walk through campus. The trip to his cluttered office in Ballantine Hall 605 isn't a long one -- it's only six blocks.\nEven though Professor Remak is 85-years-old, he refuses to drive to campus. \n"What do you mean? I haven't driven a car since 1963," Remak said. "It's a wonderful walk. The trees and gardens and the fences…and you have friendly dogs and you meet people on the street."\nProfessor Emeritus Remak is the oldest professor teaching at IU and is fluent in five languages. Remak is a professor of Germanic and European studies and comparative literature. \nRemak started at IU in 1938 as a teaching assistant, has been a full-time professor since 1939 and hasn't left Bloomington since. He was born and schooled in Berlin, Germany.\n"I got the equivalent of a junior standing in a German high school, except it was a French high school," Remak said. "Every subject was taught in French. Of course, when you have that, you become fluent without even knowing it."\nHis parents lived in America for part of his childhood; his father was an engineer. \n"What happened to me is in 1933, when I was on my next to my last year of high school, Hitler came to power. And we're of the Jewish faith," Remak said. "It was clear that we would have a very difficult future in Germany."\nRealizing the need to flee Nazi Germany, Remak finished his high school education in France, where "the wine was good."\nWhile Remak was finishing up his high school degree, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was organizing a program to send German students to America because of the threat of Nazi Germany.\n"They arranged something amazing," Remak said. "They got in touch with fraternities in the United States who had houses and room and board. Mine happened to be Sigma Alpha Mu.\n"They sectored no less than 26 German-Jewish students and invited them to come to their chapter houses and live free room and board with $30 pocket money. Of course they had seen our credentials."\nIn a thick German accent, Remak happily reminisces about the day his fraternity brother first showed him around campus.\n"He took me across Dunn Meadow. The first thing I saw were some dancers and ladies playing hockey, and they looked very attractive to me. We crossed the river Jordan, went up the hill and was in the wood, the central wood, and I got very worried. I told my fraternity brother, 'I'm sorry, I think I'm in the wrong place. I was supposed to go to a university, this is a resort.' \nHe just laughed and said, 'Don't worry. There are some buildings behind the trees.' It was September 20, so a beautiful time of the year. 'There are some buildings there where they do teach. So, don't worry, this is a university.' So I thought to myself, I'm never going to leave here."\nAnd he hasn't. His small house on Maxwell Lane has been the residence of Henry and Ingrid Remak for 52 of their 55 years of marriage.\n"You don't have to feel sorry for me, because this is a wonderful place," Remak said. "Ever since 1946, my career has basically been at Indiana University."\nSince then, Remak has taught and mentored literally thousands of students on what he calls "the great books."\nRemak teaches and compares American, German and French culture and uses "the great books" by authors such as Mann, Shelley and Nietzsche. He also studies the Old Testament and the Declaration of Independence.\n"I bought the Koran," he said. "I haven't had a chance to read it yet."\nIn 1987, Professor Remak turned 70, which meant a forced retirement by the University. But he wouldn't quit and was offered a virtually unpaid teaching job by the Honors College.\n"They give you a symbolic salary just so that they wouldn't have to say, 'Well, we don't pay people because they're old,'" Remak said. "But they give you a very generous research account on which you don't have to pay taxes."\nThe account pays for any meetings, books or research expenses.\n"I have no intentions of retiring from teaching," he said. "I love teaching. Why should I retire from something I love?"\nAnd his love of teaching shows.\n"You can see it glowing from his eyes," junior Line Espedal said.\nEspedal had Remak in a "global class" this semester, which transformed three classrooms at IU, IUPUI and Humboldt University in Berlin into one "classroom" via the Internet and teleconferencing systems. \nRemak's passion for his students has transformed his teaching style.\n"I don't give grades." Remak said. "Why should I give grades?"\nThe difference between an A- and a C+ isn't apparent to Remak.\n"I write what I hope are intelligent comments on their particular ideas, which is what you need, right? And then I give them a total evaluation in English language," Remak explained. \n"Grades are the least important thing that he does," said Mark Krol, an IDS employee who is also a senior majoring in psychology and history.\n"It's such a breath of fresh air. Half the time you go to his office hours and you wind up talking about things outside the boundaries of the class and you learn more from those talks than you do in class."\nGrades aren't the only thing Remak has given up on.\n"I have e-mail, but I discourage people from using it," Remak said. "It think it's awful.\n"I find people who send me an e-mail three office doors away. Now this is dehumanization. So I said you can come to my office and open the door and talk to me, you can use the telephone, you can call me at home," Remak said. "So, I do get e-mail, but I tell everybody who likes me, if you want to continue to be loved, don't send me e-mail."\nAnd he doesn't like cars, either.\n"As long as I live, I want to look at the world. I want to look at a tree there and I want to greet a person there," Remak said, as he waves his hands around the air.\nAs Henry Hayman Herman Remak makes his walk back from his Ballantine Hall office, he looks at the trees, greets everyone he sees and realizes that he can't practice his passion forever.\n"I'm 85 years old," Remak said. "I can't have any illusions. I can't go on forever. But as long as I feel that I am in reasonably good health and that I can do it intellectually and the Honors College wants me, who am I to contradict them"
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Former president of the IU Board of Trustees and current executive director of IU's federal relations, John Walda, has been named to head the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB).\nEffective last week, Walda is chairman of the association's board of directors, comprised of 35,000 individual members and 1,800 public and private universities.\n"The association of governing boards is the national organized group of trustees for public and private institutions both," Walda said. "It serves as a spokes group for higher education from a trustees perspective in Washington."\nThe board tackles issues in higher education such as how to organize a board of trustees effectively, how to work with a president of a university, and how to better manage collegiate athletics and academic health centers.\n"It provides services to trustees by giving seminars, producing publications, producing a monthly magazine, producing white papers on issues that have to do with governance of universities and colleges," Walda said. "The board of directors is made up of 21 trustees from around the country, both from public and private institutions and large and small institutions."\nAs chairman, Walda has two main goals for the AGB.\n"My first goal is to make sure that the expectations for high quality information and education for trustees are met," Walda said.\nThis includes keeping programs such as AGB's publications department and regional seminars running smoothly.\n"Secondly, I hope the AGB is able to take a leadership role in finding solutions to problems in higher education," he said. \nThe AGB is currently tackling the issue of examining the role of intercollegiate athletics in universities and colleges, what's wrong with it, and how it can be fixed from a trustee's perspective.\nWalda has been a member of AGB's board of directors for the past 10 years, where he earned the right to become the national chairman.\n"Through your performance as a director, you sort of earn a right to become an officer," Walda said.\n"I am pleased to see Indiana University so well-represented," said IU president Myles Brand in a recent press release.\n"John is an outstanding example of the good work done by citizen-trustees in helping lead our colleges and universities."\nIU Vice president Bill Stephan believes Walda's experience at IU will be a wonderful resource to the AGB.\n"He's intimately familiar with the kinds of issues universities are dealing with," Stephan said. "I think he has a remarkable vision for where institutions, where initiatives, can move forward."\nA member of the board of trustees for 11 years, president of the board for eight, and serving on the board of the IU Foundation for almost a decade, Walda believes his experience will help him greatly as chairman of the AGB.\n"There aren't many issues that come up in higher education that I haven't seen as a trustee of the foundation," Walda said. "So I'm able to understand when our membership says, 'Hey, why doesn't the AGB take an active role in this or that,' because I've probably taken a look at this or that in my day as a trustee"
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Controversy has arisen at Ohio University about the manner in which a dean evaluation was handled while IU's current Chancellor Sharon Brehm was provost of the University.\nBrehm is accused, by current OU faculty members, of pressuring the evaluation committee to remove parts of the negative evaluation and allegedly coercing the committee chairman to shred the original evaluation.\nEvery year, the faculty of each school receive a survey to fill out about its dean and an evaluation committee is assembled to present that information to the provost.\nLast year, a four-member evaluation committee was assembled to piece together the faculty's surveys on the business school's dean, Glenn Corlett.\nThe evaluation generally only includes a summary of the survey's questions and not individual comments, a policy created by Brehm while she was provost.\nBut last year, the evaluation committee voted to keep individual comments in the evaluation.\nOn March 20, 2001, the committee presented its evaluation to Brehm, including the individual comments.\nThe evaluation sat for over a month with the evaluation committee believing the evaluation was final.\nIn late April, David Chappell, an OU associate professor of management, was curious as to how the evaluation process ran.\n"I wanted to see part of the evaluation," Chappell said. \nChappell asked for a copy of the evaluation but was told by Jessie Roberson, the committee chairman, the provost could not give him a copy.\nChappell then made a public records request May 1 through the director of legal affairs for OU, John Burns, but was denied because the evaluation wasn't complete.\nEight days later, Brehm called an emergency meeting between herself, Burns and the evaluation committee.\n"She persuaded the committee to alter its report, which the committee had every right to do," Roberson said. "It didn't seem possible to take an original report, just a draft, and then create another final report."\nRoberson said Brehm asked the committee to take out all of the individual comments, many of them negative and close to 20 pages, and to take out a paragraph in the remaining evaluation criticizing the business school.\nThe four appendices of the individual comments that were taken out, Roberson said, were supposed to have been destroyed.\n"At no point was I told, 'gather all these up and shred them,'" Roberson said. "What it was that was supposed to happen to the report was absolutely clear. Someone wrote 'draft' on all the original copies, and they wanted me to shred them."\nRoberson, who is a licensed attorney, thought that it may be illegal to destroy the appendices, so he handed them over to Dr. Hugh Bloemer, the chairman of the Faculty Senate.\n"I didn't know what was going on here, but I didn't want to do anything illegal, so I didn't," Roberson said. "And it truly undermines the purpose of having a state public records law."\nBloemer didn't open the appendices. He immediately handed them over to the legal office. But Bloemer believes that nothing illegal happened with the evaluation.\n"If anything, it was a misunderstanding between two people," Bloemer said. "As far as I'm concerned, (Brehm) would never do anything touching the legality of anything."\nAs for what has occurred in the last year during her absence, Brehm is unsure.\n"Because when I left, there were no complaints, there were no concerns. I had cleared my desk," Brehm said.\n"When I came to Ohio University in 1996, I was told that there were a lot of complaints about the dean's evaluations," she said, which is one of the reasons she said she changed the dean evaluation policy in 1996-97.\n"What had caused the concern was that anonymous comments had been produced and were appearing in the newspaper," Brehm said. \nThe provost gave The Post, OU's student newspaper, all of the dean's evaluations each year, but Brehm was concerned about the anonymous comments being published in the newspaper.\nBrehm worked with the Faculty Senate during her first year to change the evaluation policy and to place a new set of guidelines within the faculty handbook, thus eliminating individual comments in the dean evaluations until the business school's evaluation committee voted to keep anonymous comments in their report during 2000 and 2001.\nOU's President Robert Glidden believes Brehm was right in having the committee rework the report.\n"I know that she believed, when I talked with her, that the committee accepted all of that in good spirit," Glidden said. \nWhen Glidden arrived at OU in 1994, "it was a terrible climate for dean evaluations," Glidden said. But, what Brehm managed to fix in her tenure as provost is being looked at again by OU's current provost, Gary Schumacher.\n"I feel like I did my best," Brehm said. "I think I did a really good job, and I think most people who you would talk with would agree with that, and this is an issue that they need to handle. They need to revise their process.\n"I did the best I could at OU. Now I'm focused on Indiana University. What's going on at OU, that's their issue. That's not my issue"
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A storm of blinding wind and rain that swept through campus over Memorial Day weekend has left two of the campus's oldest buildings in need of repair. The storm shattered windows, ripped down gutters, and caused disarray to offices in those buildings.\nThe storm, which uprooted two separate trees causing them to smash into Owen and Franklin Hall, happened late afternoon on Saturday, May 25, leaving the University in charge of repairing the damage.\nMichael Jasiak, former University Information Technology Services employee in Owen Hall, was in the building during the storm.\n"I was watching the storm from my window," Jasiak said. "I saw the dark clouds and I kind of got a bad feeling about it right at the outset."\nJasiak, who was recently appointed manager of digital media services at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, was moving his belongings from Owen Hall to his truck, which was parked just outside of the building.\nJasiak was looking out his window toward the Indiana Memorial Union when the storm hit.\n"The union building disappeared, like somebody dropped a gray curtain from it," Jasiak explained. "At that point, I heard a bit of a groan."\nThat groan was a huge maple tree beginning its descent, right onto Owen Hall, and right onto Jasiak's truck.\n"I saw the tree go right past my window," Jasiak said.\nThe tree hit the building near the second floor, shattering a large picture window in the office of Judy Wertheim, the executive associate dean of the School of Continuing Studies.\nThe tree left the office wide open for the storm's fierce rains to come through, soaking Wertheim's office.\n"It was very fortunate that it happened on a Saturday," Wertheim said. \nThere was no permanent damage to Wertheim's office, with only a broken computer monitor, a scratched table, and a few broken ceiling tiles.\nThe truck, however, suffered over $12,000 worth of damage, Jasiak said.\nOwen Hall was not the storm's only victim on campus. \nA falling tree hit the windows to Franklin Hall's registration center about twenty minutes later, suffering only minor damages.\n"There was a lot of water that came in," said registrar Roland Cote.\nThe University's risk management and building maintenance departments are now looking at both buildings to help clean up the mess and to assess the damages.\nDave Hurst, manager of the campus division of building maintenance, has most of his near 30 person staff working to get the huge trees cut up and hauled off within the next few weeks, before the start of IU's orientation.\n"We're often times driven by what's going on on campus, event-wise," Hurst said.\nThe University's office of risk management is in charge of assessing the damage to both buildings. Larry Stephens, the office's director, is currently uncertain of the extent of the damages.\nIn the meantime, Wertheim's office is almost back to normal, with two of the three broken windows already replaced.\n"They did a wonderful job of cleaning up after the destruction," Wertheim said.\nJasiak is disappointed that that huge maple that crashed into Wertheim's office is now being carried off piece by piece.\n"It was such an old and beautiful tree that squirrels really enjoyed playing around that has now fallen and is being carted off," he said.
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Parked cars clogging the streets. Loud parties until early in the morning. Irresponsible tenants.\nThese are the concerns of some Bloomington homeowners due to an ordinance being overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals on how many people can live under the same roof.\nA lawsuit was filed against Peter Dvorak who let five unrelated students live in his rental property, violating a Bloomington zoning ordinance that stated no more than three unrelated people may live together.\nThe court ruled the ordinance violated Indiana's Constitution, concerning some Bloomington residents that this will entice more IU students to live outside of campus rather than in the University's dormitories or apartments.\n"I really think that the ordinance that the judge struck down was really a beneficial ordinance," said President of the Bryan Park neighborhood association Bill Hayden. Hayden is concerned with masses of students coming into Bloomington's residential areas and disturbing the peace.\n"There's the issue of somewhat drunk undergraduate students, standing on their porches, shouting at the top of their voices and there's people that have to get up at six in the morning to drive to Indianapolis," Hayden said. "Another issue is the parking issue."\nHayden believes if landlords can let as many people live on their properties as possible, the streets could become clogged with cars.\n"If you've got five cars for every house, it's going to be a mess," Hayden said.\nPhil Worthington, president of Garden Hills neighborhood association, agrees with Hayden.\n"We were just beginning to address these problems effectively, and we had a long way to go and this is all we needed," Worthington said.\nWorthington, who currently has college students living in his neighborhood, believes trash and noise, along with parking, could become problems if landlords pack as many tenants as possible into their properties.\n"There's very little accountability," Worthington said. "There's no one around to help with the situation. Over-occupancy is very, very difficult to enforce."\nAlong with immediate repercussions with students moving away from campus comes future problems with potential homeowners coming to the area, Worthington believes.\n"Our ability to retain homeowners and attract new homeowners has been further damaged," Worthington said.\nTim Mayer, a city council member at-large, believes the lack of the ordinance will negatively affect Bloomington's communities around campus.\n"It is generally students who move into campus neighborhoods," Mayer said. "It's just a fact of life.\n"If people live responsibly, then nobody cares. If the landlord doesn't communicate directly with the tenant, that's where the problem starts."\nBut Peter Dvorak, one of the landlords taken to court by the city for over-occupancy is not too worried about Bloomington communities.\n"I do not think that the sky is falling," Dvorak said. \nDvorak wants the city to do more in the future to avoid legal issues such as this. \n"I would hope that the city would be a little more wise in passing laws of dubious legality and constitutionality on the assumption that no one is going to have the resources to challenge it."\nHeidi Smith, manager of the new Sterling University Glen apartment complex on the east side of Bloomington, said plans to build the complex would not have been affected by the repeal of the ordinance. \nSmith said Sterling University conducts market research in the areas they plan to build to get an understanding of the residents likes and dislikes. This causes some Sterling University apartments in other towns to be built differently than others.\n"There are some properties that do have four bedrooms, but we do not have any, and I'm glad we don't," Smith said.\nWorthington would like to see the University step up to help control what is happening within the community.\n"The perfect compromise would be freshman and sophomore mandatory residency," Hayden said. "The problem with addressing these issues is that you're labeled anti-student"
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After a nearly eight month long vigil in Dunn Meadow, the peace campers have decided to pack up and ship out.\nSean "Steps to Freedom" Bagley informed Dean Richard McKaig on Wednesday that the peace campers will have Dunn Meadow cleaned up and back to normal by Saturday.\n"Basically, I informed the administration today that due to the fact that the peace camp hasn't lived up to what I was hoping it would become, it was necessary for me to withdraw my efforts from the peace camp," Bagley said. "I'm going to try to get everything out by Saturday, but that will depend in part on whether other people get their stuff out."\nHe said the worse case scenario would be coming back at the end of July if the meadow could not be cleaned up by Saturday.\nBagley, who is not a student, is the only one remaining in Dunn Meadow this summer, one of the reasons he decided to call it quits. \n"For the first couple weeks it was beautiful," Bagley said. "It did what it intended to do in the beginning. It got people talking about what was going on where they hadn't been doing that before."\nBut the camp started to die out as the months went on.\n"A bunch of people burned-out really quickly," Bagley said.\nAt first, Bagley believed the camp would only get stronger as the months went on.\n"In general, a lot of people have already started removing their stuff," Bagley said.\nDean Richard McKaig was beginning to raise questions about the peace camp and any policies it might be violating, such as if only students were in the meadow and if they were actually sleeping in Dunn Meadow.\n"The policy does not allow overnight camping," McKaig said. \nBut the policy was never broken because the peace campers rotated, rather than sleeping in Dunn Meadow. However, the policy does allow organized free speech, such as 24-hour vigils.\n"There's kind of a fine line between camping and free speech," McKaig said.\nMcKaig and the University's physical plant provided two dumpsters to the campsite within minutes of talking with Bagley to help clean and restore Dunn Meadow. The University is also taking care of restoring the landscape.\nBagley was confident McKaig supported what the camp was attempting to accomplish all along.\n"I generally believed that the Dean supported my right to be here and would've continued to support my right to be here as long as it was living up to what it was supposed to be," Bagley said.\nMcKaig, taking no action against the peace camper, despite concerns and complaints from students and Bloomington residents, echoed the importance of the First Amendment.\n"I very much appreciate the traditions of free speech on a college campus," McKaig said.\nScott Perez, sophomore, believes the peace campers were doing a great thing but lost sight of why they were there in the first place.\n"It kind of sounds like a waste now after being there so long," Perez said. "I believe they have made a statement, and I hope they return if the situation abroad or here in the U.S escalates."\nBagley said the peace camp may return to Dunn Meadow if the the war on terror escalates and told McKaig not to be surprised if the campers return. \nBut Bagley feels that overall, the peace camp was effective.\n"I presented something different and that was very important," Bagley said. "Finally, eight months later, some of the things that I've been talking about since immediately after Sept. 11 are finally getting into the news"