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(05/21/07 1:46pm)
The excuse, “I didn’t think it mattered because the students aren’t on campus anymore,” may not be such a good one for a traffic violation in the summer. \nIU Police Department Capt. Jerry Minger said that the IUPD is still on patrol, despite the decrease in the number of people on campus after the spring semester ended.\n“During the 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift, duties are mainly service-oriented,” Minger, said. “Calls come in for traffic violations, accidents, fire alarms.”\nMinger said that, into the evening, more criminal activities such as burglary occur.\nChad Werner, a full-time officer with IUPD, agrees with Minger.\n“Third shift, or ‘late watch,’ as it’s called, sees the most action in the summer,” he said. \nWerner began working for the IUPD in August 2002 after he graduated from police academy. He’s taken the late watch before, but now he usually takes the afternoon shift. Although not as much activity goes on in the afternoon, Werner said that the summer has its exciting moments.\n“Seat belts are fun,” Werner said in regard to traffic violations, which make up a large chunk of the afternoon shift. “People think they can put (the seat belt) on real quick.”\nWerner mentioned being involved in a foot chase on May 5. Police were called after an armed man robbed the Village Pantry on 12th Street and Indiana Avenue. Werner was one of the officers who ran after him. \n“He hit a fence and ran around it. I met him on the other side, and two other officers came and tackled him,” he said.\n A unique phenomenon that Werner often experiences after students leave for the summer is “dumpster diving.” After students leave for the summer, locals look for anything they can sell or use in the large amount of junk students throw in dumpsters. After the first offense, the “dumpster diver” is told to leave. After the second offense, Werner said, the person is arrested.\n“It’s a stupid reason to go to jail,” he said.\nAs for students who are taking summer courses, Werner said that they cause fewer problems than students who are at IU during the normal school year.\n“Students in summer are usually more focused and aren’t concentrating so much on partying,” he said.\nMinger noted a difference between the school year and summer in regard to the calls IUPD receives. \nEven though students have left campus, Minger said, “There’s certainly not a decrease in activity.”\nStudents are no longer living in the residence halls or walking around campus in large groups, but the officers still have a lot to do. \nThey assist people who come in for conferences, instruct cadets in the police academy and patrol popular summer spots among high school students. \n“High school students bring in a certain negative element of juvenile delinquency,” Minger said. \nHe also mentioned that police find it more difficult to patrol the campus in the summer because there aren’t a lot of students around to “police” the area for them. \nNonetheless, Minger said that the change from the school year to summer keeps officers from doing the same thing every day.\n“The variety keeps the officers on their toes,” he said. “It breaks up the monotony.”
(05/17/07 1:42pm)
When a girl stays seated for too long at a meeting of the IU swing dance club, she may be asked to dance. This was the case at the club’s first meeting of the summer, which was held on Monday night in the Indiana Memorial Union.\nA few men in the club mentioned that there didn’t seem to be as many women interested in the swing dance club at IU. \n“We’re always looking for women,” said Bill Holmes, vice president of the swing club and a graduate student.\n“We can all dance, too,” one participant said. “It’s not like we’re beginners.”\nNatalie Rodibaugh, who teaches dancing in the club, said that attendance should pick up when classes start next week.\n“In a small dance community, people come and go,” she said. “It’s a more consistent group in the summer. There are more people from the community.”\nRodibaugh said she has been dancing for seven or eight years. When a friend at IU stepped down from teaching in the club four years ago, Rodibaugh came from Purdue to IU to take the position. The club was founded in 1998.\n“[Swing dancing] is tough to learn, but it’s fun. It’s more playful than a lot of other dances,” she said.\nRecent ‘07 graduate Bjorn DelaCruz and senior Luc Minix began dancing last semester. \n“One afternoon, Luc just said, ‘Hey, we’re going to join the swing dancing club,’” DelaCruz said. “I told him, ‘Okay, I thought we were just going to go work out.’”\nDelaCruz said that although he and Minix were new, they became really involved in the club. They now organize events as officers in the club. DelaCruz said he enjoys the people he meets through the club.\n“You really get to meet a lot of new, interesting people of all ages,” he said.\nMembers in the club learn and dance various swing dances, including the Lindy Hop, East Coast Swing, and the Charleston.\nIU alum Art Oehmich has been dancing for decades. After watching the 1993 movie “Swing Kids,” about a group of kids in Nazi Germany that swing danced, Oehmich began thinking about dancing again. He decided to join the IU Swing Dancing Club after he found that he attended church with a couple of people who were a part of the club.\nWhile the swing dance club is a good way to meet people, Oehmich said that he thinks people who come out to dance aren’t looking to find a date. “We’re all here because we like to dance,” he said. “Not to meet someone.” \nSwing dance lessons begin on Monday, May 21st in the Georgian room at 8 p.m. New membership is $40 for IU students and $50 for non-students.
(04/02/07 4:00am)
Some contestants sang. Some played instruments. One girl even made a very convincing trumpet sound using only her mouth. \nWhile only a handful of people signed up to be in Read Hall’s talent competition Thursday evening, audience members said the event was definitely entertaining.\n“This is why I love Read. It’s got such a mix of talent,” Read student government President Melanie Robbins said after the show, noting the dorm’s high number of students in the Jacobs School of Music.\nRobbins said that plans for the event began before spring break. Graduate resident assistant Israel Laguer and floor programmers, who are students on each floor that comes up with ideas for dorm events, approached the student government with the idea of a talent competition.\nLaguer said he was pleased with the support the idea received.\n“Support from the student government was great. When you have cohesion, you can put on a successful program,” Laguer said.\nNine people entered the competition. Some performed twice during moments when no one else came forward to put his or her talent on the line. A group of four men wearing blazers and sunglasses was one of the entries that performed twice, singing Phish’s last studio recording, “Grind.”\n“We prepared a half hour beforehand, and it showed,” sophomore Brandon Johnson said.\nIn the end, freshman Nikhil Navkal, a student in the Jacobs School of Music, won. Navkal sang a classical piece for the competition. \n“I had no idea other people would appreciate classical music,” Navkal said. \nNavkal had many supporters in the audience. This was an advantage for him, considering that the contestants were narrowed down by applause, and then a show of hands for the remaining three.\n“I think the raise of hands turned (the competition),” Clark Schaufele, a sophomore in the Jacobs School of Music, said. Schaufele accompanied Navkal on the piano.\nNavkal received a DVD player, and the second-and third-place winners, freshmen Alex Pelsor and Carolyn Mehta, received a $20 gift certificate for Kerasotes theaters, and a $10 Target gift card with Twizzlers, respectively. \nSome students who competed in the show have even recorded albums. A.J. Datcher, a freshman, and Calvin Carrington, a senior, have both recorded original songs. Carrington finished a full-length album in December, and Datcher recently recorded an album with a few songs on it.\nSome attended the talent competition just to watch. Elizabeth Schlemmer and Matthew Miller said they live in Forest, but were eating at Read dining hall and thought they’d attend.\n“Our friend A.J. is performing, so we thought we’d come check it out,” Miller said. “This is the first thing that I’ve been to at Read Hall, actually.”\nJana Deal, a floor programmer, said that turnout for each event at Read varies. She noted that the more educational programs have a lower turnout.\n“It depends on how you advertise. If you make (the program) look good, people will come.”\nIn all, Laguer thought the talent competition was received and planned well. \n“The staff did a good job, and the sixth-floor programmers did a good job – they were excited and motivated from the start.”\nRobbins said that the next event at Read will be “Huge Fest” on April 12-15. Huge Fest will include events at Willkie Quad, Forest Quad and Read Hall.\n“It (the event) is something for students to think back on when they move out of Read,” Robbins said. “We remind people to get out and do things. That’s what we’re here for.”
(03/07/07 5:00am)
Owen Hall, Wylie Hall and Bryan House have one trait that sets them apart from other buildings on campus. All three are made of brick, rather than the more popular limestone, showing a glimpse into IU history that many students passing by might not notice.\nThe buildings represent a change from what IU architect Robert Meadows described as the limestone style of the campus. He added that the buildings in the future of IU will most likely not be made of anything other than limestone.\n“Each of IU’s eight campuses has a unique style of building, with materials that are specific to each area,” he said. “This campus is a limestone campus.”\nMeadows said IU’s buildings are made of limestone because there is a lot of limestone in southern Indiana. A look into IU’s early history provides insight as to why Owen and Wylie halls were made of orange-red brick instead of limestone.\nIf it isn’t obvious at first that Owen Hall is old, it is once someone steps inside. The building’s tall ceilings and doors tell its long history, as does its distinct aged smell. Richard Owen, who was a geologist and professor of natural science at IU, is the building’s namesake. Owen Hall originally housed the department of natural sciences and a museum. \nWylie Hall, was built at the same time as Owen Hall despite its newer looking appearance. The building received updates when the economics department moved there from Ballantine Hall. Wylie Hall was named for Andrew Wylie, IU’s first president. In its early days, Wylie housed the chemistry and physics departments, as well as the library.\n“Wylie seems pretty cool,” said Emily Honeyman, a junior. “I’ve only been in it once. It looks like an old school house.”\nTrustees had the buildings constructed in 1884 after a fire destroyed one of the two buildings that comprised University, which was located nearer to downtown. The buildings made up what was then known as the State Seminary. The trustee president at the time of the fire, David Banta, felt that the University should move closer to Dunn Woods. There, he believed the University would have “more growing room,” according to a pamphlet in the IU Archives.\nMeadows said he believed Owen and Wylie halls were built before the commercial quarries around Bloomington opened. But according to the Monroe County Historical Society, commercial quarrying began around 1827 in Stinesville, Ind., located about 15 miles from Bloomington. This was before Owen and Wylie halls were built. According to the pamphlet in the IU Archives, trustees gave 30,000 bricks from the burned building to be used in the construction of the buildings, and permitted the builders to use “(limestone) quarry upon the grounds.” \nAs for Bryan House, another look into more recent history explains why it was made of brick.\nIn 1924, William Lowe Bryan, IU’s 10th president, had the house built after trustees and faculty expressed the desire to build a house on campus for the president. According to a 1996 pamphlet in the IU Archives, Bryan built the house in colonial revival style. He also wanted the house to model Woodrow Wilson’s brick Georgian-style home in Washington, D.C.\nMeadows said that the architects propose their building plans to the trustees, who can approve them, reject them or revise them. The architects aren’t limited to just limestone, but they are encouraged to utilize the rock that is natural to Bloomington.\nIn fact, after the IU Art Museum was built by architect I.M. Pei in 1941 with poured concrete, Meadows said that the trustees asserted that using any material other than limestone “wouldn’t happen again.”
(01/18/07 5:06am)
Freshman Karimah Aziz has so many hijabs, she can't even count how many she and her family own.\n"I have three younger sisters, so whenever I go home there are hijabs on the floor, on the bed, in bags, all wrinkled," she said.\nAfter the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the decision whether to wear hijabs, traditional scarves many women wear that cover their heads and shoulders, has become a delicate choice for Muslim women.\nToday, more than five years later, Aziz and some other women at IU insist the attacks have not affected their choice to wear the garment.\nAziz said the hijab shows modesty and confidence in being Muslim, but wearing one also brings on a new set of problems. Aziz and junior Myeda Hussain both expressed feelings of pressure to present themselves as good people when wearing it.\n"I want (non-Muslim) people to know that I'm just like them. I'm not a terrorist," Hussain said. \nLast fall, Hussain decided to start wearing the hijab, the first woman in her family to do so. \nFor Hussain and others, wearing the hijab in general and on college campuses in particular has become more political after Sept. 11, said Heather Akou, an IU assistant professor of apparel merchandising and design. Akou researches Islamic dress and its cultural implications.\n"Women now have to put more thought into wearing the hijab," she said. \nFreshman Farzana Bade, a Muslim, said she chooses not to wear the hijab. But she said her decision is not motivated by any unfavorable reactions she might receive by wearing it. \n"Any reaction (I've gotten) after Sept. 11 has been positive," Bade said.\nShe recalled an instance in a Chinese restaurant where a woman smiled warmly at her and told her she accepted Bade's religious background. Bade said she chose not to wear a hijab because she wants to be absolutely sure of her decision before she commits to it.\nWearing a hijab, she said, is a big step to make.\n"Once you start (wearing a hijab), you don't stop -- but you never know what you're going to get into at college," she said.\nAziz said she knows many Muslim women on campus who don't wear hijabs. \n"Some are scared; they want to fit in," she said. "Wearing a scarf, you're automatically labeled and don't blend in as well."\nPart of her reservations about wearing a hijab stem from the reactions she could get from non-Muslims, she said. But, she added, there are still other ways many label a person as Muslim. \n"People can tell by the color of your skin that you might be Muslim," Aziz said. "Not wearing a hijab isn't entirely about not wanting to be labeled."\nWhile her parents encourage her to wear the hijab, Bade said they don't want to force her into social situations at college where she would be uncomfortable. \n"I have a lot of respect for girls who wear the hijab," she said. "It's a huge step in showing your faith."\nWhile the hijab can be worn fashionably, Akou said wearing it can have many meanings. The garment, which comes in various shapes and patterns, can be worn differently to fit regional customs.\n"Some women wear the hijab as a political statement, showing their religious identity," Akou said. "Other women don't care what others think and aren't wishing to attract attention; the choice for them is more of a personal one."\nAkou said that like many religious texts that set forth guidelines for daily life, the Quran says women should cover themselves. She added that many who wear the hijab do so to convey a sense of modesty. This, Akou said, is the main reason she wears the hijab. \n"(The hijab) is a sign of modesty," she said. "These days, women are showing more and more skin."\nFor Hussain, it is important to be seen as a Muslim. Aziz has a similar view, saying the hijab demonstrates to others that she has confidence in showing she is Muslim.\nMany women wear the hijab, Hussain said, because it is a constant reminder of their faith. \n"I feel that it makes me a better Muslim," she said.
(01/12/07 4:57am)
Many students are probably planning on relaxing Monday, but there will be plenty to do around campus and in the community on the day off from class. A range of events will celebrate the life and ideas of the man responsible for the holiday, Martin Luther King Jr.\n"The focus this year is 'the power of one' -- the ability of a person or group to bring about change for the better," said Tiffany Combs, program coordinator for the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. \nThe celebration is made up of events that are sponsored by many different organizations on the IU campus, such as the IU-Bloomington Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Committee and the Social Justice League. Some events are focused on the IU campus, and others provide an opportunity for those on campus to reach out to the community. \nCombs suggested that students attend a lecture given by Naomi Tutu, the daughter of South African bishop and human-rights activist Desmond Tutu, in the Whittenberger Auditorium at 5 p.m. Sunday.\n"I think it will draw a lot of crowd response, due to her father's work as well as her own involvement in working with poverty," Combs said. \nTutu will be speaking on how King's vision made an impact nationally as well as globally.\nStudent Activities Office adviser Sarah Wilcox also suggested students attend the Unity Summit, which will be Monday from noon to 3 p.m. in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall. \nThe annual event, sponsored by the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, provides activities, discussion and group work by students, and presentations from student organizations.\n"It's a unique opportunity for students to talk with each other about what's happening on campus." \nEric Love, coordinator of the event, said attendance has grown in recent years, and the effects have been rewarding. \nResidence halls have been and will be hosting various events throughout next week as well as the rest of the month, said Barry Magee, assistant director of Residential Programs and Services' diversity education. \n"A lot of the events are focused around a current context for the civil-rights movement -- 'What does this mean for me today? What is my role?'" Magee said.\nThe listing of events at dorms is available at www.cue.indiana.edu. For a list of volunteer opportunities, visit www.bloomington.in.gov/cfrd. A full list of events is available at www.indiana.edu/~mlkjr/calendar.html.
(11/28/06 4:17am)
Catching the eye of the casual observer on East Third Street, the greenhouse in Jordan Hall might look like something from an old science-fiction movie. The dome-shaped room with large windows is difficult to place until one sees what's inside.\nThe greenhouse displays a wide variety of plants for students, researchers and the general public to study and observe. Despite the cold of the upcoming winter months, plants ranging from tropical to desert backgrounds continue to thrive in the enclosed space. \n"(The greenhouse) even has fruit -- banana and guava, and the cocoa has pods on it now," said John Leichter, one of the four members of the IU staff that runs the greenhouse. \nThe greenhouse has been in its current location since 1956 and has not been renovated since it was built, Leichter said. However, he said the facility will see an upgrade soon. Along with renovations, Leichter mentioned that work on a new greenhouse on 10th Street will begin in April 2007, a project that will add 10,000 square feet and will be used solely by researchers.\nLeichter said as of now, researchers and beginning biology classes are the main users of the greenhouse. PJ Pulliam, a recent IU graduate, is currently performing research and lab work in the greenhouse, looking at non-native plants of the area to see how they affect the soil. \nThe gardeners can be seen throughout the greenhouse maintaining and adding plants, discussing things that need to be done for general upkeep and taking people on tours. The gardeners' knowledge of the plants is also a great help to the researchers that use the greenhouse.\n"The guys that work here are great," Pulliam said. "They know a lot about the plants and are a great resource."\nDespite the classwork being done, the greenhouse is not just a place for researchers. \nKatrina Panovich, a junior majoring in Informatics, said she enjoys coming to the greenhouse to lift her mood. \n"I like to come to the greenhouse when it's a gray day," she said. "It's warm and smells like living things." \nPanovich added her favorite part of the greenhouse was the desert section because the plants are so different than what can be seen growing in Indiana.\nWhether student, researcher or member of the community, everyone finds something out of the ordinary at the greenhouse.\n"It's a really nice, different place," Panovich said. \nThe greenhouse is open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
(11/15/06 4:45am)
Sitting with their desks in a circle in a small room in the IU School of Optometry, a group of seven graduate students, one auditor and a professor discuss the musical "Rent." \nAlthough the graduate seminar, provided by the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, might appear like a music course, it looks solely at -- as the name suggests -- "Musical Responses to the AIDS Pandemic."\nProfessor Judah Cohen instructs this unusual course, which meets from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Mondays, and guides his students through various ways the United States and Africa have used music to address the AIDS crisis. According to the syllabus, students write assignments about the weekly readings and give 30- to 40-minute final presentations at the end of the semester on topics of the students' choosing. \nDuring the semester, students gain a sense of how musical responses to AIDS came about and how these responses evolved over time and were given roles within different groups. During the class's discussion of "Rent," for example, Cohen noted that not only lyrics, but also sounds of instruments themselves within the musical have a correspondence to the reaction of AIDS. \n"Somehow, there is a connection between sounds of a musical and discourse as well as the specter of AIDS itself," he said.\nEd Chamberlain is an auditor who is working on his Ph.D. in comparative literature and is taking the course to provide a new perspective for his work. \n"Up to now, I haven't had the opportunity to explore my focus through ethnomusicology, and so I'm glad to say that this class is presenting a great opportunity to develop my work in a productive, new direction," Chamberlain said. \nChamberlain, who wrote his master's thesis on representations of AIDS, said the class is important in order to raise awareness on the topic and possibly promote further study of it.\nDuring a trip to Uganda two years ago, one of Cohen's colleagues mentioned an increase of AIDS-related music. Cohen said it was that conversation that first inspired him to create the course. \n"I wanted to explore the connection between music and disease," he said. "It is one that has a real significance but hasn't really been touched upon." \nBecause different communities each have their own unique reactions to AIDS, this presents a problem, Cohen said.\n"You can't localize (AIDS). It's a global situation," Cohen said.\nDave Lewis, who is working on his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, said he took a medical anthropology course as an undergraduate and enjoyed it.\n"I loved the course but couldn't see any way to connect it to music," he said. "This course provides that." \nLewis also said focusing a dissertation around the connection between music and AIDS would be one way that someone could, as Lewis puts it, "get out of academia and give back to society.