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(09/19/12 4:35am)
After going uncharacteristically blue in 2008, Indiana has seen few campaign stops by either presidential candidate this year. Financially, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama in donations from Hoosiers.
(08/14/12 2:22am)
After two weeks in London for the 2012 Olympic games, seven IU athletes competed for their respective home countries, bringing home two medals. Here’s how they finished alongside IU Olympians of the past.
(12/05/11 7:11pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____> Union Board, the student organization that has brought names like Lil Wayne and Madeleine Albright to campus, will have elections today and Tuesday. The board’s leadership consists of 13 committee directors and three executive officers, which are a president and two vice presidents. Thirty-four students have signed up to run for a directorship for the 2012 calendar year. Sixteen of those will be chosen — eight chosen by student election and eight by student leaders.Click here to meet the candidates.
(08/26/11 4:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The new varsity baseball and softball stadiums will take the place of the intramural fields on the north edge of campus near 45/46 and Fee Lane and will leave the nearly 10,000 participants of intramural sports without a home field.Director of Recreational Sports Kathy Bayless said that as of yet, there is no immediate plan where the sports will play after groundbreaking on the stadium begins this fall. According to the Indiana University Master Plan, new intramural practice fields will be constructed in the northeast section of campus. Sembower Field and IU Softball Field would become a part of this complex as well. The Master Plan does not include a date for when construction will take place.
(07/11/10 10:43pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>For a short while Saturday afternoon, Winslow Woods Park was filled with music, fresh food and Mongolian wrestling.Participants gathered at the park as part of the IU Mongolia Society’s celebration of the Mongolian holiday Naadam.Naadam is one of Mongolia’s two biggest holidays and is celebrated from July 11 to 14 in honor of the country’s revolution against the Soviet Union.The celebration opened with words from Department Chair of Central Eurasian Studies Chris Atwood.“I’d like to say it’s our 10th, 20th, 30th year, but it’s been so many that I’ve forgotten,” he said.Naadam is generally celebrated through three sports: horse racing, archery and Mongolian wrestling, said Tserenchunt Legden, a professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies.“These sports have been popular since ancient times, the Genghis Khan times,” she said. “And now, these sports are celebrated as a celebration of the Mongolian revolution of 1921.”Attendees had the opportunity to participate in Mongolian wrestling, as well as other traditional games such as Shagai, at the festival.Shagai is a game similar to dice, but instead of dice, participants use the anklebones of sheep. Each side of the anklebone is shaped differently and represents a different animal. The object of the game is to roll four anklebones and have each land on a different side.In addition to the games, sophomore Delgerbat Uvsh and Bloomington resident Ochmaa Escue played native Mongolian music and folk songs. Uvsh played the Mongolian national anthem on the horse-head fiddle, a box-shaped violin-like instrument that is played like a cello. Escue accompanied Uvsh on a yatga, a 13-string lap-harp.Several first-year Mongolian students taking part in an intensive eight-week course through the Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages program sang at the festival. Two members of this group, University of Georgia student Hunter Causey and Monterey Institute of International Studies student Rhiannon Bramer, will be traveling to Mongolia at the end of the program as a Fulbright Scholar and a Boren Fellow, respectively.Atwood attributes some of the success of IU’s Mongolian program to outside activities like the Naadam celebration. “There’s a Mongolian community in Bloomington, and they also participate in these events. There’s another holiday — the lunar new year, Tsagaan Sar — during the year, with even more people.“I think it’s the best program in the United States,” he said. “It’s a nice environment to see. People are very friendly, and they welcome people who study Mongolian and those who aren’t.”
(06/28/10 12:54am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When Gabrielle Reed first began competing in the Miss America Program, it was not just for the title.“The first year I competed, two years ago, was the year I won Miss IU,” she said. “If I would not have won Miss IU, I would have had to leave IU. I wouldn’t have been able to pay my tuition. That meant a tremendous amount for me personally.”Reed, an IU student, was crowned Miss Indiana at the 70th annual Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant on Saturday at the Zionsville High School Performing Arts Center in Zionsville.Reed was selected by a panel of judges including four former Miss Indianas in the categories of talent, swimsuit and fitness, evening gown and question-and-answer.As part of her duties, Reed will represent Indiana at the upcoming 2011 Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas.Reed, although confident she had done well, was not certain that she would win.“There was another girl actually who didn’t place that I thought would do well,” she said.After Reed’s name was called, she was crowned by Miss Indiana 2009 and IU alumna Nicole Pollard.“Nicole is a dear friend of mine, so that was really special for me,” Reed said.One of the judges was Kit Field Kruger, Miss IU 1967, Miss Indiana 1967 and fourth runner-up to Miss America 1968.Kruger said Reed exemplified many of the qualities of Miss Indiana.“So much goes into being a winner,” Kruger said. “Her talent was exceptional, and her interview was exceptional.”Four other contestants who attend or have attended IU competed, including first runner-up Brittany Hagan.“I thought they’d called the wrong person at first,” Hagan said. “It was pretty shocking because I competed last year and didn’t make the top 10.” The ProcessSaturday’s final event was the last in the weeklong process of selecting Miss Indiana.The contestants began the week by participating in the Zionsville Merchants Pet Parade. They also attended several fundraisers and spent time with various volunteer organizations.Throughout the rest of the week, the women were split into two groups for evaluation by the judges in preliminary rounds.Reed and Hagan both won honors during the preliminary judging for their interview sections. Reed also won best talent in her group.Other preliminary winners included IU alumna Katie Rayl for the lifestyle and fitness section.During the final event, the 29 women competing for the title was pared down to 11. These women competed one more time in front of an enthusiastic audience bearing pins, fans and flyers displaying their favorites to win the competition.The semi-finalists competed on stage in talent, swimsuit and fitness, evening gown and question and answer.“After they announced the top 10, I felt good about my whole performance for the whole week,” Reed said. “But the thing you have to remember is that your score only gets you into the top five. ... Nothing is for sure. But you’ve done all you could, and all you could do is hope it works out. And it did. I was speechless. I was really just speechless and unbelievably thrilled and excited.”Growing through the pageantsThe Miss Indiana and Miss America programs are pageants that provide scholarships for young women across the nation. The programs’ stated purpose is to provide an opportunity to “gain additional life experience, work on issues of importance to society, enhance personal and professional skills and developing your performance-related and other talents.”Reed agreed.“It’s not a beauty pageant,” she said. “It is about the girl who is going to go out there and promote a program that is teaching young women skills that they need to be successful in the work force, to be successful in the arts — whatever field you need to go into. This is a program that teaches you those things.”Hagan said she has grown as a person through her association with the Miss America program, particularly through her platform, which raises awareness of autism.“Nothing’s more empowering than reaching out to others,” Hagan said. “I think that’s helped me to grow over the past two years.”“Other than that, it really helps with being confident on stage, poised, being articulate and feeling comfortable with whoever you are. I would definitely suggest it for anyone who wants to be involved in Miss America.” Responsibilities of Miss IndianaIn addition to representing Indiana in the Miss America pageant, Miss Indiana must fulfill several responsibilities.During her tenure as Miss Indiana, Nicole Pollard got a chance to do pretty much everything, she said.“Miss Indiana wears many hats,” Pollard said. “Most of my work was revolved around service organizations. ... But there’s really nothing out of the job description for Miss Indiana.”As Miss Indiana, Pollard got the opportunity to sing at several Indianapolis sporting events as well.“It was a very busy year, but when you think about it there’s so much that I’ve done within one year,” she said. “I keep thinking about all I wish I could have done. Those are the things you work on after the year’s over: getting those things under your belt and really making a difference just as yourself.”It is a big job, but Reed said she can handle it.“I just feel ready,” she said. “I was ready for the job of Miss Indiana when I took it. I feel really prepared and I think going to Miss America is going to turn out really well.”