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(09/14/00 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Bullets, blood and bag men compete for top billing in the dusty, craggy landscapes of California and Mexico as several equally malevolent criminal factions battle it out in "The Way of the Gun."
(09/12/00 6:09am)
Students seeking information to affect the search to replace Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis, who retires June 30, 2001, will have their chance. The Chancellor Search and Screen Committee will present the second of two open-forum discussions from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Indiana Memorial Union State Room East.\nAny student interested in making suggestions or asking questions related to the chancellor's job is invited to attend the forum. Meredith Suffron, senior and president of IU Student Association and a member of the Search and Screen Committee, said finding a replacement for Gros Louis is one of the most important items on IU's agenda.\n"We just want to get input on questions to ask the candidates," Suffron said. "We also want to look for what students value as important."\nGros Louis' position includes two different job descriptions, that of Bloomington chancellor and vice president for academic affairs. The chancellor oversees the planning and programs for the campus. He or she will have final responsibility for recommending decisions about campus tenure and promotions to the president. \nThe vice president for academic affairs is responsible for providing direction and guidance on academic matters to campus chancellors and vice chancellors, monitoring the conduct of academic reviews and for reviewing proposed new academic programs.\nKathy Bayless, a committee member and director of the division of recreational sports, said at Monday's forum the committee does not want to assume they know what is important to students.\n"That's one of the reasons I came here," she said. "We really understand what is valued by students and what we should try and protect."\nStudents attending Monday's forum discussed and asked questions concerning communication with the administration and the management roles of University officials.\nGros Louis said he thinks it is important to make sure the Committee asks the candidates about their interests and planned interactions in student groups. He also said students can make a large impact on the decision if they feel strongly about it.\n "If students want their voices heard, they are going to be heard," Gros Louis said. "If students work hard, even in small numbers, the Committee pays attention."\n The forums are just one part of an ongoing search process. An independent recruiting firm will make inquiries and accept applications for the Committee to screen. A letter will also be sent out to all IU department chairs requesting nominations from IU and other schools.\nThirty-four members, including faculty and students, will be selected by IU President Myles Brand to make up the Search Committee. After the list of candidates is narrowed, Suffron said she and the rest of the Committee will meet with those people in an off-campus location and narrow the list further.\n"When we get down to three to five people that will come on campus for an interview," she said. "They'll meet people and get a feel for the campus."\nGros Louis said he hopes students will show up to the forums to learn and ask questions.\n"It's very important that students say what they want to say," he said. "They can also learn something about how the search process works, they can ask questions about the process and learn something about what's going to happen over the next few months"
(09/07/00 3:29am)
After a summer of discussions, decisions and weekend film screenings, the City Lights film series begins its third year of presenting free screenings of classic and world cinema at 7 p.m. Friday with a presentation of "Steamboat Bill Jr." and "Safety Last," two silent films from the 1920s.\nAll movies are screened in Ballantine Hall's room 013 with free parking available in the Ballantine Hall parking lot. The movies are all prints on 16 millimeter film taken from campus film archives.\n"Steamboat Bill Jr." stars Buster Keaton as a college graduate who returns home to work on the family steamboat. "Safety Last" stars the less well-known Harold Lloyd and is the source of the famous image of Lloyd hanging high over a city from the hands of a clock, a stunt Lloyd did with no double and no safety net.\n"They're two of the more famous silent comedies," said Drew Todd, a graduate student and the co-founder of City Lights.\nThe rest of this semester's film schedule is: "The Conversation" (Sept. 13), a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola; "L'avventura/The Adventure" (Sept. 22), a 1960 Italian film; "Bringing up Baby" (Sept. 29,) a 1938 U.S. film starring Cary Grant; "A Hard Day's Night" (Oct. 6), the 1964 Beatles movie, which is being shown to commemorate John Lennon's birth and death; a Laurel and Hardy festival (Oct. 13), a screening of three comedies; "Los Olvidados" (Oct. 20), a Mexican film from 1950; a Halloween double feature (Oct. 27), of "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) and "King Kong" (1933); "Playtime" (Nov. 3,) a 1967 French and Italian film; "Angels with Dirty Faces" (Nov. 10), a 1938 gangster movie starring Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney; "The Ballad of Narayama" (Nov. 17), a 1982 Japanese film; and an Alfred Hitchcock double feature of "The 39 Steps" and "Notorious" Dec. 1.\nThe Laurel and Hardy Festival will introduce prints from the Chester Gleim Film Collection, donated to IU film studies by the late Gleim, an audio/visual consultant for the Chicago public school system and a film collector. City Lights usually shows a surprise short film before each screening and Todd said Gleim's donation has greatly increased the collection of shorts from which to choose.\n"(Gleim's) wife is going to be at the Laurel and Hardy screening and somebody from the department is going to pay tribute to her and her husband's life," Todd said.\nCity Lights, which is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Culture, was created in 1998 by Todd and Eric Beckstrom, also a graduate student. In 1999, a board of Communication and Culture graduate students joined Todd and Beckstrom in selecting each semester's schedule of movies.\nThis summer, Todd, Beckstrom and graduate students Mary O'Shea, Lori Hitchcock, Sherra Schick and Jonathan Nichols-Pethick went through the long process of deciding what audiences will enjoy on screen this fall and spring.\n"Everything we show is pre-screened," O'Shea said. "When we got together at the beginning we had a huge list of films we wanted to show. We sat down and said, 'OK, if all the films we had to choose from were in absolutely pristine condition what would our dream list be?' We also came up with back-ups for each film because all the films we show are not in pristine condition."\nHitchcock said the board tried not to choose anything that had already been shown and also tried to bring a lot of variety to the list.\n"We call it 'classic world film' and we really try and honor that," she said. "We all have specific research interests, and we all bring those interests to the meeting, which helps diversify what we show."\nThe final list was divided up and the board went about screening each film in Ballantine 013 to make sure the picture and sound quality are good enough for audiences to hear and understand. Each film is rated either excellent, good, fair or poor. O'Shea said any film rated fair or poor isn't good enough to be screened for City Lights audiences.\n"We're looking for noticeable splices, scratches, burns, anything wrong with the print at all," she said. "In some instances we've had the horrible experience of having a great-looking print for the first hour and a half and then all of a sudden the film ends and we didn't finish the film. It's amazing what can happen to the footage."\nHigh standards for the films means saying goodbye to some films the board particularly wanted to show. Hitchcock experienced this this summer when she screened a print of the Akira Kurosawa film "Ikiru."\n"It's a classic film and a wonderful movie," she said. "The print itself was beautiful, the sound was great but the subtitles were unreadable so unless you understand Japanese, which most of our audience doesn't, the film doesn't have any meaning."\nOne of City Light's other projects is archiving and eventually gaining access to a film collection donated to the Lilly Library by the late David Bradley. \n"There's a chance that we're going to have to pay copyright fees to show those films," Todd said. "We primarily show from the film studies collection, and they've given us complete access. For the films in the Lilly, it's just a little bit of bureaucracy that needs to be ironed out. We hope to have access by fall 2001. It's an incredible collection of films."\nOne of the new features of this year's film series is a phone number, 856-FLIX, people can call to find out information on each week's screening, Todd said. \n"We're hoping that people who are maybe out of town or who live in Nashville or Columbus can call us, as well as suggest film titles they'd like to see on the big screen," Todd said.\nTodd said the film series is hoping to attract more undergraduate students to come to the screenings this year. But Schick said her ideal audience for City Lights has nothing to do with age.\n"Anyone who loves film for me is the ideal audience," Schick said. "That's why we're doing it"
(09/04/00 3:33am)
IU students will soon get the chance to go places and meet people without leaving their houses or residence hall rooms as part of IU's system-wide Strategic Plan for Distributed Education. \nThe plan includes seven general recommendations and 35 proposed actions that are aiming to increase technological innovations and provide greater access to educational resources at IU to both students and non-students. \nErwin Boschmann, IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis professor of chemistry and associate vice president for distributed education, said although there have been distributed education initiatives developed by and for individual campuses, courses and professors, this is IU's first comprehensive plan.\n"The common term is distance education," Boschmann said, "but at Indiana we used distributed education because it includes any technology or media-enhanced education that helps students on campus and off campus."\nIn order to develop the plan, Boschmann visited IU campuses and talked to "academic leaders" such as faculty and deans. He brought the information he learned to an official committee made up of members from every IU campus, which he headed. Together, the committee members spent about a year, beginning in June of 1999, developing goals and recommendations for a plan on distributed education.\nBoschmann said aspects of the plan will begin influencing programs on campus this fall.\n"Our goal is to successfully bring distributed education into the mainstream of IU's teaching and learning," he said. "We've asked faculty interested in the area to help put courses online and to facilitate with the programmers to display the courses in the proper way."\n Under the recommendations of the plan, students will become more engaged in their courses through hands-on exercises and virtual technology.\n For example, Simon Brassell, professor of geological sciences, teaches an introductory course in oceanography each year. He said one of the major challenges is giving students a feel for the ocean when the nearest oceans are hundreds of miles away.\n "The oceanographic community has been very rapid and effective in putting a lot of images and data on the Web," Brassell said. "Rather than having students sit in lab where they are just doing exercises from a book, they can go on the web and look at images and date describing oceanographic phenomena." \n A multimedia research and development unit from the School of Continuing Studies provides other examples. Students in art appreciation classes can learn elements of design or pigment mixing by actually balancing shapes on a plane or combining colors on a palette using a computer. \nAlumni and other non-students will also benefit from the increased uses of technology, mainly through non-credit opportunities, Boschmann said. For example, although a non-student might not have the time or the money to take a class about art and architecture in Rome, culminating with a trip to Greece, they would be able to go on-line and link to real life pictures and descriptions without buying a plane ticket.\n"These people want the knowledge, not necessarily the diploma," Boschmann said. "They just want to be updated in their field or to generate enjoyment."\nJacqueline Blackwell, associate professor of education at IUPUI, is already teaching a class that utilizes an innovation promoted by the new plan. Blackwell teaches an early childhood class that she presides over in Indianapolis. Still, students from IU in Bloomington and the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville are enrolled in the class and interact with Blackwell and classmates through a live, two-way audio and video TV connection.\n"The exciting part for me is to develop a community of learners," Blackwell said. "Rather than having three classes, my goal is to have one class with three locations. It allows for a very rich experience in terms of involving different parts of the state."\nBlackwell said she learns the names of all her students no matter what city they live in. Students from the class occasionally work with classmates from different cities on projects via the Web, e-mail and less frequently, by phone. The class also holds a chat session on-line with Blackwell.\nBoth Blackwell and Boschmann support this approach in part because it gives interested students in remote places the ability to take advantage of well-known professors and programs without having long commutes or spending large amounts of money.\n"If you had the choice between taking a class on TV or in the classroom you would probably choose the classroom," Boschmann said. "Or maybe you wouldn't because you have to drive two hours back and forth each time. With this kind of communication it really becomes almost like you're actually in the class itself with the professor. We just have to make sure the technology always works."\nBlackwell also stresses that integrating distributed education into programs is happening on more than just the college learning level.\n"I work with a group of pre-kindergartners and they've had a distributed education experience," she said. "Even our youngest learners are having the chance to connect with students from other campuses. The children were delighted to communicate with teachers from other campuses and asked me for more. It's not just happening here; it's happening everywhere"
(08/31/00 5:38am)
It's been a summer of highs and lows for Olympic hopeful Sara Reiling.\nThe sophomore diver has spent the summer in the air, flying around the country and world for training camps and competitions. Along with the rest of the U.S. Olympic diving team, Reiling toured six cities, including Bloomington, giving exhibitions for the public. She also competed in the U.S. national competition in Mission Viejo, Calif., and traveled to a meet in Spain.\n"We became a lot closer as a team," said Reiling of the summer's effect on the diving team. "It forces you to rely on your teammates for entertainment."\nSeth Pederson, director of communications for U.S. Diving, said choosing the Olympic diving team so early this year provided the divers with a lot of extra time to come together as a team.\n"They went into training knowing they were going to be Olympians," Pederson said.\nOn the downside, the traveling has left Reiling with little time to relax and almost no time to spend at home. She expected to practice with her IU team this summer, but her busy schedule made that impossible. Reiling's continuing studies at IU also have to be put on hold for the Olympics. She is not enrolled in classes this semester because the Olympics would force her to miss most of the first half of the semester.\n"I come home, have a day to wash laundry, a day to settle down and then I leave again," she said. "I'm constantly in a new place and I want to be here. After this summer, I don't want to fly ever again."\nBut Reiling has at least two long plane rides still ahead of her. Reiling and IU head diving coach Jeff Huber will fly to Sydney, Australia, Monday in preparation for the Sept. 15 start of the Olympics. Her parents, brother, his girlfriend and her boyfriend will be in Australia to watch her compete in the platform competition beginning Sept. 22 and ending Sept. 24.\nOne thing that might change when Reiling arrives in Sydney is the amount of attention she gets from the press. During the summer, she said she received a few calls but nothing crazy ' which was fine with her.\n"But my answering machine was broken," she said. "So they could only reach me when I was here, and I'm not here very much."\nLately, Huber said he's been receiving "about a call a day," from people wanting to speak with Reiling.\nBoth Huber and Reiling have similar goals in mind to stay on top for the competition. At the top of the list: staying focused.\n"I want her to stay focused on her diving and to not try too hard," Huber said. "There are a lot of distractions that come with the Olympics and a lot of distractions after making the Olympic team. We're trying to reduce that to its essence and to have her go out there and do what she would do for any other competition."\nHuber is also concerned with keeping Reiling as healthy as possible. During the summer she experienced problems with a sore back and wrist and a case of the flu.\nAfter talking to people with previous Olympic experience, trying to shrug off the bureaucratic inconveniences that come with the Olympics are another of Reiling's concerns.\n"You'll be seeing the same trainer for a week and then go one time during the competition, and they won't let you see that trainer and won't give you a reason," she said. "It's petty stuff but you can get wrapped up in it. I want to stay focused on my dives, doing it how I do in practice and not overperforming." \nAs she prepares for her first trip to Australia, Reiling looks forward to trying to do some sightseeing and also to moving into the Olympic Village.\n"I've heard a bunch of stories (about the Olympic Village)," she said. "That it's secluded and for athletes only. Just about the whole energy of it."\nAlthough Huber said Reiling's point total at the Olympic Trials would have been high enough to get her a medal at the last Olympics, neither are dwelling on the possibility of Reiling coming away with a medal.\n"I don't want to predict the future or what's going to happen," Reiling said. "I'm more interested in having a good time and doing well for myself"