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(04/06/09 4:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a fourth-place finish in its last tournament in Arizona, the IU women’s golf team is returning to familiar surroundings.The Hoosiers will play host to the IU Invitational in Columbus, Ind., on Monday and Tuesday. In last year’s event, the Hoosiers finished eighth as rival Purdue took the title.This year, the Hoosiers hope their recent success will play a part in the upcoming tournament. IU has finished in the top five in its last two tournaments, and IU coach Clint Wallman hopes to see the same type of play at home.“We’ve played it all year, and they know they can play well on that course,” Wallman said in a statement. “They are very comfortable on it. I expect them to keep the momentum going from last week.”The Hoosiers have not won this event since 1999 and look to junior Anita Gahir to help deliver a victory.Gahir was named Big Ten Women’s Golfer of the Week for her play in the Mountain View Collegiate tournament March 28 to 29. Her 68 on the final day of the tournament was one stroke shy of a tournament record.
(03/31/09 3:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With a top-10 national ranking and a Big Ten Match Play Championship, the IU men’s golf team has plenty to brag about this season.The Hoosiers have something else to add to their recent recognition.After the Hoosiers finished second in the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship, Golfweek named them “Men’s Golf Team of the Week,” and freshman David Erdy was named Big Ten Men’s Golfer of the Week by the conference. With Erdy’s recognition, IU now has two golfers named “Golfer of the Week,” as senior Jorge Campillo was selected for the week of Feb. 18. Erdy earned his selection for his stellar play in the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship, leading his team with medalist honors in the qualifying rounds and winning his first two matches. Erdy joined Campillo and junior Alex Martin as the three Hoosiers to have won medalist honors this season.The Hoosiers earned the team title despite being runner-ups in the tournament. After qualifiers, IU was seeded No. 1 for the tournament and defeated No. 5 Stanford and defending champion UCLA before losing to Middle Tennessee State.The Hoosiers hope to play well against stiffer competition in the United States Collegiate Championship in Atlanta. The field is comprised of the nation’s top teams and some familiar foes from Stanford and UCLA.
(03/05/09 4:46am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When IU men’s golf coach Mike Mayer took a recruiting trip to the 2004 Junior Orange Bowl International, he had never heard of Jorge Campillo.During his recruitment of former IU golfer Santiago Quirarte, Mayer was struck by the temperament of the young man from Caceres, Spain.“His golf swing was his golf swing,” Mayer said. “It didn’t wow me. I liked the way he conducted himself.”Little did Mayer know that in four years, Campillo would go from a virtual unknown to one of IU’s most accomplished athletes. Campillo is currently second on the school’s all-time scoring average list and has captured six career tournament victories.Campillo was unanimously named Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2006, the second Hoosier to do so, and broke the all-time freshman scoring mark. Life off the course, however, was rougher.“My first semester was real hard,” Campillo said. “The language was so hard, and everyone here moves at a fast pace. I had to get where I was going much faster.”Since then, Campillo has matured as a person and a golfer.Last year, Campillo found his stroke. He took home the Triple Crown of the Big Ten, receiving the Les Bolstad Award for lowest average stroke in the conference, a Big Ten championship and Big Ten Golfer of the Year. Campillo captained the European team to victory in the Palmer Cup last summer and entered his senior year ranked as the No. 3 amateur player in the world.As Campillo takes the golf world by storm, Mayer said his team should soak in everything they can.“When I talk to our freshmen in the lineup, I remind them frequently that they have one of the top players in the world here in their backyard,” Mayer said, “and they better take advantage of it.”Junior Eric Serch, also from Spain, and sophomore Paul Park said they can all learn from Campillo.“My biggest problem is the game itself,” Serch said. “And he manages himself very well on the golf course, so I ask him for tips and things like that.”“He’s a field player, and I feel that if I integrate that into my game, I will be a lot better,” Park said.Mayer said having a top-ranked player on his team – and the chance to beat him every day – gives his teammates an advantage once competition starts.“When we get out there to play against those other players, there’s no deer-in-the-headlights look for us,” Mayer said.Campillo plans to enter the professional ranks after the NCAA Championships, joining some IU alumni. Shaun Micheel, a 1991 IU graduate, won the 2003 PGA Championship and has earned $7 million in his career, according to www.databasegolf.com. Jeff Overton, a 2005 IU graduate, has earned more than $2 million.Though current professionals have been successful, Mayer sees something different in Campillo. If Mayer’s evaluations are correct, Campillo may want to open a new banking account.“If I were to compare him to Shaun and Jeff, then I would say that at this stage, where they were right now, Jorge is the best player of the bunch,” Mayer said.
(03/02/09 5:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>You can’t have a better start to your college career than Drew Allenspach’s. In his freshman year, the now-senior golfer earned the second-best freshman scoring average in IU history at 74.15 and began his accounting and financing major with a 4.0 GPA. His key to early success on and off the course was the same: focus on the task at hand. Allenspach keeps a calendar with all of his obligations for the semester, leaving the execution of his plans as the only challenge. “The more intentional I am with my time,” Allenspach said, “the better the results seem to be.” One result was a career-best second-place finish in the 2006 Boilermaker Invitational. Allenspach was also one of three Hoosiers that year to play in all 13 tournaments, fulfilling what he hoped to get upon coming to IU: early play. “Probably the most important reason was a chance to play early,” Allenspach said, “Playing on the traveling five since my freshman year has been one of the greatest joys of my college experience.” Allenspach continued to excel in both golf and academics, and his hard work did not go unnoticed. He was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V first team and was selected for the Academic All-Big Ten team his sophomore year. He earned his second spot on the Academic All-Big Ten team the next year and was also named an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and Cleveland Golf All-American Scholar. IU coach Mike Mayer said Allenspach earned all his honors because of enthusiasm. “If I can find anyone with half as much passion as Drew, this team will be very successful,” Mayer said.This past summer, Allenspach was chosen as the student-athlete representative for the Athletics Director Search Committee. With the departure of Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan, Allenspach wanted an intelligent and committed person to continue to have success after his time at IU. “Fred Glass fits every qualification I laid out and more,” Allenspach said. “I applaud his service to the University and look forward to the future success under his leadership.” As he closes out his time as a Hoosier, Allenspach hopes a lighter academic load will help his team leave with a Big Ten Championship, as well as help him overcome personal challenges. “It wouldn’t surprise me if this spring was the best semester of my IU golf career,” he said. A life in the PGA is not in Allenspach’s future plans. Instead, a career at the Swiss bank UBS in the Mergers, Acquisitions practice in New York and amateur golf competitions await him. Mayer said he believes Allenspach could play professional golf but knows his player will be a big name in the business world. “I think in 20 years, he will be the CEO of some big business somewhere,” Mayer said. “I think he’s going to conquer the world.”
(01/26/09 4:46am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>IU women’s golf coach Clint Wallman and a panel of judges were treated to a taste of teamwork Friday night.In its fifth annual “Iron Chef” competition, the team was split into three groups to prepare the golfers’ best pasta dishes.Although each team stood proudly by their meals, Wallman said teamwork was the most important recipe of the night.“Team chemistry is one of the strongest parts of this unit,” Wallman said as the teams were busy cooking. “If they work hard now, working hard on the golf course won’t be too hard.”Laughter, smiles and compliments filled the kitchen in the Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union during the hour and 15 minutes each team had to prepare its meal, with mock announcers adding to the fun atmosphere.The team’s day is usually filled with practice, classes and competitions, so Wallman breaks up the players’ schedules with relaxed activities like Xbox parties. Junior Kellye Belcher said these activities only add to the time they spend with each other.“We’re like sisters,” Belcher said. “We hang out all the time.”Belcher said the team gets together for movie nights, chats and schoolwork help.The teams dressed alike to add a level of unity, and laughter was the No. 1 solution to a kitchen mishap. The cohesive teamwork caught the eyes of the guest judges, including IU football coach Bill Lynch.“One of the most important things a team has to do is learn to trust one another,” Lynch said. “And these types of activities teach you to do that.”Lynch said doing activities unrelated to a student’s sport allows them to build team chemistry, an important aspect of any team.“I don’t think you can replace it,” Lynch said. “This is what all the championship teams talk about.”Wallman reinforced the importance of unity, saying he sees a huge improvement in the way his team works together through adversity.The night ended with each team’s meal tasted and graded, and the “Beach Babes” were crowned as champions. The “Beach Babes” comprised sophomore Cecilia Orevik, junior Laura Nochta and freshman Sara Poppas.In his final comments of the night, Wallman praised the accomplishments of his team.“If you guys can do this in an hour and 15 minutes,” Wallman said, “there is nothing you can’t accomplish if you put your mind to it.”
(07/17/08 1:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Physical fitness training at 6 a.m. has its perks, as proven by the No. 1 ranking The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America recently gave the IU Army ROTC program for 2007. The award is based on an evaluation of each of the 272 active ROTC programs in the nation. IU Army ROTC will receive the award at the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America awards banquet sometime this fall.The first part of the criteria for the award is retention, or the number of cadets who stay in the program, which showed a 92 percent retention rate – well over the national average of 70 percent, said Sgt. 1st Class Roy Hughes. The second level of evaluation was scholarships. IU recruited 19 cadets to a four-year scholarship, again beating the national average of eight to nine recruits, Hughes said. Following these evaluations, the IU Army ROTC was then tested on how well it produced leaders through the Leader Development and Assessment Course. The course tests how well juniors in the program perform, Hughes said. The IU Army ROTC had 62 percent of its cadets ranked as excellent leaders, 40 percent more than the national average, he said. The Leader’s Training Course, run in the summer at Fort Knox, Ky., is a course that can give a junior credit for the first two years of ROTC, Hughes said. The course is designed to see how many cadets sign a contract with the government to become officers. The IU Army ROTC saw 100 percent of the cadets sign a contract. Hughes said he feels this was a vital part to their success. “The last two years have been some of the best in my 24-year career,” he said. “I believe that the teamwork within our organization and our pursuit of excellence in producing officers for the Army is why we deserved this award.”Another part of the evaluation is seeing if the program reached its mission, or number of cadets it produced. The IU Army ROTC program has reached its mission for the past five years, said Lt. Col. Eric D. Arnold, also a professor of military science at IU.The IU Army ROTC expects to have about 130 students back in the fall, which is above the average program’s number of about 90 students, Hughes said.
(07/16/08 11:38pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Twelve years after passing away from a brain aneurism during March of his senior year at IU, John Jackson, who served as the Indiana Daily Student’s editor-in-chief for the summer of 1995, is still being publicly remembered by his friends and family.On Saturday, The Links Golf Club in New Palestine will host the 8th annual Take it Easy Open, a golf outing benefiting the John M. Jackson Memorial Scholarship.JR Ross, a friend of Jackson’s and one of the founders of the TEO, feels the family-friendly atmosphere is a great way to remember Jackson.“What would mean the most to John is that we all get together and just have a good time,” he said.The outing was first organized in 2001 by a group of Jackson’s friends as a way to raise money for his scholarship. The scholarship was created as a way to recognize his belief that the best way to learn the craft of journalism was through the newsroom, not the classroom, according to the outing’s Web site www.takeiteasyopen.com.The scholarship started as a $200 gift given to a journalism student at IU, but after meeting with school officials about organizing a golf outing to raise money, the group has raised over $45,000 in Jackson’s honor. According to the events Web site, the scholarship is given to those who have shown a commitment to the IDS and are aspiring to become a professional journalist upon graduation. The School of Journalism most recently gave away a $4,000 scholarship, the largest thus far, according to the outing’s registration form.The outing is set to have a shotgun start at 8:15 a.m., which Ross said is a new time to account for the changing times. Ross exclaimed the event used to start later.“Now we all have kids and get up at 6 a.m. anyway, so we might as well do it earlier,” he said.The outing is set up as an 18-hole, four-person scramble format, and anyone of any skill level is eligible to play. Players will have a chance to win a multitude of prizes, including a $10,000 prize for a hole-in-one and other prizes to those who hit the ball closest to the pin. There will also be raffle ticket prizes such as autographed memorabilia from IU basketball coach Tom Crean and IU football coach Bill Lynch, Colts memorabilia and signed books.
(07/13/08 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>When Austin Starr kicked a field goal to capture the Old Oaken Bucket, the Hoosiers tied Purdue in points for the Crimson and Gold Cup, a head-to-head series that pits the two Indiana schools against one another in athletic competition. Six months and 17 contests later, the tie stands.For the first time in its four years of existence, the Crimson and Gold Cup has ended in a 10-10 tie. The Cup first started as the Titan Series in 2001, but changed names for the ‘04-‘05 season. Since then, matchups between the Indiana rivals has one point added to it to the victors for each individual sport, creating added intensity to the competition.IU held the traveling trophy for the first two years, before losing 10.5-9.5 last year to Purdue. Assistant Media Relations Director Matt Brady said because of the tie the trophy will remain on the West Lafayette campus for now.Other than the football game, arguably the most unforgettable event took place in Assembly Hall on Feb. 19. The Hoosiers won the basketball game 77-68, earning a point in the Cup standings. The win marked the last game the men’s squad would play under Kelvin Sampson, as Dan Dakich took over as interim head coach for the rest of the season.Although the Crimson and Gold Cup is not yet a household event in the minds of students at IU, the rivalry between the two schools will continue next year. The cup was created as a way to make the games more meaningful, but most students feel that the matchups are fun enough to watch without the .“I think it interests people who wouldn’t be interested otherwise, like me,” said sophomore Kelsey Brizzolara, “It gives me a reason to go to football games because rivalry games mean more.”The intensity of the rivalry is not considered a good thing for all students, however.“I think that to discriminate against one team in particular detracts from the essence of sports as a mertiocracy of physical prowess,” said sophomore Yahya Chaudry, “This goes against the very ideal and purpose of competitive sports.”Purdue and IU will begin the 2008-09 chase for the cup on Sept. 27 in a volleyball matchup at IU. Other matchups include the Old Oaken Bucket Game in West Lafayette on Nov. 22 and a men’s basketball game in February at Assembly Hall.
(07/10/08 1:41am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Your grades could be affected by your state of mind, researchers announced recently in a study on how mood affects creativity.The study released through the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences found that peoples’ creative motivation, even the way they would like to die, is influenced by the way they feel.Psychology professor Ed Hirt and former psychology student Erin Devers represented IU in the study; Sean McCrea of the University of Konstanz also took part in the research. “I think that this research is helpful for people in everyday life,” Devers said. “If you want to come up with a good idea or write an interesting paper, you should do something to get yourself in a positive mood, which should motivate you to be more creative.”The experiment took place on and off for 20 years – condensed, the research actually took about four years to do, Hirt said.The researchers wanted to see three different aspects of the possible link between mood and creativity, according to the study. These included how mood affected the task someone chose to do, how mood affected the person when assigned a task and if those with happy feelings would maintain their mood if they didn’t think creative tasks would keep their spirits up, according to the study. After studying the information gathered from the experiment, the researchers concluded that people in happy moods choose creative activities in order to maintain their happy mood. Devers, who graduated in 2007 from IU with a Ph.D. in psychology, said the experiment needed an elaborate back story to prevent the subjects from knowing why they were actually being examined. In an experiment called “Rating Movies,” participants were asked to fill out questionnaires about the desirability of certain tasks and how creative they found them. The participants were then put in a cubicle and watched clips from the 1968 thriller “Bullitt” in order to reduce the participants’ suspicion of the true purpose of the study.After examining the questionnaires, the researchers split them into three groups: “happy,” in which they watched humorous clips, “sad,” in which they watched somber clips and “neutral,” in which they watched documentary clips, according to the study. The participants were then asked about their current mood and then given the same set of questions about tasks. The researchers found that participants who were in the happy group were more likely to choose the tasks they had previously rated as being creative, according to the study. Devers explained that the results connected with the group’s goal by saying that happy people enjoy being happy, which sways their decision when choosing a task.“When you are in a negative or neutral mood, just about anything will maintain or improve your mood,” she said. “But when you are in a positive mood, you have to choose carefully what you do to hold on to the positive mood.”The second part of the experiment involved participants watching film clips and rating their current mood. The participants were then asked to choose different ways to do undesirable tasks, including death and modes of transportation. The researchers found happy participants were more likely to pick creative causes of death. Devers said this was personally the most interesting.“I found it particularly compelling that even when listing causes of death, participants in the positive mood condition were able to make it enjoyable by listing things like, ‘having a piano fall from a skyscraper on your head,’ or other cartoon-like responses,” she said. Hirt added that, for this particular part of the study, most of his colleagues thought the participants would “avoid the task altogether or do a quick and lousy job to evade” the task, but the participants changed the situation to fit their mood.The third part of the study used the modes of transportation model again, this time using a variable they described to the participants as a “mood-freezing” candle. The participants rated their current mood, and then smelled an aromatherapy candle, and some participants were told that the candle would be mood-freezing, and would keep them in their current mood. The participants then listed their preferred mode of transportation. This study showed that those in happy moods that were not told about any mood-freezing effects were much more likely to pick more creative and sometimes figurative modes of transportation, such as e-mail, LSD or literature, than those who were told about the effects. Devers said she thinks the study is informative because, in contrast to other studies she has done with Hirt, there did not seem to be any differences between genders, and there are no foreseeable differences in social class. Devers also said she thinks the results they found will be useful for future use.Hirt said he would like to continue the study in the future by seeing if results change when participants are being evaluated or judged by others, which was not a variable in the current experiment.
(06/30/08 3:13pm)
As new cadets in the IU Police Department Police Academy go through classroom instruction, they learn how to do everything by the books. Last week, however, IUPD united with the Bloomington Police Department and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department to give the cadets real-world experience and re-establish the basics for current officers.\nThe Emergency Vehicle Operations Course training exercise, was held at Memorial Stadium and lasted each day in sessions from 6 a.m. until 3 a.m. the following morning, according to an IUPD press release.\n The course was split into two training sessions, one a driving exercise in the stadium parking lot and the other involving traffic stops. \nOn the course in the parking lot, cadets and current officers brushed up on the basics of driving a police vehicle at high speeds, such as backing, braking and handling distractions in the car. \nThe training course was a large set of narrow lanes set up by cones, and cadets drove up to speeds of 50 to 55 miles per hour, said IUPD Lt. Tom Lee. It was the first time cadets drove the police vehicles, which were provided by the City of Bloomington, said BPD Training Coordinator Jim Witmer.\nOf all the things that can disrupt an officer in the car, technology is perhaps the biggest issue, Lee said. \n“In this day and age with all the new equipment, there are a lot of potential distractions,” he said.\nIn order to help combat these distractions in real situations, trainers in the Emergency Vehicle Operations Course distracted the drivers by doing things such as calling drivers’ cell phones while they were on the course. \nWitmer said it is just as important to train officers in driving techniques as it is to train them in physical tactics, because officers are in the car almost eight hours a day, putting them at a higher risk for accidents.\n“Officers are killed and seriously injured by automobiles nearly as much as by firearms,” he said. \nFirearms and other dangerous situations are a part of the job, however, and the training course prepared the cadets for this with the second part of the training in an exercise called “Strategies and Tactics of Patrol Stops,” or S.T.O.P.S. The exercise trained cadets in what is known as standard “verbal judo” and tactics for dealing with low- and high-risk traffic stops. “Verbal judo” includes training an officer how to handle someone when making a traffic stop, all while trying to keep the tension to a minimum, said IUPD Capt. of Operations Keith Cash. \n“We wouldn’t expect you to be happy about being pulled over, so we want to make the stop as pleasant as possible,” he said.\nThe training also included how to handle higher-risk situations, such as if a stop is made after an armed robbery or another dangerous situation.The cadets went through tactics, what to say, who was responsible for certain situations and how to work as a team. \nIU Police Academy Cadet James Lerg was one of the 24 cadets involved in the training program. He explained why he is grateful for the opportunity to practice these scenarios.\n“You never know what you are going to run into,” Lerg said. “A lot of things can happen.”
(06/26/08 10:50pm)
As the first IU chancellor to receive the Exchange Club of Northside Bloomington’s “Book of Golden Deeds” award since 1963, IU Chancellor Ken Gros Louis said he wasn’t expecting to win the award.\n“I’m very rarely surprised,” Gros Louis said upon receiving his award Wednesday. “But this is a great surprise.” \nSince 1957, the Exchange Club of Northside Bloomington has awarded an individual who has made significant contributions to the true sense of volunteering in the community with the “Book of Golden Deeds” award, according to the Exchange Club Web site.\nIn 1963, former chancellor and president Herman B Wells won the award, said Amy Swain, a member of the three-person committee in charge of choosing the winner.\nEach year, the “Book of Golden Deeds” award committee asks members of churches, boards of education and other community centers for names of those they feel deserve recognition for their efforts in giving back to the community, according to the Web site. \nSwain, who is also the Indiana Daily Student advertising director and adviser, quoted a former Indiana Memorial Union Board president’s impression of Gros Louis at the ceremony: “When I would leave (Gros Louis’) office, it always struck me how lucky IU students were to have such a strong advocate of student initiatives serving as chancellor.”\nAmong the reasons that made Gros Louis a well-deserving recipient, Swain said he’s one reason IU is known for being prestigious.\n“By staying on the forefront of what’s happening in the world and fostering an atmosphere between faculty and professors ... our university can attract top quality professors, top quality graduate students and top quality undergraduate students from across the country and from around the world, and we all benefit,” she said.\nGros Louis, who has been IU’s chancellor since 2006, has been involved with the University as chair of the English Department and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, according to the IU Web site.\nThe award ceremony, held at the Radisson Hotel in Bloomington, was not without familiar faces. Mayor Mark Kruzan, who said he has known Gros Louis from his days at IU as a law student, was in attendance and gave a brief recognition of Gros Louis’ accomplishments. Keynote speaker and IU Director of Community Relations Kirk White spoke of the importance of volunteer efforts around campus and in the community.\n“Maybe our children will see the type of fulfillment we get from helping, and our children will want that for themselves,” he said.