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(06/20/07 11:21pm)
According to a statement released by the Bloomington Police Department, the BPD is investigating a complaint from an out-of-town couple concerning a hot air balloon ride they paid for but never received. \nThe couple purchased a $300 certificate from “Balloons over Bloomington” in April 2006 and their ride was canceled by the owner. It was later rescheduled for May 2006 but was canceled again due to weather. The ride was canceled another two times by the company’s owner. \nThe owner told the company their ride would be rescheduled for 2007 but their money would not be refunded. When the couple called to reschedule their ride for May 2007, the company’s phone number was disconnected.\nBPD requests that anyone who has experienced a similar problem with “Balloons Over Bloomington” contact Detective Richard Hunter at (812) 349-3322.
(06/20/07 10:31pm)
Gene McGrail and Bill Phillips met each other 20 years ago at Mini University. Since then, they’ve attended the program every year and both said they haven’t regretted one minute of it. \nMini University, which is celebrating its 36-year anniversary, began Monday, giving 490 participants ages 18 and up an opportunity to return to class for a week to take up to 15 noncredit classes. \nMcGrail said he heard about the program from the travel section in the Chicago Sunday Tribune and decided to write them a letter of inquiry. Phillips said he saw the program in IU’s Alumni magazine. \nPat McGrail, Gene’s wife, said she’s been attending Mini University for 12 years and would definitely recommend the program to others. She said her favorite parts of the program are the different types of classes, especially a class taught by history professor James Madison about World War II. \n“We were all into that subject because we all lived it,” Pat said. “And I would definitely recommend the program.” \nAmy Reynolds, associate dean for research and graduate studies at the School of Journalism, taught a lecture titled “Blogging and the Future of Journalism” on Monday afternoon. Reynolds said the lecture was mostly questions and answers from the participants about blogs, technology, and computer news. \n“The participants are very engaged,” Reynolds said. “They bring a variety of interesting perspectives, and they’re genuinely interested in learning and discussing new ideas. It’s very rewarding to teach in that environment.” \nReynolds has been teaching at Mini University for two years and said she really enjoys the general aspects of the program. She explained that teaching at Mini University differs between teaching undergraduates and graduates, and it is hard to compare. \n“All those students have been good; I have not had negative teaching experiences,” Reynolds said. “(Teaching at Mini University) brings in a lot more life experience.”\nJeanne Madison, director of Mini University, said the program receives great feedback and the directors work really hard at implementing their suggestions. On Tuesday night, participants gathered in the University Club on the first floor of the Indiana Memorial Union for an after-dinner coffee hour. Ruth Watson, an IU alumna from Ann Arbor, Mich., said she heard about the program from two old friends who had attended Mini University when it first started.\nWatson said so far this week her favorite class has been English professor Raymond Hedin’s lecture, “Why We Should See Our Lives as Stories.” She said the class taught her to look at stories as metaphors for life. She said if she would have stayed longer if she could have.\n“It has been a wonderful experience, and the week’s not half over yet,” Watson said. \nNicki Bland, co-chair of the Alumni Association, said as soon as Mini University is over, the program begins planning for the following year. Bland said she suggests everyone to register in the program as soon as they can because they sell out and can’t expand their space. Enrollment for next year’s Mini University starts in March 2008. \nRon White, director of the IU-Bloomington Continuing Studies department, has been working with Mini University for six years. White said the program shines because so many people come out to participate. White said it shows how many people want to continue learning. \n“I think it’s all about lifelong learning,” White said, “and to have the opportunity to interact with the finest faculty on campus.”
(06/17/07 11:42pm)
A Bloomington man was arrested Friday at 3:38 a.m. for battery, theft and resisting law enforcement. \nRichard W. North, 46, was playing cards on the 2500 block of South Madison Street when an argument began between North and another player, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report. North was asked to leave when he grabbed the money and began to run out of the house. \nNorth ran into the victim, grabbed her hair, hit her in the head and pushed her down, Sgt. Canada said. North left, running down Madison Street. \nHe was located behind a semitrailer on West Country Club Road by Officer Thomas Hudgins. North began to run south on Country Club Drive toward Walker Street. Officer Hudgins chased North on South Walls Drive, where he was caught and apprehended.
(06/17/07 11:35pm)
The Indiana Memorial Union will become a small college of nearly 500 participants this week.\nRegistration began Sunday for IU’s Mini University, and the program will run until Friday. \nMini University is an opportunity for participants ages 18 and older to return to class for five days to take as many as 15 non-credit classes. It is sponsored by the IU Alumni Association and IU-Bloomington Continuing Studies. \nNicki Bland, co-chair of the Alumni Association, said this summer Mini University will be celebrating its 36th anniversary and has its highest enrollment of 490 participants this summer. \nJeanne Madison, director of Mini University, said participants do not need the prior experience of a college education but a high percentage of them do. Madison explained that this summer they have incredible classes and a lot of special events throughout the week.\nClass topics range from arts, business and technology, domestic issues, health fitness and leisure, human growth and development, humanities, international affairs and science. Madison said the classes are taught by faculty from the University that are recognized as the best. There will be 100 faculty members teaching this summer. \n“It’s the faculty and the programming that brings people back,” Madison said. \nAfter registration Sunday, participants had orientation between 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. and then had dinner in the Tudor Room in the Indiana Memorial Union between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Mini University will begin Monday at 8:15 a.m. for class registration in Alumni Hall at the IMU. It will be followed by convocation at 9 a.m. Participants will attend three classes Monday and conclude their day with a picnic at the DeVault Alumni Center, 100 E. 17th St. \nDuring the week, participants will attend three classes each day during the day and conclude their nights with activities such as coffee and social time, a series of stories, a play and movies. \nMini University will end Friday with participants taking one class, attending coffee and social hour, then going to commencement at 11 a.m. \n“It’s the bargain of all time,” Madison said.
(06/17/07 11:32pm)
On the morning of June 15, 36 people packed themselves into the School of Informatics presentation room for their last day of summer camp. \nThe summer camp ran June 10 through June 15 and was sponsored by the School of Informatics, School of Education, John Deere Corporation and the Pervasive Technology Labs. \nBailey Miller, a high school junior from North Carolina, said he met School of Informatics Director of Undergraduate Recruitment Beth Terrell at a college fair in Charlotte, N.C., and knew he wanted to come to IU to study informatics. \nMiller attended the School of Informatics summer camp last summer and said he plans to attend every summer until he enrolls at IU. \n“It’s tons of fun and you learn a lot of stuff,” Miller said. “And if you’re not interested in computers, you will be.” \nThe students were housed in McNutt Quad for the week and attended classes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. They had three or four interactive classes a day. Classes were on topics such as computer graphics, computer system design, bioinformatics and Web site design. After 5 p.m., students worked on projects, played Wii, went bowling or just hung out. \nGregory Power, a high school senior, decided to go to the summer camp because he’s interested in computers and his aunt is a professor at the School of Informatics. Power said he enjoyed the experience, and he would suggest the camp to other students interested in informatics. \nAbby Stanhouse, a junior in high school, said she heard about the summer camp from the announcements at her school. Her father also wanted her to attend camp, and she said she ended up liking it. \n“I think even if they’re not loving computers, it’s good to explore,” Stanhouse said of those who attend the camp. \nStanhouse said one of the best experiences at the camp was meeting the different types of people who were there and getting to know them. \nAt 11 a.m. on the last day, students moved into the computer lab at the School of Informatics and played “Counter-Strike,” a computer game in which the player shoots other players and waited for their parents to pick them up. \nTerrell said they had their largest group of students this summer, and all the students seemed to mesh well together. Every year they hand out student surveys to help improve the camp for the following summer to make it more focused, she said. \n“When students talk about wanting to come back, that means success,” Terrell said.
(06/14/07 1:32am)
Man arrested after choking girlfriend
(06/14/07 1:19am)
It is a common belief IU has a policy that if a tree is taken down on campus, two trees must be planted in its place. \nProfessor James Capshew said he’s never heard of a policy of that sort, but it shows the importance and value trees have on campus. \nCapshew explained that IU is one of few universities with woodlands in the heart of its campus. He said a lot of universities have huge grassy malls and maybe some trees but no substantive woods. \nCapshew said a lot of the landscaping around other parts of campus is made with reserved areas for woods. He said good examples are the woods between Goodbody Hall and around the president’s house. \nAccording to an extended brochure titled “The Woodland Campus of Indiana University,” IU’s campus was originally located on a five-acre plot near the south end of College Avenue and Second Street. Capshew said if you look at paintings of the old campus, it looks like a piece of ground that was completely excavated for buildings. In 1885, campus was moved to Dunn’s Woods, where 20 acres of land were purchased but no trees were cut down. \n“I think in that time, people started thinking the pioneer days are part of our history and trees are kind of an amenity,” Capshew said. “They’re not something to get rid of and get some ground clearing to grow crops.” \nIn 1885, biologist David Starr Jordan was president of the University, and he started building the academic institution around the University woodlands, Capshew said. The University buildings were developed in a semicircle around the woodlands. \nIU began buying more land and designing and placing buildings away from the woods. Dunn’s Woods became a 10-acre remnant of the original 20-acre campus. \n“(Dunn’s Woods) became this place of beauty and something to cherish, this idea that we have these woods and that they are important to us,” Capshew said. \nThere are still natural landmarks on campus today, including the Jordan River that flows through Dunn Meadow and the Centennial Tree, located between Maxwell Hall and the Student Building. The Centennial Tree is a white oak that was dedicated to the class of 1920 in connection with the hundredth anniversary of the University’s founding. The University has a wide range of trees and other specimens that add to the woodland life on campus. Some of the types of trees include the rare Yellowwood, which can be found on the south side of Rawles Hall and the Ginkgo, found between Kirkwood and Wylie halls.\nSince the original campus was moved in 1885, it has grown to 2,000 acres. Most of the growth took place under Herman B Wells’ presidency. Wells was a staunch advocate for green space on campus, believing that the IU campus was unique because it preserved areas of forest. \nIn his last commencement address, Wells stressed the importance of natural beauty on IU’s campus.\n“I hope our alumni will always insist upon retention of our precious islands of green and serenity – our most important physical asset, transcending even classrooms, libraries and laboratories in their ability to inspire students to dream long dreams of future usefulness and achievement – dreams that are an important and essential part of undergraduate college experience,” Wells said.
(06/13/07 11:25pm)
Ed Vande Sande began his position Wednesday as interim executive director of the Bloomington Area Arts Council, following an May 5 announcement by the board of trustees.\nVande Sande, who is currently the BAAC’s director of marketing and development, is replacing Miah Michaelsen, who will become assistant director of economic development for the arts with the City of Bloomington.\n“(My new position) will concern itself with working with arts and businesses and connecting them through the arts,” Michaelsen said.\nBAAC President Gerald Sousa, who could not be reached by press time, said that even though he will miss Michaelsen’s hard work and enthusiasm, he is excited about the position she is taking with the City, according to a press release from the BAAC.\nMichaelsen explained that the city will be looking at arts the same way as technology – as a tool to drive and promote economic development. She said she hopes the arts program in Bloomington will bring in tourism dollars for the arts and artist organizations to attract businesses to the area. \n“(We hope) local businesses (will) promote Bloomington as an arts destination,” she said.\nMichaelsen said she has absolutely no doubt in her mind that Vande Sande will be great as interim executive director of the BAAC. Vande Sande is well-respected in the community, and he jumped on board with “dynamic,” she said. \nVande Sande said although it is very common for an organization to pick a staff member to take a position before it is filled full-time, he feels honored to have been chosen for the job. \n“It’s more of a caretaker position so we can continue to move forward,” he said.\nVande Sande said he will be carrying out the day-to-day operations, making sure the bills are paid and the art shows continue. He said the arts community has so much going on, including the performance series and a community school for the arts, and he’s really dedicated in helping it move forward. \n“All we do is based on community support and trust,” \nhe said.\nVande Sande said that, while the board looks for a permanent executive director, he will be working as both interim executive director and director of marketing and development.\n“What it comes down to is working a lot of hours,” Vande Sande said, “but when you love what you do, it doesn’t seem like a lot.”
(06/13/07 9:19pm)
Burglar gets away after eating cheese\nAt 10:36 p.m. Saturday, a family came home from a day at the lake to find their door unlocked and realized someone had entered their home, BPD Sgt. Faron Lake said, reading from a police report.\nThe family noticed the walls of their home on the 2000 block of Cedarwood Drive had been scribbled on with ink and they were missing three ceramic angels. According to police reports, the burglar completely destroyed the family's 7-year-old daughter’s room and cut her doll's hair off. The burglar wrote on the chalkboard in the daughter's room and on the back of the doll's head the phrase "I hate Ashley."\nThe burglar also ate several packages of cheese and left the wrappers on the floor.\nAnyone who has information on the suspect should call the Bloomington Police Department at (812) 339-4477.
(06/11/07 12:35am)
Junior Julius Mayes has been a member of IU’s Groups Student Support Service program since 2005. And even though Groups is geared more toward freshmen and sophomores, he still enjoys the resources it has to offer. \n“(Groups) provides an alternative for resources,” Mayes said. “It’s an incredible experience.” \nGroups summer orientation will begin June 16 and run until Aug. 3. During the summer, Groups usually has 250 to 300 students who are given the opportunity for academic enhancement and a chance to get acclimated to the campus. \nGroups students will stay during the summer and advance their college experience before August. \n“Summer is to provide that opportunity to understand what college life is about and to really get a great footing into what a professor would want out of a student, what it’s like to live in a dorm (and) what it’s like to get involved with diverse students,” said Director Janice Wiggins. \nThe Groups program began in 1968 to provide students a way to gain access to higher education. A select group of faculty was sent out to recruit young students, and the program began after they recruited 43 students. \nIn order to be eligible for Groups, a student must be a first-generation college student from Indiana. Other criteria for admission include coming from a low-income family and/or having a learning disability. Wiggins said in order to even be considered, a student needs a recommendation. \nMayes added that he was able to meet other black students through the Groups and that the program added to his cultural experience on campus. He also said he feels Groups is one of the greatest programs IU has implemented for minorities. \nAssociate Director for Student Support Roger Gildersleeve explained that during the summer, Groups has to set up the students in dorms and classes as well as schedule advising appointments for them. \n“It’s more work to prepare for than it is really to deal with them that day,” Gildersleeve said. \nGildersleeve said the students attend classes two hours a day for five days a week. During select days, they have other activities such as meetings or activities with their class.\n“It’s a very intense program,” Gildersleeve said. “It’s like boot camp – at the end of boot camp, we always say, ‘Ah, it was no big deal,’ but every day we were sweating the load.” \nWiggins added that during the summer, Groups students have to take six to eight credits to contribute toward their electives for graduation. Each student must earn a 2.0 GPA in order to remain in the program, she said. \nAfter the summer is over, Groups provides the students with resources through their sophomore year, and then they move into their academic studies. Students are allowed to come back during their junior and senior years. \n“Once a Groups student, always a Groups student,” Wiggins said.
(06/11/07 12:33am)
Don’t be fooled; these “phishes” aren’t looking for a hook. They’re looking for user names, passwords, credit card information, and social security numbers. \nThe School of Informatics conducted a study in 2005 regarding “social phishing,” during a time when social networking was not as popular as it is today. \n“Social phishing” is defined in the study as “a form of social engineering which an attacker attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information from a victim by impersonating a third party.”\nThe study was headed by associate professors of informatics Filippo Menczer and Markus Jakobsson and graduate students Tom Jagatic and Nathaniel Johnson. The main idea was that these students would click on a link outside of the IU server and be asked to enter their user names and passwords. \nMenczer explained that they gathered information from a Web site for the study and built a network to ‘phish’ these students. Jagatic and Johnson sent e-mails to IU students that appeared to be from other IU students. \n“The purpose of the study was to see how easy it was to get information,” Menczer said. \nAccording to the data in the study, 349 students out of the 487 that were targeted clicked on the link in the e-mail and authenticated with their valid IU user name and password. The study targeted college students between the ages of 18 and 24 and were selected based upon the amount and quality of information that they disclosed about themselves. \nJagatic, the principal investigator of the study, explained that even though the information provided on social networking sites is intended for friends and relatives, it can be used in many other ways. \n“I think users of social networking Web sites should be cognizant that the information they disclose about themselves may be available in the public domain,” Jagatic said. \nThe study itself took about a semester to complete. After attaining approval from University Information Technology Services, designing the Web sites and writing out proposals, Jagatic and Johnson planned the “phishing attack,” which consisted of them sending out the e-mails that asked for user names and passwords. The “phishing attack” took about three or four days. \n“We expected it to last longer,” Menczer said. “We had so much data, we stopped as soon as we could.” \nJagatic added that there’s an anti-phishing group on campus that has conducted other research in phishing attacks and counter-measures, but even though they have these studies, students may still find it hard to filter out phishes. \n“At the end of the day, I think technological countermeasures can help lessen the effect of phishing attacks, yet defending against deception in a place like the Internet is intrinsically difficult,” Jagatic said.
(06/11/07 12:30am)
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. \nTony Sams, editorial adviser and production director at the Indiana Daily Student, explained at one point last week that many hearts were broken after the unexpected loss of IU Student Media Director David Adams, referring to a quote from “The Wizard of Oz,” one of Adams’ favorite movies.\nAdams’ memorial service was held Friday at Unity of Bloomington, 4001 S. Rogers St., a center for spiritual growth. Red and yellow roses lined the altar, filling the air with their aroma as more than 150 friends, family members and colleagues filled the room to celebrate Adams’ life.\nFormer Dean of the IU School of Journalism Trevor Brown, Chancellor Ken Gros Louis and Dean of the IU School of Journalism Bradley Hamm began the memorial service by speaking about Adams’ professionalism. \n“Teachers teach, and the lessons and the values they give to us stay with us,” Hamm said. “As Dave showed, we simply must put these into action for the good of our students and our community.”\nFall 2006 Editor-in-Chief Michael Zennie spoke at the service on behalf of students and alumni who knew Dave. Zennie explained Adams’ patience and kindness toward his students. \n“Never did I hear him speak ill of any student or any decision any student made, even recalling some of the absolute nightmarish scenarios in journalism that he experienced,” Zennie said. “He dismissed it as ‘Oh, it was an experience. It was a mistake. It was a good learning experience.’” \nThe Rev. Lynn Carlson explained she met Adams outside of the University and had known him for about 10 years. She said although she didn’t spend a lot of time with him, she had a heart-to-heart connection with him and understood him spiritually. \nThe memorial service in the chapel ended with soloist Ginger Curry singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and two prayers.\nIU Student Media invited all guests back to the Indiana Daily Student newsroom to record memories. The memories will be distributed for anyone who would like a copy. \nHamm explained that even though they do not have an immediate replacement for Adams’ position, IU will look nationally for the best person to lead the IDS and continue the tradition of excellence Adams built. \nAfter the service, Rev. Carlson invited guests to share memories at an open forum downstairs in Unity. \nAbout 20 people stood in front of a crowded room to share their favorite or most memorable experience with Adams. Ron Johnson, a professor at Kansas State University, said he met Adams while attending Fort Hays State University. \nJohnson explained how he’s following in Adams’ footsteps. Johnson said he took Adams’ position at Fort Hays State University four years after Dave left in 1985. In 1989, he again took the position Adams vacated at Kansas State University. \n“He had a rather profound influence on us,” Johnson said. “He may not be here, but his influence will be there for the rest of your life.”\nDave’s brother Charlie Adams explained how he was one of the more fortunate people who knew Dave because he knew him for his entire life. \n“Today’s ceremony began with a rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow.’ We had rain outside. There will be a rainbow,” Charlie said. “Dave has crossed over. Let’s celebrate his memories.”
(06/11/07 12:29am)
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Paul Newman challenged IU’s policy on mandatory retirement five years ago when he became interested in a part-time position as associate dean of the faculties. Newman was told he was ineligible because he was too old. \nNewman said he believed this was illegal, so he took his complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After two years, the EEOC ruled in Newman’s favor and IU was forced to revoke its policy. In its place, IU adopted a new retirement policy applicable only to high-level administrators. The current policy, implemented for a 5-year trial period five years ago, states that all high-level administrators must step down from their positions by age 65.\nBloomington Faculty Council President Lisa Pratt said in an e-mail that she has no substantive comment on the retirement age issue, but she suspects the topic will be revisited by the BFC this year as part of rewriting the policy on benefits.\nPresident of the board of trustees Steve Ferguson explained that the policy has not been lifted because there isn’t a new policy to replace it. Ferguson said the policy did not expire in five years – it was just set forth as a subsequent amount of time to review it. \n“(We’ve) gone through extensive discretion with the faculty council,” Ferguson said. “(Changing the policy) has not been on the agenda.” \nHistory professor Bob Eno, who was president of the BFC five years ago, explained that the only reaction he’s heard to the mandatory retirement clause is that it’s a good idea, even though it hasn’t yet undergone an administrative review.\nEno said he believes if there were no review process, the University would think it better to automatically retire people. \nFerguson said he feels the policy in place does not violate IU’s equal employment opportunity and affirmative action policy, which states “IU prohibits discrimination based on arbitrary considerations of such characteristics as age, ” or federal and state standards. \n“The rule we have – if it didn’t apply, we wouldn’t have it,” Ferguson said. \nThe question Newman wants answered in regard to the retirement clause is “What purpose does the new policy serve?”\nFerguson said in the last five years, nobody has complained about the policy, and many of the trustees are not taking a position on the issue one way or another. \n“There are benefits with mandatory retirement for top executives.” Ferguson said. “It gives them an opportunity to plan and the University to plan.” \nFerguson explained that, under outgoing IU President Adam Herbert, the University created a leadership training program for employees. He said in case the University needed to replace an executive, they would have someone that’s been through the training. \nNewman said he believes that some people can be more effective at their job later in their life.\n“People burn out at different ages,” Newman said. “Some hit their prime at 65.”
(06/11/07 12:27am)
Starting Tuesday, for the next six weeks nearly between 6,000 and 7,000 new IU students will come to campus for Freshman Orientation in preparation for their August move-in day.\nAssociate Director of Orientation Programs Melanie Payne explained that all orientation programs are two days, and there are 41 separate programs. Payne said Orientation helps acclimate students not only to campus but also to the services and programs IU offers.\n“Our role is to help their transition as best we can by helping them think who they’re going to be here and the decisions they’re going to be making and make sure that they know that IU has support systems in place,” Payne said. \nThe program employs 48 leaders, 34 of whom live in Wright Quad and who facilitate scheduled activities over the two-day program. \nRecent graduate Joe Lovejoy is currently an office assistant for the Orientation program. Lovejoy has been with the program since 2004 and started as an orientation leader. \nHe explained that orientation leaders have the first contact with new students and they serve as IU representatives to make transitions from high school to college more successful. \n“I think it’s really important, especially in the first year,” Lovejoy said. “(Students) don’t know what to expect.” \nDuring the first day of Orientation, all students go through required academic testing and then meet in a small group with their orientation leader to look at an overview of their day. \nStudents receive materials such as their academic program planner, course description books and support information. Orientation leaders will lead ice-breaker exercises so the students get to know each other and feel more comfortable. \nPayne said even though a lot of schools will put a group of students with an adviser and go through the basics, IU’s orientation program is based on being personal. \nPayne said she gets phone calls once in awhile from students who do not want to be at Orientation for two days. She said they could condense it into a one-day program, but then it would have to consist only of advising and registration, and to her, that’s not enough. \n“At Orientation, they’re coming into a new world for them, and whether they’re confident about it, excited about it, nervous about it, scared to death about it, it’s a different world,” Payne said. “They will be a different person here.”\nOrientation leaders bring the freshmen to sessions on student success and talk about the Indiana Promise. The Indiana Promise is a three-part promise the Orientation leaders ask students to make for themselves regarding ethics, respect for others and personal responsibility. \n“It’s all about being successful at IU,” Payne said. \nToward the end of the first day of Orientation, the students will go through the “Hoosier Experience,” a series of skits geared toward a year in the life of a freshman. Orientation leaders will look at different stereotypical students, such as the slacker student or the over-involved student, and will describe what those students \nare doing. \nOne performer will be “voted off” the Hoosier Experience, and then later in the skit, leaders will check back in on those students to see how they have been doing since they were voted off.\n“We’ll talk about decisions, things they do, things that they do that aren’t so helpful,” Payne said. \nAfter the Hoosier Experience, the students will go back into their small groups and talk through some of those issues and more generally about life as a student. \nAs the last event for day one, the program hires real actors to provide an interactive theater, geared toward safety, particularly sexual assault, diversity and other decisions that students make. \n“It can be really intense sometimes, and it’s just a very different way to help us talk about things that students are making decisions about every day,” Payne said. “ It kind of gives us a chance to help them think about things as a \ncollege student.” \nDuring the second day of Orientation, students go through their one-on-one advising appointment. Payne said these appointments are one of the most important parts of the Orientation process.\n“For a very large campus we try as hard as we can to personalize some things, and that’s one place where we get to do that,” Payne said. \nAfter students go through their advising meetings, they receive their CampusAccess cards, register for classes, get to see the campus and learn a little about IU’s culture. \nAll freshmen have to attend one of the 41 Orientation programs. IU holds a fall program for those unable to attend. Payne said the fall program will have about 800 attendees, most of them international students. \nThe last day of the summer program is reserved for Transfer Transitions, which is the program for transfer students. The program is only one day because orientation leaders are not talking to them as much about academic adjustments, but more generally about the \nIU campus. \nPayne said she hopes Orientation will have incoming students thinking of situations as college students, instead of as high school students. She said that even though they pack so much information into two days, she can only hope the students remember a small percentage of it. \n“A lot of people are really surprised at the difference when they come here,” Payne said.
(06/08/07 4:57pm)
The Monroe Bank in Highland Village, 4191 West Third Street, was robbed at around noon Thursday. \nA man entered the bank and immediately walked towards the teller on the left. The man pepper-sprayed a patron and the teller, BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada said. \nThe suspect got behind the counter and had the teller empty out her drawer. The suspect then fled the bank, possibly on a bicycle, and traveled in an alley behind the bank towards Curry Pike. The amount of money that was stolen is not known at this time. \nThe suspect was described as a black male, around six feet tall wearing baggy pants, a red long sleeve pull over and a blue and white baseball cap.\nBPD is reviewing the bank videos for further information.\nIf any information on the suspect is known, please contact the Bloomington Police Department at 339-4477.\nKeep watching idsnews.com for more information.
(06/07/07 3:09am)
Family, friends, and colleagues will gather on Thursday and Friday to pay their final respects to IU Student Media Director Dave Adams. \nAdams came to IU in 1989 to teach journalism courses and supervise the Indiana Daily Student and the Arbutus yearbook. He was found Saturday evening unresponsive in his backyard pond. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. \nThe visitation begins at 5 p.m. and lasts until 8 p.m. on Thursday at Allen Funeral Home, 3000 E. 3rd Street. \nDuring the visitation, friends, family and colleagues will be able to look at pictures, a slideshow and have the chance to talk about Dave’s life. \nThe memorial service will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday at Unity of Bloomington, a center for spiritual growth, 4001 S. Rogers Street. \nAssistant Director/Business of IU Student Media, Susan Elkins said there will be time to reflect on Adam’s life during the service. Elkins said University Chancellor Ken Gros Louis, Dean of the IU School of Journalism Bradley Hamm and former Dean of the IU School of Journalism Trevor Brown will be speaking on Dave’s professional life. \nElkins, who was a cancer patient in 2004, said every time she had surgery, Dave would sit with her husband and children. \n“It was special to take the time out of his day to do that for me,” Elkins said. “But that was the type of person he was.” \nEditor-in-Chief Zachary Osterman said he thinks the outpouring of support the IDS has received suggests there will be a lot of people coming to Bloomington to pay their final respects to Dave. \n“It’s a testament to the man to show how well liked he was and how good he was at his job,” Osterman said. \nOsterman explained that Dave was loved because he was both professional and personal, and there was never any concern too big or too small for him. \n“We never worked for Dave,” Osterman said. “We worked with Dave.” \nDirector of Communications, Beth Moellers, said a couple of alumni have mentioned doing another service in the fall for students who are not in Bloomington this summer. Although nothing is confirmed, she said it is definitely an option. \nUnity of Bloomington’s parking lot holds around 70 cars, and visitors are allowed to park behind the building. If needed, overflow parking will be at Batchelor Middle School across the street. \nIU Student Media is coordinating transportation to and from the Indianapolis airport this week for the visitation and memorial service. If anyone needs a ride or wants to share a ride, please contact Support Services Director Rebekah Spivey at 812-855-0767 or through e-mail at spiveyr@indiana.edu.
(06/07/07 1:19am)
Fall 2007 Editor-in-Chief senior Trevor Brown feels the loss of Dave Adams is going to leave something missing. \n“There will be a big hole that will be hard to replace,” Brown said. “Adams played such a huge part in college media and allowing the students at the paper to grow.” \nAdams, 59, was discovered unresponsive at his home on Saturday night. Ambulance, fire and police responded to a call at 9:55 p.m. that Adams was unresponsive in his backyard pond, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Faron Lake, reading from a report. \nWhen officers arrived, Adams’ partner, Chunming Chou, said he tried to resuscitate Adams and get him out of the pond. Chou stated that, earlier in the night the two had been drinking and he told Adams that he had been drinking too much, according the report. \nJack Dvorak, neighbor and friend of Adams, said since Chou is native Taiwanese, when he called 911 he was hysterical and his English was broken, so he couldn’t effectively communicate with the dispatchers. \nChou went to Dvorak, who lives two doors down, to try to help Adams out of the pond. \n“Within a few minutes, I heard the medics coming,” Dvorak said. “And they took over and did their best.” \nDvorak said the medics worked on Adams for about 45 minutes. \nAn autopsy will occur Monday morning in Terre Haute, and Adams’ remains will be sent to Allen Funeral Home on East Third Street. The cause of death is still unknown. \nDave came to IU in 1989 after leaving a tenured professorship at Kansas State University. He came to IU to teach journalism courses and supervise the Indiana Daily Student and the Arbutus Yearbook. \nDave Adams’ son, John Adams, 33, said students have always been an enormous part of his father’s life, and he can remember students from 20 years ago with whom he still kept in touch.\nHis passion for journalism didn’t stop with the newspaper or the yearbook. He extended his generosity to students as well. \nIn February of 2006, current IDS City and State Editor Alberto D. Morales and five other students sat in a teachers lounge at Ocean County College in Toms River, N.J. Dave, who was on the task force for the College Media Advisers, was visiting to investigate First Amendment violations regarding the firing of Viking News Adviser Karen Bosley.\nBosley met Dave through the College Media Advisers committee and has known him for 35 years. \n“He’s a warm and friendly person,” Bosley said. “He was a person I cared very much about.” \nMorales said Dave proudly showed the room full of students at OCC a copy of the IDS. Dave, who reached out to students who were passionate about journalism, gave Morales his business card and contacted him regarding his writing. \nDave told Morales to consider applying to IU when he was done with OCC. Morales simply replied, “Trust me, I’m done with OCC.” \nMorales transferred to IU in the spring of 2007. Morales said that if it weren’t for Dave, he wouldn’t even be at IU. \n“He gets close to people in situations like these,” Morales said. \nMorales explained that Dave was like a father to him. He would sit him down if his grades were poor and tell him they needed to get better. \n“(Dave) went beyond his job title,” Morales said. \nEven when Dave wasn’t recruiting new talent or fighting for the First Amendment, he was helping students in the newsroom. \nSpring 2007 Editor-in-Chief Kacie (Foster) Axsom said she became close with Dave during the spring semester. \n“If I didn’t know what to do, he’d help present different options for me,” Axsom said. “(He) took me in as more than an editor. We were friends.” \nDean of the IU School of Journalism Bradley Hamm said that he always heard of Dave because he was so well known in college media. Hamm said he met with Dave about a week ago to talk about projects with student journalists. \n“What I relate Dave to is energy and passion,” Hamm said. “He applies that to everything related to students and journalists.” \nHamm explained that he believes it is impossible for most people to comprehend what a force Dave was. \n“He was inducted into the College Media Advisers Hall of Fame when he was in his forties,” Hamm said. “That’s just unheard of.” \nHamm added that Dave had done so much by the time he was 50 that he had become a legend in student journalism. \n“The thing to me that captures Dave is just the general excitement in his voice about what students were doing and how they were developing,” Hamm said. \nDvorak, who is also a professor and director of the IU High School Journalism Institute, explained that Dave had an enormous amount of energy and was an excellent educator and a very dynamic person in terms of his profession. \nHe said that Dave left an imprint on the Indiana Daily Student because of all the things that he accomplished. \n“The IDS won all sorts of national recognition,” Dvorak said. “It speaks volumes about his leadership and about the talent at the paper.” \nVince Filak, faculty advisor of the Ball State University Daily News and executive director of the Indiana Collegiate Press Association, said Dave was always proud of the IDS, and he really did believe it was the best college paper in the country. \nFilak said three years ago the ICPA held an awards ceremony in Bloomington, and the IDS won top newspaper, top online newspaper and Arbutus won \nbest yearbook. \n“There’s a picture of Dave (after the awards) with a bunch of kids – I’ve never seen a man smile bigger.” \nFormer Dean of the IU School of Journalism Trevor Brown (no relation to Editor-in-Chief Trevor Brown) said he worked very closely with Dave during his tenure and continued to stay in touch with him after Brown retired. \nBrown explained that Dave was interested in making both the IDS and the Arbutus more financially secure. \n“Dave came to the IDS and took a strong role in leadership of Arbutus and the IDS,” Brown said. “Both (publications) were struggling financially.” \nBrown said one of Dave’s defining characteristics was how caring he was, as well as how willing he was to share his private difficulties with students to help them through their own struggles. \n“They’re not an easy set of accomplishments to replace,” Brown said. \nIU President Adam Herbert released a statement regarding Dave’s death. Herbert said Dave was more than just a teacher. He was a mentor, a coach and a friend who had a very special impact on two generations of students. \n“Indiana University has had cause to be enormously proud of the quality and professionalism of the newspapers and yearbooks produced by Dave’s student staffs over the years,” Herbert said. “We will all miss him dearly.” \nAnd though he wasn’t born in Indiana and came to the state later in his life, his step-mother Betty Adams said Dave Adams died a Hoosier. \nDave recently lost a tooth eating popcorn, she said, recalling one of her favorite stories about her step-son. One of the last times Betty Adams, 79, saw Dave, he smiled broadly, showing the space in his teeth. \n“And he said joking, ‘Mom, I’m a real Hoosier now,’” Betty Adams said. \nDave had a good sense of humor about the missing tooth, but hadn’t been able to get it fixed it yet, she said.\n“And now, bless him, he’s gone to his grave as a Hoosier,” she said.\nDave Adams is survived by his partner, Chunming Chou, son John Adams, brother Charlie Adams and step-mother Betty Adams. \nFuneral arrangements are pending.
(06/07/07 12:45am)
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. That’s what docent Tina Jernigan said inspired the “Death and the Otherworld” tour on Saturday at the IU Art Museum. \n“Everybody is going to die and we have to deal with it in some manner,” she said.\nWhen Jernigan signed up for the themed tour in October, she had just redone her will and was getting ready to plan her funeral. She explained she got obsessed with the idea of death and the way cultures perceive it.\n“Everybody dies – it’s a reality,” Jernigan said. “That’s the one thing every civilization has in common.”\nTen people showed up for the themed tour, and Jernigan guided them through art from Chinese, Greek, Etruscan and Roman cultures.\nJernigan explained all the works of art during the tour were somehow related to death, the burial practices or the cultural belief in the afterlife. \n“(Death) binds all civilizations together,” Jernigan said.\nThe tour began with Chinese art, and Jernigan guided everyone through three different collections of burial pieces, featuring the lid of a mummy tomb, and the metallic piece, “Wagon with Oxen.”\nJernigan spent the majority of her time discussing the Greek burial rituals and then moved onto the Etruscan culture. Jernigan ended the tour talking about a sarcophagus, which was used in Roman culture.\nJunior Britteny Godar explained that she has always been interested in investigating the religion of ancient cultures. Godar said she learned a lot of interesting information from the tour.\n“It was interesting how, across the different cultures, there were similar themes,” Godar said.\nDiara Nicholson, a friend of Godar’s, tagged along because she was in town visiting. Nicholson explained that it was her first trip to the IU Art Museum, and she thoroughly enjoyed the tour.\n“I feel like I’ve taken history for granted, and I want to learn more about it,” Nicholson said.\nDocent Nancy Quigle was present at the tour and explained that, even though she’s a docent herself, she comes because no matter how much she’s studied, she learns something new each time.\n“The person doing the theme studies especially on different facts,” Quigle said. “We like to come because we see things we pass by all the time.”\nQuigle said the docents at the museum lead about 16,000 people on planned tours during the year. The crowd usually consists of school children, so the tours have to follow a curriculum for schools, she said.\n“It’s a really big thing, the educational program of this art museum,” Quigle said.
(06/07/07 12:24am)
Man arrested for battery\nA man was arrested June 1 after attempting to withdraw money he claimed was from God at a local bank.\nAnthony Andrews, 27, was arrested for impersonating a public servant, two counts of battery, trespassing and resisting law enforcement.\nAndrews entered IU Credit Union, 105 E. Winslow Rd., and told a teller he wanted to take out the $55 million he said God had put into his account, Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.\nWhen two bank managers tried to escort him out the bank, Andrews punched one of the managers in the face and shoved the second manager. \nBPD Officer Christopher Scott was dispatched to the area. When Scott found the suspect, Andrews said, "I'm with the FBI. Don't violate my rights."
(05/31/07 2:48am)
Arson reported at Arlington Heights Elementary School\nArlington Heights Elementary School, 700 W. Parrish Rd., received partially burned mail Saturday, said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada, reading from a police report. \nThe principal of the school said this is the third case of arson the school has had within a year. In May, a dumpster was set on fire and another dumpster had been set on fire about a year before that, Canada said. \nThere are currently no suspects, and the school has requested that police provide extra patrol of the area.