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(05/04/07 4:00am)
Senior Maxwell Roberts plans on graduating in December 2007. From now until then, he plans on dedicating his time to downloading as many economic articles as possible that are available to him through the University. \n“Professors have all these scholarly journals on their shelves,” Roberts said. “I’ll have them, but on a USB drive instead of a shelf.” \nRoberts is majoring in economics and plans to download articles that pertain to his major. \nHe said that the articles he is taking are the only thing he can legally take from IU because he feels that IU doesn’t have anything else to offer him. \n“I have about seven authors’ worth of articles,” Roberts said. “I plan on having 20 to 25.” \nThe articles are available through a Web site named JSTOR, an online archive of scholarly journals that are available to print or download. \nAfter a student graduates from the University, they still have access to their computing accounts here on campus. \nAfter two consecutive terms in which they are not enrolled, their IU accounts are disabled, according to the UITS Web site. \nMoira Smith, a librarian at the Herman B Wells library, said that while JSTOR is free to IU students, staff and faculty, it is not free to IU, as the University pays a fee. \nSmith said that technically JSTOR can be accessed by anyone who purchases a guest account with the library. \nOnce the guest account is bought, they have full access to any of the library’s resources, she said. \nSmith also added that the JSTOR vendors have the University sign a license agreement to guarantee authorized IU users to access it. \nArlington Williams, an economics professor, explained that libraries are going through tremendous online revolutions. \nWilliams also explained that if you’re going into the business world and journal access is important, then the employer should provide access to those journals but most jobs in the business world would likely not require access to academic journals. \n“It’s a bit of a mystery why an undergraduate would want all of those journals without knowing a specific objective,” Williams said in regards to Roberts’ plans. \nRoberts said that he might need the articles in the future and it’s just nice to have the articles in a more convenient form. \n“I’ll use about one percent of them,” Roberts said. “If you’re a senior and you’re leaving there’s no reason not to do it. It’s 20 minutes of work but 100 hours of materials.”
(04/30/07 4:00am)
On Saturday night, junior Jon Coombs kneeled in front of a table that had more than 57 rubber bands> on it. He stretched his arms out before he got ready to place them on his head.\n“Time starts when I pick up the first rubber band,” Coombs said as the crowd chanted his name.\nDaft Punk’s> techno song ”One More Time”> began to play as Coombs picked up the first rubber band. Within seconds, he had multiple rubber bands placed over his hair.\nAs time ran out, the crowd got louder and began to stand up. When time ran out it was official: Coombs beat the previous world record for most rubber bands wrapped around someone’s head in one minute. He broke the previous record of 44 with a shattering new record of 57.\nAfter being congratulated by friends, Coombs pulled all 57 rubber bands, which left indents across his forehead, out of his hair. \n“It felt like hell,” Coombs said. “It hurts so bad. I was absolutely miserable.”\nCoombs said he was really nervous and thought the constant crowed cheering was going to make him even more nervous. As his adrenaline rushed in, he began to feel good, and the crowd cheering actually calmed him down, he said.\nAaron Waltke, a friend and coach of Coombs, broke the record for most T-shirts worn at once last year. Waltke was right beside Coombs throughout the entire minute.\nBoth record-breaking events were hosted by the sketch comedy group ”All Sorts of Trouble for the Boy in the Bubble”> in the State Room East of the Indiana Memorial Union.\nCoombs began practicing two weeks ago. Coombs attempted to beat the record twice before he unofficially beat the world record in practice. Saturday’s performance should become an official record after the Guinness World Records reviews the video tape.\nAllie Korosi, a co-worker with Coombs at the WIUX radio station, said she first heard of the event through Facebook. She said she initially thought it was a joke.\n“More people need to break records more often,” Korosi said as she laughed. “It’s fun to watch.”\nCoombs said he has no plans of breaking another world record. But it is something he has given a lot of thought to, and he hopes he will in the future, he said.\nCoombs and Waltke both said the best advice they could give to anyone attempting to break a record is to not be afraid to aim low and aim weird and to find a record that fits them physically.\n“Go for one that already exists,” Waltke said. “Anyone can make one up and be a record holder. To break one that already exists is to be part of a legacy.”
(04/27/07 4:00am)
Sophomore Ashley Seeger decided she was staying in Bloomington for the summer but realized she needed a place to stay. She was all set when plans fell through with the person she was planning on living with. \n“It got really complicated and difficult,” Seeger said. \nSeeger searched elsewhere until she found an apartment to sublease. During the summer months, subleasing can be difficult, but with fliers around campus, OneStart provides a tool for students who are looking to sublease. With more than 1,000 entries in regards to housing, finding a place to live can seem less stressful. \nSome students might even find an ad on the door of the stall in the bathroom reading “NEEDED: Someone to sublease!”\nVaughn Mitchell, leasing manager at the Varsity Villas, said not many students walk in to ask about leases. And if they do, he tells them to put ads up around campus. \n“People sublet quite frequently,” Mitchell said. “When someone is subletting, they have to come in and sign a sublet lease. It’s in case of any damages, and so they can park in our lot.”\nStephanie Mansker, the property manager at Dunnhill Apartments, said she gets a lot of students who come in to sublease an apartment. \n“Students are constantly coming in to sublease, and it’s because of our location,” Mansker said regarding Dunnhill’s placement by the stadium. “But they have to completely sign over the lease and go through approval just like everyone else.” \nFor Dunnhill policies, Mansker explained that it’s better to have the person who is subletting their apartment sign over the lease to the new person who will be living there. Mankser said only 10 to 15 percent of the 183 units are subleased over the summer. \nJane Lyons, business manager at Brownstone Terrace said they sell out of apartments after only three months of leasing, and rarely get anyone who wants to sublet. \nLyons said 10 percent of 121 units are subleased. \n“We do get some, but not a lot,” Lyons said. “But they have to come in and sign a contract. We legally have to know who is in our building.” \nFor students looking for an apartment to sublease this summer, contact the apartment complexes or browse the OneStart ads. And if you still have no luck, check the flyers around campus.
(04/26/07 4:00am)
It’s dead week. It’s 70 degrees outside and you’re stuck in Woodburn Hall. A classmate sitting next to you, wipes the sweat from his brow, turns to you and says: “What are you doing this summer?” \nYou turn your head toward him and casually say: “You know, staying in Bloomington.” His mouth drops open: “Why?”\nThe better question is: why not?\nFrom working a job to pay the bills or taking summer classes and relaxing, Bloomington has enough to provide a decent summer, students say.\nSophomore Amanda Caldari plans to stay over the summer because she has a year-long lease on her apartment. Caldari said she also plans on relaxing.\n“I’m looking forward to spending time here when it’s not crowded,” Caldari said. \nShe also said she feels like Bloomington is the only concrete home she has right now. Her mother recently moved from Long Island, N.Y., to Houston, and her father moved from Indiana to Florida. \nOther students have specific plans for the summer. \nSophomore Ashley Seeger plans on staying in Bloomington this summer to work and take summer classes. Seeger is also a member of the nonprofit organization, Students in Free Enterprise. \n“SIFE is an organization where students can extend their knowledge outside the classroom and have the opportunity to work one-on-one with the community,” Seeger said. \nSeeger and a fellow member came up with an idea called Smart Cookie Banking, which teaches personal finance to young students. Their idea won the regional competition and the members of SIFE on campus will be traveling to Dallas on May 6 through \nMay 8 for the SIFE National Exposition.\nOthers don’t have such ambitious goals for their summers.\nSophomore Kristin Casey said she just plans on working at Buffalo Wild Wings this summer. Casey explained that she wants the summer to be a glorified version of Little 500, minus the bike races.\n“I’m going to work so I can make a lot of money and then buy a lot of alcohol,” Casey said jokingly.
(04/25/07 4:00am)
Imagine spending five years studying families that don’t fit the stereotype, knowing there is only a one in 10 chance of getting the research published in a scholarly journal. Brian Powell did just that.\nPowell, a sociology professor, recently had an article titled “Under and beyond constraints: Resource allocation to young children from biracial families” published in the American Journal of Sociology. Powell co-wrote the article with Simon Cheng, a former graduate student of Powell’s who is now a professor at the University of Connecticut.\n“This study is part of a broader project looking at different types of families and what some people might refer to as the atypical form,” Powell said. “So my research has looked at what people view as a little less typical families.”\nPowell later explained that biracial parents are more likely to spend more time and money on their children as opposed to mono-racial parents.\n“The question we ask is how do children from biracial families fair compare to mono-racial families,” Powell said.\nSophomore Anthony Adams was born into a biracial family, in which his mother was white and his father was black. Despite being biracial, Adams said he never really had any hardships with it.\n“Where I come from, there weren’t many black people, so I was just considered black,” Adams said.\nAdams went on to explain that as a child he was spoiled, but he feels that it wasn’t because he was biracial.\nEricka Butler, a sophomore at the University of Tennessee, grew up a little differently than Adams. Butler is half Mexican and half black. She said she faced many hardships while growing up.\n“I was raised by my mother’s parents, and I went to a Catholic school as a child, so I was hardly ever around any black people,” Butler said. “When I finally was around a lot of black people, they thought I didn’t act black.”\nButler explained that for most of her childhood she was nicknamed “white girl” and even told multiple times to “stop acting white” despite the fact that her skin complexion was much darker than caucasian.\n“I think it’s harder being biracial, and it was hard for me at times to fit in,” Butler said.\nBoth Butler and Adams concluded that despite being raised in a biracial family, it was not necessary to be treated differently based on their race.\n“I had to experience a lot while growing up because I didn’t act black or hang out with black girls,” Butler said. “It’s a bunch of bull.”\nPowell still studies the sociology of the family, sociology of education and social psychology. He is currently the Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor and Co-Director of the Preparing Future Faculty program at the Department of Sociology.
(04/10/07 4:00am)
Joshua Riggins, Yun Zeng and Tom Morse entered the Teter Formal Lounge with three different Scrabble boxes, closely resembling a Scrabble team version of “Charlie’s Angels.”\nBut their mission? Just to \nplay Scrabble.\n“This club started so we had an excuse to play Scrabble,” Morse said in the beginning of the call-out meeting Thursday evening for the newly formed IU Scrabble Club. \nMorse, a senior majoring in East Asian studies and anthropology, said he started playing the board game with his grandma when he \nwas younger. \n“Over the summer when I was abroad in China with (Yun) Zeng, we would play Scrabble two or three times a day,” Morse said. \nZeng, the club’s president, came to the meeting prepared with an outline of major points she wanted to discuss during the meeting. \n“We are serious about the club,” Zeng said, “but at the same time it’s just for fun, and anyone can join.”\nAmy Yonts, a junior majoring in history, was one of two students who showed up for the call-out meeting. Yonts found out about the meeting through Facebook and said she was thrilled to hear about it.\n“It’s pretty cool. It’s fun. Not anything serious,” Yonts said. “Hang out, listen to music and play Scrabble.”\nThe call-out meeting will be the only meeting of the IU Scrabble Club this semester. By next semester, Riggins and Zeng plan on charging each member $5 for a year or $3 for the semester to participate in the club. “The dues will be to pay for boards and to pay the dues for the National Scrabble Association,” Zeng said.\nThe National Scrabble Association allows any Scrabble club to participate in competitions for $20 a year. By the fall semester, Riggins and Zeng plan to bring regional Scrabble competitors to speak to the club as well as to get the community involved. \n“The club is open to the Bloomington community as long as 51 percent of the club are IU students,” Zeng said.\nMorse mentioned the club was looking to get local businesses involved. They hope the local shops will donate prizes to the club member who has the highest score during the game. \nBy the end of next year, Zeng said she hopes the club will be competing in tournaments against other schools such as Ohio State University. \n“If we can get a team to play Ohio State, and we win,” Zeng said, “that would be awesome.”\n“We’ll be the envy of every Scrabble team,” Riggins said as he laughed and packed up the Scrabble boards at the end of the meeting.