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(09/24/08 3:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A small name change is doing a lot for an IU club. Formerly known as the Association of Student Sports Management Professionals, the newly named Hoosier Sports Business Organization has broken away from its old standard and opened up the club to anyone looking to get involved in the sports business.“The old name gave most students the wrong impression that our organization was solely for students majoring in sports management,” said HSBO president Jared Casden. “Anyone who is aspiring to someday work in the sports industry is encouraged to join, and the opportunities are unbelievable.”Scott Lipsky, former undergraduate adviser of HSBO, said the organization was founded about 20 years ago, around the time of the creation of the Sports Marketing and Management area of study. The club offers many different opportunities to its members, from guest speakers to networking trips to meet with professionals in the field of sports business and more.“We’ve had career conferences in the past and job fairs we encouraged our club members to attend,” said undergraduate adviser and senior Brendan Schafer. “We’ve taken networking trips. We’ve been to Chicago the past two years. We’re just trying to expand as we go on and offer as many opportunities as possible to our members.”Last year, the HSBO brought in more than 160 members, an all-time high for the organization. However, Casden expects bigger things this year.“We think that our numbers will at least double,” he said. “I really think that it’s a realistic goal that we have 300 members this year.”Among those bigger things are more networking trips similar to their annual trips to Indianapolis and Chicago.“We’ve been on big trips in the past,” Casden said. “This year, we plan to have more of these including, but not limited to, New York City and Louisville, Kentucky.”HSBO is unique in Schafer’s eyes because it offers an opportunity to be in a sports-related professional organization.“What people need to realize is that this club, eventually, will benefit them,” he said. “You’re doing it for your own good.”The organization also has a mentoring program that caters to younger students and allows them to get help writing resumes and cover letters and handling an internship process.“The older people of the club mentor freshmen and sophomores,” said Vice President of HSBO Molly Philips. “It’s basically someone you can just meet with to give you advice.”The HSBO will hold its call-out meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in Room 110 of the Student Recreational Sports Center. Philips believes students should take advantage of the club’s opportunities. “It’s something that everyone should go to the call-out meeting and find out more about,” Philips said. “We’re providing an opportunity to meet people in the field, and if you take advantage of that opportunity, then you’re doing a great thing for yourself.”
(09/24/08 3:42am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It cost him nothing to appear on national television, and he’s bringing back a $3,200 home-theater system.Overall, the price was right for junior Jason Hain.Hain appeared on “The Price is Right,” a popular TV game show. His episode was taped July 22. That episode will air at 11 a.m. today on CBS. “It was one of the most fun experiences of my life,” Hain said. “It was a great experience.”Hain wound up on the show thanks to a friend, Steve Bell of the University of Colorado-Boulder.“I was out there on vacation with one of my friends, and he’s a really big fan of the show,” Hain said. “He was the one that got us the tickets, so really I just went along with him, and I ended up being called.”Hain was surprised when the announcer called his name.“I couldn’t believe I was up there on stage standing with Drew Carey, knowing I was going to be on national TV,” Hain said.Hain did not make the Showcase on the show, but he did make One Away, the step before getting into the Showcase.“I actually lost the game on stage,” he said. “When I spun the wheel I got beat out by a higher amount.”Hain received some help from Bell while he was on stage.“He was giving me prices,” Hain said. “I would always look back to him. He watches the show all the time, so he actually knew what he was doing more than I did. He was excited for me – a little envious because he was the one going for it – but he was excited.”In terms of his greatest memories, Hain rates this experience among the best.“This would obviously be a great memory, and it would rank in my top five memories up to this point in my life,” he said. “Definitely top five. It was just a great experience.”Hain recommended that everyone try to experience “The Price is Right” if they have a chance because of the experiences he had on the show.“I would tell anyone – whoever goes out to Los Angeles – to get tickets for the show,” he said. “Anyone is a potential contestant if they’re in the audience.”
(09/23/08 2:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It often goes unnoticed, hidden among the likes of Ballantine Hall, the Chemistry Building, the Indiana Memorial Union and other buildings. However, this small, tucked-away building houses the many faiths of IU, from Islam to Judaism, Christianity to Buddhism, and everything in between.This is Beck Chapel, a classic in its own right. The Tudor style chapel, which is 67 feet. long, 21 feet. high, and 20 feet. wide, has been present at IU since 1956. Since that time, Beck Chapel has played host to more than 1,000 weddings, with 150 in the first five years after its construction.The chapel became a part of IU’s history in 1941, when Frank O. Beck and Daisy Woodford Beck presented the first endowment toward the construction of the chapel to former IU President Herman B Wells and the board of trustees in front of 400 faculty, students and guests in the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall.In the piece “The Dream Becomes a Chapel,” an anonymous author wrote “On a January evening of 1941, at one of the largest and most memorable dinner meetings ever held in the Alumni Hall, the initial gift for a small campus chapel was accepted and the seed idea moved to flowering.”The cornerstone of the chapel was placed on June 10, 1956, according to documents in the IU Archives. Wells, Frank Beck and many others who influenced IU tradition were present.“The ground on which we stand is sacred soil,” said John S. Hastings, president of the board of trustees at the time, in a 1956 address to the community present. “More than a century ago, our pious pioneer parents laid the foundation of an early educational institution, which, with the guidance of Providence, and by dint of hard labor and love, has brought forth our beloved Indiana University.”Since that time, Beck Chapel has been a symbol of the religious culture of IU. The chapel is a nondenominational church, holding copies of the Bible, Torah, Koran and other religious texts. To represent this unity of religion throughout the campus, “The Grove of all Faiths” tree was planted on Feb. 10, 1942, with three original trees representing Protestantism, Catholicism and the Jewish faith. On May 2, 1951, another tree was planted to represent the Eastern religions. The trees still stand today.The chapel hosts about 75 to 80 weddings per year.“It is primarily used for weddings, originally just for IU students and alumni of IU,” said Jennifer McDonald, reservationist for meeting services at Beck Chapel.Be they alumni or students, people get married at Beck for one main reason, said chaplain Joe G. Emerson.“They all want the same thing,” Emerson said, “an opportunity to exchange vows in a setting that speaks of tradition and hope.”Throughout the years, several meetings have been held concerning the chapel, which has its own committee, the Beck Chapel Committee. Most meetings pertain to the upkeep of the chapel.Hollie Lutz, a member of the committee, works with 14 other members to ensure the preservation of the chapel.“There are various people on the committee,” Lutz said. “The trustee’s office has an official. The president’s office has an official. There’s a curator on there. There’s a broad variety. The committee oversees the general chapel usage guidelines and make sure it is cared for properly.”As long as religion continues to have some role in the lives of students at IU, Beck Chapel will continue to be a major facet of IU’s culture.As Hastings said in an address on March 23, 1953, “Such a chapel will be an inspiring symbol for all time to come.”
(09/16/08 2:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ranging from the tall, muscular senior Owen Dickey to the slim, witty sophomore William Peabody to the everyday senior Brian Pike, club sports at IU host a variety of interests and styles.For these three students, each has found a passion.Dickey participates in rugby, while Peabody is an active participant in rowing and Pike practices hapkido.“(Club sports) are an excellent program,” said Pike, the hapkido club’s president. “It’s a great opportunity for students to try something new and exciting.”With more than 40 clubs ranging from aikido to bass fishing to volleyball, IU offers a variety of sporting options to students who want to try something new or continue to pursue a passion they have held throughout their lives.Club sports are also student-run, allowing students to learn time and money management, recruiting practices, organization and other real-world skills.People join club sports for a variety of reasons. Some, like club rowing president Ryan Ginty, just want to try something different.“I basically just saw a flier and wanted to try something totally brand new,” he said. “Rowing is certainly that.”Others, such as men’s lacrosse president Ben Kalfas, have played on a national level and bring their passion to IU.“I transferred mid-year my freshman year, and I was playing Division I at the Air Force Academy,” Kalfas said, “so I contacted the coach and expressed my interest in playing.”No matter the reason for joining, students can find camaraderie and their own niche at IU through club sports.“Clubs in general connect a pretty significant portion of the student body with the actual campus itself,” said Dickey, who serves as the men’s rugby president. “That way, it’s not just school work. You do something else.”Besides connecting members of the IU community, club sports give students an opportunity to compete on a higher level than intramural sports offer while retaining the ability to remain committed to other aspects of college life.“I think that sports are so important, and not everyone can be on a varsity sport,” said Samantha Silverman, the senior president and coach of the women’s lacrosse team.She added that with a club sport, students still have time to keep up with academics.“As far as intramural sports go, it’s fun to compete with your classmates, but competing against other universities is taking it to the next level,” said Peabody, captain and vice president of rowing. “I think it’s a great opportunity for kids to get involved and to compete on a level that not many people have a chance of doing.”Another part of the appeal of club sports is the ability to compete with others who share a passion for what they do and to share the love of a sport with others.“Club sports, to a certain extent, are the purest form of sport at the school,” Dickey said. “We play the sport because we truly love the sport. It’s not in an effort to get a scholarship or to play professionally or to get some sort of contract.”One thing members of club sports agree on is that the benefits of joining a sport far outweigh the costs that come with it. While clubs can vary between three and 15 hours of commitment per week, they all share the same positive aspects that make them worthwhile to their participants.“It seems like it might be a time constraint, which really is a pain, but for the most part, it is a positive thing,” Kalfas said. “It really gives you something to be proud of. I’ve played the D-I level, but this is something completely different because this is a student-run thing. Nothing happens without us doing it. It’s really something we can be proud of.”One possibility for students who cannot find what they are looking for among the variety of club sports on campus is to create their own. Club Filipino Martial Arts President Tony Martin Spitz did just that, and, despite the difficulties of the task, feels his efforts were worth it.“It was really difficult,” Spitz said. “It took a lot of finding sponsors and instructors and putting the word out. Club sports can be a rewarding experience to students if they take the chance to try them.”