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(02/28/07 5:00am)
DePauw University senior Elizabeth Haneline remembers working on her senior project when the “letters came.”\nThe letter that Haneline received came from the national greek chapter of Delta Zeta recommending Haneline, along with 22 other sisters in her sorority, for alumnae status, which would force her to move out of the house and restrict her from participating in recruitment.\n“The letters came hours before I had to present my senior project,” Haneline said. “For me it was chaos, having to deal with that, having to deal with the senior project. It was one of those things that you are kind of in denial about and don’t worry about it until after the fact.”\nThe letters recommending 23 women for alumnae status arrived after Delta Zeta’s national officers came in November to interview 35 of the chapter’s members, according to a Feb. 25 New York Times article. The article reported that every woman who was overweight or a minority was asked to go on alumnae status.\nThis week, former members of the chapter appeared on CNN and ABC’s “Good Morning America,” bringing national attention not only to the DePauw chapter, but also to IU.
(02/27/07 5:00am)
Originally, sophomore Tim Torkelson came to the Student Alliance for National Security and Union Board presentation, “Securing the Bomb: Stopping Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century,” to boost his grade instead of out of enjoyment or interest in the topic.\n“I’m going to be honest, I was offered extra credit for a class if I came to this,” he said. \nBut by the end, Torkelson said he found the presentation interesting and said afterward he feels that he knows more about nuclear proliferation than he did when he first arrived.\nThe panelists in attendance were U.S. Ambassador Avis T. Bohlen; former CIA Chief of Clandestine Operations for Europe Tyler Drumheller; and Executive Director of the Arms Control Association Daryl G. Kimball. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Donald Mahley was scheduled to appear, but was unable to attend the event. \nThe panelists said the first step in slowing nuclear proliferation is for the United States to begin talks with other nations.\n“I also really enjoyed Avis Bohlen ripping on the current Bush administration and the nuclear policy,” Torkelson said. \nProfessor David Fidler served as the event moderator, introducing the panelists as “distinguished experts” to discuss the important issue of nuclear threats from states like Iran and North Korea, along with the possibility of nuclear terrorism.\nFreshman Laura Nading, who was among those in attendance, said she felt the discussion was very interesting because it offered an alternative viewpoint.\n“It’s different than what you hear on the news when this topic is discussed,” she said. \nBohlen served as the keynote speaker to explain the current events, focusing specifically on the situations in North Korea and Iran.\nCurrently in North Korea there has been a freeze on the facilities, while in Iran, current talks are moving toward suspending the developing uranium processes, Bohlen said.\n“The agreement with North Korea is welcome, fragile and six years overdue,” Bohlen said. “It’s fragile as we are not certain they will give up their weapons.”\nIran is currently working toward nuclear weapon capabilities, and if talks do not occur soon between the United States and Iran, this fear may be realized, she said.\n“What we have adamantly refused to do is not enter into discussion with Iranians unless they suspend uranium enrichment facilities,” Bohlen said. But, there is no guarantee that dialogues with Iran would solve the situation, she added.\n“I think there has been a more disturbing theme of trivializing nuclear weapons,” Bohlen said. \nDrumheller said that Iran is far along – about five to ten years from developing nuclear weaponry – but he said that is a time clock the United States should not be up against.\n“A damage can be done that no one can even imagine,” Drumheller said of nuclear weapons.\nAll three of the panelists agreed that time is not on the United States’ side and that a look to the future should be in order, for the actions now will affect the situation with nuclear weapons in the future.\nKimball said that it’s like “deja vu” because the North Koreans feel as if the war ended yesterday and they fear a regime change. \nBohlen said only a fool would say nuclear terrorism cannot happen. At the same time, not all terrorists seek use of nuclear weapons because kidnapping and other behaviors are easier and just as effective.\nKimball brought into discussion the nuclear weapons that the United States possesses.\n“Why does the U.S. have as many nuclear warheads as we do?” he said. “These weapons are not very useful, the only real purpose is to detour another country from launching devastation on another country.”\nFreshman Kirsten Reinecke said “it’s clearly a problem,” regarding nuclear weapons.\n“Our generation will have to deal with this and hopefully we will, but it will get worse if we don’t do anything about it,” she said.
(02/27/07 5:00am)
Freshman Nina Limbeck thinks that when it comes to music, all groups should have the opportunity to “strut their stuff.”\n“I love music, especially new music,” she said. \nAnd new music is exactly what IU student radio station WIUX hopes to bring to its annual music event this year, said Special Events Director Brian Kerr. \nHeadlining Culture Shock this year is a collection of bands including Xiu Xiu, Sunset Rubdown, Husband & Wife, the Coke Dares, plus others that have yet to be announced.\nCulture Shock, hosted by WIUX since 1991, is a music festival brought to IU to expose students to both represented and underrepresented music artists, said WIUX Station Manager Zach Pollakoff. \nCulture Shock is free to students, which Pollakoff said will allow the festival to thrive.\n“I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t want to see a concert,” Limbeck said. “And because it is free it gives (students) all the more reason to see it.”\nFreshman Julie Singer agreed. “Free is my favorite number,” she said.\nSinger said she will probably attend Culture Shock because she knows the band Xiu Xiu.\nThis year’s Culture Shock will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. April 14 in the grassy fields behind the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center, 1000 E. 17th St.\nKerr said the goal is to bring acts that wouldn’t normally be on the IU campus or come through the area. Last year, about 1,000 students attended the event throughout the day, Pollakoff said.\n“This year we have a lot more recognizable names,” Pollakoff said. “A lot of acts are recognized on a larger scale, and there is sort of a boom in music festivals.”\nFreshman Crissy Turino said she has heard of Husband & Wife but has never seen the band in concert. \n“I don’t know if I would go,” she said. “It depends on the music. I would definitely go especially if it is hip-hop or dance music.” \nKerr said he sent out invitatations to various booking agencies starting in October.\n“We look for bands that our DJs and listeners are really into,” Kerr said. “Another thing is diversity. We try to get acts that are different, like a rock group, R&B, hip-hop, electronic.”\nSome of the bands that have been booked have previously sold out shows elsewhere, Kerr said.\nKerr said WIUX is still looking for people interested in sponsoring the event, especially artists and fashion designers. Those interested can e-mail Kerr.\n“It’s a great way to hear about good music – music you wouldn’t hear otherwise,” Kerr said.
(02/26/07 5:00am)
In September 2006, Tony Smith was released from Putnamville Correctional Facility after serving three years of a six year sentence.\nHe was charged and went to jail for dealing look-alike drug substances – drugs made to look like crack cocaine, among other things.\nNow out on parole Smith is trying to rebuild his life.\nBut that hasn’t been easy for Smith because of the current federal ban denying those convicted of drug offenses financial aid.\nAll convicted drug felons in Indiana are automatically denied welfare benefits for life under this law, which has been in effect since 1996, according to a statement from the group.\nOn Sunday, at the auditorium of the Monroe County Public Library, the volunteer-based group Citizens for Effective Justice hosted a forum which included speakers who discussed the federal ban.\nThe ban prevents drug felons from receiving food stamps along with any other government assistance for life.\nBruce Bundy, the group’s director of public information, and the rest of CEJ hope a letter-writing campaign will prompt lawmakers to lift the ban entirely and allow convicted drug felons a second chance.\nWhen released from prison, these felons have to start over with little money and the possibility of having no home to live in, depending on their relationship with family and friends, Bundy said.\nSmith said that when he was released from jail, he received a $75 dollar check from the government.\nHe was able to find shelter with friends, but was not allowed to move back in with his mom and sister because the apartment complex did not allow felons to live there, he said.\n“We pick out a group and we are condemning them to a life sentence,” said Hal Taylor, president of CEJ. “How can this happen in this nation?”\nHe said supporters of the ban usually say the offenders might be irresponsible and use the money provided by the government to “revert back to their drug habits.” Other ban supporters voice concern that the problem isn’t in the hands of the public and it’s the problem of the offenders.\nThe group’s secretary, Vid Beldavs, said these felons are being punished even though addiction is a treatable medical problem. In order to change the law, Beldaus said that the group is working to change this ban in Bloomington and then the state of Indiana.\n“We don’t want to be the last state to lift the federal ban,” Beldavs said. He said of the 38 states with partial lifts, only 18 have fully lifted the ban.\nWork is being done inside jails to help people with addiction problems so when they get out they can have a chance at getting back on their feet, he said.\nSmith said that it’s been difficult for him to find a job, but he now works full-time at a telemarketing agency.\nBundy said that the ban doesn’t apply to other felons such as rapists or child pornographers, and that when people get out of prison and there is no support available, these people are forced to return to a life of crime.\n“Everyone needs a second chance,” Smith said.
(02/26/07 5:00am)
On Thursday evening residents of Teter Quad huddled outside, anxiously waiting to return to their dorm rooms.\nQuestions like, “Is this a real fire?” and “What is going on?” circulated through the crowd as, for the first time this semester, students in IU residence halls participated in a routine fire drill practice.\nResidential Programs and Services practices fire safety by having these drills throughout the semesters to prepare students for a real fire. \nHowever, some students don’t take these drills seriously, despite the emphasis placed on them.\n“I didn’t expect the fire drill,” Teter-Rabb resident and freshman Jenna Fritsch said. “No one wanted to leave. Only two or three people on my floor left.” \nFritsch said she doesn’t usually believe there is a real fire when the alarm goes off because she hasn’t experienced a real fire.\nBoth the Bloomington and IU Police departments were present at the drill, in addition to the fire department. \nResidence manager Cedric Harris said that, in situations where a real fire is present, resident assistants will be under more pressure because some RAs may not be present on their floors at that time. \nHowever, RPS’ goal remains the same: to provide a safe environment for students and to let the students know that even if there may not be a real fire, practice is necessary in case there is one.\nHarris said that during the drill he saw a girl in her slippers sauntering down the hallway. He remembered telling her that if she heard the sirens going off, she needed to get outside.\nShe remarked, “Is it real?” but still didn’t take the drill seriously, he said.\n“It is important for the staff to know what it is like,” Harris said of teaching how to act in a fire drill. “For the students too, it is important for them to know so they can take it seriously.” \nTypically Harris said students complain. But this year, he didn’t hear anything unusual, and the group was cooperative.\n“It has always gone smooth,” Harris said of the drills. \nFreshman Frank Cummings was outside when the fire drill occurred. He said he saw the ambulance and police cars and had no idea what was going on, but thought he smelled smoke because he didn’t suspect a drill. \n“A lot of people need to practice the drills,” he said. “I was going to be a fireman so I know what is like from that perspective.”\nSophomore Matt Etheridge, an RA in Teter, said during his training, he was told about a fire a few years ago in Briscoe during the early morning that took people there by surprise. He said that, when people hear fire alarms, they tend to think they aren’t real. \n“It is very important to practice,” he said. “It affects not only me but all the residences, and the incident that happened in Briscoe is just reason enough why it is important to practice.”
(02/26/07 5:00am)
Tonight’s lecture at the Indiana Memorial Union is going to be da bomb.\nThe Union Board and the Student Alliance for National Security have invited several prominent diplomatic and intelligence experts, including the former chief of CIA covert operations in Europe and a former U.S. assistant secretary of state, to panel the program, “Securing the Bomb: Stopping Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century” 6:30 p.m. today in the IMU’s Alumni Hall.\nThe program will feature former Assistant Secretary of State Avis Bohlen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Donald Mahley, former CIA Chief of Covert Operations in Europe Tyler Drumheller and Arms Control Association Executive Director Daryl Kimball.\nThese panelists will be discussing the nuclear threat from states like Iran and North Korea, said Miles Taylor, executive director for the Student Alliance for National Security.\n“The threat of nuclear terrorism is so daunting – and the spread of nuclear weapons to new countries is so destabilizing to the world,” Taylor said. “We thought students at IU should be more familiar with the problems being faced.”\nOne day IU students will be among the nation’s leaders, and as a result, Taylor said it is important for these students to understand the challenges we will face as a nation in the future. Nuclear proliferation ranks among those challenges. \nThe threat of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons was labeled as one of the greatest dangers facing the United States by the 9/11 Commission.\nAlready the United States is recognized as a worldwide leader in the effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons by helping create a number of treaties, laws and agreements, Taylor said.\nThe program hopes to inform attendees of the possible danger that might exist in the future when dealing with nuclear weapons. \n“We are very fortunate to have put together a top flight panel to discuss the threat,” Taylor said.
(02/23/07 5:00am)
When Mary Gray discovered that the new Communication and Culture, Human Biology, Medical Sciences restroom facilities plan would not include gender-neutral restrooms, she decided to find out if anything could be done to remedy the situation.\nThe gender-neutral restrooms are washrooms that allow anyone to use the facility. On campus, 14 residence halls recently made the switch to gender-neutral restrooms to include transgender students, as reported in a Feb. 8 IDS article.\nThe reasoning behind the accommodation was to allow students who don’t identify with a specific gender to feel more comfortable, according to a petition that Gray, a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, initiated in response to the situation. In addition, gender-neutral restrooms are ideal for undercutting intimidation and will help people who are “not easily legible as male or female.” If a person in a gender-specific restroom is assumed to be the “wrong” gender, there may be real threats to that individual’s safety and comfort, according to the petition. \nWith construction of the new building, located on Third Street between the Hillel Center and the Military Science and Aerospace building, already under way, Gray contacted the Office of Space Management to request a restroom design for one single-occupancy gender neutral restroom. On Feb. 12, Gray and other faculty members who supported the request found out that the redesign was no longer possible at that point, as the building is currently in development. \nPlans and financing of the building’s construction have already been approved by the state, so IU officials were forced to decline the petition’s request. \nEven though the building will not include gender-neutral restrooms, Gray said instead they are now pushing for a campus-wide policy allowing for gender-neutral restrooms in the future construction on campus.\nTom Swafford, associate vice provost for Space Management and Research Facilities, said that the Office of Space Management in future construction projects will respond to requests such as gender-neutral restrooms. However, he said in some cases it will not be within their scope to approve it. \n“We have accessible restrooms now that are unisex in some buildings. There is one in Ballantine (Hall) and one in Goodbody (Hall),” he said, citing a few places the restrooms can be found.\nSwafford said it depends on the location and the condition for the cost of the restroom, saying that costs for a restroom can between $10,000 and $20,000.\n“To my knowledge, there’s been no voiced opposition to the inclusion of gender-neutral restrooms in future construction,” Gray said. “In fact, the Office of Space Management indicated in its response to CMCL’s inquiries that they would have included a gender-neutral restroom had we asked for it earlier in the process.”\nGray said that this suggests that the Office of Space Management is willing to include gender-neutral restrooms in future construction and renovation.\n“It would cost too much to go back and redesign the building to include one single-occupancy, gender neutral restroom in the building,” Gray said. “There have been no cost estimates offered for a redesign and there have been no cost estimates of what it will cost to add a gender-neutral restroom once the building is built.”
(02/22/07 5:00am)
Alpha Tau Omega and Acacia fraternities are teaming up to host the band Yellowcard on April 20 during Little 500 weekend. \nTickets will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the ATO house, 720 E. Third St.. Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door. \nIn addition, tickets can be purchased through Star Tickets Plus by phone at 1-800-585-3737; at all Meijer stores; and online at www.starticketsplus.com.\n“It’s a good choice,” said graduate student Maureen Hattrup. “It’s similar to O.A.R., but both bands offer something to like.”\nYellowcard, a pop-punk band from Jacksonville, Fla. is best known for its 2003 album “Ocean Avenue.”\nRepresentatives from both fraternities said the proceeds from the concert are going to the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington, an effort from both of the fraternities for their spring philanthropy. Bloomington radio station B97 is presenting the concert.\n“We’ve had a good, positive relationship and we’re doing something official,” said Doug Rosenstein, president of ATO.\nOriginally, the two fraternities were going to bring band O.A.R., the only other group they seriously considered bringing, said A.J. Rich, director of special events for ATO.\nIn the end, things did not work between the fraternities and O.A.R., and Yellowcard worked best for the two fraternities’ purposes, Rich said. Along with Yellowacard’s set, there will also be performances by local Bloomington acts, yet to be announced.\nO.A.R. is coming during Little 500 weekend, sponsored by the Union Board. The band will come to campus on April 20 to the IU Auditorium \nat 7:30 p.m. \n“I’m not very familiar with them,” sophomore Katelyn Holsclaw said of Yellowcard. “I’ve heard a few songs, and they seem like a good band.”\nEven though Holsclaw said she probably won’t attend, she thinks the music groups brought to IU offer something for everyone.\nRosenstein said the enthusiasm for Little 500 also plays a role in the concert selection.\n“One reason we really liked Yellowcard is because they are really energetic and it is the night before the Little 5 (men’s) race,” Rosenstein said. “It will serve as a pre-race pump up for everyone, very entertaining, and a great time for the whole \nLittle 5 week.”\nLast year, rap artist Young Buck, performed, Rich said.\n“We just thought that in the past, we have done rap groups and they haven’t been as successful,” Rich said. “This genre of music would accept a lot more of the student body.”\nFor the event, both of the parking lots between the two houses will be combined, containing enough room for about 5,000 people, according to an event press release from \nthe fraternities.\n“We expect that there should be a pretty good turnout, as Yellowcard has been on the TV, radio and a lot of people have heard of them,” Rosenstein said.\nBoth Rosenstein and Rich emphasized that the concert will be promoted not just for other fraternities and sororities, but for the residence halls as well.\nRich said that the women’s champions from Friday’s race will be honored at the concert and riders for ATO and Acacia fraternities will receive a send-off.\nFreshman Joe Mutton, who said he has not yet witnessed a Little 500 event, said he appreciates the diversity of music coming to campus, but “something a little more energizing,” would be his pick for the weekend.\nSenior Michael Franklin said he likes Yellowcard and approves of the music choices brought to IU.\n“I think the music choices are diverse,” he said. “It’s Little 500, students are always out and they will look for any excuse to go out.”
(02/21/07 5:00am)
This year’s Union Board performer for Little 500 week will be rock band O.A.R., said Union Board concert director Adam Soiref.\nThe pre-sale for the concert begins today at 10 a.m., according to the band’s Web site, www.ofarevolution.com. Tickets will officially go on sale March 1.\nTickets are $28 for students and $30 for nonstudents.\nO.A.R. performed a concert Feb. 19, 2006, at the IU Auditorium and made an appearance at an April 2002 concert sponsored by the Kappa Sigma fraternity, according to a Dec. 9, 2005 Indiana Daily Student article.\nAdam Soiref, the Union Board’s concert director, said O.A.R.’s popularity and well-received performance after last year’s show at IU convinced the Union Board to ask the band back.\n“We bring concerts that the campus wants to see,” Soiref said. “O.A.R is asked to come to a lot of campuses, and we figured to bring them again would be beneficial to campus for the Little 5 atmosphere.”\nBringing O.A.R. back to campus would allow students who didn’t see the show last year to attend this year, he added.\nTyler Hudson, a second-year optometry graduate student, said he feels it is both bad and good that O.A.R is coming again.\n“It’s good because it is bringing back popularity,” he said. “But it would be nice to switch it up for people who went last year to the concert.”\nHudson said he would like to see former Little 500 performers the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform. \nJunior Katherine Ntiamoah said she’s “pretty upset” over the Union Board’s Little 500 concert choice.\n“We aren’t tapping into our music resources like we should be,” she said.\nNtiamoah said that since her freshman year, the music choices have been “pretty homogenous.” As a freshman, she saw The Roots perform, and last year Wilco performed for the Little 500 concert.\n“I’d like to see anything that’s different,” she said. “It’s the same concerts, (even) going beyond Little 5. It’s the same crowd appeal for the same people.”\nWhen asked who he would rather see at a Little 500 concert, second-year graduate student Jason Quinley said Wilco, even though the band performed at last year’s Little 500 festivities.\n“I know my friends are excited to go see them when they come,” Quinley said.\nDespite O.A.R.’s popularity, Ntiamoah said the Union Board could bring a more diverse set of concerts to IU. \nThe concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. April 20 at the IU Auditorium.
(02/21/07 5:00am)
Funded by a grant of more than $2,400 from the Department of Homeland Security, 12 fraternity and sorority members are preparing to help the community in the event of a fire, tornado or any other disaster that might strike the area.\nAfter learning about the Community Emergency Response Team through a meeting of the Junior Greek Council, the students are volunteering their time to learn life-saving skills to assist Bloomington first responders if they are needed.\n“If there was a disaster here in Bloomington and a tornado went down the extension and knocked over three houses, the Bloomington first responders would be overwhelmed,” said Evan Summers, vice president of membership development for Interfraternity Council. “CERT will step in and act as volunteers and be able to help. Ideally, we would be able to save lives without endangering ourselves.”\nBeginning Feb. 11, the group will meet from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday on five occasions to learn techniques that will allow them to aid in emergencies. The class size is limited because of space, but Summers said he hopes classes will be extended so that more greeks can participate.\nThis group is the first greek organization throughout the nation to participate in CERT training, Summers said.\n“The Junior Greek Council focuses on areas of alcohol and sexual assault and how to help the greek community, but we’ve never focused on disaster,” Summers said. “This is a way to focus on the community.”\nCERT strives to expose the new members to the Junior Greek Council to the importance of preparing for disasters and any emergencies, such as fires, that may occur in their own houses, said Mark Brostoff, the lead CERT trainer and instructor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. \nBrostoff said they cover everything from fire suppression using extinguishers to rescue-breathing techniques. \n“We teach them disaster medical operations – the greatest good for the greatest number of potential victims,” he said.\nSummers said Indiana is in a disaster-prone area. There is a major fault line running through the state that may become active in the next 10 years, he said.\n“It was very eye-opening,” Summers said of the CERT training session. “We really could have to use this in our life.”\nSo far, with only one training session that was held Feb. 11, freshman Chelsee Montgomery of Alpha Xi Delta said they have gone over a lot of material. \nFreshman and Gamma Phi Beta member Jamie Titak said the first session was fun and the members learned about rescue breathing. If in a situation in which Titak and other CERT members would be asked to use their training, she said she would feel comfortable doing it. \n“CERT training provides them with the ability to help during any mass casualty and disaster when first responders are tied up or too busy because the major disaster is in many different locations,” Brostoff said. “The training allows them to assist friends, brothers and sisters within their community within the first 72 hours.”\nMembers of the training session received a backpack with about $200 in material to help with their training that was funded by the Department of Homeland Security. \n“We’ve received emergency packs with gloves and helmets, like a backpack,” Montgomery said. “We learned how to inspect a building to see how it is safe and about safety positions, so if someone’s airway is obstructed how to turn (them) on the side and check for breathing.”\nSummers said the last session, on April 1, will consist of a mock disaster at a fraternity house so the students can practice as if it were a real disaster. Small fires will be lit and students will extinguish them. \nAfter that, certification will be handed out to the participants, Summers said.\nStudents are first told how to respond in a certain emergency situation, then the students practice.\n“We’ll talk about it and then we actually have a partner and go and do it,” Montgomery said. “So with how to stop severe bleeding, we try it out on a partner and then we switch to make sure we all know how to do it.”\nWhat Montgomery likes most about the sessions is that it is more than a lecture.\n“That’s very important,” she said. “Even if in your house, it’s helpful to know how to turn off the gas and to know basic first aid. It is inevitable to have disasters and being prepared is helpful.”
(02/20/07 5:00am)
With a smile on her face, Journey rolled over and enjoyed the belly rub given by Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan Monday evening at Tutto Bene Cafe and Wine Bar.\nJourney, an animal ambassador for the Monroe County Humane Association, wasn’t the only dog present at the “Bark and Wine” news conference that kicked off the Adopt Today campaign for the city of Bloomington Animal Shelter. \nAttendees enjoyed wine and were joined by dogs and cats from the Bloomington Animal Shelter. \nIn 2006, the animal shelter reported 5,255 incoming animals, but of those, only 54 percent were adopted, forcing more than 42 percent to be euthanized. \nThis educational awareness campaign focuses on increasing adoptions, reducing euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets, along with enhancing the importance of spaying and neutering to help the Bloomington community curb the pet overpopulation crisis.\nKruzan also ensured that Tutto Bene worked with the health department to ensure the animals in the back were safe to be present.\n“We’re announcing it now because it is February and it is ‘be compassionate’ month,” Kruzan said.\nAs a dog owner himself, Kruzan spoke of his beloved Stormy and Echo, saying they changed his life for the better. \n“A pet owner knows that pets do so much that we can ever do to repay them,” he said. “Help adopt our animals.”\nKruzan said the human pet connection is meaningful and helps can help people relax, exercise and lower blood pressure.\nAppearing on Bloomington Transit buses and other places throughout the year, there will be posters advertising the event. Familiar faces, such as IU’s men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and IU President Adam Herbert will be present on posters throughout the campaign with their respective pets.\n“The campaign short-term encourages the increase of adoption, but long-term it also encourages spaying and neutering,” Kruzan said.\nBloomington Animal Shelter Director Laurie Ringquist spoke as well, saying this is the first community wide effort to help the shelter. \nRingquist said she hopes this year, adoption will increase by a minimum of 10 percent, about 200 more animals than usual.\n“It’s ambitious but we can achieve it with the help of you,” Ringquist said. “There are great animals available.”\nMaria Heslin, Bloomington Communications director, said she didn’t know how many people to expect, but at the 5:30 p.m, start of the event, people were still pushing through the door to an already packed Tutto Bene dining room.\nIn addition to Ringquist and Kruzan, Monroe County Superintendent Jim Harvey spoke, telling of his personal experience with his adopted pets.\n“(My wife) isn’t my only nighttime companion anymore,” Harvey said, saying since he adopted his dog, she has slept by his bedside with him. \nPeople walked around the event enjoying wine and admiring the animals present at the event, including a dog named Mindy, who wagged her tail in affection as the people passing stopped to pet her. \n“I’m not just saying this as a mayor, but I am the proud papa of two pups,” Kruzan said. “I am proud to launch the campaign.”
(02/19/07 5:00am)
Next to the School of Informatics building on 10th Street is a boarded up house with greek history behind it. But soon, the building will gain a new history similar to the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority and the Delta Tau Delta fraternity houses’ transformations to the School of Informatics and the Army ROTC house at 814 E. Third St., respectively.\n919 E. 10th St., where the currently vacant Beta Theta Pi house sits, remains a memory on campus until the University decides its fate. \nAfter the chapter got kicked off campus in 2001 for not meeting standards, Beta Theta Pi, also known as Beta, has been working on its reputation to get back on campus. The new Beta house on North Jordan Avenue will open in August.\nCurrently, plans for the old Beta house remain in the University’s hands. \nThe house is to be leased to the School of Informatics to serve as an office space for faculty, University Architect Robert Meadows said.\n“The Beta’s house, that’s an interesting situation because they swapped their house for a new location on Jordan,” Interfraternity Council President Mike Piermont said. “The University came to an agreement with Beta to give them a new house because the old house is in the middle of campus.”\nBecause the Betas could move into a new home on North Jordan, the University bought the former residence because it had “a need” for it, said Lynn Coyne, University Real Estate assistant vice president. \n“The University has to have some need or use for it,” Coyne said. “We would buy it because it is located in a certain area of importance.”\nIf the University does not buy a greek house when it becomes vacant, the house remains empty or is usually rented out to another chapter, Coyne said. \n“Most of the houses are on Jordan (Avenue),” said Beta Theta Pi President Greg Baumer. “When those are vacant those sit empty until another fraternity comes, or they remain empty.”\nPiermont said the majority of the Greek houses are located on North Jordan Avenue and a vacancy of a house depends on the situation.\n“If a house gets removed, it could be because of financial difficulty or the charter of the fraternity is lost,” Piermont said. \nThe construction project has started and should be done in a year, Meadows said.
(02/19/07 5:00am)
Systems allowing citizens to vote by mail are practiced by only a few states in the nation. But Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, hopes the election process will come to fully embrace it.\nBy 2012, Pierce hopes all of Indiana’s votes will be cast through the mail. Pierce said his mail-in voting plan is based on systems already in place in Oregon, Washington and parts of California.\nBeginning in the 2008 general election, the first phase of mail-in voting would allow anyone to send in an absentee ballot, Pierce said. By 2012, the system to cast the ballot by mail would be used.\nPierce said he introduced an amendment in House Bill 1808 last week when the House Elections and Apportionment Committee met. His bill would require all new voting equipment in Indiana to have a paper backup system, so voters can verify their ballots were cast accurately. \n“The idea is to vote absentee by mail and get used to it and then shut the polls down and use the system by 2012,” Pierce said. \nPierce said the difficulty in finding poll workers and training them, are reasons voting by mail would be beneficial.\nOn Election Day, glitches and problems develop that were not foreseen before and have to be dealt with when they occur on the day, Pierce said. The ballot-by-mail system hopes to eliminate these problems and make it easier for voters, he added.\nPierce said he also hopes it would increase voter turnout on Election Day.\n“Oregon did experience an increase in voter turnout higher in the country” after the new system began, he said. “It’s easier to vote and increase voter participation.”\nFor IU College Democrats President Amanda Jenkins, there is something special about going to the polls and casting a vote on Election Day.\n“I don’t think I would vote by mail unless I was out of town on Election Day,” she said.\nStill, Jenkins said she feels mail-in voting would increase turnout, and she is in favor of the bill’s amendment.\n“I voted in the elections this past fall,” she said. “Many people who have to work all day or take care of their children, go to school or don’t have a car will now have easier access to voting.”\nSophomore Sophia Vastek said she already mails in her vote as an absentee voter because she is away at college. Yet Vastek said she feels Pierce’s bill effort won’t change what she already does. \n“I’d prefer to vote in person. It’s not a hassle,” she said. “I doubt it will change how many people vote in elections. People are lazy and it still requires effort to request a ballot and send it in.” \nJenkins said voting by mail allows voters to familiarize themselves with candidates.\n“Voters will have more time to study the ballot and the names and make the informed decision,” Jenkins said. “They can look up each candidate one by one and not have to memorize the information.”\nPierce said Indiana law allows voters only three minutes in the voting booth.\nIf the system is implemented, about two to three weeks before an election, a ballot packet containing a completed ballot and a return envelope would be mailed to each registered voter. The voter would take the completed ballot to a drop site or mail it in.\nTo verify identity and authenticity for every voter using the vote-by-mail system, the signature of the voter on the outside return envelope would have to be compared with the signature on the voter’s registration, Pierce said. If the signatures didn’t match, the papers would be set aside and the voter would be contacted, he said. \nMail-in voting has the potential to reach out to younger generations, Pierce said.\n“I think and hope it will increase the younger population vote,” Jenkins said. “The majority of our generation likes things that are easy to do, so if voting by mailing in a ballot is all it takes, I think more people will vote.”
(02/16/07 5:11am)
Huddled around a table, seven boys intensely watch the IU-Purdue basketball game, their eyes not wavering from the screen. \nInstead of watching the latest chapter in the heated rivalry of the residence halls, a crowd of about ten people turned out Thursday evening to watch the basketball game in the new Foster-Gresham social space, now officially dubbed, "Hoosier Den."\nThe social area sponsored and created by Residential Programs and Services officially opened last Friday. A week later, the space is slowly becoming known throughout the 11 residence halls on campus. \nBut some students still don't know the space exists.\nFreshmen Jessica Orr and Jordan Shults, residents of Read, sat at the adjacent food court eating dinner.\n"I had no idea it was there," Shults said.\n"What space?" asked Orr\nBoth women said they probably wouldn't consider going, but only because of the location.\n"If they had a space by Read, I would consider," Shults said.\nFreshman Lauren Grossel, a resident of McNutt Quad, said there were lots of empty spaces in Foster, and RPS needed to do something with them. She feels the new space is being utilized effectively.\n"If it's not too cold out, I will cross the street and come," she said.\nThe cold weather may be hindering the popularity of the space, said RPS Executive Director Pat Connor.\n"It's going okay," Connor said. "We need to do advertising, and the weather has not been very helpful. It's just starting, and we need to promote it more. They have some good things lined up, in terms of what I have seen from the events."\nUpcoming events at Hoosier Den include Mardi Gras festivities, Texas Hold 'Em tournaments, a showing of the Daytona 500 and a celebration of President's Day on Monday. Students interested in signing up for Texas Hold 'Em tournaments must e-mail hoosierd@indiana.edu.\nIn addition, karaoke is held every Friday.\nHoosier Den will open 15 minutes prior to the start times of all IU men's basketball games, with an 80-inch screen available for viewing, said junior Meg Palm, Residence Halls Association vice-president of programming.\n"I know that's a winner," Palm said.\nPalm said she felt last Friday's opening night went well.\n"We had 35 people there for the comedian, Kevin Burke, and he did a really good job," she said. "We had a few regulars that stayed and big groups that came in and out of the night into the space. It slowed at about 2 a.m, but that's okay because we close at 3 a.m."\nThe space is open from 8:30 p.m. until 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and until 3 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.\nSo far ping pong has been the most popular attraction at the den.\n"We got a lot of use out of the ping pong tables," Palm said, adding that she had to go and purchase more ping pong balls because all of them are gone.\nFreshman Trilok Nichlani, a resident of Foster Quad, said he likes having a ping pong table so close to his dorm room.\n"I like the pool and the ping pong, before I used to go to the Indiana Memorial Union," Nichlani said. "Now I can come down here and play whenever I want." \nFreshman Scott Mermelstein, also a resident of Foster Quad, said the big TV was what drew him to come to the hang-out.\n"It's because I can't fit it in my room," he said. "It's nice here, and the pool table is sweet, I know I'll come back -- it's good for recreation"
(02/15/07 4:55am)
As House Manager of the IU Auditorium, Jon Larkin has the job of preparing the upcoming shows. At this time of the year, however, raising thousands of dollars for Bowl for Kids' Sake is something he chooses to do in his free time. \n"I am not one of the leading money-raisers, I am the leading money-raiser," Larkin said with a laugh.\nLarkin said that so far, he has raised about $1,700 for Bowl for Kids' Sake, the largest national fundraiser the Big Brothers Big Sisters program directs annually.\nThis year marks the 19th year the fundraiser has happened in Bloomington. The money raised covers one-third of the operating budget for the mentoring program, along with several other programs. \nThe community will have its bowl on Feb. 24 and 25 and March 3. IU teams bowl Feb. 28 and March 1. \nHaving the bowling event is a way to say "thank you" to the teams and individuals who raise money for Big Brothers Big Sisters, said Lee Ann Jourdan, the Associate Development Director and Special Event Fundraising for Big Brothers Big Sisters.\nAs of press time, there are 59 IU teams and 140 community teams registered, Jourdan said. Last year, $166,000 were raised. This year, Big Brothers Big Sisters hopes to raise $179,000, Jourdan said. \n"The Aud Squad," as Larkin refers to his team, raised $3,700 last year with about 40 students participating in the bowling event, he said.\nLarkin started participating in Bowl for Kids' Sake in 2002 because the Auditorium encouraged him to. With $150 raised, Larkin and his team of four went from small beginnings to winning a trophy, the Hoosier Hero, for being the top IU competitors. Larkin hopes to win the award again this year.\nThe trophy goes to the group at IU that raises the most money, Jourdan said.\n"It was up to me whether or not to keep going," Larkin said. "It is a part of my job for student activities to connect with one another and the other part is to connect with the community and campus. The reason I stick with it and will continue to as long as I work here is that it is a terrific activity to get my students out of the theater and support and do something fun that benefits the community." \nThis year the theme for the event is "Rock 'n' Roll," and anyone interested in volunteering can register up until the event happens. Online \nregistration is available at www.kintera.org. To bowl, the minimum each team must raise is $500 for IU and $625 for the community teams. With the online fundraising system in which participants can go and make their own page, anyone donating money can go online and make contributions.\nJourdan said that because of this process, it is fairly easy to donate money. In addition, Jourdan said participants can campaign for money, host parties and charge a cover that contributes to the event, along with other fundraising methods. \n"It is approaching quickly," Jourdan said of the Bowl for Kids' Sake event. "We will still accept teams up until the event, unless of course we run out of space … but that would be a good problem to have."\nThose interested can go to the Big Brothers Big Sisters Web site, and click on the Bowl for Kids' Sake link.
(02/14/07 5:59am)
On a hot day in August last year, student trustee Casey Cox and his bride, Melissa, recited their vows at the Rose Well House on campus.\n"I am afraid to say that we never kissed there before our wedding kiss," Cox said. "So we didn't partake in the tradition."\nThe tradition that Cox refers to involves a 99-year-old custom that has been around campus since 1908. Campus tour guides reference the open-air pavilion, located between Maxwell Hall and Wylie Hall, as a romantic tradition in IU history, peaking at Valentine's Day.\nA custom of the Rose Well House says a woman is not a true college "coed" until she is kissed within the structure at midnight as the 12 chimes of the Student Building clock ring out, according to a manuscript in the IU Archives titled "Traditions of IU" by Marvin Shamon.\nFor women, the curfew on campus used to be 11 p.m. So being out at midnight, the manuscript says, was "risky."\nCox and his wife met as undergraduates at IU. They both thought Bloomington would be the best place for them to marry because of their involvement in the University.\n"I have seen pictures of weddings performed at the Well House," Cox said. "We married on the 12th. But on the 11th the weather was warmer and awful, but by Saturday morning it was gorgeous and worked out very nicely."\nKen Gros Louis, chancellor and vice president of academic affairs, said the Rose Well House was known as a place for couples to be engaged.\n"I know a lot of students over the years that have been engaged or asked to be married in the Well House," Gros Louis said.\nCox is one of the most recent students to tie the knot there, Gros Louis said.\nAt one time, there was an organized walk near Kirkwood Hall during which freshman women strolled at midnight to gain the privilege of being called "coeds." But when the Rose Well House was constructed, the kissing concept took over that tradition.\nTheodore F. Rose, a member of the board of trustees in 1908, presented the Rose Well House to the University as a gift to his graduating class, but he didn't have the romantic tradition in mind.\nProfessor Arthur Lee Foley of the physics department designed the Rose Well House. As a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Rose recommended the construction be based on the outline of the octagonal Beta badge.\nBeta fraternity brothers would propose to their girlfriends in the Rose Well House.\nFamiliar territory for dating and courting, the Rose Well House was also known as the centralized place on campus to meet people. Dates would walk through the woods nearby, an act that was seen as a courting method before its construction.\nBesides just a tradition of kissing, the stone windows to the Rose Well House were originally windows to the Old College Building. The windows were situated on the original campus site, according to the manuscript.\nFirefighters used the fire cistern -- a structure used for holding liquids, usually water -- to fight fires, which once "plagued" the University. There is now a water fountain inside the Rose Well House, but it only offers a trickle of water. Often, in the warmer months, people came to the Rose Well House to give away glasses of water from the fountain, as well as to sell five-cent glasses of lemonade.\nWhile Cox himself did not practice the traditional kiss with his wife prior to their marriage, he hopes the conscious awareness of the tradition will remain in others so the history can live on.\n"Campus legends are important in furthering the culture and student life in the university," Cox said. "I hope there are still some students that perpetuate the legend. It is important to the existence of our identity as a university"
(02/13/07 6:54am)
Sophomore Derrick Puckett loved the presentation he attended Monday evening, but the program can only be as good as people make it, he said.\n"People like to say stuff but don't act on it," he said. "Are we going to do something about it? If we talk but don't do anything about it, then it should just stop here."\nIn Wright Formal Lounge Monday evening, a program titled "The 'N-word': UNWRAPPED" sponsored by the CommUNITY Education Program presented the question, "What's so funny about the 'n-word?'" Eric Love, director of diversity education also was present to facilitate discussion.\nThe program aimed to encourage discussion about the "n-word" in comedy and society, said Brittany Gause, a CommUNITY Educator in Collins Living and Learning Center.\nThroughout the discussion, clips from various comedians who used the "n-word," were shown in an attempt to focus on what society makes of the word and its daily use.\n"You are allowed to laugh," Gause said.\nA Chappelle's Show clip was shown where host Dave Chappelle questioned who came up with the word "nigga" and how it was decided.\nAfter the clip was shown, the CommUNITY Educators explained how the "n-word" originated, from the Greek word "necro," meaning dead, and then from "negro," the Spanish word for black. \nIn addition, the presentation detailed how the word can be seen as a term of endearment, or as meaning brother or friend. But the connotation of the word can either be meant as positive or negative. \nFreshman Tiffany Fick said that sometimes, when a person is called something repeatedly, such as being called a "fat kid," the negative term sticks with the person. She related this example to the "n-word."\nAmong other thoughts that circulated discussed how black people use the "n-word" to take power away from the white people who use the words, in a way to "flip the hands of power."\nSophomore Keith Waak, said that the use of the "n-word" is a way to become revolutionized. Similarly, the gay community uses the term "fag" more and more as a way to decentralize the word, he said.\nHowever, not every race can use the word, Waak said. Love said that there is a difference between intercultural communication and intra-culture communication. \nThere are jokes, he said, that are appropriate within a group as opposed to outside the group, where a word like the "n-word" will appear negative. \n"This is never going to go away," sophomore Evan Lewers said. "We are never going to understand the interethnic language whether it is black or Jewish culture. There are going to be people who accept and don't, there is no real reason even if you asked why people use the word, no one really knows."\nFick said that she decided not to say the word at all, and if someone says it to her, she tells them not to say it to her.\nIn addition, senior Todd Hewell said the he is Polish, but he does not want to be called a "Polack" and he doesn't want to use the term against others either.\nAn audience member said that white people with black friends who say the word, may slip up and say the "n-word" because they are around those who say it.\n"Don't get mad if you say it and other people do, if you don't want people to say it, don't say it," the male audience member said. \nFick said she feels the word should not be used period. \n"I am a black educated woman," she said. "And that's what I want to be seen as"
(02/12/07 1:52am)
The IU Health Center isn't the only place to get your cheek swabbed on campus anymore. Now, cheek swabbing is available in the School of Fine Arts Gallery.\nFrom 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, the SoFA Gallery will open a month-long exhibit: Human Nature II: Future Worlds.\nThe performance piece in the opening reception Friday will feature artist Paul Vanouse swabbing participants' cheeks and using the DNA to work it into an artistic piece. \nThis exhibit will feature work by artists currently "synthesizing information about scientific research in the areas of genomics, medical research, biotechnology and genetic engineering," according to a press release.\nGallery Director Betsy Stirratt has been working on this exhibit for two years. \n"The exhibit is primarily in response to life sciences," Stirratt said. "Well-known contemporary artists make art related to the sciences."\nOne of the rooms in the exhibit will be dark, featuring an installation piece with live bacteria by Eduardo Kac. \n"He has his own string of live bacteria that can be manipulated by people on the Internet; it is very interactive and I like it a lot," said senior Anthony Bowers, an assistant at the gallery.\nStarting at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Kac will lecture on "Telepresence and Bio Art," followed by a book signing. \nSince the 1980s, there has been a resurgence of artists addressing themes related to nature and science. Artists have also been incorporating concepts and implications of stem cell research and cloning into their work, according to a press release from the SoFA gallery.\n"The paired exhibitions that comprise Human Nature bring together artworks by artists who take it upon themselves to engage with imagery and concepts derived from life sciences research," Jean Robertson, professor of fine arts at the Herron School of Art at IUPUI, said in a press release.\nRobertson further stated that scientists aren't the only specialists who can understand the current issues in the field.\nThe goal of the Human Nature exhibit is to create a forum for understanding through visual means, scientific ideas that directly relate to new political, economic and ethical changes within the world. \nOther artists in the exhibit, include Suzanne Anker, Jaq Chartier, Christa Erickson, Richard Krueger, Susan Robb, Evan Sutton and Elona Van Gent.\nOther lectures will take place throughout the month. On March 1, Barbara Stafford will lecture on "The Return of Grammars of Expression: Schematizing Nature and the Body." \nOn March 8 Eric M. Meslin along with Mark Pescovitz and Richard B. Miller, will present a Public Forum on "Selling it or Giving it Away: A discussion about tissue research, ownership and consent." \nStirratt said she will have to wait until the end of the exhibit's showing, March 9, to decide what her favorite piece is. \n"After two years it is finally happening," she said. "I am happy to have the showing and work with well-respected artists like Eduardo Kac."\nBowers agrees, saying the natural world is incorporated into the exhibits -- his favorite part. \n"People should see it," Bowers said. "There are very well-renowned artists and it is a great opportunity to see art on the edge of what is being made right now and you can see it in Bloomington"
(02/09/07 5:13pm)
On a weekday at 10:45 p.m., freshmen Kelsey Marfilius, Emily Tiemann and Molly Howes sit in the Read Center lounge completing homework and eating McDonald's. \nBut next year, the McDonald's in Read in the southeast neighborhood will no longer be a staple on campus. With its contract ending in May, Residential Programs and Services, along with the meal-plan committee, have decided to find a different option for the location, said Sandra Fowler, director of dining services at RPS.\n"It is just so convenient -- it is downstairs and it is fast," said Howes, a resident at Read. "I mean look, it is right here," she said, motioning to the McDonald's in front of her.\nMarfilius said she would feel different -- literally -- if McDonald's left.\n"When you eat it late night, you put on the pounds," she said. "I would be a happier, lighter person if McDonald's did not exist."\nFowler said there is an ongoing process to figure out what would be the best food choice to replace McDonald's.\n"We have been experimenting with different food items at Read for the past month, and we have surveyed the southeast neighborhood to see what people view as most popular," Fowler said.\nThe survey RPS e-mailed earlier in the week had three food options: a breakfast restaurant called IUHop, similar to IHOP; an Italian restaurant called Pasta Works; and a Mexican restaurant called Ole'.\n"I like the IUHop -- having breakfast anytime would be nice," Tiemann said. "I know that Italian and Mexican food doesn't always sound good to me. I can't imagine anyone wanting Mexican at 10 a.m."\nMarfilius agreed, saying IUHop was the most appealing from the survey she received from RPS via e-mail.\n"I like to have breakfast. If you wake up late, I know I am always up for breakfast," she said. "McDonald's closes their breakfast at a certain time, so I support the decision for McDonald's to leave."\nFowler said meal points will still be accepted at the new venue, and the hours will be similar to McDonald's, which is open until 1 a.m. every day. \n"As long as we can still use meal points, I don't care if McDonald's leaves," freshman Diamond Fowler said.\nSenior Brian Blume lived in Forest Quad his freshman year and said he used to visit McDonald's from time to time. Still, he said, it would be great if McDonald's did leave.\n"Something that is healthier, like Subway, would be great to have there," Blume said. "When I was a freshman it was convenient to go and spend meal points." \nFreshman Briana Tarby said a healthy choice would be a great alternative, but, like most students, she wants to be sure meal points will still be accepted.\n"Sometimes it is difficult to spend meal points, so having an extra option is always helpful," she said. "It is especially nice if you need a late or quick dinner -- it's easy."\nSophomore Ashley Street said she wouldn't mind having a venue similar to IHOP, but she would be mad if another venue, such as the Mexican option, was chosen.\n"You can just go to Foster if you want Mexican food," she said. "If they pick something else, they may as well keep McDonald's."\nRPS's survey is available online at www.rps.indiana.edu/diningsurvey.cfml and will be available until Tuesday, Feb. 13.
(02/09/07 4:39am)
With the smell of freshly cleaned clothes in the air, freshmen Dani Meier and Joshua Garver sit at a table in Teter Quad on Wednesday waiting for their laundry to finish.\n"I don't do my laundry enough," Garver said. "I usually do it once a week."\nThe two friends sit and talk, relieved the day's activities are done, and at 11 p.m. they are waiting for their laundry to finish.\nComing to college requires students to adjust to an independent lifestyle, setting their schedules to have time to do all the necessary chores, including the inevitable and often "boring routine" -- as many students describe it -- of laundry.\nMeier said she does her laundry about every two weeks.\n"In the beginning of last semester, I would do it once a week," Meier said. "But after winter break I washed what I needed and now I am doing my laundry in a mass exodus."\nBut time is an issue for her, too, as she is a music student and is sometimes gone all day from 7:30 a.m. until 6:45 or even 10 p.m.\nGarver has a similar problem.\n"That is why we are here at 11 o'clock at night doing our laundry," Meier said. "It is the one time available during the weekdays, late at night. Wednesday night is when I don't have orchestra and I can get stuff done, like laundry."\nAbout 50,700 loads of laundry are done on campus each month, said Pat Connor, executive director of Residential Programs and Services.\nBehind the detergent, the smells of clean clothes and the Campus Access swipes, ASI Campus Laundry Solutions works to ensure laundry at IU runs smoothly.\nProviding laundry since the mid 1990s, ASI has since installed front-load washers and replaced all other equipment. The new washers are energy-saving, state-of-the-art and high efficiency, said company Vice President Dave Drake. \nDrake said IU's front-load washers, which use about 20 gallons of water per cycle, are more efficient than top-load washers, which use about 35 gallons per cycle.\nThe service technician is on campus twice a week, visiting each of the facilities and inspecting them to make sure all the machines function properly.\nWith 11 residence halls on campus, plus Campus View, Tulip Tree and other University-owned apartments, there are more than 50 locations and 600 washers and dryers.\nASI, which maintenances machines at other schools, including Butler and Ohio State, said most students around the country wash and dry their clothing at the same times during the week.\n"On Mondays and Tuesdays, the machines are hardly used at all. On Wednesday and Thursday, it starts to pick up," he said. "Friday is the busiest day -- Saturday too -- and then Sunday it starts to decline again."\nDrake said students tend to do their laundry in the early afternoon and evening, but on the weekend it is more of a morning chore.\nSophomore Lisa Pairitz does her laundry every week, and now does her laundry on Tuesdays or Thursdays because she only has one class on those days. \n"On the weekend, it is always hard to get a machine," Pairitz said. "The only thing is it's a pain is carrying and bringing everything back and forth. At home I have a laundry chute."\nTeter resident and sophomore Daniel Bennetzen sees the walk to do laundry as long, but it is good exercise, he said.\n"I don't do my laundry as often as I should," Bennetzen said. "I wouldn't have so much laundry if I did it more often."\nCampus Access is how about 80 percent of students pay for laundry, Drake said, although coins are also accepted.\nNo matter how convenient it might be to pay for laundry, students find the process a chore.\n"The process of laundry is so long and you have to run back and forth," Meier said. "I wish there was more stuff to do downstairs while you are waiting for your clothes to get done."\nWith no Internet access or cell-phone reception, Garver called going back up to his room for 20 minutes and then coming back to down to retrieve his laundry "a pain."\nAnd he warns other students that being polite in the laundry room is necessary.\n"In all seriousness, it is really rude to go in and take out other people's laundry," Garver said. "I assume people obviously want their laundry. I think you can wait five minutes and don't go touching it."\nGarver remembers walking in about a minute after his machine finished and saw someone piling his wet clothes on the floor.\n"I was stunned," Garver said.\nMeier agrees that students shouldn't dive in the minute the timer hits zero.\nWhile doing laundry might a hassle, Meier said she does enjoy the smell of fresh clothing.\nGarver, on the other hand, disagrees.\n"There is nothing I find rewarding (about doing laundry)," he said, "except I don't have to wear the same pants for a week"