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Wayfinder System helps visitors navigate city

By Lindsey Jancek and Lindsay Jancek · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:26 a.m.

Colors are changing in Bloomington, and it has nothing to do with the time of year. Brightly hued signs have popped up in various parts of the city, with arrows pointing visitors toward major city venues. Part of the cultural tourism project, the new Wayfinder System is designed to help give directions to major attractions and destinations in the area, said Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez.

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:21 a.m.

IUAA finds buyer for camp The IU Alumni Association has auctioned off its Shawnee Bluffs alumni camp. Jarvis Enterprises LLC of Franklin bought the property for $1.85 million. The property has almost 164 acres, a two-story lodge and 26 primitive cabins and is located on the shore of Lake Monroe. The transaction will be closed Oct. 24.

Conference to examine faith-based initiatives

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:18 a.m.

The Bush administration has taken several steps to make it easier for religious groups to receive federal funding for a variety of social welfare programs. A conference at IU this weekend will examine how well providers of social services are evaluated and what may account for any differences in the outcomes they achieve.

Professors to be awarded for service

By Dana Sands · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:17 a.m.

Students come from all over to learn from professors who see teaching as their ultimate passion. They try to involve students in intriguing and profound discussions related to their specific areas of study. Without dedicated professors, learning wouldn't be as much fun for students. That's why the University awards such professors each year for their teaching and research skills.

Students to dine with chancellor

By Chris Sommerfeld · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:15 a.m.

IU-Bloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm knows that with more than 29,000 undergraduate students on campus, the concerns of the individual student can seem pretty distant from the administration.

'Conversations on Race' begins Monday

By -Kehla West · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:14 a.m.

Race isn't easy to talk about. But Conversations on Race, which starts next week and lasts five weeks, aims to make talking about a touchy subject a little easier.

New book, new look at anorexia

By Jeanine Murray · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:13 a.m.

Through 14 months of clinical research, Professor Helen Gremillion proposes a new argument against traditional treatments for anorexia. Gremillion's new book, Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center, uncovers the reality that treatments may actually emphasize the problem, rather than cure it.

Auction to benefit construction of Jill's House

By Lee Cleary · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:08 a.m.

The Bloomington Board of Realtors will hold an auction to benefit the construction of Jill's House, a recovery facility for patients of the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute, at noon this Saturday, Oct. 4. The auction will begin after the completion of the Jill Behrman Run for the End Zone, the annual run held to raise funds for Jill's House and the Jill Behrman Scholarship Fund.

Are you in, or are you knocking?

By Patrice Worthy and Patricia Worthy · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:07 a.m.

Fashion is a tricky industry to break into. It is considered to be one of the most difficult industries to break into along with music and acting. The fashion industry is full of hungry young people with experience and dedication who work hard. There are also people trying to get into the fashion industry with little to no knowledge of fashion, but they are easy to surpass. Success in any field depends on drive with tact.

Guitarist visits Waldron center

By Josh Millrod · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:05 a.m.

Close your eyes. The steep mountain path below your feet climbs toward the sky. Suddenly, you are walking under the hot sun in a small forgotten village. Then, you are staring up into the starry sky on a warm summer night. Every strum and pluck of Paul Vondiziano's guitar evokes a different fresco, a different village, a different verdant landscape. Vondiziano, born in Lamaca, Cyprus, began studying the guitar at the age of eight.

Web site helps business-starved artists

By Alyson Brodsy and Joann Loviglio · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:04 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- You can be an artist without starving. That's essentially the message of a new Web site unveiled this week that aims to help painters, sculptors, designers and artists of all disciplines become more business savvy.

Lecture discusses 'Shroud of Turin'

By -Jenny Kobiela · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:04 a.m.

It's a shroud shrouded in mystery. A lecture Thursday discussed the image of the crucified Jesus Christ on a "shroud" burial cloth. The talk, given by IU alumni Professor John Beldon Scott from the University of Iowa, was titled "The Shroud of Turin as a Work of Art." The actual shroud, said to depict the body of Jesus, is housed in Turin, Italy. Most years the Archdiocese of Turin doesn't even put it on display. Last time it came out the pope attended.

IU Art Museum features 2 photographers' visions

By -Jenny Kobiela · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1:02 a.m.

Scenes from all parts of the world are the focus of two photography exhibits currently being displayed at the IU Art Museum. "Nara: Japan's Ancient Capital," featuring photographs by late Japanese photographer Taikichi Irie, and "One Man's Vision," an exhibition of photos by former IU Art Museum director Thomas T. Solley, open Saturday in Bloomington.

Opera successfully combines music, drama

By Adam Sedia · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 1 a.m.

Those who missed "Abduction from the Seraglio" last weekend must surely see it this weekend. This Mozart opera (actually a "Singspiel") is opening the IU Opera Theater's 2003-2004 season with kicks, giggles and a dash of eastern spices. But it was the performance of the opera that made it such a memorable piece. First of all, although many people probably scoff at performing the opera in English instead of its original German, the use of English actually intensified the intimacy with the audience. Singing and speaking in the native language of the performers gave them much comfort with their lines as was obvious from their facile interpretation. Much of the action in the play reached the audience quicker, especially the spoken stage action, because the audience did not have to read the supertitles for a translation.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 3,2003 12:50 a.m.

The current rate of paper consumption in the U.S. is the sole cause of the untimely deaths of 2.5 billion trees every year. According to recent statistics, an average person in the U.S. uses 375 kg of paper made from nine trees every year and the numbers continue to increase. Since the consumption of a University student is higher than that of the average American, we in our student stage of life are contributing to the logging of more trees every year than we can ever aspire to replace. The rapid pace at which forests are undergoing metamorphoses from oxygen producers to paper mill polluters is appalling: 80 percent of the world's original forests have already disappeared and 95 percent of the old growth forests in the U.S. are lost forever. Half of the trees lost in North America owe their hastily terminated lives to paper making.

El Greco retrospective opens at Met

By Alyson Brodsy and Deepti Hajela · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:52 a.m.

NEW YORK -- "El Greco," the first American retrospective on the famous painter in more than 20 years, opens at the Met Tuesday and runs through Jan. 11.

Dance to benefit bookstore

By Jenica Schultz · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:52 a.m.

"Dress to impress in your best country duds!" reads Boxcar Books' invitation for its first annual Homecoming Hoedown fund-raiser, which will take place at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Harmony School Gym, 909 E. 2nd St.

'Worlds Apart' hits home

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:52 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The Russell family likes comfort: their three-bedroom, three-bathroom suburban home in Birmingham, Ala.; a packed refrigerator with an automatic ice machine; central air conditioning, and, when mom doesn't feel like cooking, fast food restaurants.

Hoosier choreographer brings troupe to IU

By Jessica Moskal · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:51 a.m.

Where in Bloomington can you see world-famous choreography, awe-inspiring dancers and the chance to be rendered breathless … all on a Thursday evening?

The force is with them

By Daniel Castro · Thursday, Oct. 2,2003 2:50 a.m.

In the summer of 1977, George Lucas shook the lives of science fiction fans for generations to come with the release of "Star Wars." Those yearning for an outer space free of Klingons and William Shatner, those who were waiting for their fantasies to appear on a blank silver screen, became "Star Wars" fans.