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The September/October 2009 issue of Indiana Alumni Magazine is hot off the presses! Non-members can view a sample online and IUAA members can read the entire magazine from the comfort of their computer.
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"A Metaphor For A Metaphor"
Now-Sept. 18, Whitewater Hall, 2325 Chester Blvd., IU East, Richmond -- The Indiana University East art gallery will display "A Metaphor For A Metaphor" by Ball State University faculty Scott Anderson, Hannah Barnes and David Hannon. The exhibit will be on display in The Gallery in Whitewater Hall. Anderson has been exhibiting his paintings professionally for the past 25 years in galleries, museums, national and regional juried offerings. He is currently an assistant professor at Ball State where he teaches undergraduate and graduate levels of painting and drawing. Barnes' recent work in painting and drawing explores a range of images and formal qualities relating ornament, decoration and craft to the history of abstract painting. She is currently assistant professor of painting at Ball State. Hannon has taught painting and drawing for the past nine years. Currently, he lives in Muncie, Ind., and teaches painting and drawing full time as an assistant professor of painting at Ball State.
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Every football team has these players
High school football players weighing twice as much as they should? Lean cross country runners dieting to lose a few more pounds in the hope of improving their times? Teens can find themselves struggling with serious weight issues when they see their weight as key to their athletic success. Douglas McKeag, M.D., director of the IU Center for Sports Medicine, says some athletes jeopardize their future health and normal adolescent growth. "There's no easy answer," he says. "Parents have to be good counselors and say, 'This isn't worth it.'"
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A national survey conducted by sociologists from Indiana University and the University of Utah found that 71 percent of respondants agreed that brides should change their names -- and half supported the idea of government regulation requiring such name changes. "If names are a core aspect of our identity, this is important," said Brian Powell, professor of sociology at IU Bloomington.
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Even meager levels of physical activity, such as walking or gardening, can improve the mood of people with serious mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia, suggests a study from Indiana University. "Physical activity interventions that require lower levels of exertion might be more conducive to improving transitory mood, or the ups and downs people with SMI experience throughout the day," said Brian McCormick, associate professor in IU's Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies.
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Drug use by Indiana sixth through 12th graders continues to decline but findings from the 19th Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use by Indiana Children and Adolescents, conducted by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at IU Bloomington, also pointed to an increase in marijuana use.
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Do you need to spice up your kids' packed school lunches? Is the sugar in their snacks making them bonkers? Doctors and a nutritionist from Riley Hospital for Children offer nutritional tips for interesting school lunches, snacks, sugar and healthy eating, in general.
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The medicalization of such mental illnesses as depression and bipolar disorder, which have seen prescription drug advertisements on TV skyrocket since such advertising became permissible in 1997, has done nothing to remove the harmful stigma attached to the illnesses, according to sociologists from Indiana University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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Carol the Coach helps readers tackle low self-esteem with a little mental retraining. "When bad things happen to people with healthy self-esteem," she writes, "they immediately look for ways to combat the situation. They use phrases like, 'I'll get around this.' 'I can do it.' 'This is just a stumbling block.'"
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The Aug. 13, 2009, Active for Life includes back-to-school themed articles about talking with children about Influenza A (H1N1), poor eating habits of college students, talking with incoming freshmen about important sexual health issues, and preparing children with disabilities for their first day of school. Experts discuss using physical activity to age gracefully and new research about how the brain works. Blogger Debby Herbenick writes about the care that should go into saying "No," in an excerpt from her new book, Because it Feels Good.
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