Daily IU news update
Championship fundraising
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, Feb. 20 -- No one's holding out any inflated expectations about Indiana University's basketball team in the remainder of the season, but here's a consolation prize with more impact: IU ranked ninth in the nation last year in fundraising. It raised $301.1 million, which put it ahead of Yale, UCLA, Duke, Michigan and MIT, among many other prestigious institutions. Purdue was second in Indiana, raising $183.7 million, and Notre Dame was third, with $115.7 million. Full story
Davis: Race wasn't a factor; Black coaches acknowledge it's still an issue but say winning is the bottom line
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 19 --
Mike Davis was emphatic. He insisted that racism had nothing to do with his decision to resign as Indiana University's head basketball coach. "No, no, no. I just think it was a matter of someone being here following coach (Bob) Knight, and now it's time to move on," Davis said Saturday in an exclusive interview with The Indianapolis Star. "It's not about (race). Color doesn't win games. I've been treated nice by a lot of people here. Color doesn't make people treat you nice or bad. I don't think people understand that." That doesn't mean Davis didn't face special challenges as the first black head coach in IU athletics history. Or that racial antagonism, at least to some degree, wasn't part of the withering pressure that finally seemed to wear him down. Full story
IU's Davis has himself to blame
ESPN, Feb. 16 -- Jason Whitlock, a regular columnist for The Kansas City Star, wrote, "There's no reason to tiptoe around it, so I won't. Mike Davis' inevitable demise at Indiana University is not a product of my home state's inherent racism. No way. Indiana University and its fans have treated Mike Davis fairly." Whitlock is an African American and an IU alumnus. Full story
Officials: IU has taken steps to aid minorities
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 19 -- Four years ago, there was a race issue at Indiana University, but it had nothing to do with the basketball team. The IU Black Student Union protested a mural depicting state history that includes an image of the Ku Klux Klan. Created by Thomas Hart Benton for the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, the 12-foot-by-12-foot mural has hung in Woodburn Hall since 1941. At that time, blacks accounted for 3.9 percent of undergraduates and 4 percent of the campus faculty. Last fall, 4.4 percent of undergrads, including 5.9 percent of freshmen, were black. The latter mark is the highest percentage in school history, according to Charlie Nelms, vice president for institutional development and student affairs. The proportion of black faculty, Nelms said, was up to about 5 percent last fall. Full story
Coach's resignation brings relief to his wife; Tamilya Davis: 'It's just like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders'
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 19 -- Tamilya Davis sat back, took a deep breath and smiled. Not the manufactured kind of smile that she had to display when in public with her husband in recent years, but a genuine, straight-from-the-heart smile that seemed to speak a thousand words. The first of those words, in bold type, was simply "relief." Full story
Worriers; IU moves closer to winless Big Ten road schedule
Indiana Daily Student, Feb. 20 -- With Sunday's loss at Illinois, the Hoosiers are just two road games away from a feat that hasn't been accomplished since 1970. If IU loses in the remaining two road contests, it would be the first time since the 1969-70 season the Hoosiers have gone winless on the road in conference play. Full story
Hoosiers still headed in the wrong direction
Bloomington Herald-Times, Feb. 20 -- The needle in Indiana's compass continues to point south today. There was no magic reversal in the Hoosiers' fortunes Sunday. Indiana's 70-58 loss to Illinois left more questions than answers about what has happened since IU beat the then-No. 7 Fighting Illini Jan. 17 in Bloomington, 62-60. Full story
IU's Davis now on easy street
Jeffersonville News-Tribune column, Feb. 19 -- After five-plus seasons in a relative Hades, Mike Davis is living the high life right now. "Sure, he announced on Thursday that he's walking away from coaching at Indiana University at the end of the season, but did you see the sweet deal he got for parting ways?," the column reads. Full story
Alford: the questionable answer for IU; He'd be a great fit for the Hoosiers, but do his pros outweigh his cons?
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Feb. 20 -- Columnist Reggie Hayes writes, "I'm feeling a little lonely out here on Alford Ambivalence Island ... I'm ambivalent about Alford because I believe you can't fully predict how he would perform as Indiana's coach based solely on what he has or has not accomplished at Iowa. But you can't ignore that record in evaluating his coaching skills, either." Full story
College and job creation
Indianapolis Star column, Feb. 19 -- With the states' share of tuition dropping while the overall cost of college keeps rising along with those interest rates, the lucky hires of Sallie Mae in Muncie should not lack for job security, wrote columnist Dan Carpenter. Full story
College paper publishes controversial cartoon; IU experts to hold panel discussion on images Tuesday
Indiana Daily Student, Feb. 20 -- A decision by the University of Illinois student newspaper to print cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad has caused protest from the UI Muslim community and sparked a bitter controversy within the newspaper staff resulting in the temporary suspension of two editors. IU experts will offer their views on the controversial subject Tuesday, as several IU departments are sponsoring a panel discussion about the cartoons at 6 p.m. in Woodburn Hall, room 100. Full story
ACE program seeks funds
Indiana Daily Student, Feb. 20 -- Since its inception in 2000, the Advocates for Community Engagement (ACE) program at IU has become a replicable model for service-learning programs as far away as Ireland and Central Asia and as close as Indiana's Butler University. However, the end of a four-year grant from the Lumina Foundation at the close of this school year has sent the program searching for additional funding. Full story
'Our Town' opera by Ned Rorem to debut at IU; Hoosier's work to be produced elsewhere soon
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 19 -- When "Our Town" opened on Broadway in 1938, playwright Thornton Wilder surprised American theatergoers with innovations including the absence of a set, and a stage manager who spoke to the audience. This week, Hoosiers have a chance to witness the latest twist in the landmark play -- an opera version. Full story
Poetry, dance and dreams for Arts Week
Bloomington Herald-Times, Feb. 19 -- A jazz great. A world premiere opera. Hip-hop poets. A kids' imagined village, called Crestmontville. Antique quilts. Art from 19th-century Bloomington. Dancing. Experience all that and more during ArtsWeek -- 10 days, actually -- a time to marvel at the many cultural offerings this small city supports. Everyone you can think of is aboard, either contributing to the creation of art or providing a location to show it off -- from the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center to the John Waldron Arts Center to IU Opera Theater to the Wells library. "The planning group now is half-campus, half-community," said coordinator Mike Wilkerson. Full story
Ex-student grades 'Knight School;' IU's Leary finds his former coach's show realistic -- except for the lack of profanity
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 20 -- Former Indiana University basketball player Todd Leary said he was surprised, in fact shocked, that his former coach, Bob Knight, would consent to do a reality show in which one walk-on player is selected out of a 33-man tryout at Texas Tech. Yet when Leary sat down at his Carmel mortgage company office to watch a rough-cut screening of the first two episodes of "Knight School," an ESPN series that debuted Sunday night, much of the no-nonsense coach's ad-libbed banter qualified as a trip down memory lane for the former Hoosier. Full story
Friends remember Karl Schuessler's music and humor; A tribute concert is set Monday for clarinetist, IU sociology professor
Bloomington Herald-Times, Feb. 19 -- For years to come, students who walk through the doors of the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research may wonder just who he was. But those who knew and loved Schuessler, who died Dec. 26 at Bloomington Hospital, are determined to keep his memory alive. When Robert Robinson arrived as a new faculty member in the sociology department at Indiana University in 1979, Schuessler was already a legendary figure at the school. "He was the elder statesman of the department," Robinson said. Full story
IPFW engineers growth; Program expects to attract high-tech jobs to area
Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, Feb. 19 -- A collaborative effort involving area defense contractors could help attract engineers to Fort Wayne and advance the careers of those already here. Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne has concluded a year's search and appointed Steven Walter to an endowed chair in its School of Engineering. Walter, who is employed by Northrop Grumman Corp. in its space program, will teach, conduct research, and head the school's new Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering. Full story
IPFW students learn lessons in discrimination from game
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Feb. 20 -- Eight IPFW students got a lesson in discrimination Wednesday when they participated in a game that tested their negotiating skills and their patience. Full story
IU voices in the news:
How the Wealthy Give; List of generous donors in 2005 includes some little-known names
Chronicle of Philanthropy, Feb. 20 -- America's most-generous donors contributed a total of $4.3-billion to charity last year, a sharp drop from 2004, when the top donors gave more than $10-billion, a new Chronicle survey has found. Eugene R. Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, in Indianapolis, said it was not surprising that so few of the country's biggest donors made big gifts to relief efforts. "When people make $5-, $10-, $20-million gifts, they tend to want those gifts to be more permanent," he says. "Disaster relief is for taking care of pain and suffering right now, and the money gets spent. A donor's gift almost evaporates into thin air in front of them because sometimes the need is so large and it's hard to see where $20-million went." Full story
Road work; Use windfall for education, not roads
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 19 --
Philip T. Powell, associate clinical professor of business economics and faculty co-director of the MBA Discovery, Innovation and Ventures Enterprise of the IU Kelley School of Business, wrote that funding from Major Moves should be used to fund education, not new roads. Full story
I-90 en route to be private way; 75-year lease deal of Indiana Toll Road put on the fast track
Chicago Tribune, Feb. 20 -- Road lease agreements certainly are not without risk. "The money's nice, but I don't know whether it's nice enough," said John Mikesell, a professor of finance and public policy at Indiana University. Mikesell has questions about how a private company would manage emergency situations. Full story
Freedom cherished, but it's not safe
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 19 --
Sheila Kennedy, associate professor of law and public policy at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indianapolis, writes about civil liberties and the right to "entertain different ideas or consider evidence inconsistent with our preferred realities." Full story
Always at the side of the dreamer
Bloomington Herald-Times, Feb. 19 -- This guest column about Dr. King was written by A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh of Indiana University. Each worked, on different occasions and locations, for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University and the King Center at Atlanta. Full story
New cookie technology to shield web users from cyber crooks and
Professor tossing 'active cookies' at security threats
New Kerala (India) and Infoworld (Netherlands), Feb. 20 -- An Indiana University scientist has developed a new cookie technology to protect internet users from identity theft and other online threats. Markus Jacobsson, associate professor of informatics and associate director of the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, is promoting the new security technique through a newly formed company called RavenWhite that he founded with Ari Juels, manager and principal research scientist at RSA Laboratories. Full story1
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Interest in speaking Chinese on the rise
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Muncie Star-Press article), Feb. 19 -- The hottest new export out of China these days? Its language. Nationwide, experts say there's been an unprecedented increase in the number of students studying Chinese at the college level. Of the East Asian languages, Japanese is now taught more at American schools, but that too is likely to change as the emphasis on China grows, predicts Indiana University's Robert Eno, chairman of the university's East Asian Languages & Cultures department. Eno said interest in Chinese is also up slightly at IU, where students wanting to take a first-year course in Chinese are added to a waiting list already numbering about 80 students. Based on interest in the language, Eno said the university would consider hiring additional professors for the department. Full story
China's consumer communism
Daily Journal (Caracas, Venezuela), Feb. 20 -- Column by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, who directs the East Asian Studies Center at IU and teaches at the University of California, Irvine, writes about dramatic changes in China since the mid-1980's. "It's not just the increase in the number of freeways, billboards, and skyscrapers that disorient long-time visitors. Even a visit to a bookstore can shock anyone who first came to know China decades ago, when it seemed inconceivable that works by non-Marxist theorists would ever outnumber those by Marxists," he wrote. Full story
IU student blogs her way to political forefront; Web site draws thousands of visitors from around the world; one cartoon grabbed media attention
Bloomington Herald-Times, Feb. 18 -- IU sophomore Hoda Marafie started a blog a year ago so she'd have a place for her political cartoons. She didn't expect them to catch so much attention hundreds of miles away in her home country of Kuwait. Now, nearly a year later, she has thousands of visitors to her blog, which features political cartoons, movie reviews and a personal list of "101 Things About Me." Full story
Clothing with a message is gold for four IU grads; Coexist logo shows up on celebrities, TV shows
Bloomington Herald-Times, Feb. 20 -- It was a year ago that four Indiana University graduates launched their clothing line, Coexist, a wish expressed as a word spelled with symbols that include an Islamic crescent, the Star of David and a Christian cross. Coexist was founded by Kyle Boyd, Mike Irving, Joe Sadler and Chris Tierney, who met as IU students. Launched last February, the T-shirts have been seen on celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Ashton Kutcher. Slowly the public and the media started to embrace the line, and it helped when U2 and Bono incorporated the name into their world tour. Full story
Subdivisions lay down the law; Homeowners who violate covenants can face legal action
Indianapolis Star, Feb. 20 -- Modern real estate covenants are more concerned with protecting the appearance of a subdivision than keeping people out, said Lloyd T. Wilson, an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis. "If we have homeowners associations, we know what is prohibited, and that allows people buying homes to rely on knowing what will be coming in the neighborhood later," said Wilson, whose areas of expertise include real estate law. Full story
Black hall of fame plans induction event
Youngstown (Ohio) Vidicator, Feb. 20 --
Colette Marie Jenkins Parker, an IU alumnus and the religion writer for the Akron Beacon Journal, will be honored at the 21st annual Trumbull County African-American Achievers Association Hall of Fame inductee dinner. She has received the 1994 Pulitzer Gold Metal for Meritorious Public Service as one of two writers for a series on race relations. Full story
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Bush Administration's Science Policy Comes Under Attack at Conference
The Bush administration's policy on a variety of scientific issues was attacked by prominent scientists once again this past weekend at one of the most prestigious forums in science: the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which ends today in St. Louis. Full story
Administrators' Pay Rises 3.5%, Beating Inflation for the 9th Consecutive Year
The median salaries of college administrators increased by 3.5 percent in 2005, according to the annual survey of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. The increase was slightly higher than in 2004, when median salaries increased 3.3 percent. Full story
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