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"The smallest feline is a masterpiece," wrote Leonardo da Vinci. The biggest cats are, too. That's why the Exotic Feline Rescue Center near Terre Haute, Ind., was founded by Joe Taft, who moved there in 1991 with three big cats: a leopard named Kiki, and a couple of badly abused tigers, BC and Molly. A new collection of photographs taken by Stephen McCloud and published in a new book, Saving the Big Cats: The Exotic Feline Rescue Center, by Indiana University Press is a tribute to Taft's rescue work. McCloud began photographing the big cats, who number has grown to more than 170, in 2001. Read more about this book and others at the Indiana University Press Web site http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/ and for more about the Exotic Feline Rescue Center, go to http://www.exoticfelinerescuecenter.org/animals.html
Pride. Spirit. Tradition. That's what IUPUI is made of. IUPUI has grown from humble beginnings to a major urban campus. In 1891, a number of college graduates living in Indianapolis issued an invitation to the IU campus in Bloomington to send a professor to teach a class in economics. Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks traveled to Indy once a week for about one dozen Friday evening lectures. For those students wanting class credit, there also was a required quiz and a discussion session. Over the next few years, a number of offices and meeting rooms throughout the city served as classrooms, including the building at 902 North Meridian St., which was purchased by Purdue in 1943 for the extension programs it began in 1940. IU and Purdue merged their various programs in 1969 and located them on a single site near the IU Medical Center. Today, IUPUI has nearly 30,000 students and more than 7,000 full- and part-time faculty and staff. That's the short version of the success story that is IUPUI. For more on the history, the spirit and the traditions that comprise "one dynamic campus," go to the new Web site at http://www.iupui.edu/spirit/pride/. Be sure to visit the page on Tradition to learn about the best hangouts on campus, the two-story outhouse and the plague cemetery.
Indiana University's home of great theatre is on the stages of the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center. The schedule for the 2006-07 theatre season has just been released and season tickets can now be ordered. The stage of the center's Ruth N. Halls Theatre will be home to performances of The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter; The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare; and Nine, conceived and originally written by Mario Fratti as a version of Fellini's 8 1/2 with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. On the Wells-Metz Theatre stage will be Urinetown, The Musical, with music and lyrics by Mark Hollman and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis; Reel by Paul Shoulberg; Side Man by Warren Leight; and Big Love by Charles Mee. For more information about these plays and also how to order tickets, go to www.theatre.indiana.edu
Kelvin Sampson is named IU men's basketball coach. As the 2005-06 collegiate basketball season came to an end in Indianapolis with the NCAA Final Four, IU Bloomington focused on 2006-07 as it named its new head men's basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, formerly of the University of Oklahoma. A press conference to announce the appointment was held in Assembly Hall on March 22. You can see the video at http://broadcast.iu.edu/ or visit the official site of IU Athletics at http://iuhoosiers.collegesports.com/ for more on Coach Sampson.
And while you're at http://iuhoosiers.collegesports.com , click on the link to Camps & Clinics for a run down on summer sports programs for kids. IU coaches offer camps and clinics in most Big Ten sports, and the opportunity for kids to learn the techniques that IU athletes utilize. Camp and clinic information, as well as brochures for these activities, can be found at http://iuhoosiers.collegesports.com/camps/ind-camps.html
