Calendar Girl What better
way to market a healthy lifestyle than by putting together a campus calendar
with “pin-ups” of faculty and staff? That’s what IU Bloomington’s Recreational Sports does, and this month Mercy Edwards, a purchasing expeditor at
the IUB Physical Plant, kicks off the academic year as the September subject. Edwards got involved with water aerobics as
therapy following surgery. IUB faculty and staff will have the chance to jump-start the year when the Step Into Fitness Road
Show comes to a building near you with free pedometers and step-tracker sheets.
Today's Feature
LAMP combines well-roundedness with realities of job market
Pursuing a liberal arts degree can seem risky in today’s economy. Is there still a place for English majors in this high-tech world? IU historian Jim Madison, director of the Liberal Arts Management Program, has a few things to say, including an “infamous line” about the importance of study abroad. LAMPERs (above) pose in front of China’s Great Wall.
Related reading: “The Interdisciplinary Highway” in The College
Additional top stories
- Jacobs School upcoming performances
- IPFW Omnibus Lectures
- IU High School adds AP courses
- New OneStart scheduled for end of month
Enrollment second highest in IU history
The figures are in for fall semester.
Celebrate IU Week Oct. 13-21
IU Home Pages has gone “treeless” this year, but a special newsprint edition, showcasing all the activities planned for Celebrate IU Week—including the inauguration of IU President Michael Robbie—will be published Sept. 21.
Journeys old and new
IU President Michael McRobbie took part in the induction of the IU Bloomington Class of 2011 Aug. 22, comparing the rite of passage on which the new students were about to embark to that of Telemachus, the young prince who sets out from home to “win his own renown in the world,” encouraged by the goddess Athena disguised as Mentor. Read McRobbie’s remarks online.Show me your business plan!
IU East wanted to fan the flames of the entrepreneurial spirit, so they invited high schoolers from eight counties to come to campus and learn how to channel creativity into sound business plans. Read about what they came up with.We’re Number Two
An Indianapolis 5K this month will raise funds for lung cancer research. The Hoosier state remains second in the nation in consumption of tobacco products.Hot ChaCha
IU and ChaCha, an Indiana company that is creating a new and more focused way of providing Internet searches, have struck up a partnership, one that IU President Michael McRobbie intends to make with other Hoosier firms toward promoting economic and technological growth. (ChaCha comes from “cha,” the Chinese word for “search.”)
Mixing media
What images are evoked when a poet looks at a painting? A new exhibition at the Herron School features the paintings and the works of poets after viewing them.
Read, too, a Q&A with IU South Bend poet Nancy Botkin.
