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Hutton plans origami event for students Hutton Honors College will collaborate with the Asian Culture Center today to lead an oragami workshop, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. Supplies will be provided and students
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will receive hands-on origami training as a part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The event will take place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today in the Hutton Great Room.
ISA plans charity event to benefit children BY SUZANNE GROSSMAN spgrossm@indiana.edu @suzannepaige6
Thanks in part to an IU student group, more than 800 girls in an Indian children’s shelter will receive education, medical assistance and employment. The IU Indian Student Association played host to Aasha: A Night for the Children to raise money for the Aarushi-Shelter Home for Girls, which is home to 886 girls. Students filled the Indiana Memorial Union’s Frangipani room Saturday for the event. “We’re a large group with over 250 members,” ISA event planning chair Tankua Raj said. “That gives us power to do something good.” After building relationships with Children’s Hope India during the course of the year, Raj said the ISA felt the connection was strong enough to devote the evening to one of the girls’ houses they benefit. “All the money is going to the girls’ shelter,” Raj said. “Most of us are Indian, and this is something we’re passionate about. A lot of children, especially females, aren’t educated, and we feel this inhibits them from growing as individuals and fighting for their rights.” ISA President Divya Chauhan said the group focused on this particular philanthropy because of its emphasis on education and its importance to college students. “Everyone at this University can understand the importance of education,” Chauhan said. “When you’re in a university receiving and enriching education, volunteering is a way you can learn and do not just for yourself, but for other people.” The ISA board made the event formal and asked attendees to adhere to this standard of dress. “Sometimes college students like to get dressed up,” Chauhan said. “Also, I think a lot of our events are associated with Indian attire, and this reminds us
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Nicole Martins reconnects with her children, Elliot, 3, and Owen, 5, after participating in the FTK5K Saturday morning. Martins, a telecommunications professor, was recently appointed the position of faculty advisor for IU Dance Marathon. She has been involved with the organization since 2009. Her son Owen is a Riley kid.
Students fund low-barrier shelter BY GRACE PALMIERI gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri
Clusters of IU social work students sat around the house at 1127 E. Atwater St., working on projects and studying for end-of-the-year tests Sunday afternoon. They were participating in the Social Work Student Association’s annual Studya-thon to raise money and awareness for the Ubuntu homeless shelter in Bloomington. Ubuntu is what the Association is hoping will become the first year-round, low-barrier homeless shelter in Bloomington. Currently, such shelters are rare and close after winter. The SWSA is working with Ubuntu, a coalition of students and others in the community — some with jobs and some without — to start a low-barrier shelter for the homeless during the summer months.
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“Hopefully it eventually transitions to year-round, but we have to focus on immediate aid right now,”social work student Stephanie Waller said. “Since April 1, when Interfaith Winter Shelter closed, there isn’t a homeless shelter, so people are sleeping wherever they can sleep, and it’s not a good situation.” From April through November, there are no lowbarrier shelters for people experiencing homelessness in the Bloomington community, Waller said. Waller said although they can’t raise enough money to buy a building, they are doing as much as they can. She said they are looking into getting waterproof sleeping bags. Aside from raising money and collecting monetary donations, many have donated other supplies and clothing. Students raised money through pledges
their friends and family members sponsored — they would pledge a certain amount of money for every hour the student studied. “We just got involved in it because we happened to be social work students (who cared) when not a lot of people initially cared about what was happening,” social work student Sarah Dora said. About a year and a half ago, a graduate from the School of Social Work started the Ubuntu project. Throughout the past couple years, students began to advocate for the cause and raise awareness for it. The charity that receives the Study-a-thon funds changes from year to year. With their involvement in the Ubuntu shelter growing, the SWSA thought it was the perfect cause for this year’s event. “We had planned to do it earlier, and then when
students really started getting involved and invested in shelters and people who are homeless, we just thought that would be a natural tiein to have it now,” said Bruce McCallister, SWSA adviser and lecturer in the School of Social Work. About 25 students were in and out of the study session, which lasted from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Several local businesses, such as Orange Leaf, Noodles and Co., Chipotle, Pizza Hut and Starbucks, donated food to the event. Social work student Madinah Luqmaan said any leftovers would go to people in the community who needed it. Junior Megan Potter said this cause ties into the larger mission of the school. “One of our values is social justice, and we believe as a whole that the lack of summer shelter for the homeless people in the community that we live in
is an injustice to them,” she said. “The fact that there are so many barriers to prevent that from happening is disheartening and goes against a lot of our core values.” Potter said so many homeless people here are unable to prove they are citizens of Monroe County. Building a low-barrier shelter would eliminate that problem and several others. The shelter would benefit more than 60 people who need a place to sleep at night. McCallister said talking about an issue is one thing, but it’s another to actually make a change. “To be around this enthusiasm and the sense that they can accomplish things, it’s just really refreshing to be around that sense of optimism,” he said. “The idea that you can’t just complain about something but you can actually go out and try to do something about it.”
GSA organizes Diversity Ball BY SUZANNE GROSSMAN spgrossm@indiana.edu @suzannepaige6
IU’s Gay-Straight Alliance’s Diversity Ball brought together campus groups and individuals who value inclusiveness Sunday. “I see IU as having several communities that operate very autonomously,” said Anne Tinder, GSA Vice
President of Communications. “I think events like this, where everyone is invited and focusing on not discounting anyone, is really important in the long run for IU.” GSA’s goals for the event were to bring together people with like-minded missions to build relationships SEE DIVERSITY, PAGE 3
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Members of Midnight Snapes race to get the Quaffle during IU’s first Quidditch Tournament at Woodlawn Field. Midnight Snapes won the tournament, which was run by Campus Recreational Sports.
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