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The Light Totem, the tall, iconic light tower created by IU Professor of Lighting Design Robert Shakespeare, was reinstalled on the lawn of the IU Art Museum May 12. The official relighting of Light Totem will take place June 21 at the museum’s annual Midsummer Night at the Art Museum event.

Light Totem reinstalled at Art Museum CATHERINE HUYNH cathuynh@indiana.edu @cathuynh

After nearly a year-long hiatus, a long-standing tradition returned to campus Monday. The iconic Light Totem, created by IU professor and professional lighting designer Robert Shakespeare, was reinstalled in front of the IU Art Museum. During summer orientation, new students receive a copy of the IU bucket list. Many new students were denied a popular bucket list item that reads: “At night, lay on the ground and watch the lights change on the side of the IU Art Museum,” as the Light Totem was taken down earlier in the year. Sophomore Ashton Moody said she was upset she wasn’t able to participate in

the IU tradition as a freshman. “At orientation, I remember the Totem being mentioned in videos about the unique traditions of IU but never could find it since it was taken down before we actually moved in,” Moody said. Linda Baden, project curator at the IU Art Museum, said the Light Totem was originally created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Art Museum’s I.M. Pei building in 2006. Baden said she recalled how the museum building was very dark at night. The museum wanted a presence on campus, even when it was closed., she said. “It was intended to be a very temporary display, only three months long, but the great popularity of the piece led to the IU Trustees making it a permanent fixture in 2010,” Baden said in an email.

Because it was meant as a temporary installation, the IU Art Museum had to do annual inspections of the tower. They found that it was time to replace the structure with a new one. “We did not expect that it would be so popular with students, and we are thrilled that it is,” Baden said. “Rob Shakespeare, however, knew that people are drawn to light, and he was confident that the Totem would become a gathering place for folks on campus at night. “We just never expected it would become the campus icon that it is.” After taking down the Light Totem, the museum saw that the community missed it. Rita Grunwald, a donor with a long work history at the School of Fine Arts, said she

loved the iconic piece. That was why she gave the museum the money to replace the structure. The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President then contributed the remaining funds to reinstall the Totem. Although recently reinstalled, the Light Totem will not have the full lights displayed until the official relighting ceremony at 9:15 p.m. June 21. The ceremony will include music by the Dynamics, art and crafts activities, selfguided tours of the museum galleries, food vendors and refreshments. The ceremony is open to the public. Sarah Ditlinger, former IU Art Museum marketing and communications intern, said the official relighting date will

also be when the museum celebrates it’s annual Midsummer Night. “This celebrates the shortest night of the year for the summer solstice,” Dillinger said. “But this year there will be that added excitement with the Totem being lit back up again.” Returning students and alumni have expressed they are looking forward to seeing the Light Totem when they return for the fall school year. “My friends and I definitely plan on seeing the Light Totem once it’s back,” Moody said. “We really want to complete all the different IU activities on the IU bucket list before we graduate.”

No. 9 IU clubs No. 10 Louisville 7-2 Asian immigrants experience discrimination BY EVAN HOOPFER ehoopfer@indiana.edu @EvanHoopfer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Several players said it was the longest home run they’ve ever seen. “We were all speechless,” relief pitcher Luke Harrison said. “I’ve never seen a ball hit that far. Ever.” Junior preseason AllAmerican catcher Kyle Schwarber drilled a home run over the center field wall against Louisville in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday. The three-run shot sealed No. 9 IU’s 7-2 victory against the No. 10 Louisville Cardinals and left his teammates in awe. “It’s just like any other home run,” Schwarber said. “This time it just went really far.” With the Hoosiers leading 4-2 in the top of the ninth, Schwarber stepped up to bat with runners on first and second. On a 2-1 count, Schwarber drilled the pitch to deep center field. “I knew it was gone,” IU Coach Tracy Smith said. The ball not only carried the wall in center field, which is 402 feet from home plate, but it also cleared the approximately 50-foot tall batter’s eye. As Schwarber rounded third, Smith, who is also the

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Then-sophomore outfielder Will Nolden bumps fists with then-sophomore outfielder Kyle Schwarber during IU’s 8-1 win against Indiana State on April 24, 2013, at Bart Kaufman Field.

third base coach, told him, “Hell yes, Kyle.” The blast put IU up 7-2, which would be the final score. Schwarber said this was either the farthest or second farthest ball he’s ever hit. He said when the ball came off his bat, he knew it was gone. “I’ve watched a lot of baseball in my life,” Smith said. “And you won’t see too many like that. It’s fun when you see one of the best power hitters in the country show why he’s one of the best power hitters in the country.”

With the victory, IU swept the season series from the Cardinals three games to none. In the three games, the Hoosiers beat the Cardinals by a combined score of 22-7. Both IU and Louisville are ranked in the top 15 in most of the national polls, so the game was of great importance for the Hoosiers in trying to secure a national seed come postseason time, the players said. IU and Louisville are two of the best teams from the North, and Smith credits Cardinals Coach Dan McDonnell for making college

baseball in the north relevant. Most of the country’s powerhouse programs come from the South where the weather is more conducive to playing year round. The announced crowd was 2,433 people in Jim Patterson Stadium, with a good portion of the crowd donning cream and crimson. Several of the players said Louisville was one of their biggest rivals, and they always enjoy playing the CarSEE BASEBALL, PAGE 6

She still remembers the day she got into Berkeley three years ago. She’d been rushing to and from the mailbox each day, consumed with trepidation and anxiety. She had opened each admission letter with trembling fingers and bated breath. When Dohkyung Kim got the letter from Berkeley, she didn’t celebrate. She didn’t flounce about emitting a highpitched squeal of excitement. The university had not offered her funding of any kind, and there was no way her parents could pay for the high costs — not when she was an international student ineligible for student loans or financial aid. Kim’s most cherished dreams slipped away in an empty envelope. *** Assistant professor of history Ellen Wu said America is often conceptualized as a melting pot and a nation of immigrants, but both histori-

cal and current immigration policies have proven this to be false. “America likes to tell itself that it stands for freedom, democracy and tolerance, but the real story is much more one of white supremacy, exclusion, imperial domination and slavery,” Wu said. “The impetus for regulating Asian immigration came out of the desire of Americans to exclude people from Asia altogether — to bar them from entry, bar them from citizenship and meaningful participation in the U.S.” An examination of the lives of Asian immigrants in Bloomington challenges the concept of universal equality in America. Students Dohkyung Kim and Lynn Zhang, along with business-owner Kyungsil Choi, have each discovered they are not privy to the same opportunities as Americans because of their race and lack of American citizenship. Under U.S. immigration policy, junior Dohkyung Kim is classified as a non-immigrant visa-holder despite SEE IMMIGRANTS, PAGE 6


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