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IU plan open for public input
ELECTIONS 2014
By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
IU students, faculty and staff can expect big changes on campus throughout the next five years. In his State of the University address Tuesday, President Michael McRobbie announced the Bicentennial Strategic Plan for IU. The plan is a blueprint outlining a set of initiatives meant to carry IU past its bicentennial, which IU will celebrate during the 2019-2020 academic year, and into its third century. The 41-page rough draft is currently open for public comment and will remain open for comment until Nov. 22. A final draft is then expected to go to the IU Board of Trustees for approval during its December meeting. Here’s a breakdown of the most important aspects of the plan. Foundation In last year’s State of the University speech, McRobbie directed all IU campuses to develop individual strategic plans for the next five years. The Bicentennial Strategic Plan integrates these individual strategic plans, as well as the New Academic Directions Report, the Blueprint for Student Attainment, the IU International Strategic Plan and IT strategic plans into a single strategic plan. The plan proposes seven bicentennial priorities, falling under six Principles of Excellence that address education, faculty, research, global reach, health sciences and health care, engagement and economic development. “Each campus and unit strategic plan and annual budget must advance these priorities to the extent and in the manner consistent with their respective missions,” McRobbie said. To aid the campus and unit in doing so, the plan offers four Frameworks of Excellence that outline the finances, infrastructure, information dissemination and other resources necessary to achieve these six Principles of Excellence.
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Jim and Marge Faber, pictured here in their home, have worked at the polls during past elections.
Facilitating democracy Older generations continue to support voting process in Bloomington By Ike Hajinazarian ihajinaz@indiana.edu | @_IkeHaji
Among other things, it was frustration about the “way that things were functioning” when she went to vote that made Marge Faber, 81, want to work the polls. So, in the late 1990s, once Marge had retired from her job as a school social worker, both she and her husband Jim, 83, decided to do their part in the voting process and help out where help was needed. Some elections, like the last two presidential elections, were a “horrendous” amount of work, Marge said. “The (midterm) ones — you can spend all day and get maybe 25 people,” Marge said. “Some of the precincts got none.” An overwhelming majority of people — more than 90 percent of the estimated 245 total
workers — working elections polls in Monroe County are older than 55 years old, County Clerk Linda Robbins said. This includes the Fabers. Robbins said the clerk’s office is working to recruit more young people to work at the polls. Kate Cruikshank is a member of the League of Women Voters of Bloomington and Monroe County and is its Voter Service chairperson. In 2007, someone came to the League talking about problems with recruiting and training the people necessary to work the Election Day polls. Cruikshank took it upon herself to do some investigating. “I went through training, and training consisted of almost nothing,” Cruikshank said. After eight hours of training sessions, she was directed to a tutorial video online. She watched
it five times before she was ready to work the machines. “I thought, ‘Well, I was a complete idiot when I went into this, so I’m going to write instructions for the complete idiot,’” she said. “So I did.” The voting process, though, has changed substantially since Cruikshank decided to write her manual. In 2011, Monroe County became the first county in Indiana to start utilizing a new paper ballot, the optical scanning system, Robbins said. In this system, voters fill out a paper ballot and then enter it into a machine that reads it. This way, paper backups are always still available. Prior to this new system, the machines used paper ballots that were rotated with a crank, with the user pulling down levers to indicate voting choices. After that, touch-screen
machines were used. It was after these touch screens that the optical scanning system was put in place, making for a more verifiable method. These machines are overseen at the polls by workers known as judges. The judges also explained the machines to voters. Judges work alongside clerks and inspectors at polling stations. Clerks check to see if people are registered and check their voter ID. Inspectors are in charge of the whole operation. For bigger and busier elections, like presidential general elections, assistant clerks and “sheriffs,” people who keep order at the polling location, may be brought in. At each polling location, there are clerks and judges from both the Democratic and Republican SEE POLLING, PAGE 6
Education The education portion of the plan outlines a strategy for decreasing student costs, increasing SEE STRATEGIC PLAN, PAGE 6
FOOTBALL
Coleman named to Maxwell Award list From IDS Reports
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CAMPUS GETS NEARLY NAKED, PAGE 2 Caleb Marshall, IU Recreational Sports instructor, dances in front of a crowd of students before the Nearly Naked Mile run Wednesday in Dunn Meadow.
IU junior running back Tevin Coleman was added to the watch list for the Maxwell Award, which goes to the nation’s best college football player. Coleman was among 10 players who were added to the award watch list Wednesday as a result of “their noteworthy play” during the season, the Maxwell Award representatives said in a press release. Coleman leads the nation in rushing yards (1,060), rush yards per game (176.7) and all-purpose yards (1,194). He’s the 13th different Big Ten player to be named to the award watch list. He joins the likes of Nebraska senior running back Ameer Abdullah and Wisconsin junior SEE COLEMAN, PAGE 6
Spelling error discovered on Pyle sculpture By Allison Graham akgraham@indiana.edu | @allisongraham218
Media School administrators were made aware Wednesday morning of a misspelling emblazoned on the new bronze sculpture of famed WWII reporter Ernie Pyle. The word “correspondent,” as seen on a patch on the left shoulder of the bronze sculpture, is incorrectly spelled. It currently reads “U.S. War Corespondent.” The error went undetected for almost a week until an IU alumnus visiting campus noticed the misspelling upon inspecting the sculpture and
informed administrators. Sculptor Tuck Langland, the artist behind the new installation, said there are several options to remedy the mistake. Option No. 1: The misspelling could be left on the sculpture, Langland said in an email. “The misspelling would become part of the lore of the piece,” he said. But that doesn’t seem to be the route IU officials and Langland will opt to take. “It’s a minor mistake on an otherwise wonderful piece of art that aptly SEE PYLE, PAGE 6
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The Ernie Pyle sculpture in front of Franklin Hall has a misspelling on the badge on the left shoulder, where it reads “corespondent” instead of “correspondent.”