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Kelley grants new LGBTQ award
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By Lexi Haskell ldhaskel@iu.edu | @lexi_haskell
Aaron Malone came out as gay his senior year of college. He graduated from IU in 2013, and is back six years later as a full-time Master of Business Administration student. He says the biggest difference between undergraduate and graduate school is the confidence he feels in himself. “It's more of a 'come as who you are' type of mentality coming back to graduate school,” Malone said. Malone was the first ever recipient of the Out in INformation Technology Scholarship this semester, which was created by IU alumnus Doug Hamilton and his partner Don Vossburg. Hamilton graduated with a Master of Business Administration in 1978. The scholarship is intended for a student involved with the LGBTQ community, with preference given to in-state students studying operations, decision technologies or business analytics. The number of scholarships as well as how much money is given will vary year to year depending on what the scholarship committee decides, Kelley spokesperson George Vlahakis said. Malone said he first heard about the new scholarship last fall. He applied and received the award in December. After he graduated from IU in 2013, Malone worked in sales for a pharmaceutical company and volunteered with the Indiana Youth Group, a center for LGBTQ youth. Malone tutored students in subjects like math and English, looked over resumes and did mock interviews. “I wanted to find a way to give back to those maybe didn't have as easy of a time coming out,” he said. Malone worked for a few years, and returned to IU for an MBA in 2017. Doug Bauder, director of IU’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center, said he did not know about the scholarship before it was announced Jan. 14. However, he said that was a good thing because it meant Kelley put together the scholarship without the help of the LGBTQ+ Culture Center. “It’s one more indication to me that the business world is more queerfriendly than we think,” Bauder said.
Kearns takes on new IU position By Christine Stephenson cistephe@iu.edu | @cistephenson23
The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Health Sciences named a new assistant vice provost for student development, a new position at IU. Katie Kearns, who worked at IU’s Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning for 13 years, will now be helping graduate students develop professionally and connecting them to resources on campus. “There are plenty of research, writing and other resources, but sometimes students have trouble finding them,” she said. “Because they’re not all in the same place.” She will also be working with academic units, student organizations and postdoctoral trainees. One of her main goals, she said, is to help graduate students hone their skills and show how they can find careers outside of higher education. This hits close to home for Kearns because when she was getting her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia, most of her peers were planning to become faculty members, she said. “I want to show students all the careers they can do with their variety of skills,” Kearns said. She said she hopes to organize more panels — specifically with IU alumni — and job fairs to promote non-academic career paths, as well as design programs to focus on student satisfaction and retention. David Daleke, the vice provost for graduate education and health sciences, said he has been working on creating this new position for several years to create more support for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. “Postdocs often fall between the SEE PROVOST, PAGE 8
CHAMPIONS IU Crimson all-girl cheerleading team traveled to Walt Disney World Resorts for UCA College Cheerleading National Championship. The team left with its sixth national title. By Phillip Steinmetz psteinme@iu.edu | @PhillipHoosier
The IU Crimson all-girl cheerleading team was crowned national champions Sunday night at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. IU placed first in the All Girl Division IA at the Universal Cheerleaders Association & Universal Dance Association College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. The competition is tabbed as the most prestigious college cheerleading championship in the country. This year was the 25th anniversary. Last year, the Hoosiers came in fifth place. It was just the second time in seven years the Hoosiers didn’t win the national championship. That loss snapped a two-year title streak. “It’s almost something that we needed because we had a team this year full of hard-working people,” junior Claudia Bradley said. “I think it’s hard because you need to keep that hard-working mentality every year, but how do you keep doing that when
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Top For the third time in four years, the IU Crimson all-girl cheerleading team was crowned national champion Jan. 20. IU also won national championships every year since 2012, excluding 2015. Above The IU Crimson all-girl cheerleading team surrounds its trophy Jan. 20 after winning the national championship. The Hoosiers placed first in the All Girl Division IA at the UCA & UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship.
you haven’t failed? I think we all know what it was like, so in the future we just have to understand how good it felt to get something back and how hard we pushed ourselves to do it.” The teams who placed behind IU this year were San Diego State University,
Florida State University, the University of Oklahoma and the University of South Florida. IU has won national championships several times before in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. “Starting this season, we were really motivated because
last year was so unfortunate, but we had a lot of hardships last year that we had to push back,” Bradley said. “We just talked about if we wanted this really bad, we had to push harder and we were motivated from the beginning to turn ourselves around completely and rise up.”
Aerial silks dance class teaches IU students By Lauren Fischer lfische@iu.edu | @lauren-fischer7
Every Tuesday night, 14 students meet at the Lee Norvelle Theater and Drama Center for their aerial silk dance class, the first of its kind at IU. They spin, climb, grip and flip upside down on the billowing purple silks. Once a week, THTR-D 483: Topics In Dance covers basic aerial silk techniques such as safety, gripping, standing, wrapping and eventually, adding in dance elements. Dancers work with silks and slings, which are large silk loops. Strength, movement and elegance are all part of the new class, senior Marina Bradley said. “Silks are such a circus-y thing, something you never thought you’d be able to do, so it’s whimsical and fun, although it’s very difficult,” Bradley said. “It’s really cool to see what people can do.” Bradley, a dance major, first heard about the class through associate professor Liz Shea, who is the director of contemporary dance. Shea said implementing the class into IU’s curriculum has been in the works for about a year. “This is a skill that’s becoming
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Adjunct professor Juliana Burrell instructs junior Jaylen Ray during class Jan. 22 in the Lee Norvelle Theater. Burrell teaches a course called Aerial Silks Techniques.
a little bit more prevalent in the world of contemporary dance,” Shea said. “We thought it would be a really important skill for some of our dancers to have.” Juliana Burrell, adjunct professor, has taught silks for 25 years. Her goal for the class is to awaken
creativity, passion and a love for learning in a safe way, she said. “Aerials is a very amazing avenue to explore your fears, your strength, your abilities to set goals and reach them,” Burrell said. “The feeling you have when you reach goals is amazing, and before you
know it, you’re setting new goals.” Bradley said the class structure is unlike her traditional dance classes due to the large amount of time to explore. SEE AERIAL, PAGE 8