Media School dean search narrows to 3 finalists By Kathrine Schulze schulzek@indiana.edu | @kas_schulze
The finalists for the founding deanship at the IU Media School were announced to faculty Thursday evening. In coming weeks, Oct. 30 through Nov. 3, each of the three finalists will arrive on the IU-Bloomington campus and host forums open to faculty and staff. The list of finalists, along with each of their curriculum vitaes,
were provided to Media School faculty for review Thursday evening and obtained by the Indiana Daily Student. The inception of the Media School was announced in February 2013 by IU-Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel during the annual State of the Campus address. The move combined the School of Journalism and the departments of telecommunications and communication and culture. This school is part
of the College of Arts and Sciences. The Media School, which will be housed in Franklin Hall, came into existence July 1 and was formally inaugurated Oct. 17. James Shanahan James Shanahan currently serves as the associate dean of the College of Communication for Boston University. BU’s College of Communication has programs that parallel those programs to be set
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forth in the Media School, including journalism and film/television, according to Shanahan’s CV. Shanahan’s current responsibilities as associate dean of the College of Communication for BU include developing curriculum, recruitment, retention and academic review. He led the development of new masters of arts and the first Ph.D for Emerging Media Studies for the College. He also sits on several councils at BU including Undergraduate Council, Graduate Council and Faculty
Affairs Council. From 2009 until he became associate dean in 2012, Shanahan was a professor in the College. He continues to have a research program that focuses on effects of mass media, according to his CV. Shanahan studied political science at Tufts University, graduating in 1982. He then obtained a master of science in broadcasting from Boston
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INPIRG aims to increase funding for groups By Ashleigh Sherman aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma
If the Indiana Public Interest Research Group members is successful in its recent efforts, student organizations may soon receive more funding. The IU Student Association Congress tabled a resolution, championed by INPIRG, in support of changing the way students can fund student organizations during an assembly meeting Monday. When students register for classes, they are presented with a bursar optional fee: a list of student organizations to which they have the option to donate, Jonah Simon, INPIRG representative, said. Under the current system, student organizations must acquire the signatures of at least 25 percent of the student body to get on the list. Student organizations must then receive funding through the bursar optional fee from at least 10 percent of the student body to stay on the list. Currently, only IU Dance Marathon receives funding through the bursar optional fee from at least 10 percent of the student body. Therefore, only IUDM remains on the list. In fact, most student organizations receive funding through the bursar optional fee from only 1 to 2 percent of the student body. “There are 750 organizations on campus and think about how many are served as (the system) exists now,” Ty Nocita, IUSA press secretary, said. Under the proposed system, student organizations must instead get the signatures of 10 percent of the student body to be on the spring IUSA general election ballot, Simon said. Student organizations must then receive the vote of the 20 percent of the student body during the Spring IUSA general election to get on the list. Student organizations would then remain on the list for three years, whether or not they receive funding through the bursar optional fee from at least 10 percent of the student body. “The coolest thing is it’s democratically decided because the student body can vote for whatever (organization) that they want to fund,” Matthew Gough, INPIRG campus organizer, said. “It’s the most democratic way to SEE FUNDING, PAGE 6
Voter turno turnoutt expected to remain low ffor midterms midte ms By Emily Ernsberger emelerns@indiana.edu | @emilyernsberger
Hundreds of elections will take place across the nation in the midterms Nov. 4. However, only an estimated 40 percent of registered voters will choose who will fill federal, state and local government positions. With a few exceptions, voter participation has remained stagnant in national elections since 1948. While participation is higher during presidential elections, at around 50 percent, participation during midterm elections is significantly lower. In 2010, 37 percent of registered voters went to the polls, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Political science professor Edward Carmines said low voter turnout in midterm elections is due to a lack of commitment to voting. “Only the most committed voters will vote in the midterm elections,” he said. Those committed voters tend to be 65 years old and older, according to data from the census, with nearly 70 percent participation. Presidential elections have a higher participation because of publicity, Car-
mines said, something that politicians, parties, interest groups and other societal organizations need to utilize for midterm elections. “Parties and candidates work very hard to get the level of turnout that they do,” he said. Carmines said political candidates and organizations have to do their part to reach out to voters, especially those in their late teens and twenties. Young voters have the lowest turnout of all age ranges. According to the Census Bureau, 38 percent of 18- to 24-yearold registered voters turned out in 2012. Indiana ranks 37th of the 50 states in turnout for voters between 18 and 29 years old. Forty-one percent of young voters turned out in 2012, according to the Census Bureau. “Maybe politicians coming out to places like college campuses and reaching out to our generation and our age of people and maybe making their positions well-known because it’s not something we usually pay attention to (would help young people vote more),” sophomore Leyvana Mercury-Apel said. Mercury-Apel said she plans to vote in the midterm elections.
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Hoosiers, Boilermakers to battle for the Golden Boot on Saturday
Young people have historically not voted as much as older voters, Carmines said. “Young voter population has many other things going on in their lives and are in situations where it is not easy to register to vote,” Carmines said. He said young voters become more active when there is an issue or candidate they feel passionately about. Sophomore Emily Demott, a Michigan resident who is not a registered voter, said that while she was not old enough to vote in the 2012 presidential election, she plans to register by the 2016 election. In the meantime, she said she does not believe she would know how to use her vote. “The policies they’re trying to pass, I don’t pay attention to that, so I wouldn’t be an educated voter,” she said. Ways to increase overall voter participation, Carmines said, would include same-day registration and online voting. “It makes me angry because I think that in years previously, people fought so hard for the right to vote, and it makes such an impact on the politics in the world and in the United States,” Mercury-Apel said.
IU Auditorium puts on Halloween show By Audrey Perkins audperki@indiana.edu | @AudreyNLP
DENNIS JAMES 7:30 p.m., Saturday, IU Auditorium
By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @Sam_Beishuizen
When IU and Purdue meet Saturday, there will be no postseason implications. There’s no talk of standings. No tournament seeds. No points. Both the Hoosiers and the Boilermakers have been mathematically eliminated from qualifying for the Big Ten Tournament. What’s on the line at 7 p.m. in West Lafayette is the Golden Boot and bragging rights. COURTESY PHOTO
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IU will play Purdue on Saturday in West Lafayette where the Golden Boot will be on the line.
Dennis James, an organist and silent movie enthusiast, will bring the Halloween spirit at 7:30 p.m. Saturday to the IU Auditorium. For him, a career in performing music for silent movies happened by accident. He summed the experience up in two words: chance and enthusiasm. He was first discovered in 1969, during a sophomore prank screening of “Phantom of the Opera” during his time at IU. James said in an email that he was soon discovered by NPR and featured on the nationally broadcast “All Things Considered.”
“That coverage immediately led to invitations throughout the Midwest for me to begin performing at colleges and in historic movie theaters,” he said. “I had the audacity to contact the number one silent film star, Lillian Gish, a few years later to attend one of our then-annual Bloomington campus IU Auditorium screenings ... and from that the world of film opened up to me from that point forward when I became her personal accompanist at SEE JAMES, PAGE 6