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Thefts, break- New signs brought to campus Summer calendar ins highlight police report crunch questioned ■ Medical supplies were ■ Five days, including the weekend, leaves little time for stolen from a locked office a breather between spring semester and Summer I. at University Hospital By Kevin Stuart CadntotfiV to Tkt Sagamorr Compiled by Darin Crona “We are always Tki Sagomon looking at other Students taking first summer session models. Just because Criminal activity reported for the classes may have been upset when week ending May 14 includes the they realized the break between the the calendar goes to theft of medical supplies from last spring final and the first summer tho year 2010, It University Hospital, automobile theft class was only three days long. and several break-ins. The three day break, however, is doesn't mean we can’t ■ An employee at University nothing new at IUPUI. said Jackie change It. ” Hospitals reported on May 13 an on Whitley, the principal secretary in the going problem in which quantities of registrar’s office. medical supplies are being stolen after T v c been here 14 years, and it’s the laboratories are closed. The been that way ever since I’ve been employee reported that this has here " she said. spring and summer sessions is a tough occurred on at least two previous However, many instructors and job when the schedule must allocal students think the break is too short of time for registration, orientations and ■ An employee reported the theft of a period of time. Lydia Cuco/Tke Sagamore holidays. her automobile from 1150 W. North ”A student has to base time off lo Grove said he first schedules the fall Dr., lot 77. The theft occurred recuperate from finals before you I Nfew signs were expensive, but necessary, say those who pad the $270,000 bill. and spring semester of one academic sometime between 3 and 11:30 p.m. come back in (for summerl.” said update our directional signs since they have not been year and then the fall of the next year. on May 13. Investigation of the area By Chirac Jacobs Jenney Stone, a senior majoring in updated in 15 years" he said. “Since that time, the Lastly, he fits in lime for the summer failed to disclose any physical V* Sagamore accounting. T m still burnt out from campus has constructed numerous buildings including schedule. By the time the summer evidence that a theft had occurred. my finals." University Place Conference Center and Hotel which sessions are scheduled, there are only However, on May 14 at 5:20 a m , the Richard Frcdland. Faculty Students, visitors and patients at the IU Medical receives thousands of visitors daily.” three days available for a break after vehicle was recovered by the president, also said ll Center may find it eas ier to locate buildings on Faculty, staff and administrative groups developed the exams. This presents a problem when Indianapolis Police Department at classes begin too early. ”li's not campus due to the of i look and wording of the new signs, while IUPUI, IU students want a longer break. 5300 Butler Terrace. The steering enough time. I gave an exam on An alternative would be to subtract column had been punched, and the Hospitals, Wishard Memorial Hospital and the Richard Thursday, and I was hack in on The signs have been installed to provide better some days from the two weeks L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center Wednesday (to teach a class). It would two front tires and the backseat were directions and a more unified look for the campus, between the summer and fall sessions. helped pay for the $270,000 project be nice to have a week off to catch a said Robert Martin, vice chancellor for administrative Patnck Luzaddcr, assistant university architect, said However, Grove said that having the ■ On May 8 between 7:15 and 7:25 break" affairs. that signs come in two levels - primary and secondary. two week break at the end of the am ., persons) unknown broke into a Mari Grove, IUPUI registrar, who Deterioration of the former signs, coupled with the Primary signs are internally lit and appear at main second summer session is of great washing machine coin box and stole chairs the campus’ calendar construction of new buildings and parking garages, intersections. Secondary signs are not illuminated, but the contents. An unsuccessful attempt committee, says calendar scheduling prompted campus officials to develop the new ’The faculty have said they want to was made to break into a second coin they guide people in the right direction. is "a forever problem" because of the informational signs. leave as much leeway after the end of Forty-two signs with directions and four portal signs at many weeks of classes that have to be box. The investigation disclosed two Plans to upgrade campus signs began with the the Summer Session II to give a break lUPUI’s major entrances at the comers of Michigan and fit into a 52 week year. University witnesses and a description of a opening of the University Hospital Outpatient Center before fall ," said Grove. possible suspect. West Streets. New York and Limestone Streets, regulations state that there should he last year. The center and other campus facilities attract The first week is needed to allow for ■ On May 10. an employee at University Boulevard and 10th Street, Elmwood Street at least 2,000 minutes per three credit 62,000 visitors to IUPUI etch month. the completion of grades and students’ Campus Service Building #4 reported “With that many visitors it was imperative that we lecture class and no less than 15 that sometime between 5:30 pm. on Please see SIGNS. Page 2 weeks of instruction. Trying to extend the amount of time between fall. May 7 and 6:20 am . on May 8 Please sec SUMMER on Page 2 someone scaled the fence surrounding the loading dock and attempted to break into a vehicle damaging the window lock. The suspect(s) Minimal funding means less jobs destroyed an antique hot print set (vai. $2,000) which had been left on the number is fairly small compared u> the 10-15 students per session invplvcd dock. Currently, there are no suspects ■ Student employment number of jobs offered here on with jobs, Chappel said. The investgation continues. service aids students campus last year. Slime students don’t go thnnigh the ■ A subject reported on May 11 that “We would usually have more student employment services at all. sometime between April 20 and May searching for employment federal funding to pay employees in they instead speak with a professor or 11 at 8 am . someone stole two jugs of the work study program during the go to a deportment in which they arc wall mastic (val. $75), a mixing drill By Brian M olu summer but because so many students interested in and ask if there are any (val. $450). a 50-foot extension cord 7atSagemort______,
Signs Jobs Briefly Noted Continued from Page l Continued from Page i Compiled by Darin Crone and 10th Street have been installed. Showing the Chappcl said that sometimes the best does hope the office will become The portal signs say "IUPUT at the entitle* that comprise way to find a good job is through more of a focal point for employers top and below that read "Indiana Activity calendar Race by Studs Tcrkel, The Seven IUPUI gives us an on campus in the future. Habits o f Highly Effective People University Medical Center and the "A majority of professors will not "We have the ability to make the Indiana University and Purdue deadline set by Stephen R. Covey and opportunity to present go through the student employment entire process v^ry easy for the University Schools." Teacher by Sylvia Ashton- a untried cam pus." office at all, so sometimes the best employer as well as the student" Campus planners, who have Wamer. "Showing the entities that comprise way to hear about a good job here on Chappcl said. IUPUI gives us an opportunity to Eugene Temple events coming up in the 1993*94 BookMarks officials arc campus is through word of mouth," "A student doesn't have to go present a unified campus, and the m e ekaneefke far external afiain school year and want them listed encouraging anyone interested in Chappel said. through the student employment directional signs make the campus j n the annual IUPU1 Activity the books to volunteer to be a Chappcl said that even though many office for a job here on campus, but more user friendly," explained Eugene The new signs are expected to carry Calendar, need to submit the presenter for 1993*94 programs. of the departments do not go through we do want them to know we are here Temple, vice chancellor for external the campus into the next decade. All information by June 15 to the To volunteer. call 274-4371. the student employment office she to help them." Shackelford said. Calendar Office. International affairs 'The much-needed signs are a new buildings will receive the new Communications. UN 115. The Seminar focuses on welcome addition to the university as signs and. over time, all old signs on calendar will cover the we begin IUPUl's 25th anniversary campus will become upgraded, said sex, art and AIDS campus officials. university's 25th anniversary celebration." Workshop focuses on celebration. Educational posters and how If a form is not available, turn in they are used in the fight against a memo with the pertinent dalefs), AIDS are the focus of the next Summer title or description of the event, a John Shaw Billings History of computer music contact person and a phone Medicine Society Seminar, set Continued from Page I number ■The conference is June 1 at 4 p m. in the Emerson transcripts needing to be transferred to In 1992, approximately 19,000 The workstations will be equipped The calendar is free and is Hall Auditorium. The various other schools by fall. Students also use students registered for summer school. scheduled to take place with a Roland U-20 RS-PCM multi distributed by the External Affairs messages contained w ithin the that week for academic advising During the week between the two timbrel keyboard synthesizer with Office, the Indianapolis office of posters, including information, regarding their fall schedule. summer sessions, 5.547 students June 21*25 at IUPUI. 128 preset tone samples and an IBM the 1U Foundation andLthe Alumni warnings, promotion of The second week of vacation is registered for Summer Session 11. PS/2 Model 486 computer with an Affairs office. ErnffeTwil) cover abstinence or fidelity to one needed for registration. Trying to do During Summer Session 11 drop/add. From Sagamore report 80-megabyte hard drive. events from August 1993 to partner, etc., will be discussed. grading at the same time as registration an additional 2,234 students registered. Connecting the 21 stations Is a August 1994. Those interested in attending would delay summer grades." said The IUPUI calendar committee The 1993 computer music Novel Ethernet Local Area Network For more information, call 274- should be aware that some of the Grove. meets annually and has projected technology conference and served by an IBM Model 70 2323. posters on display contain Another possible way to extend the school calendars through the years workshop will take place right here computer with 120 megabytes of explicit depictions of sexual break following spring finals would be 2009-2010. on the campus of IUPUI. memory. A fully-equipped Six books selected practices, condoms and drug use. to have the summer sessions back-to- Grove said that there is an ongoing The five days of beginning and Macintosh lab will also be in for BookMarks back with no break between the two national study addressing various advanced classes will be covering operation, and participants will have Participants sessions. calendar issues. Results of this study the latest in educational applications ample lab time to pursue individual The votes have been cast and the sought for study Subtracting the current three days will be made available to universities of multimedia and computer-based projects throughout the conference. selections for the 1993*94 between summer sessions would give in the near future. In addition, the Exhibitor Trade BookMarks program have been A 14-wrek drug study for students extra days of rest after spring "We are always looking at other The 21 station HJPlflcSpmputer Show features the latest in computer made. Next year's reading list people with high blood pressure finals. models for good ideas." Groves said music technology facility is the musk: hardware and software. includes Chaos: Making a New is seeking participants through But, Grove added that the break "Just because the calendar goes to largest "fully-networked" IBMi For further information contact Dr. Science by James Gleick. Fore the Hypertension Research between summer sessions is very the year 2010, it does not mean Roland computer education Darrell L. Bailey at the Indiana Wayne is Sesvnth an Hitler's List Center. important for Summer Q registration. students and faculty members cannot laboratory in the United Stales. University School of Music at by Michael Manone. For more information, call 274- Without the break, students would change it This projection is used to Each workstation is equipped with IUPUI. The phone number is 274- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. 8440. have to register for the second summer book the Hoosier Dome for top line, cunent state-of-the-art 4000. session during summer session I finals.
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A WELL DESERVED and the old pants steamer, just as it had 15 years ago. Ominous clouds loomed overhead, and I prepared to lose This was the first time that I've been back to Kinscr my cash in the storrA of dryers which lay waiting. Cleaners since 1978 when Mom and I would tote (he Now dryers are a phenomenon’I don't understand. You week's woolly wares in for the Saturday morning wash. have 20 seemingly identical dry ers, hut if you were to BREAK NOT LIKELY ‘*The place even smells the same," I thought, slipping a put a quarter in each one simultaneously, there would be $5 bill into the tray for change. Quarters gushed like a K im 20 variances of heat intensity and drying time. I wished I Changing the academic calendar to allow for an Vegas slot-machine. could still remember which dryers worked the best 15 Two more bills changed before the lemons turned up Co l e m a n years ago. They probably didn't change. and no quarters fell. I waited patiently in line at the dry Some loads cost a buck and a half while others cost a cleaning counter am* wondered if the cashier would believe that the mere quarter. I lost count at that point. All I know is that out of 80 any a weary student is Grove said the break between the two coin changer ripped me off. quarters. I have three left in my pocket after my day in vending wondering what happened to summer sessions cannot be shortened She believed me. So. I plugged all the washers and madly dashed machine hell. the break (what break?!) either. It would require students to to clean the car before the last spin cycle. So with fresh laundry in the trunk of my newly washed car, I Mbetween Spring finals and the register for second session during finals The line at the car wash was short for such a beautiful day. One headed to a Sagamore staff meeting. I have five minutes to spare first summer session. We at The of the first session. "We don’t want to white Town Car inside, a little, red econo-box wailing to go next. I before General McNcelcy calls roll. Parched after all that work. I Sagamore confess to slight burnout, just make students chose between studying was third. find myself staring at the row of pop machines in the lounge. like many other students and faculty for finals and registering for the next Uh-oh! The red car's owner paid for her wash, but the heavy Has vending become a universal conspiracy or merely an who felt the rest and preparation period semester,” he said. garage doors didn’t lift. I waited patiently as she convinced the economic wart on 20th century convenience? before summer school was far loo short. To this point, however noble, we must cashier she'd been ripped off. I rubbed the quarters together in my pocket, wondering if all three Unfortunately, the alternatives which counter that a failure to plan on the pan I held my breath, rubbed my lucky rabbits' foot and threw a pinch were lucky enough to gamblejon a 55 cent can of carbonated would allow for a longer break may be of other students should not create of salt over my shoulder as I put the coins in the automated water beverage. Somehow, I couldn't g t| past the suspicion that the less appealing than the brief respite we burnout for the many. For those who closet. Whew! It worked. machines were rigged. Which one would turn up the lemons? just experienced. have planned in advance, there is no Through the wash and around to the vacuum where a four minute I opted for the water fountain. At least it's free, for now anyway. I Other universities have addressed the need to register between summer extraction should cost 50 cents. It cost me $1.25, but I couldn't see guess some things arc better off without change. calendar issue in a variety o f ways to bothering the cashier for a refund. accommodate faculty and students with Grove sympathized as he shot down I paused heavily and wondered if my luck was running out before Kim Coleman a a junior major,ng in journalism and political science a longer break before the start of the ootions and said the committee always looks at other models for new Some institutions stagger four summer ideas. sessions - two day. two night. Some opt The idea of staggering two summer for a shorter break between the end of sessions into four is impractical because summer school and the beginning of fall. of limited classroom space. Other institutions have five*week So far, the only suggestion worth courses instead of six-week courses. debating was shortening summer Why doesn’t IUPUI consider these sessions to five weeks instead of six alternatives? Mark Grove, chair for the weeks. Don't jump the gun too soon - IUPUI Calendar Committee, said he is there is a price to pay. First of all. this open to suggestions similar to the above, would mandate that students attend 95- but many are not feasible for our minute classes five days a week to obtain university. three credit hours. Grove said the administration looks out Second, it may change the quality or for students' interests. “It may not seem intensity of instruction. Some classes are like it, but forfeiting a much needed rest intense enough in six weeks. Cramming ensures that you get the classes you want a foreign language into only five weeks when you most need them.” could be painful. As Grove put it, "You These few extra days are needed can’t play your trombone any faster in elsewhere in the calendar for simple, but five weeks than you can in six weeks.” necessary, housekeeping tasks - like He also said he could make everyone a registration, grade compilation, lot happier if there were 38 days in July. transcript handling and federal holidays. Doubtful. Some administration IUPUI is the only Indiana institution somewhere would find a way to mandate HMM? serving 19,000 summer registrants, and that it be spent in a totally bogus way. As for vacation. Grove said to look institutions. The 16-day break before fall forward to Labor Day. IU-Bloomington is needed to process your summer school doesn’t even get that much. results in time for registration and transfers to graduate school or other universities for the next academic year. Kim Colman writing for The Sagamore T.C. Re a d e r s ’ v o ic e s ■ Dean of Liberal Arts ■ More components contribute to rising health care costs than CA Custodians proud, but C0RRECI10N believes part-time instructors just fraud, waste and abuse. Indiana State Medical Association The May 17. 1993. letter to the editor for IUPUI better qualified than In response to Mary Williams* letter. May about diversity limits on the IU main 17, she blamed the sorcy stale of Cavanaugh campus omitted the name of the writer. those at IU-Bloomingto The Indiana State Medical Association reducing this segment of the equation. Hall on the custodial worken. Todd Huston, an Indianapolis resident. supports the goals of the Health Care Fraud Speaking last summer at a Dcpauw Quite simply. Ms. Williams is wrong to In the article about part-time faculty at Task Force, which were announced April University forum on media coverage of assert that these individuals are the reason for the condition of the building and that IUPUI, who were considered by many 21 by representatives of various stale and health care issues, Julie Kosterlitz,ttaff they do not take pride in their work. students to be good instructors, I certainly federal agencies. correspondent for the National Journal, agree with the assessment. But, the chart The majority of medical professionals are indicated that even if waste, fraud and Everything is clean for faculty, staff and The Sagamore welcomes accompanying your article is misleading. honest, do not take advantage of Medicare abuse were eliminated, it's not a large students by 8 a.m. Throughout the day the custodians must work around students as The chart shows that IU-Bloomington has and Medicaid and think the few who do enough segment of the health care tab to letters and columns from best they can to clean up the filth and almost 10 times as many full-time faculty as should be penalized. have an impact on overall costs. part-time, while IUPUI has less than twice The task force's focus seems to be on Most economists agree. Henry J. Aaron, garbage left behind by many who use the readers as many. health professionals, rather than recipients director of economic studies at the building. Missing from the chart is the large number of care. 1 would hope the task force would Brookings Institution, said. "You don't At 3 p.m. they must leave and don’t return Readers are invited to submit of graduate assistants at IU-Bloomington also be open to complaints from physicians achieve cost control by eliminating waste, until 6 a.m the next day. Of course, this columns or letters on any topic. Both who also teach part-time and are as who see recipients taking advantage of the fraud and abuse. It's going to take large- would mean no one is available to clean in should be limited to 500 words in numerous as JUPUI’s part-time instructors. system. scale reforms in the way business is done, the late afternoons and evenings. length. Students contributing letters should include a phone number, class As teachers, most part-time instruct on at Certainly, the proposed case management which will entail some restrictions to which Having worked in Cavanaugh Hall for standing and major. Faculty, staff and IUPUI have more teaching experience than system for Medicaid could alleviate the the public has not so far been subject.” over three years, I have come to know administrators should include graduate assistants and are, for the most current problem of patients seeking care at Daniel Yankelovich, veteran public several of the custodians personally. part, better instructors. Moreover, they are One of their biggest gripes is that they are department and title. Columnists several emergency rooms for the same opinion sampler, says that at this state of the should consult with the editor-in- more qualified. Most of them have at least medical complaint health care debate, people have no idea that not treated like real people. That becomes the master's degree and a number of them clear when you see transient students chief. Another point should be made. The the real driven of medical costs are The Sagamore reserves the right to have Ph.D.’s. announcement feeds the public’s technology, the high cost of caring for an making offish complaints about the character of people they don't know. edit letters and columns for length and There is no doubt that IUPUI needs to misperception that if we eliminate waste, aging population and AIDS patients, and style. Submissions can be made in The building is like it is because of fiscal reduce its dependence on part-time fraud and abuse, then the rising health care rising administrative costs. person at The Sagamore office or instruction, but we should not lose sight of and administrative shortcomings. not poor cost problem will be solved. We do a disservice to the public if we mailed to: the fact that the overall part-time instruction Of course, we should try to reduce the 10 continue to look for scapegoats and mask character of the people who do the dirty on this campus is probably better than that work around here. percent of costs attributed to waste, fraud the real causes of our health care cost crisis. The Sagamore of IU-Bloomington. and abuse. However, it is raising false hopes to imply William H. Boo*on. M.D. 425 University Blvd., CA001G iD. I that health care costs and insurance President/Indiana State Medical Association Indianapolis, I S 46202 D*M<1UbaulAta/Wm premiums can be lowered solely by H ie break before the "It's way too short y o u r v o ic e after going to school Answers compHed by Kim Cotaman first summer session is entirely too short. I for a year. I need a ■ Does the current class need more time to rest break before summer and prepare to avoid starts. / don't think calendar suit the burnout Eliminate we need a break students’needs for the break between the between the two summer sessions, but semester breaks at the we do need the time beginning and end of off before foil starts.0 summer sessions? Susan TMgue/Senior Should it be changed? Elementary Education Page 4 Sagamore MBy 24.1993 Sports Macker Tourney returns to IUPUI PROTECT YOURSELF! ■ For the second year, tournament’s location. With violent crime on the rise, you need This year, the twentieth anniversary the basketball tournament of the tournament. IUPUI Campus protection. PUNCH* aerosol restraint system will come to campus. expects to draw over 8,000 players Incepecitates offenders and allows you time to and 40,000 spectators Last summer, get eway. 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Sagamore Perspectives ■ May 24 • June 6: Beef & Boards Dinner Festival Memorial Parade starts downtown at Upcoming Releases Theatre continues its showing of the John Powers 11:45 a m The parade, the second largest in the musical comedy “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes nation, will wind around Monument Circle for the Tuesday 25: Really Reflect Up?" Performances ard^cheduled first time in its history. The annual parade will also for Tuesday through Sunday evenings with include audience participation in the form of MUSIC matinees on Wednesdays and Sundays. costum es and props that will be handed out to Anthrax “Sound Of White Noise" Thursday, M ay 27 will also feature a matinee. the spectators. Big Daddy Kane “Looks like A Jo6 For" ■ Friday 28: The annual 500 Festival Queen's ■ Sunday 30: Of course the biggest event of Ball will be at the Indiana Convention Center / the month of May, the 77th running of the Danzig “Thrall” THIS MONTH Hoosier Dome at 6:30 p.m. For the first-time ever, “Greatest Spectacle in Racing," the Indianapolis VIDEO Upcoming leisure activities the bail is open to the public. 500, starts at approximately 11 a.m. The pre-race and events In the world of festivities, including the singing of "Back Home “Hoffa" Jack Nicholson The Delco Electronics 500 again in Indiana," will begin around 10 a.m. music, theater and art 29: “Toys” Robin Williams Wide variety of summer concerts come to town Washington, Jr.. The Rippintons, Orchestra June 29. Pavillion seating album. Van Halcn performs at I Big-name acts such as Aerosmith, Arrested Development, Billy Ray Cyrus and Ramsey Lewis, David Benoit and costs $23 JO and town seating is Deer Creek July 25. Ex-Motley comedian Tim Allen come through town during the height of the concert season. Michael Franks comes June 20. $18.50 Cruc singer Vince Neil opens Tickets are $27 JO for the pavillion ■ July 5 brings the day-long Tickets are $24.50 for pavillion Edge,” will also visit Deer Creek. ■ Sieve Miller wilh Paul Rodgerx By Brian Moore and $ 19 JO for town sealing Lollapalooza festival starring Primus, seating and $20.50 for the town. Tlu Scgamort Hard rock upstarts Jackyl landed the will be in (own June 16. Pavillion ■ Recent chan-toppers Aerosmith Alice In Chains, Dinosaur Jr., ■ The never-ending Grateful coveted opening slot. seats ore $22.50 and lawn seats are with special guest Jackyl grace the Fishbone. Arrested Development. Dead tour stops in Indiana on June In June everybody's favorite $18.50. Deer Creek stage June 24. Tickets are Front 242. Babes in Toyland. Rage 2 1.22 and 23. Tickets are $25.50 r season for vacations, country crossover artist. Billy Ray ■ Comedian and star of the hi! $24.50 for pavillion seats and $20.50 Against the Machine. Tool. Lighter and $22.50 for pavillion and lawn relaxation and tours by prominent Cyrus, will visit Deer Creek. The comedy “Home Improvement” Tim for town seating. Shade of Brown and Unrest. Tickets seats respectively. musical acts from all genres. Kentucky Headhunters are opening Allen brings his live act to town June ■ Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd are $27.50 for pavillion and $22 JO The Indiana State Fair will play This summer, music lovers will be for the much maligned singer of 17. Tickets are $27 for the pavillion. come to tow n June 25 with special for lawn. host to Reha McEntire on August treated to a wide range of concern to “Achy Break> Heart.” and $17 for lawn seating. guests Bad Company and Drivin* *N’ ■ The Spin Doctors visit July 24 22, tickets are $20.50. Clint Black choose from. Country, rap. classical, The current schedule at Deer Creek ■ Country star Billy Ray Cyrus Cryin'. Pavillion scats are S 19.50 and with special guests Soul Asylum and with Wynonna Judd will play the alternative, hard rock and heavy metal Music Center, with other acts to be performs June 18 with special guests lawn seaLs are $14 JO. Screaming Trees. Tickets are $22J0 fair on August 13 for $20.50. acts will be gracing the stage announced when they become the Kentucky Headhunters. Pavillion ■ The Moody Blues will perform for pavillion and $18.50 for lawn. Dotes and acts ore subject to primarily at Deer Creek Music Center available, is as follows: seats cost $ 19.50 and law n seats are with the Indianapolis Symphony ■ On the strength of their live in Noblesville. Smaller acts will opt ■ Hank Williams, Jr. with special $14 JO. for the friendly confines of The guest Aaron Tippin, May 29. ■ A Jazz Fest featuring Grover Vogue, the Murat Theater and similar Pavillion seats are $19.50, lawn seats venues. Also, the Indiana State I------1 $15.50. The Black-eyed Pea Fairgrounds will play host to several ■ Poison with special guests Damn Is Hiring! country acts during the annual Indiana Yankees. Jackyl and LSD (Life Sex State Fair. A u Positions Ripe fo r the picking. Death), June 5. Pavillion seats Without a doubt, one of the biggest $20.50, lawn scats 15.50. Apply in penon concerts of the summer is the third (Mon Pri. 2 P.M 4PM) Lollapalooza tour, featuring funkstm ■ Reeling in the Years comes to the Creek on June 11. Tickets are $ 10 for Primus and Seattle grunge masters Black eyed PttlocaikMi Alice in Chains as co-headliners. In pavillion seats and $5 for lawn seats. 9040 Signature Rd. its previous two incarnations, the ■ 10,000 Maniacs will be pan of the Deer Creek Fair on June 12. 3916 fi. 82nd SL Lollapalooza tour skipped over 10289 E. Washington St Indianapolis, leaving alternative Admission is free with purchase of a music fans to trek to Cincinatti, the fair ticket *he glackeyed pea“ closest stop. ■ Pop legends Chicago perform Home cootUqg worth lo t n i cm far." Critically acclaimed rap artists June 14 with the Stephen Stills Band Arrested Development will also be on opening. Pavillion seats are $22.50 the Lollapalooza bill, and lawn seats go for $ 10. Aerosmith, hot on the heels of its ■ Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey visit recent No. 1 album “Get a Grip'* and June 15. Tickets are $19.50 for the the top-ten single “Livin' on the pavillion and $10 for the lawn. Slop by or c*ll o ut Iriiiog otf Indiana Repertory Theatre WESTLAKE 1993-94 Season tickets now on sale! 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Claudius, has caused by several of the design of Shakespeare's time. There married Hamlet's mother. Gertrude, production's details. The sccuc Those who didn’t catch IRTs is little elaborate scenery. Elizabethan soon after the funeral. This with the ghost of Hamlet's father production of William Shakespeare's playwrights generally let the language was impressive with interesting Hamlet, which ran through May 16. describe the location and setting. at that time marrying your brother's lighting and haunting sound missed a superb rendition of the 400- The modem costuming also follows wife was considered incest effects, but didn't carry the spine- ycar-okl classic. the traditions of the playwright's era. Hamlet is lost in melancholy and tingling edge the designer seemed With such a famous and often despair until one night his father's lo be trying to capture. produced play, there is a challenge to produce historical plays such as Julius ghost appears to him and informs him Despite these Haws, it was a bring out something fresh, to make that he was actually murdered by superb production. Director Libby f\oL> amrtay Iwdxaa Repertory Tktotrr the material speak to a modern Appd did an admirable Job Patrick Page played the title role the play and modem life. avenge his death. Hamlet delays in crafting a vital and relevant In IRTa production of the Using innovative stage design and The actors wore a variety of taking revenge, held back by procrastination, but rather his role as a interpretation of an old classic. costuming. IRT met that challenge as twentieth century fashions that New thriller ‘Sliver’ fails to Hang on with help from Stallone capitalize on star studded castand the TheSagamore. ■ Shpion Stone, Tom Berenger. who plays an egocentric reveals to Slone his video room full author, and Baldwin, a computer of at least three dozen television sets, Berenger and William guru. five video recorders and stereo sound. The movie starts with an ending - a His video room is controlled by a W e are ending produc Baldwin engage in high murder. In the movies it is not so computer that is linked into every tech schenanigans. unusual lo see someone pushed off tion for the summer! but the balcony of a 20-story building. will return Aug. 23 with What is unusual, is to have the By Christy McKay camera fall with the victim, giving the our annual Orientation TtoSaftmm experience of falling more impact. Stone is the new tenant of the Sliver issue. T o ride you over If you arc expecting the erotic Building, a high-rise in New York thriller “Sliver” to be a hang-on-to- City, unknowing that the pervious until then, we are offering your-scat suspense movie, you had tenant has supposedly Jumped from better not hold your breath. the balcony. Shortly after moving in, promotional items sup White the film did keep the audience two other murders are committed. wondering whodunit until the very Baldwin and Berenger arc the prime porting “Cltffhanger,” the end of the picture, the editors of the suspects. The film moves along as the latest Stallone action epic production chopped the movie into audience tries to decipher which of several separate action-packed scenes the two men is more psychotic, and of And thanks to his videotaping. Stone opening this Friday! Just that left some of the other scenes course giving ample time for some discovers the real murderer, who will somewhat short, especially the steamy love scenes between Stone remain anonymous to leave future stop by The Sagamore ending. and Bddwin. audiences something to contemplate. When the movie does end. it is tike While a double was used in some of office at C A 001G today riding a roller coaster to the top of the the more racy scenes, most of the expect more than maybe three biggest hill, and abruptly stopping, sexual scenes thankfully left minutes of film beyond finding out or Wednesday from noon leaving one waiting for the rushing something to the imagination, which the real killer. to 2 p.m. to rccieve a free descent, which never arrives. is somewhat unexpected considering The most remembered line of the “Sliver" is based on a novel by Ira Stone's past work. 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By Darin Crone Next Pal Biddinger. director of Internationa) ms Affairs told him about the Fulbright With a population of approximately Fellowship. 500.000, Tasmania offers Riley the unique T saw Kevin walking on campus one day opportunity to design w ith two of the best Little did Kevin Riley realize how much his and asked him how he was doing,” said furniture designers in the world and ihe life would change after spending a year in Biddinger. “When he told me he was wanting Norway as a foreign exchange student to go to Tasmania to study. 1 told him about ‘There arc more than 200 species of wood Like most people. Riley grew up believing the Fulbright” that grow there that can’t be found anyplace he had to earn a mechanical living. However, The Fulbright Program was created by the else," Riley said. shortly after high school graduation, he chose United States Congress in 1946 to foster While in Tasmania, Riley plans to design to go overseas prior lo entering engineering mutual understanding among nations through a line of Tasmanian furniture and introduce school in California. it into the international market. T enrolled in school as an engineering William F. Fulbright D-Ark., sponsor of the ‘The central issue facing the student at Cal Poly Technical institute/" he legislation, saw it us a step toward building an woodworking industry is wood extinction.” said. 1 even started classes!” alternative to armed conflict said Riley. “Designers, individual And then something changed. Today, the Fulbright Program is the U.S. craftpersons and manufacturers must work During the second week of his sophomore government’s premier scholarship program. It together creatively lo stave off the year. Riley had had enough. He dropped out enables U.S. students and artists to benefit impending catastrophe. A solution, I of engineering and enrolled in a design class. from unique resources in every comer of the developed, was to substitute exotic forms ‘That was when things started making sense world. for endangered exotic woods, thus deriving for me. What I had been making in my garage Each year the program allows more than 700 visual strength from the rain forest all those years were not the mishaps of an students to study or conduct research in more ecosystem without harming it” untrained engineer, but the blossomings of a than 100 nations. Riley also wants to continue researching young artist.” he said. ‘The scholarship is funded by Congress, but “conservation-minded, environmentally- Riley left school and went back to Norway specific art furniture.” for a visit and lo find himself. around the world are appropriating money for ‘That is central lo my interest in “I was irflhe same place, with the same it” said Biddinger. Tasmania.” said Riley. family (that he stayed with as an exchange The program is designed to give recent B.S7 “Australia boasts over 500 individual student), but my eyes saw something new. B.A graduates, master’s and doctoral wood species,” Riley said. “These “Here was a whole society steeped in the candidates, and young professionals and materials, along with the simple visual clean lines of minimal design.” he said. artists opportunities for personal development emmersion in this environment, would offer “I was always interested in mechanics,” the and international experience. Grantees plan creative opportunities to me.” 26-year-old Herron School of Art graduate their own programs. Projects can include Riley leaves for Tasmania next February, said. “As it turned out. 1 was interested in university course work, independent library or where he will begin a two-year stay mechanics in an artistic way.” field research, classes in a music conservatory studying the art of designing the furniture. Moving to Indianapolis to be with a girl he or art school, special projects in the social or ”My family is already saving up had met in Washington D.C. Riley enrolled in life sciences, or a combination. money toegme and visit me.” he the Herron School of Art. 'The Fulbright is an excellent way for ‘The girl didn't work out.” he said. students to travel and study abroad,” said However, four years later. Riley is the first Biddinger. undergraduate student in IUPUl’s 25-year As lUPUI’s first undergraduate Fulbright history to receive the William F. Fulbright scholar Riley will be studying at the University of Tasmania on the island nation to T have been interested in Tasmania for a couple of yean now ” said the Herron “Geographically, I am about as graduate. “Everything just started falling into far away from the United place.” States as I can b e” Last year at an art exhibit in Chicago. Riley met Kevin Perkins, an instructor of furniture design at the University of Tasmania. Perkins professional influence further inspired Riley’s strong desire to design furniture. This m u sk stand w as the first piece ever designed by Rtfey. DESIGN BY T0N Y GARCIA k