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ELECTIONS

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2010

Who’s running?The SGA elections are set to begin April 13. We have a com-plete list of who’s running for an office on the Student Govern-ment Association and a brief platform for each candidate. SEE PAGE 4

A go for Associates BuildingBy JENN ZELLERSEditor-in-Chief

IU South Bend can move for-ward with the renovation of the Education and Arts Building re-ceiving financing approval for $20 million project.

The long-awaited plan receiv-ing final approval last month from the Indiana Finance Authority, with work now commencing on the final design plans, university officials announced in a released statement. Bids will be taken later this year with a planned construc-tion start during the winter.

The renovated building will be the home of the School of Educa-tion, the fine arts program and the dental hygiene program, univer-sity officials announced.

Once completed, the building will feature computer labs, con-ference rooms, student lounges, a 130-seat lecture hall, plus a lab and studios for fine arts classes, rehearsal rooms and a dental hy-giene clinic with a patient consul-

tation area. The building will be used by nearly 2,000 students on a regular basis.

“This renovation is vital to the future of our campus,” Chancel-lor Una Mae Reck said a released statement. “The facility will be a modern teaching and learning en-vironment and will complete the physical layout of the campus.”

Reck also said that the new building will improve student experience at IUSB and will help prepare the campus for further growth and will provide the com-munity with local jobs.

The project was originally ap-proved in 2007 but was approved last fall by the State Budget Com-mittee.

The former Associates Build-ing is a 129,000 square-foot facility built in 1958. Indiana University purchased from the Associates Corporation of North America in 1974. The purchase also included four buildings and residential structures.

Truth stops in South BendBy APRIL BUCKSenior Staff Writer

World renowned author, poet, and activist Nikki Giovanni spoke to a crowded house at IU South Bend Thursday morning and an even more crowded house later that evening at South Bend’s Century Center.

IUSB’s box office reports ticketing 282 attendees for the 11 a.m. lecture and a whopping 696 for the evening lecture.

Nikki Giovanni is committed to the fight for civil rights and equality. She is outspoken and

unrepentantly presents her views on issues as she perceives them.

According to her website, she prides herself on being “a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.” She fo-cuses on the individual and the power every person has to make an impact.

Listening to Giovanni speak is like having a spirited conver-sation.

She captivates the audience with her wit, humor, and outra-geously blunt manner of speak-ing her mind. Topics covered during her lecture ranged from feeding kids in the lunchroom, gardening, postal service, Tupac Shakur, public education, and the

Author Nikki Giovanni speaks at IU South Bend

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The remodel of the Associates Building is expected to start in the winter. The building will feature high-tech classrooms including art and design studios for fine arts as well as a dental hygiene clinic.

Author Nikki Giovanni signs a book for Jeff Jackson, director of Career Services during her appearance on April 1 at IUSB.

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positive side of rap and hip-hop.“I’ve always thought break

dancing should be part of the Olympics…well if synchronized swimming is…?,” Giovanni said.

Calling out individuals from Tiger Woods to President Obama, Giovanni makes it clear that she is on the side of what is right.

“This isn’t about what I want…it’s about what they need,” she said. “We have to come back to what made us (America) great…the promise. We can do better.”

Finally Giovanni gives the au-

dience a “history lesson” centered on her children’s book, Rosa. This history lesson felt more like a conversation—a true sharing experience as she skillfully un-folded the familiar story of Rosa Parks, the woman who refused to give up her seat as ordered by a bus driver in Montgomery, Ala.

Giovanni brings Parks to life for the audience, sharing details of her personal acquaintance with Parks that give depth and person-ality to a story most have simply read about in text books.

By painting this backdrop for Parks’ experience, Giovanni is

able to incorporate the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year old Afri-can American boy from Chicago who was murdered in Money, Miss., another tragic event lead-ing up to the Civil Rights move-ment that few have heard about outside the classroom.

Giovanni is able to suggest that a newspaper bearing a head-line about Till’s death may have played a role in Parks’ decision not to relinquish her seat on the bus, an action that culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s involve-ment with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Covering sensitive topics and tragic events in a manner that still allows her audience to feel in-spired rather than overwhelmed, Giovanni is truly a marvel.

“…Inspiring, eye-opening. Just when you think you’re at the point where you know everything she enlightens you about history and women and our potential,” said Zorina Jerome, director of the 2010 Michiana Monologues.

For more information about Giovanni, visit her website, www.nikki-giovanni.com.

GIOVANNI from page 1

Giovanni: “We have to come back to what made us great”

Voices of the Titans:What is your opinion on the new health care reform bill?

BECKY BUKOWSKI BRIAN MEEKS KEVIN CHENG TONY LAMB

“I know that the new bill is controversial, but I do ap-preciate the student loan bill that was attached and gives $36 billion to Pell grants.”

“I do think that all Ameri-cans should have health care. However, it makes no sense to have a multi-trillion dollar spending bill during a recession.”

“I openly support it because we are the only developed country without it. The re-form is not only about health care, but it’s about the in-surance companies as well. A lot of people who have already bought insurance are not getting treatment due to legal loopholes that allow insurance companies to deny claims.”

“I think it’s a good start, but it’s too bad that he felt it necessary to compro-mise women’s reproductive rights in order to get the bill passed. Some of the crucial votes that he needed were anti-abortion democrats and he had to appease them to get the bill passed.”

Voices of the Titans is a semi-regular feature in The Preface in which we ask students and other members of the campus staff their perspective on campus and other hot issues of the week.

Reporting and photos by JEFF TATAY.

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For the first time since its De-cember 2008 opening, the Bi-Annual Graduate Research Con-ference is open to all graduate students at IU South Bend.

Previously, the conference was an exit project for the School of Education’s graduate program. What began as a way for students pursuing their Masters degrees in Education to end the graduate program is now becoming a way for all IUSB graduate students to present their research to peers, professors and faculty, and inter-ested community members.

“The conference has been such a success I decided to open it to the entire university and real-ly encourage that cross-discipline collaboration of ideas,” said Mi-

By KRYSTAL VIVIAN Staff Writer

Graduate research conference April 27chelle Bakerson, assistant profes-sor of educational research and founder of the conference. “My ultimate goal is to develop this conference involving multiple in-stitutions and not just IUSB.”

Bakerson also hopes to one day have a Graduate Research Journal published by IUSB stu-dents.

Any graduate research from any discipline can be submitted. Most presentations in the past three conferences have been post-ers or roundtable discussions, but visual aids such as PowerPoint and handouts are welcome also. The visual aids are not required, but are encouraged. Presenta-tions are to be no longer than 15 minutes. There will be a question and answer session after each presentation.

Research does not have to be

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from a certain semester. Recent graduates of a graduate studies program at IUSB are also encour-aged to submit their research, providing it was done while a graduate student.

“It is a venue for peer review and interdisciplinary discussion,” said Bakerson.

Students interested in submit-ting research must e-mail their research to Bakerson at mabak-erso@iusb.edu. She will send forms that include a summary or abstract of their research.

The Conference will be April 27at 7 p.m. in the Student Activi-ties Center rooms 221, 223, and 225. It is free, open to the pub-lic, and includes refreshments. Students who have any ques-tions are asked to contact Baker-son by email or by telephone at (574)520-4391.

Eleven years ago IU South Bend’s International Student Or-ganization (ISO) organized what would become an annual event to celebrate IUSB’s international membership and the wide range of cultural backgrounds repre-sented on campus through food and fun.

They called it the Internation-al Food Festival (IFF) and it has become one of the highlights of every year since.

This year, ISO Vice President Voy Marczynski is organizing the event which takes place Saturday, April 17 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Grille.

Last year over 50 student vol-unteers served more than 300 students and faculty members. Marczynski says they are plan-

ISO to host 11th annual International Food Festival

By TIMOTHY DANN-BARRICKStaff Writer

ning for at least 400 attendees this year. Also new to this year’s IFF will be local vendors, and the opening of the festival to the public.

The event will feature inter-national entertainment and for the first time the entertainers will engage the public by allowing them to play ethnic musical in-struments.

Over 15 countries including Japan, Kenya, Indonesia and China and many others will be represented at the event. The food is served in a sample-buffet style which is a value considering that the ticket price for the event is only ten dollars for adults over twelve years old. Children’s tick-ets cost eight dollars.

“People should come to the festival because it gathers to-gether in one place a taste of the world,” says Marczynski. “It will also help to kill any biases that the public may have of interna-tional cultures and it will be a place where students can learn in a fun and tasty way.”

A physics professor at IU South Bend is receiving a grant of $444,000 from the National Sci-ence Foundation to support his research in nuclear-astrophysics.

Professor Jerry Hinnefeld, along with colleagues at Notre Dame, is working on a particle detection system.

Hinnefeld’s project is one to assist the already existing, St. George Recoil Mass Separator (RMS). St. George is an MRI with a low energy partial accel-erator.

“The reaction that we are go-ing to be studying with St. George involves accelerating a heavy ion and directing that ion onto a jet of helium gas,” Hinnefeld said.

Although it will take many tries, the goal is for the heavy ion to attach to the helium, alpha ion.

“It’s really about figuring out how heavier elements in stars are produced.”

The smaller the reaction be-tween the particles, the harder it is to detect, but Hinnefeld and other researchers around the world have found ways of detect-ing it at very low energies.

“The Mass Recoil Separator is used to select particles that have a particular momentum,” Hin-nefeld said.

The problem is that they are operating at such a low energy

By DANI MOLNAR Senior Staff Writer

that it is very difficult, virtually impossible, to detect the rate of energy loss.

“The recent grant is in fact to develop a way to detect the prod-uct,” Hinnefeld said.

Instead of using velocity of the particles, the group is instead using the amount of time it takes for the particles to slow down.

“You cannot assume that ev-ery particle that gets through is [the product],” Hinnefeld said.

Since the product will be heavier than the original ion, it will slow down slightly faster,

using this process.Since the process has already

been accepted and they have al-ready received the grant for the project, much of the grant will go toward equipment. They also have to hire a post-doctorial re-searcher to work with the ma-chine and record data full-time.

The grant falls under the cat-egory of the Major Research In-strumentation. It is a special call for proposals in the MRI pro-gram.

Professor receives research grant

Over 15 countries will be represented at the annual event.

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IUSB professor Jerry Hinnefeld stands by a piece of equipment. Hinnefeld was recently awarded a $444,000 grant to conduct research on nuclear-astrophysics.

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ELECTIONS

SGA

2010

SGA Elections Special

President Candidate

Candidate: Jake JonesClass: JuniorMajor: English, History, PhilosophyPlatform: While in office I will pursue the creation of a co-curric-ular transcript that puts extracur-ricular activities on transcripts, giving students credit for ac-complishments outside the class-room; further creating a more comprehensive and interactive Student Life website and making students aware of campus secu-rity resources starting with their phone number (574-520-4239).

Vice President Candidates Candidate: Cory GilmartinClass: JuniorMajor: HistoryPlatform: As a Vice President of the Student Government As-sociation (SGA), I would like my first two main goals to be apply-ing two pieces of legislation to the process of the SGA. I would like two resolutions to be passed by the Student Senate. The first, process and deliverances of Stu-dent…

Candidate: Joel BazzellClass: JuniorMajor: Mass Communications & Political SciencePlatform: As a member of the Student Government Associa-tion is it my duty to represent the Student Body of IU South Bend faithfully and to the best of my abilities, and that is what I intend on doing as the Vice President. The SGA is an organization that is in a…

Secretary Candidate

Candidate: Brittany GriffithClass: SophomoreMajor: Women’s StudiesPlatform: I’m glad to be here for the students, and keeping records of our past achievements and fu-ture goals.

SGA Elections 2010

Treasurer Candidates

Candidate: Benjamin GoodingClass: JuniorMajor: Economics Platform: As treasurer, I would seek to track the assets of SGA to the best of my ability, and keep immaculate records. I believe I would be able to do so which in turn would give SGA a perfectly accurate account of the available finances to be used for the better-ment…

Candidate: Zachary William DunconClass: JuniorMajor: Computer SciencePlatform: This year we have re-vamped and modernized the club funding and account managing processes, to better serve the stu-dents at IU South Bend. While in office for the 2010-2011 academ-ic year I would like to see and push for a more balanced and transparent budget that can build and improve...

Senator Candidates

Candidate: Ben FriesClass: SeniorMajor: Secondary Education So-cial StudiesPlatform: I want to make cam-pus events and campus more ac-tive through higher quality events that all individuals can attend.

Candidate: Brandon RickeyClass: SeniorMajor: Political SciencePlatform: I would like to see the current student organizations do more to make themselves acces-sible to students who have busy schedules. As senator I would work to get more people involved in campus activities and work to accommodate people with busy schedules.

Candidate: Cale C. HarnishClass: SophomoreMajor: PhysicsPlatform: In my time with the SGA I’ve come to realize that the student body does not benefit from all of the Student Activity Fee. Only a small percentage of what each student pays gets back to them in any form at all. If I am in office, every student and…

Candidate: Dexter LanningClass: JuniorMajor: EconomicsPlatform: As senator, I would like to get the student body more involved in decisions made by SGA and ensure that student ac-tivity fees go to activities that benefit a majority of the student body. Every student pays student activity fees and it should be the responsibility of the student gov-ernment…

Candidate: Angela Marie CormicanClass: SophomoreMajor: Political SciencePlatform: Our university has experienced tremendous growth and has striven to meet the needs of our student body. We are a cul-turally diverse student body from varying backgrounds, ages, and life experiences, yet, we are all forging our futures on this cam-pus. The pursuit of higher educa-tion is not an easy…

Candidate: Chad M. KissingerClass: JuniorMajor: Advertising and Market-ingPlatform: I will try to accom-plish a working relationship be-tween security and the student body. I will also strive to get aca-demic advisors to responsibly for their advice.

Candidate: David GriffithClass: JuniorMajor: EconomicsPlatform: I would like to see clubs become more involved on campus and a larger part of cam-pus life.

Candidate: Zion Paul CastorClass: JuniorMajor: Pre-Law via Political Science, Math (?), Phil (?), Psy-chology (?)Platform: I am a hard working, highly motivated student inter-ested in making IUSB the best it can possibly be. If elected, not only will I work tirelessly to en-hance the social environment and academic quality; but I will also react to the critisms and advice from the Student body.

Candidate: Henry Lee LowryClass: JuniorMajor: Political SciencePlatform: Creating a co-curricu-lar transcript which would place extracurricular activities on stu-dent transcripts giving them of-ficial credit for their accomplish-ments outside the classroom. In doing this we would be able to award students in clubs and club sports credit for their activities. In addition we would add a Presi-dent’s meeting once…

Candidate: Brock WappesClass: SophomoreMajor: NursingPlatform: As a third year re-turning Senator, I would like to make the SGA truly present on campus. I would like to see the power of the SGA used to excite our students about their campus and their experience at IU South Bend.

Candidate: David Anthony KuczmanskiClass: JuniorMajor: Human ResourcesPlatform: If elected to the po-sition of Student Government Senator my main focus would be reaching out to clubs and or-ganizations to build student life on campus. Some other areas of concentration would be creating a more comprehensive and inter-active Student Life web-site and making clubs aware of the Stu-dent Government…

Candidate: Felix E. MarquezClass: SeniorMajor: EducationPlatform: One of the things I would like to accomplish while in office on a personal level would be to keep my 3.0, 3.5 GPA. The way I plan to do that is by planning my activities ahead. When it comes to the community that I will be representing, the students…

Candidate: Luis HernandezClass: SophomoreMajor: Political SciencePlatform: Creating a more com-prehensive and interactive Stu-dent Life web site. Also push for presidents to meat once a month so they can have better planning of events and attendance at those events. The involvement of hous-ing so we can coordinate events and have more student life. Make known the resources…

Candidate platforms have been shortened to 50 words or less.

Voting Information

Voting will begin at midnight on April 13 and will end April 14 at 11:55 p.m.

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About 40 people turned out at the Grille to hear why two Republican candidates are seek-ing to run for St. Joseph County sheriff. A third candidate, Keith Rininger, declined to participate in the event.

“I plan to be a hands on work-ing sheriff. I will be working with the men and women of our department and with the citizens of our county,” candidate Randy Peppers said. “I won’t be a sheriff that will sit behind a desk. I will be in uniform every day.”

As a 20-year veteran of the sheriff’s department, Peppers feels he has the experience to run the department. He noted that he worked almost every department and knows the issues the officers and jailers face.

Candidate Jim Fox has worked as a police officer, a fire-fighter and a paramedic. He also worked as a deputy prosecuting attorney in St. Joseph County. He currently is working as a deputy prosecutor in Elkhart County. Fox feels that his background in finance and criminal justice sys-tem will bring a different vision to the department.

“I believe that I have a broad

Leadership top priority for candidatesBy JENN ZELLERSEditor-in-Chief

Jim Fox Randy Peppers

spectrum of experience across the criminal justice system,” Fox said. “I think with proper leader-ship and a new vision and a fresh set of eyes, we can bring new ef-ficiencies to this government to take advantage of a lot of things.”

And one of those things is modernizing the department.

Fox promised to look at other departments and bring in new technology as well as bringing new programs, while focusing on using taxpayer money more effi-ciently.

Another issue facing the de-partment is the high turnover within the county jail.

Both men agreed that the turn-over is a problem for the depart-ment, but have a different ap-proach as how to do deal with the problem.

Fox suggested that the depart-ment should listen to the jail of-ficers and find out their needs.

“You need to give people re-views, promote people that are good. Find out what their goals are and help them achieve their goals,” he said. “Promote people that want to be promoted and not do it for political reasons.”

Peppers offered reducing the workday to eight hours and elim-inate the four-hour on-call status. Right now, according to Peppers,

jail officers currently work a 12-hour day followed by a four- hour on-call status on their first day off.

The budget is another area which both men agreed needs to be addressed.

Peppers said that budget cuts have to start from the top down and is willing to take a pay cut.

“I want to be able to look at our officers and tell him I’m will-ing to take a pay cut to get them pay raises or install new pro-grams,” Peppers said.

However, he declined to say how much of a cut he was willing to take, stating that it is something that would have to be discussed with the county com-missioners.

Fox believes that the depart-ment should be up front about its budget and submit it well before the due day. He also said that any

cuts or additions to programs should be debated before the commission.

While Fox and Peppers may have different ideas about run-ning the department, they did agree on a few key things, in-cluding public accountability and transparency within the depart-ment.

Both men said that the depart-ment needs to be up front about issues and problems facing the department. The hiring of mili-tary veterans is also important to both candidates.

“The people want to see change,” Fox said. “They want to see a government that is going to work for the public, not a govern-ment that’s going to be politics as usual. Not a government that is just the same thing that we’ve done because it has been done that way for 20 years.”

Both men agree that leader-ship is the key to changing things around within the department.

“We need a sheriff’s depart-ment that is based on perfor-mance, not politics,” Fox said. “We need a sheriff’s department based on integrity, not institu-tional incompetence. We need a sheriff’s department that is pub-lic service and transparent, not political cronyism.”

The candidate forum was the first of four planned events by the American Democracy Project and the IUSB Political Science Club, with assistance from the Criminal Justice League and the League of Women Voters of the South Bend area. The next event is scheduled for April 8 at 6 p.m. in Wiekamp Room 1001. This event will feature the Democratic sheriff candidates.

Other events are scheduled for the 2nd Congressional Republican candidates on April 17 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Student Activi-ties Center Room 225 and St. Jo-seph County Council District H Democratic primary candidates from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on April 22 in Wiekamp Hall Room 1001.

All events are free and open to the public.

In her new book Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Germany, 1945 – 1957, Margarete My-ers Feinstein discussed how the Jewish displaced people (DP) searched for a home after World War II, yet found anti-Semitism still abundant. This caused many DPs to look within themselves and find fighters.

It was this new book that was the focus of a talk held by Feinstein on March 31 in Weikamp 1001.

Feinstein is a research scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for the Study of Women. She is also a former professor at IU South Bend.

She opened the talk by asking

Feinstein discusses plight of post-Holocaust DPsBy KRYSTAL VIVIANStaff Writer

audience members to recall the end of Schindler’s List, and how she too had thought that after WWII, the Jewish people easily fell back into their homes.

However, upon reading an autobiography of a woman born

to Polish-Jewish Holocaust survi-vors, she discov-ered that this was not the case at all. The autobiogra-phy discussed how the first 10 years of the author’s life were spent in a DP camp.

“I had an intel-lectual curiosity

that sparked my interest,” said Feinstein.

She began researching what really happened to the Jewish survivors after WWII and found that many victims reclaimed their lives, but struggled to do so. SEE HOLOCAUST PAGE 8

“They were re-imagining themselves as fighters for a Jew-ish Palestine,” she said.

Feinstein recounted histori-cal facts and personal stories from Holocaust DPs throughout the night. She spoke of how 8 million DPs in Germany had no families or homes to return to, and therefore had to make new families.

DP camps were set up to help the Jewish survivors. Fear of loneliness and a desire for chil-dren lead to a jump in marriage rates amongst Jewish DPs. In 1946, there were 24.6 marriages per 1,000 DPs compared to 2.8 marriages per 1,000 Bavarians.

“There was a terrible need for family,” said Feinstein. “So peo-ple created their own.”

The birth rate also went up in 1946 amongst DPs to 1,000 in-fants a month, said Feinstein.

“Even as they mourned, Jewish DPs transformed themselves into survivors of the Holocaust,”

— Margarete Myers Feinstein

PREFACE PHOTO/Krystal Vivian

Former IUSB professor Margarete Myers Feinstein talks about her book.

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Give someone else a chance to walk a mile in your shoes. The Student Alumni Association is having a shoe drive for the vic-tims of the Chili and Haiti earth-quakes.

The shoe drive is part of the non-profit organization Soles-4Souls. This organization is a charity that collects shoes from warehouses and from everyday

Shoe donation for earthquake victimsBy ERIKA BLUMEStaff Writer

people who would like to donate their gently worn shoes.

According to the Soles4Souls website, since 2005 the organiza-tion has given away over seven million pairs of new and gently used shoes to people in need in over 125 countries.

You can make a difference by donating your gently used shoes in the Alumni office located in the Administration building in room A101. The drive will end on April 9. Although this is a non-profit based drive, the SAA

As springtime brings warm weather and sunshine, meteo-rologists are paying attention to weather patterns in the rest of the country as the peak season for severe weather in Michiana is in May.

Of course, in most cases, se-vere weather in this area refers to thunderstorms with damaging winds, hail, and occasionally tor-nados. The other forms of severe weather, such as heat waves, are not as common in this area.

“We [Indiana] are considered a secondary tornado alley,” said Rick Mecklenburg, chief meteo-rologist for WSBT.

According to Mecklenburg, Indiana has seven days of torna-dos a year. Other states in Torna-do Alley like Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, range from seven to nine days of tornados a year.

Many people in the area re-member Palm Sunday 1965, when 51 tornados in six states killed 260 people on April 11.

In Michiana, a string of F3 and F4 tornados hit through Por-ter, Laporte, St. Joeseph, Elkhart, LaGrange, and Stuben counties in Indiana and Hillsdale county in southern Michigan.

Palm Sunday isn’t the only strange outbreak of tornados in early April for Michiana either.

The Super Outbreak of 1974 was the biggest outbreak ever recorded in the United States. On April 3-4, 148 tornados ran through 13 states killing 330 peo-ple. An F4 tornado that began in

Indiana considered a secondary tornado alleyBy KRYSTAL VIVIANStaff Writer

Warren County in central Indi-ana hit through Fulton, Marshall, Kosciusko, and Noble counties before finally stopping in La-Grange County.

Events like these are abnormal for the time of year.

“Our peak is usually in May and June in Michiana,” said Mecklenburg.

Current technology may help people in the area become more informed about severe weather. At WSBT, computer models, ra-dar loops, and satellite loops are used to forecast weather. TV reports and sirens in the area help alert residents about severe weather.

Weather in other areas of the country effect the weather in Mi-chiana, as well. Winds move across the country bringing with them warm or cold temperatures and fronts. As spring arrives and summer approaches, weather pat-terns in the southern part of the United States can help predict weather patterns in Michiana.

Some southern states have already experienced a few torna-dos this year. As the southern air moves north and heats up Michi-ana, Mecklenburg said that torna-dos might be possible.

“I definitely wouldn’t elimi-nate the threat of tornados up here.”

is asking for donations of a dol-lar per pair of shoes you give to cover shipping charges.

All shoes will be accepted but practical shoes are best, said Ju-lie Turner, assistant director of Alumni Affairs. For more infor-mation you can contact Turner via email at jukturne@iusb.edu or you can call her office at 574-520-4383. For more information about the Soles4Souls organiza-tion, you can visit their website at www.soles4souls.org

This famous photo from the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak was taken by Paul Huffman in Dunlap, IN. Dunlap is located 20 miles east of cam-pus. The outbreak killed 271 people and injured 1,500, with 1,200 of those injuries in Indiana.

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It’s no joke. A chance to win an evening with David Sedaris is among us.

A writing contest is being of-fered at IUSB and is open to the community. Two lucky winners will be given two tickets to see Sedaris on Monday, April 19 at the Morris Performing Arts Cen-ter.

Sedaris is an a NPR humorist and the author of the best sell-ing novel “Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and When You Are Engulfed in Flames” said Jessica Felton, in an email interview.

“We decided to put a contest together as a way to give local writers the opportunity to show-case their work,” said Felton.

With the password, “DAVID” students will also be able to pur-chase tickets for $25.

The essay or short story must be similar to the humorous style of David Sedaris and be culled from life.

One entry of 1500 words or less per person must be submitted by Monday April 12 to iusbcre-ativewriting@gmail.com to be

considered for the contest, said Kelcey Parker, assistant profes-sor of English at Indiana Univer-sity South Bend.

Winners will be notified by April 16 by email and the win-ning essays will be published on IUSB’s creative writing blog, http://iusbcreativewriting.word-press.com/.

Contest to win two tickets to see comedian David Sedaris live at the Morris April 19By TERRIE PHILLIPSStaff Writer

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David Sedaris will be at the Morris Performing Arts Center on April 19. Students can receive tickets for $25 by entering “DAVID.”

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Amongst this, there was still a lot of anti-Semitism that lead to mistreatment of Jews living in Germany. Medical professionals were few and far between, and she spoke of how it was often difficult to check credentials of people claiming to be doctors.

Feinstein also added how the Jewish people were discriminated against socially. Barbershops re-quired Jewish customers to bring in their own soap and towels, and many found themselves fighting against anyone who seemed a threat. It was a tense time for the Jewish DPs.

She explained how the DPs turned their frustrations and fantasies into plays and movies, using entertainment as a way to explain what happened and find a positive outcome of the tragedies they experienced during the Ho-locaust.

“Even as they mourned,” said Feinstein, “Jewish DPs trans-formed themselves into survivors of the Holocaust.”

There may be something real-ly good coming out of this reces-sion. Society is shifting its expec-tations and plans toward what is manageable, what is sustainable. Choices are being made based on financial situations, but other fac-tors are supporting and validating them.

A recent article headline in the South Bend Tribune declared, “Slow suburban growth tied to poor economy.” In fact, the article pointed out that “Marion County, which includes Indianapolis, had a higher growth rate in 2009 than in previous years.” People are staying in urban areas, which tend to be denser, organized into mixed-use neighborhoods, and more accessible to walkers and

Making a location work for you...By KRISTINE BAILEYGreen Columnist

users of public transit.The suburbs, noted a News-

day article from 2007, came from the desire for separation from the city. The author argues that “the 21st century requires new re-gional and global partnerships.” These will feature “high-density, mixed use, walkable communi-ties built close to public transpor-tation…. a mixed-income, eco-logically integrated community that promotes natural and cultural diversity.”

Although the article discusses options for “green” suburbs, all of these “modern” features are currently present in most urban areas. They are also good for reducing energy use and green-house gases.

Transportation is one large impact each person has on the health of the planet. Reducing

the need for and use of individ-ual cars to carry individuals on their commute to work can im-prove the health of communities through better air, reduced noise, and less traffic. Besides, who has extra money they want to spend on ever-increasing gas prices?

In our day-to-day lives, there are choices to make everyday about where to go, what to do, who to see and be with, and what to buy, to eat, wear, or share. Not everyone can or should live in an off-grid house raising animals and food in a caring, eco-sensi-tive way with few worldly goods.

The good news is that living lighter on the planet can be a simple matter of making changes in things we do every day. Where “every day” happens is as im-portant, if not more so, than the choice to reuse a bag or replace a

light bulb or recycle a newspaper.Yes, suburbia has its appeal

for many. Think about what is ap-pealing, and how those things can be found in any and every neigh-borhood or apartment complex.

Choose a place to live where the need to drive is reduced. Pick a place within walking distance to school, work, food sources, and recreational areas.

After several years of living on the IU South Bend campus for at least part of the day, you may have noticed how it is located in a walk-able neighborhood with lots of amenities within a short walk, bike ride. Plus, it is on a bus line.

Making good choices in life can be easy. They can advance your career or personal life – and can also advance the planet.

HOLOCAUST from page 5

Jews tried to find a balance in post-Holocaust years in Europe

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