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Culture Shock creates community, page 9

Trustees approve medical campus in Evansville BY KATHRINE SCHULZE schulzek@indiana.edu @KathrineSchulze

PHOTOS BY BEN MIKESELL | IDS

IU's Crimson team waits for the Cream team to snap the ball during its spring game Saturday in Memorial Stadium. Cream defeated Crimson 24-14.

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‘Roberson-to-Wynn’ connection shines in spring game BY EVAN HOOPFER ehoopfer@indiana.edu @EvanHoopfer

To say wide receiver Shane Wynn — known for being one of the more vocal players of the IU football team — was excited about his team’s win would be an understatement. Wynn was asked if the spring game win would give him bragging rights. He said he was already celebrating his victory before the clock hit zero. “I was talking on the field,” Wynn said with a laugh. “Before the game was even over, I was making them mad.” Wynn captained the Cream team in the annual spring football game. His 141 receiving yards led the Cream team to a 24-14 victory against the Crimson team in front of a crowd of 9,231 people Saturday in Memorial Stadium. Both quarterbacks, who will be juniors next fall, played on opposite teams. Nate Sudfeld led the Crimson team while Tre Roberson led a quick-strike Cream attack in windy conditions. “The wind was a factor, but this is the Midwest,” Roberson said. “You gotta be able to play in the wind.” Roberson said his favorite target was Wynn, who — thanks to Kofi Hughes and Ted Bolser graduating and Cody Latimer forgoing his senior SEE SPRING GAME, PAGE 6

The city of Evansville will get a new school, and Bloomington’s campus will get new gateways, the Board of Trustees decided at Friday’s meeting. The trustees approved plans for the IU School of Medicine MultiInstitutional Academic Health and Science and Research CenterEvansville, to be built in downtown Evansville. “At the time when a lot of cities in America are struggling and nobody’s doing much about it, I think it’s extraordinary to see the support of the city and all the people of the city are really behind this,” Trustee Randall Tobias said at the morning facilities and auxiliaries committee meeting. The $69.5 million plan includes a new 170,000 square foot campus. It’s projected to earn the city of Evansville $340 million by 2020. While there were four proposed sites for the school, President Michael McRobbie endorsed the downtown location specifically, and the board unanimously approved it Friday afternoon at the business meeting. The trustees’ other business involved approving satellite campus chancellor appointments and

Junior Tevin Coleman runs the ball during IU's spring game Saturday in Memorial Stadium.

SEE APPROVAL, PAGE 6

Trustees discuss student involvement, IU as research school FROM IDS REPORTS

Junior quarterback Tre Roberson keeps his eye on a defender during IU's spring game Saturday in Memorial Stadium.

construction projects. Ray Wallace, current provost and senior vice chancellor of University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, was appointed chancellor for IU-Southeast. Susan Sciame-Giesecke was made chancellor of IU-Kokomo after having served as interim chancellor since September 2012. Two new gateways, similar to the Sample Gates, were approved for installation on the IU-Bloomington campus. One will mark the campus’s Third and Union Street boundary. In addition to the actual gates, there will be an engraved wall made of limestone. “We quickly came to the conclusion that we’re really not here to create new traditions with this,” University Landscape Architect Mia Williams said. “We’re about enforcing the excellent traditions we have.” The Chi Omega gates, which currently stand at the end of the North Jordan extension, will be moved intact to the Woodlawn and bypass gateway of the Bloomington campus, Williams said. The Board, approving all new degrees, added four degrees to IU, two degrees to IU-Southeast and

Trustees discussed IU’s status as a research university at their Friday meeting. Bill Stephan and Tony Armstrong from the IU Research and Technology Corporation said there has been an increase in disclosures, patents and startups and a simultaneous decline in licensing in recent years. “I think it’s fair to say there are heightened expectations for research universities,” Stephan said. The IURTC representatives proposed potential strategies to encourage research and entrepreneurial spirit at the University. The first proposed strategy was moving the IURTC to a location on the IUPUI campus to more directly engage with the University community. They also plan to direct more resources to high-potential startups, an idea they said they plan to bring to Bloomington through the School of Informatics and Computing. Additional funding may be raised by work with the IU Foundation to find more seed money for projects.

Stephan and Armstrong said IU is greatly disadvantaged without an engineering program and needs an applied technology program. “We’ve got to sit down and look at this thing strategically in terms of what we have, because there’s a lot of things we don’t have,” Trustee Thomas Riley said. Riley praised the SOIC and suggested that the school’s programs may make up for a lack of engineering programs in the University. The last strategy was to encourage more entrepreneurial spirit in the University, but Stephan and Armstrong said this effort would depend on cultural changes. During the meeting of the Board of Trustees University Relations Committee Friday, trustees heard about student engagement from Alexa Ardnt and Chelsea Wheeler, two graduate students at IUPUI. Wheeler and Ardnt have conducted extensive research and visits to all IU campuses to determine how engaged students are in

SEE INVOLVEMENT, PAGE 6

Homeward Bound 5K draws donations for nonprofits BY LYNDSAY JONES jonesly@indiana.edu @lyndsayjonesy

At least 70 people volunteered at the 12th annual Homeward Bound 5K Walk to pass out T-shirts, organize games for children and feed participants. Homeward Bound seeks to unify and raise money for local organizations working to solve issues of homelessness in the area. In 2010, an honors student in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs studying homelessness estimated that at least 233 people in Bloomington were homeless in 2009. City council member Susan

Sandberg said numbers are going up. “As a general trend, there is a growing need for the social services here in Bloomington,” Sandberg said. Emily Baumgartner said this was her first year volunteering. She said she believes the 5K plays an important part in ensuring the nonprofits get the money they need. “We’re past our halfway point for donations,” Baumgartner said. “We have 30 days left to go, too.” The 5K is entirely donationbased, with no minimum amount required to walk. Sandberg said the donations are important, as government funding for such programs is dwindling. “In any given year, you never

know how much you’re going to get,” Sandberg said. “Funding is shrinking. It’s disturbing. People need food stamps, the ability to receive subsidized housing. Social service providers are critical not just in emergencies but in day-to-day living.” Volunteer Robert Clemons repSEE WALK, PAGE 6 RIGHT Roberta Stafford warms up with jazzercise, a dance-based workout, Sunday afternoon before participating in the 12th Annual Homeward Bound 5K Walk. The event kicked off with performances by various artists and ended with music, food and team recognitions when the walk finished.

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