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A CHANGE OF SCENERY FINE ARTS LIBRARY TO CLOSE, RELOCATE TO WELLS

Hoosiers dominate in first home game By Andrew Hussey aphussey@indiana.eduw | @thehussnetwork

ANDREW WILLIAMS | IDS

A small shelf of books sit on the first floor of the Fine Arts Library located within the Eskenazi Museum of Art as the branch prepares to close its doors.

By Sanya Ali siali@indiana.edu | @siali13

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hrough the first set of doors to the Fine Arts Library is the front desk. To the right is a staircase to the vast library stacks, visible from the windows looking into the Eskenazi Museum of Art. Behind the second set of doors is the reference collection, nestled within a reading room full of tables occupied by students and several freestanding sculptures. Since the opening of the I.M. Peidesigned art museum building in 1982, the Fine Arts Library has been the hub of a growing collection of reference and artrelated material, including 130,000 volumes, more than 3,000 periodicals and more than 2,000 artists’ books. The materials housed in the library will be relocated to the Herman B Wells Library possibly as soon as May 2017, according to Diane Dallis, associate dean for Library Academic Services. The move follows the donation of $15 million and nearly 100 works of art by Sidney and Lois Eskenazi earlier this year. The museum will be renovated in anticipation of the bicentennial year, with the process set to conclude in 2020, according to a press release. The former Fine Arts Library space will then be integrated into the Eskenazi Museum of Art when it reopens. Dallis said the original plan when the museum opened its doors in the 1980s was for the collection of fine arts materials to eventually be moved. “I don’t think there was a good forecast of digital content we would have at that time,” Dallis said. “There was an agreement and understanding that the museum would need to grow, their collection would grow,

and there would be a new home for the fine arts collection at some point in the future.” The materials will be moved to the ninth floor of the east tower of Wells, and the library plans to begin renovations on this area around January 2017, Dallis said. Following the renovation, the books will be moved to the new location. Dallis said an outside company will likely be contracted to move the materials in a timely fashion to the new location during the summer months to guarantee the materials’ continued use in the fall.

“There was an agreement and understanding that the museum would need to grow, their collection would grow, and there would be a new home for the fine arts collection at some point in the future.” Diane Dallis, associate dean for Library Academic Services

Dallis said though students may miss the bright natural light from the windows in the Fine Arts Library, the new space will allow a few benefits for students to have access to the material. “Having that collection here in the Wells Library exposes that collection in a different way,” Dallis said. “We’re obviously a very busy building, we have literally thousands and thousands of visitors in a day. The fact that that collection will be housed with the larger research collections will actually be beneficial to a lot of people.” Sophomore Jeffrey Kelegrand said the atmosphere of the space is what he will miss

the most. “I’ll probably miss it being quiet,” Kelegrand said. “It’s like a pretty remote space where people come to get away from the noise and everything that Wells has because it’s pretty busy at Wells. I like this location. It’s pretty quiet and I come here to study, even when I’m not working.” Kelegrand said if the new space is also somewhat isolated, he can see it being a satisfactory location to study. That, with extended library hours at Wells, will make the new location preferable over the old. “I guess most of the books will be all in one place,” Kelegrand said. “That’d probably be like the only benefit. “I just feel like having all the fine arts stuff here is better.” In addition to increased hours, some of the other changes with the move will include subject specialist librarians, workshops and programming opportunities, and continuation of services available at the old location such as graduate student cubicles, instructional support and course reserve readings. In terms of similar projects in the past, Dallis said usually the IU Library system actually closed libraries, such as smaller science libraries, and stored those materials off campus. These materials, when requested, can be brought back for student use or, in some cases, accessed online. With fine arts reference materials, the books themselves are important, and that was a consideration in the decision to relocate. “For the collections in the Fine Arts Library, their digital counterparts are not the same for the users of that collection,” Dallis said. “In terms of an e-book or a digital version of an art history book with beautiful plates and images, the print material is superior.”

Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall is equipped with 360-degree cameras capable of capturing monstrous dunks. With the departure of Troy Williams, a question arose as to which IU player would be the first to have a highlight worthy of the technology. Freshman Devonte Green answered that question emphatically as his first career points at home came on a dunk that punctuated a dominating stretch of play for IU in the second half. The dunk signaled that IU’s offense was rolling and picking up right where it left off in Hawaii as IU waltzed to a 100-78 win over UMassLowell on Wednesday. The Hoosiers saw this as an opportunity to be in complete control against a lesser nonconference opponent and play as well as they could. “Just not playing the team,” sophomore OG Anunoby said. “Just playing to dominate. Getting multiple stops on defense, rebound and just move the ball on offense.” It wasn’t always dominant. IU started out sluggish on both ends of the court, and its defense allowed UMass-Lowell to get easy baskets early. The River Hawks were able to get SEE HOOSIERS, PAGE 6

Students abstain from vote, choose third party By Melanie Metzman

Graduate student utilizes IU child care By Kate McNeal khmcneal@umail.iu.edu | @katemcneal11

Graduate student John Kummer straps his daughter into a baby carrier Tuesdays and Thursdays and walks from their home at Tulip Tree Apartments to the Campus View Child Care Center. Kummer is in his second year in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs studying public affairs and environmental policy and will get his MPA in May or sometime in the summer, he said. His daughter will be turning 2 on Christmas Eve. “I feel like people who aren’t parents don’t really realize all the time that goes into being a parent,” Kummer said. “I spend pretty much all of my free time studying because when I’m at home with her, I just want to spend time with the family.” Kummer studied environmental geography at IU-Southeast and hopes to get a job working for the government with his master’s degree. “As long as I’m working toward sustainability or making the world a better place, then I’ll feel like I’m doing something right,” Kummer said. Kummer’s daughter has been enrolled in the Campus View Child Care Center since August. Before putting her into the program, Kummer and his partner were able to sit down

STELLA DEVINA | IDS

John Kummer, a second-year graduate student, attends a class in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs on Wednesday.

with the classroom teachers to get a feel for the program, he said. “They sat with us and our daughter for about two hours and got to try to see her as a person and know what she likes, what she doesn’t like and where she is developmentally,” Kummer said. Kummer said the staff is a large

part of what makes the Campus View Child Care Center great, as well as the practice of continuity of care, where a child enrolled as an infant stays in the same classroom for three years. “I think the teachers and the people there really make it what it SEE FAMILY, PAGE 6

“I think the teachers and the people there really make it what it is because it seems like they really care.” John Kummer, graduate student

mmetzman@indiana.edu | @melanie_metzman

More than 45 percent of Americans eligible to vote abstained in this year’s election. Though final numbers on voter turnout from the United States Election Project will not be available until two weeks after Election Day, the project currently estimates that 25.5 percent of voters voted for Donald Trump and 25.6 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. In 2008, 37.8 percent of the voting age population abstained, and in 2012, 41.4 percent abstained. IU assistant professor in political science Bernard Fraga said this increase is partially due to an increase in population with lower voter turnout rates, including minorities and young people. Though the election was contentious, “negative campaigns and rhetoric did not stimulate the electorate,” Fraga said. IU junior Mahamat Ali said he did not vote because he wanted to make a statement about his dissatisfaction with the American political system. “I don’t agree with the electoral college,” Ali said. “You’re basically voting to silence other people.” In a red state like Indiana, if Ali were to vote for a Democrat for president, his vote essentially would not count, he said. To reform the political system, Ali said he would like to see the electoral college, lobbying, super PACs and super delegates removed from the political system. The popular vote should be used in elections across the board, which SEE VOTE, PAGE 6


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