A Farewell to Marvin page 8&9 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
VOL. 161, ISSUE 26
JumpsArt promotes the arts, involvement By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com
An eight hour loop of relaxing jungle sounds plays on laptop speakers as students create their own cave paintings. Crumpled brown paper hangs on the wall simulating a cave. Eight elementary students cover the paper with mostly right handprints, a finger painted ring of fire, chalk drawn horses, and one Pokemon, a Pikachu. Chelsea Naylor ’12, a Bonner Scholar, came up with the idea for JumpsArt in the summer of 2012 after she attended a leadership conference. She brought the idea back that fall laying down the grunt work to get the program off the ground.
“Art can be a career and a life passion.” The mock-up depicts the renovated Lilly Center exterior set to open in Aug. 2014. PHOTO COURTESY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
Casey returns with news of big gifts By DANA FERGUSON news@thedepauw.com
President Brian Casey returned from the annual DePauw University Board of Trustees meeting over the weekend with four significant announcements and a big smile. With over $31 million in donations from Board members and other donors, Casey said he felt “ahead” on the university’s seven-year plan. While gifts to improve properties on Anderson Street, East College Lawn and Athletic Facilities rolled in, Casey said contributions to the university’s endowment and Center for Student Engagement marked a positive turn in the capital campaign. Casey said initial gifts in university capital campaigns tend to go toward buildings, and more visible monuments. “Now you can start seeing the shifts to endowment scholarships and programs,” Casey said. A $20 million gift to the university’s endowment to be used for needbased financial aid marks the greatest of the gifts. Some for financial aid
Timothy H. and Sharon W. Ubben (both ’58) gave a $20 million gift to the university’s endowment to dole out financial aid to students. The gift to the endowment is one in a long line of generous donations first established by the Rector endowment and Rector Scholars program in 1919. “This university has been a part of our lives for many years, and it is a privilege to be a part of its future,” Ubben said in a press release. “Sharon and I have always believed that the opportunity to see the impact of your gift is one of the most rewarding experiences, which is why this gift means so much to the both of us.” Career preparation in Center for Student Engagement Casey announced that Kenneth W. and Carrie Melind Coquillette (both ’82) gave $2 million to fund new programming in the Center for Student Engagement that will focus on career preparation. The Coquillette gift will create an endowment and a discretionary fund that will allow for more programming and staffing enhancements. Specifically the gift will provide for the creation of the “Sophomore Year Experience,” during which students will be able to receive guidance on
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- Chelsea Naylor ‘12 creator of JumpArts
“I modeled it after Sports Night [another Bonner Scholar event],” Naylor said. “I wanted to have that, but focus on an area of academics that doesn’t get a lot of focus, like art.” Naylor leads discussions and ultimately decides the focus of each lesson. JumpsArt begins with a power point presentation of a specific type of art, this month was Cave Paintings. Naylor, along with other Bonner scholars and volunteers, guide the students through the history of the type of art. “It was important to have female and male volunteers to show that boys can do art too,” Naylor said. After the students have learned enough about the art they move to a studio and re-create their interpretation of it. Students alternated from using chalk to finger paint to cover the crumpled brown paper. “They do just enough [history] that the kids don’t get bored with it,” Christi York said. Her son Duncan’s left hand prints the brown paper with orange.
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