By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington This blog is comprised of excerpts from the Campustry podcast. All information was obtained from the Indiana University Library Archives. It’s a sunny spring morning in Bloomington in 1895. The sun is hanging low in the blue, cloudless sky. The birds chirp from the… Read more »
By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington This blog is comprised of excerpts from the Class Scrap podcast. All information was obtained from the Indiana University Library Archives. Perhaps the most interesting part of researching Indiana University’s history is being able to see just how different life was like for students… Read more »
By: Ellen Glover, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2018, Journalism, Bloomington I’ve never really been interested in history. I always enjoyed hearing about cool things that have happened in history; but as a journalism student, I never really thought about researching and covering history all that deeply. This changed, however, when I was hired as an… Read more »
By Sarah Jacobi, Office of the Bicentennial Office Manager and Administrative Assistant The inaugural Bicentennial Intern Open House was held on December 9th 2016 and was a great success. Twelve interns participated in the event and faculty and staff stopped by to learn more about the projects they have been working on throughout the semester…. Read more »
By: Kevin Schascheck, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2019, International Business and German, South Bend At our founding, Indiana University at South Bend was more comparable to a Bloomington colony rather than being emblematic of the South Bend community. Today, we see a very different story. IUSB has three buildings dedicated to classes and offices, a… Read more »
By: Grace Shymanski, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, French and History, Bloomington The WRA Era, Extramural Era, and Association Eras Women’s Basketball continued to progress as a game and as the preferred pass time for collegiate women at Indiana. Organizations such as sororities, dormitories, and other unorganized groups of women continued to compete in basketball… Read more »
By: Sarah Kissel, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, Political Science, Religious Studies, English Literature, Bloomington “Racism and Race-Awareness at Indiana University – Bloomington: An Ad Hoc Study by the Board of Aeons. February 23, 1982.” Thus reads the title of the iconic report on race relations at Indiana University, a decades-long conversation among members of… Read more »
By: Sarah Kissel, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, Political Science, Religious Studies, English Literature, Bloomington One of the most valuable campus resources finds its roots in a conversation that occurred among Board members in the fall of 1987 and spring of 1988: the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Student Support Services Center. The Board… Read more »
By: Grace Shymanski, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, French and History, Bloomington The inventor of basketball Dr. James Naismith once said: “Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport”. Hoosiers have loved basketball since it was brought to the state by Nicholas McKay in 1892, a year after its… Read more »
By: Jordan Siden, Bicentennial Intern, Class of 2017, History, Bloomington After spending the first few months of my Mini 500 project deep in primary sources, at the start of the fall semester I decided to work toward placing my story in its larger context. This included reading about women’s experiences in American colleges since… Read more »