IUSB Students,

Did you make a collage during lockdown? Doodle comics in the back of your class notebook? Write ridiculous lists of what you hate about COVID? Make memes to send to your friends?

I’d like to invite you to submit to this year’s edition of Analecta, IU South Bend’s award-winning literary journal. We might be “literary,” but that doesn’t mean we want dense, pretentious prose: good art is just something that communicates well in a beautiful or intentional way — so, we’re looking for work that is rich, accessible, and poignant.  This year’s journal is a way to share what we’re processing with each other and with future generations. While we are open to creative work about any subject, the issue’s theme will focus on the experience of this year.

So, send us your work! Submissions will also be included for recognition in the English department’s Annual Student Writing Awards.

Here’s how to submit:

1) Look over our genre categories and find one that fits a creative piece you’ve made. You can submit:

-VISUAL ART: 3-7 images (check out these coronavirus-inspired murals for inspiration!)

-COMICS: 3-7 standalone comics, or 1 complete strip/story* (Instagram hashtag #coronacomics is full of ideas for this genre)

-1 to 3 POEMS, maximum of 6 pages (Here’s a New York Times roundup of Pandemic Poetry)

-SHORT FICTION; 1 story or up to 3 flash stories: maximum of 3,000 words* (Here’s a graphic short story published by The Guardian, and a marvelous series of short stories in the New York Times called The Decameron Project, titled after Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th century plague novel)

-DRAMA: 1 one-act or excerpt of full-length play/screenplay (no musicals, please); maximum of 20 pages* (Dramatic Publishing has a series of one-act pandemic plays available for purchase if you’re really into this — hello theater minors!)

-NON-FICTION PROSE: 1 work of creative nonfiction, maximum of 3,000 words. (There is a lot of flexibility within this genre! Check out Sabrina Orah Mark’s story, F*** the Bread. The Bread is Over, which went viral this past May, and this Craft Capsule essay in Poets & Writers about nightmares.)

2) Once you know what you want to submit, send an email to us at iusbanalecta@gmail.com from your IUSB account on or before February 1, 2021 with “Analecta submission [insert genre]” in your header.

3) Attach a document with a header page containing your name, student ID, submission genre, and ISUB email address, (don’t include your name anywhere else on the manuscript: this is called a blind reading) and your submission. If it’s prose, please double-space. Comics may be scans or photos merged into a Word doc or PDF.

4) If you have any questions, email me (MJ) at iusbanalecta@gmail.com. I’m  happy to help! The guidelines are also available on the IUSB English Department blog, The Deadline.

*accepted works may be excerpted

I’m so looking forward to reading your submissions!

MariJean (MJ) Wegert, Analecta editor

“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t…only poets.”  ~James Baldwin

IU South Bend is offering voluntary asymptomatic COVID-19 testing during the intersession. These free, optional saliva-based tests are available for students, faculty, and staff who:

• Do NOT have any symptoms of COVID-19.
• Have NOT been selected for required mitigation testing that week.
• Have NOT tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 90 days.
• Are NOT currently in quarantine as a close contact of someone with COVID-19.

These tests will be offered to the first 50 who sign up each week. Testing slots open up at 2:00pm the Friday before the week of testing. Results will arrive via email within a couple of days.

You can learn more and sign up for a voluntary asymptomatic test here.

Friday, February 5, noon-1 pm on Zoom: Women’s and Gender Studies Public Forum

Students, faculty and staff are invited to the February 5 Public Forum presentation by Dr. Rebecca Gibson. The talk is titled: “Dangerous Curves Ahead?: The Myth of the Killer Corset.”

This talk is part of a year-long Public Forum series hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. All events will be held on Zoom: https://iu.zoom.us/j/84031995319

For more information on this event, please contact the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Dr. Christina Gerken – cgerken@iusb.edu

Abstract:
“Her liver was bisected by her corset!” “She fell into a marasmus and died!” “She was snapped clean in half by her corset!” These alarming phrases, and more, have been uttered about the undergarment that women wore for a four hundred year period of history: the corset. Yet none of these events hold up under scrutiny. The bisected livers appear to have been genetic anomalies. There are many reasons for failure to thrive, or marasmus, that are not corseting. And no one was snapped in half, as far as the data shows. Why, then, is this said, and why do we believe this? Misogyny sits at the heart of the myths surrounding corseting. Every idea about corseting that the data demonstrate as being factually incorrect stems from one thing: the conceptualization of women as inferior to men. In this talk, I’ll look at a few of those myths, such as the notion that women who corseted died early, and that the corset was physically harmful, impeding liver function, causing miscarriages, influencing tuberculosis, and literally cutting women in half. In doing so, I will highlight the lives, and deaths, of approximately 3,800 women from London, and a handful of others across the globe, and clarify the immense physical and cultural impacts of the corset, a garment that inflamed society for centuries.

The Titan Success Center is proud to welcome Shaune Thompson to our team, in her new role as Transfer Coordinator. Shaune has been with the University since 2009, and has held various positions as she first received her Bachelor of General Studies and then Master of Science in Education (Mental Health Counseling) from IU South Bend. We are thrilled to welcome a fellow Titan, and look forward to this partnership!

We are also sad, but very proud to announce that Jessica Hale will be leaving the University at the end of this month. Jessica has served as a coach at the Titan Success Center since 2018, but has been with the University since 2017. We will miss her tenacity and forward-thinking, and willingness to step in anytime someone needed help. We wish her well on her journey to receiving her Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University!

Mobile Device Security Standard IT 12.1 

IMPORTANT: IU Mobile Device Security Standard 

This notice is to serve as a reminder of Indiana University’s mobile device security standard, otherwise known as IT Policy 12.1. In summary, the policy states that all IU employees (faculty, staff, affiliates and student-workers) who use a mobile device, regardless of who owns the device, to access, store or manipulate institutional data, including accessing their IU email, must meet the following requirements on the mobile device: 

• Require a minimum 4-character passcode using at least two unique characters;
• Require your device to auto lock after a maximum of 15 minutes of inactivity;
• Require your device to lockout or wipe after 10 incorrect access attempts.

Mobile devices should never be used to access, store, or manipulate critical information.  

Employees must notify it-incident@iu.edu if the device is lost, stolen or otherwise compromised. Additionally, the device must be wiped (i.e., factory reset) to ensure all data has been erased before transferring ownership (sales, trade-in, etc.). 

You can view IT policy 12.1 in its entirety at the following link: https://protect.iu.edu/online-safety/policies/it121.html  

You can get more information on IU’s classification levels of institutional data at the following link: http://policies.iu.edu/policies/categories/information-it/data-management/DM-01.shtml#definitions   

If you have any questions, or would like assistance with device configuration, please contact the UITS Support Center at (574) 520-5555 or helpdesk@iusb.edu

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IU South Bend

Be ready for upgrade to Exchange Online

170 out of 1450 Exchange accounts are scheduled to be upgraded this week. Please note that the majority of these accounts will be moved in April.

If you are one of the 170, then you should have already received an email explaining the steps you need to take to complete the upgrade and to make sure your transition goes smoothly – these emails are not spam. Please be sure to read the email completely. If you are unsure if an email is spam or a phishing attempt, contact the IU South Bend Support Center – helpdesk@iusb.edu for confirmation.

***You may receive some licensing emails from Office 365 that state new features (e.g. Audio Conferencing) are available in your subscription. Nothing needs to be done in regards to these emails.

Exchange, which hosts the Outlook email client, will soon be upgraded to Exchange Online. The Exchange Online migration will improve IU’s email security and provide advanced threat protection settings. Exchange Online also integrates directly with Microsoft Teams, allowing you to schedule meetings and see your calendar along with Free/Busy information.

For more information on the Exchange Online migration see the Knowledge Base (KB) – https://kb.iu.edu/d/ahza

If you have any questions please contact the Support Center – helpdesk@iusb.edu or by calling 574-520-5555

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IU South Bend

The Women of IU South Bend has extended the deadline for grants submission until February 15th, 2021. Please email completed grant forms to Sherri Mott, slmott@iusb.edu.

If you completed a significant research project during 2020, you may be eligible to apply for the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

The Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, sponsored by the IU South Bend Libraries, rewards and celebrates excellence in undergraduate research projects. The annual Library Prize is designed to honor students who demonstrate sophisticated research skill by incorporating information found through the library’s resources into original scholarship. While consideration is given to the product of the research, the prize focuses on the research process and application of information literacy: the demonstration of library research skills, adept use of library resources, and the reflection upon the strategies utilized to investigate a research problem.

A monetary prize of $500 will be awarded.

Deadline is February 12, 2021.

Library Prize website at: https://library.iusb.edu/about-us/awards/libraryprize/index.html

Questions? Contact Nancy Colborn at ncolborn@iusb.edu.

Awards are $3400 (10 weeks full-time) or $1700 (5 weeks full-time); funding is available for at least 10 students.  Proposals for Student-Mentor Academic Research Teams (SMART) Summer Fellowships are due by 5 pm on Monday, March 22.  Student-mentor teams may also apply for up to $2000 in additional supporting funds.  Fellowship winners qualify for travel funding to a regional or national conference or equivalent event to present project results.  For details, visit https://academics.iusb.edu/smart/summer-fellowship.html.  Questions?  Contact SMART Committee Chair Andrew Schnabel (aschnabe@iusb.edu) or IUSB Contracts and Grants Coordinator Erika Zynda (ezynda@iusb.edu).