By Cathy Deal Barbara Singer’s history is one of initiative. She likes to say that she majored in student activities while she was an undergrad student, because she dabbled in many different organizations and committees (while achieving academic success as an eventual Mortar Board member. Barbara was heavily focused on Union Board committee work, in… Read more »
Month: November 2022
How Ernie Pyle’s journalism helped create the IMU
By Susan Burns When Ernest T. Pyle arrived at IU in the fall of 1919, the university was just composed of 15 buildings lined up along Third St and Indiana Avenue, bordering woods and the old Dunn farm, whose meadow stretched out along Seventh Street. Enrollment had jumped to 2,300 men and women who scrambled… Read more »
Fall Update from the Union Board President
Hello John Whittenberger Society members, This past fall has been an extremely vibrant time on IU’s campus and the 113th Indiana Memorial Union Board. Over the course of the semester, the directors on board have been extremely busy creating rich, powerful, and fun programming for the booming 47,000 students on campus. A few notable events… Read more »
Mervis Lecture featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones held in October
The third installment of the Lou Mervis Distinguished lecture series was held this fall. Gabriella Couloubaritsis, the Union Board Director of Lectures expanded the lecture this year to include more opportunities for students to interact with Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Knight Chair of Race and Journalism at Howard University, and creator of the… Read more »