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Week of Oct. 22, 2012

LGBT speaker advocates for equal rights

Students collaborate work with new hub

Intramurals director spikes program into new yearBy GAIL FAUSTYNStaffgfaustyn@ius.edu

The Intramurals Program delayed its activities for the 2012-13 school year while the Athletics Department searched to find a new intramurals di-rector. After nearly a month of inactivity, Tom Dowling was hired to fill the po-sition after Perry Brown, former intra-mural director, moved to Alabama to work for Talladega College. “I’m really excited for this po-sition,” Dowling said, “and, even though I’m still in the process of fig-uring things out, I can’t wait to get everything started for this year.” The first event Dowl-ing has planned is flag football, starting Oct. 28. Dowling said he has some very specific goals in mind for the outcome of this program. Dowling said the In-tramurals Program used to be more tournament-based, but he and the Athletics Department would like to have the program be more league-based. “While tournaments are great, they typically are only once a week and tended to never be on the same day,” Dowling said “By chang-ing from tournaments to leagues I hope to create a level of consistency for the students, so they will know ex-actly when and where they are play-ing, and what sport is being played.” Dowling said he also wants to work to integrate the students who live on

campus and the commuters together. Because a lot of people tend to com-mute to IU Southeast from Louisville and Southern Indiana, Dowling said he would like to have more events during the daytime so they can fit in-tramurals into their schedules. He said this would allow students who live in the dorms or commute to get to know each other. In addition, Dowling said he would also like to have more events occur at night, specifically around 9:30 or 10 p.m. The first late night event Dowling is planning is dodgeball. “Sometimes, students are looking

for something to do but they lack money or even a car to go out and do something,” Dowling said. “This would be a great outlet for them to get out and just enjoy themselves.” Another goal Dowl-ing has is to see a higher percentage of students participate in all of sports instead of one. “I would ideally like to see an outcome of 700 to 900 unique students involved with intramu-rals,” Dowling said. Joe Glover, athletics

director, said Dowling already has great ideas for the Intramural Pro-gram. Glover said, while the Athletics De-partment is ambitious for the outcome of the program this year, it will be hard to accomplish without the help of work-study students. “Right now, we have hired two part-time staff positions — one to run

the Intramural Program, and one to maintain the student gym,” Glover said. “It’s a lot of work for these gen-tlemen to take on, and they both have very busy lives. We would really like to see some work-study students help out.” Glover said the department is look-ing to find about 10 to 20 students to help with the Intramurals Program, as well to help maintain the gym. The po-sition would be part-time and paid.

For intramurals, the work-study students would act as referees. If stu-dents wanted to work for the Athlet-ics Department, they would complete tasks, such as making sure students sign in and out, showing others how to use the equipment and maintain the upkeep of the Activities Building. “No special skills are necessary for this position, the student will just have

See INTRAMURAL PROGRAM, page 2

Photo by Hanna Woods

Katie Kalin, nursing senior, prepares to bump the ball during an intramural sand volleyball game against Phi Sigma on Sept. 11, 2011.

See page 3 | Volleyball

By SAMANTHA FRAZIERStaffsefrazie@ius.edu

The IT Department added two new col-laboration hub tables on the second floor lounge of Hillside Hall. Fin-ished just a week before fall classes began, this source of technology al-lows students to share individual work from their laptops through a big screen TV. “This is brand new for this campus,” Tom Sawyer, chief informa-tion officer for the IT De-partment, said. “This is as good as you’re going to see anywhere in the country,” Sawyer said. “Nobody else has done it. The company that put this together for us had never done one like this.” The collaboration hub tables work by letting up to four students connect their laptops or tablets to the TV screen by con-necting a chord to their computers. The chords are kept in a small black box on the table, which

also brings up a touch screen panel. Students can view each other’s work from their individual laptops by touching a number on the touch panel. The information from one student’s computer is shown on the screen and can be switched between each student’s laptop by pressing a button. Sawyer said the key-boards and mouse are

wireless in order to bet-ter assist students and keep the tables neat. He said he did not want chords hanging out, as with some of the other IU campuses. Though located in Hillside Hall, the tables are not owned by the Department of Educa-tion or Business — they are available for every-one on campus. No appointment is

needed but use is based on a first come, first serve basis. Aside from working at IU Southeast, Sawyer also works with three other IU campuses. He added a total of nine collaboration hub tables at each campus and one in the new IUS Graduate Center in Jef-fersonville. “[Other IU campuses] have similar technolo-

gies, but they haven’t put them together quite like we did,” Sawyer said. “We did them a little bit different.” Sawyer said the idea for the collaboration tables themselves actu-ally came from collabo-rations among IT De-partment members. The members brainstormed ways to keep up tech-nologically with chang-ing teaching methods

and worked with other IU campuses to see how they could best imple-ment new technology at IU Southeast. After seeing other campuses using collabo-ration hub tables, Saw-yer said they worked to add some on campus. In addition, Sawyer said he noticed how his grandchildren were starting to work on col-laborative kinds of proj-ects as early as elemen-tary school and thought colleges and universities should keep pace. He also said he hopes new equipment, such as the hubs, will help take the technology discus-sion off the table for fac-ulty and students. “There should be no reason why technologi-cally they can’t do the things they want to do,” he said. The collaboration hub tables are meant to be a pilot for IU Southeast to see if and how well they work. Sawyer said the IT Department is look-ing to find out if this is something teachers and students want and can use. “We’re trying to get

See HUBS, page 2

Photo by Samantha Fraizer

Mark Bobo, Robert Lizenby, Craig Bates and Hannah Wohlenhaus, informatics seniors, collaborate for a project in their informatics capstone class using one of the collaboration hub tables in Hillside Hall. The hubs allow students to share informa-tion from their laptops and project it onto a TV screen.

Hillside Hall gains high tech upgrades

This would be a great outlet for them to get out and just enjoy themselves.

Tom Dowlingintramurals director