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By SAMANTHA [email protected]
The Harrison County Community Foundation Center unveiled the vi-sual work of three IUS graphic design students on Oct. 11 as part of an ongoing project called “The World Comes to Harrison County.” Designed by Amie Villiger, graphic design and painting senior, Brittany Norris, graph-ic design senior, and Courtnee Scifres, graph-ic design senior, their work included a floor map and a cultural time-line, which was made digitally and as posters. “Basically, in Har-rison County, there are many cultural influenc-es and people who have come from other coun-tries, and this project is
to kind of show that and teach people about all of the diversity that is in Harrison County,” Nor-ris said. The project is a col-laboration between IU Southeast’s Center for Cultural Resources, the Harrison County Com-munity Foundation, and a group called Commu-nity Unity, which con-sists of educational re-source kits with a focus on the cultural diversity of Harrison County that can be loaned to schools and used as teaching methods. According to the HCCF, the foundation gave a $5,390 grant to Community Unity. Claudia Crump, co-director for CCR, said Community Unity asked CCR to act as producers for the project. Crump said the cre-ators brainstormed and
decided the information needed to be presented visually. She said she en-listed help from Michael Koerner, lecturer in fine arts, because he leads the Design Center – a class that serves as an in-
ternship for graphic de-sign majors and allows them to work directly with clients on specific projects. “This project would not be what it is without the help of the design
center,” Crump said. Koerner selected Nor-ris, Scifres and Villiger last semester to work on the project, and they finished their work at the beginning of this semester.
Scifres worked on the floor map, Norris on the tangible timeline and Villiger on the interac-tive, digital timeline. Villiger also designed the project’s logo.
Map
The map is a vinyl, 10-by-10 topographical map of Harrison Coun-ty, which is surround-ed by other countries the people of Harrison County came from. Villiger traced the outlines of these coun-tries and Scifres placed them on the map. Scifres also picked the map’s material and decided how it would be con-structed. “It was a fun process,” Scifres said. “It was defi-nitely something totally different that anything I
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By CLAIRE MUNNSenior [email protected]
IU Southeast took center stage on Oct. 23 by serving as the location for a second debate between Indiana Sena-torial candidates. Hosted by the Indiana Debate Com-mission, the event took place in the Ogle Center, where nearly 50 TV and radio stations broadcast a live discus-sion between Democrat Joe Donnelly, Libertarian Andrew Horning and Re-publican Richard Mourdock. However, limited seating at the de-
bate caused a low amount of atten-dance for the IUS community. Stephon Moore, political science and journalism sophomore, said he was one of the lucky few to get tickets, which were given out for free on a first-come-first-serve basis. He said he views this as a large problem be-cause the school was not represent-ed. “First and fore-most, they were using our facili-ties for the de-bate,” Moore said. “We’re the stu-dents, we’re the faculty here, and we’re the people who spend a ma-jority of their days here. We didn’t re-ally get a chance to welcome them to our campus.” Few seats remained available at the debate due to members of the Union Auto Workers reserving a large por-tion of the tickets. The UAW came to support Donnelly for his efforts in sav-ing auto industry jobs. Drew Appel, criminal justice and political science junior, said he was able to attend the event after a mem-ber of the College Republicans offered him tickets. Appel said he thought the debate should have been geared more for students and faculty, as well. “I mean, yes, outsiders are allowed to come, but the UAW used this to stage a protest against Mourdock,
and so they used our limited seating,” Appel said. “At the end of it all, most of them didn’t show up. We had a lot of empty seats.”
Moore said he saw at least 15 empty seats despite tickets being sold out. “It was really dishearten-ing,” Moore said. “The ticket situation was just handled aw-fully. It wasn’t jam packed like it should have been.” In addition to limited seat-ing, Hannah Smith, communications ju-nior, said the debate also upset her be-cause none of the voter-submit-ted questions came from members of the commu-nity. “I’m not sure why they had the debate here if they weren’t going
to ask questions from local people,” Smith said. Smith said the im-portance of having a Senate debate on campus was lost be-cause of the shift in audience members. “They could have had it at a town hall for all that it mattered over having it here at IUS,” she said. “It was good publicity for the school, but, since the audience changed, it lost a lot of its po-tential that it could have had.” Although Moore said he had been leaning toward one candidate, he said he does not have a clearer view of who to vote for after the debate ended. “I was supporting one person, and, now, I’m not really supporting any-one, honestly,” he said. “It’s just a frustrating election for me in the Indi-ana Senate.” Appel said the debate reinforced the opinions he already had about who to vote for. “I feel that Mourdock repre-sents the people of Indiana and their
conservative values,” Appel said. One topic discussed during the de-bate included the issue of abortion. Donnelly said he believes abortion should only be used in cases of rape, incest and life of the mother. Howev-er, Mourdock said only when the life of the mother is at risk should abor-tion be considered. “I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God, and I think even when life begins in the horrible situ-ation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen,” Mourdock said. Moore said he was surprised Mour-dock spoke so plainly about his pro-life stance, but it did not offend him.
Low student presence creates debate uproar
It was good publicity for the school, but, since the audience changed, it lost a lot of its potential that it could have had.
Hannah Smithcommunications junior
Debate tickets sell out despite empty seats
See INDIANA SENATE DEBATE, page 2Joe Donnelly, Democratic candidate for the Indiana Senate
Richard Mourdock, Republican candidate for the Indiana Senate
Amie Villiger, graphic design and painting senior, Courtney Scifres, graphic design senior, and Brittany Norris, graphic design senior, work on a CD design layout in the Design Center, an internship class that allows students to work with clients on projects.
Photo by Claire Munn