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Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Dorothy and Robert Waters describe a gravel road on their family farm that connected the Black Oak spring to the Chase Street spring. The road made a relatively straight east-west line between the two springs, and was used to move farm machinery between fields.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Connie Standifer recalls the community use of the Chase Street Spring when she was growing up. She remembers that people traveled to Small Farms to collect water from the artesian well, sometimes drawn by its "miraculous healing" properties. She says, "And there were people from all over... All different types of license plates. From, Utah…Illinois, Nevada."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Betty Earlene Jordan discusses how the use of plastic increased the amount of littering at the Chase Street spring. "I think that if people were out there and they had a container that maybe wasn't as clean as they thought it should have been, or if it was bent up too badly," she says, "they would just...throw it."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Environmental Impacts for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes shares a short history of his familial origins and what it was like for them to move from the South to the North. He compares the environment of Small Farms to that of rural Mississippi and Alabama, and describes the topography of the area, noting that it was wooded and had dirt roads. He also shares that he and other children had a "very creative childhood" because they used their imagination and surroundings in their play.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Kristin Huysken, Associate Professor of Geoscience at Indiana University Northwest, discusses her use of the Chase Street Spring today. She leads field trips to the well to help her students "understand how geology affects them in their everyday lives and how they interact with their geologic environment."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Use of the Spring Today for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Exnar McIntosh-Burt discusses her upbringing in Small Farms, highlighting specific schools that she attended. She describes her childhood as "many years of wonderful growing up." McIntosh-Burt came from a family of 18 children. She shares that the neighborhood was a very tight-knit community, stating, "We raised each other... A very close-knitted family on the Small Farm."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes describes his childhood in Small Farms. He says that he and his siblings thought they were "living large" in a big house filled with extended family members. Hughes' family were avid fishermen and would sometimes host fish fries for the neighborhood. He says as children they had everything they needed in Small Farms, and that "we essentially didn't leave that area...until it was time to start school."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes discusses life growing up in Small Farms. He shares stories of how he and other children were teased at school for where they came from. He attributes this treatment to the dirt and dust that settled on their clothing during their walk on dirt roads to get to school. Classmates called them "farmers from the Black Bottoms" (after a nickname used for Small Farms). But he says they were proud of their origins and the place they called home. As Hughes puts it, "We wore it as a badge of honor."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the amount of work involved with using a spring as a primary water source. "It was a lot of work," she says. "Because we would fill the car up with those jugs and that water is heavy." She recalls how she once carried four jugs at once, and that her mother scolded her for carrying too many.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Ida L. Lloyd discusses her memories of growing up in Small Farms, after moving there at age ten from East Chicago. She explains why she preferred East Chicago to Small Farms. She says, "We hated it in a sense that you didn't have the freedom. You didn't have the sidewalks, running water, like you should, like we had in East Chicago." Lloyd also shares a story about how residents of East Chicago would combat hot summer nights by spending the night on the Lake Michigan beach to keep cool.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Growing Up in Small Farms for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell explains how the dilapidation within her hometown of Gary makes it difficult for her to fully appreciate its history. "So much of [Gary] is completely unrecognizable from what it used to be or it's just outright gone," she says. "And I think that that feeling of not really having that connection to one's history because it's missing is part of it for me." For Campbell, the Chase Street spring serves as one tangible connection to Gary's past.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Use of the Spring Today for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
The Black Oak artesian well was located in the front yard of Dorothy Waters' family home. She says that when people from the neighborhood collected water from the spring, they sometimes left pennies on a tree stump to thank the family for providing the water to the public.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Black Oak Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses current use of the Chase Street spring. He aspires to make the area surrounding the artesian well more accessible to users. He says that the question is, "How can we do something that's going to benefit the whole Northwest Indiana community?"
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Use of the Spring Today for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Johnny Burt describes how passways (footpaths) allowed people to walk from their neighborhoods near Lake Sandy Jo to the spring. He recalls stopping at the spring with other children to quench his thirst after walks to the Village, a shopping center located on Grant Street.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Dorothy Waters recalled that her brother told her that there used to be a house next to the Chase Street spring: "There was a house there, that he called the Spring House. Because it was right there at the spring." Dorothy shares an anecdote about the man who lived there, who used its cold waters as his refrigerator.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Community Use of the Spring for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Kristin Huysken, Associate Professor of Geoscience at Indiana University Northwest, describes how she uses the Chase Street Spring to teach her students about artesian wells. She asks her students to observe what they see at the spring, and engages them in a conversation about the science behind it.
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Use of the Spring Today for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses plans for the beautification and enhancement of the Chase Street Spring. He says, "So if we work together in partnership, I think we can really develop something that's going to really enhance this whole community, bring us all together."
This was one of a group of excerpts gathered under the subject heading of Use of the Spring Today for a digital and in-person exhibit of the Spring at Small Farms Oral Histories. The digital exhibit can be seen at https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home.
Kay Westhues interviews Arianne Campbell at Griffith Public Library in Griffith, Indiana, on October 11, 2019. Campbell first learned of the spring while employed by the AmeriCorps VISTA Program at the Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. She describes her research on the spring, a cleanup project she initiated, and the presentation on the spring that she prepared for Green Drinks Gary. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Betty Earlene Jordan at the Lake County Library, Merrillville Branch, in Merrillville, IN, on October 31, 2019. Jordan grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township. Her family depended on the spring for drinking water in the 1960s-70s. She shares her memories of that experience, and describes the community of Small Farms and Black Oak during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Chuck Hughes at his office in the Gary Chamber of Commerce in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Hughes is the Executive Director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce and a former resident of Small Farms. The Fresh County Market on 25th Ave is in the vicinity of his childhood home. Chuck shares remembrances of growing up in the Small Farms community, his memories of getting water from the spring. He also talks about why people may have moved from the community, and his support of the Fresh Market development when he served as a Gary City Councilperson. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Chuck Hughes at Hughes' office in the Gary Chamber of Commerce in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Hughes is the Executive Director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce and a former resident of Small Farms. The Fresh County Market on 25th Ave is in the vicinity of his childhood home. Chuck shares remembrances of growing up in the Small Farms community, his memories of getting water from the spring. He also talks about why people may have moved from the community, and his support of the Fresh Market development when he served as a Gary City Councilperson. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews David Castellanos at Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission office in Munster, IN, on October 25, 2019. Castellanos is a board member on the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission, the agency that owns the property containing the spring. The Commission is in charge of flood control along the Little Calumet River, from Gary to the Illinois State Line. David shares information about a cleanup at the spring, and the Commission’s plans for improving the spring and the surrounding area. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert Waters grew up in the Black Oak area and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert, grew up in the Black oak area, and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Ida L. Lloyd at her home in the Glen Park neighborhood in Gary, Indiana, on September 13, 2019. Lloyd shares her experience of moving to Small Farms from East Chicago in 1950, when she was a child. Her family drew water from the spring in the winter, when the pump at their house would freeze. She describes and contrasts her memories of life in East Chicago and Small Farms. She talks about her family's roots in Alabama and her grandfather, who was in the first graduating class at Tuskegee University. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Burt, Johnny (narrator), McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Kay Westhues interviews Johnny Burt and Exnar McIntosh-Burt at Exnar Burt’s home in Gary, Indiana, on September 6, 2019. The Burts grew up in Small Farms in a family of eighteen children. They depended on the spring for their drinking water in the 1960s, and describe its significance in their lives. They talk about what life was like in Small Farms during that time, and how people accessed the spring water. They also discuss the history of Lake Sandy Jo.
Kay Westhues interviews Kristin Huysken at Professor Hysken’s lab in Marram Hall, Indiana University in Gary, Indiana, on October 4, 2019. Professor Huysken is an Associate Professor of Geology and Chairperson in the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University Northwest. She describes the Introduction to Earth Science class field trips she led at two local artesian wells: the Gary spring on Chase Street, and the spring at Beverly Shores, Indiana. She describes the geological processes that produce an artesian well, and some specific geologic features in the region surrounding the spring. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Pam Powers at the Lake County Public Library, Merillville branch, in Merillville, Indiana, on October 25, 2019. Powers grew up in the Small Farms and is currently a member of the Gary Food Council, an organization that is advocating to restore the spring site. Although her family did not rely on the spring water for drinking, she often accompanied friends when they went with their families to gather water. She describes the farming aspects and landscape of the Small Farms area during the 1970. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Terence and Connie Standifer at Macomb Community College in Macomb County, Michigan, on November 8, 2019. Reverend Standifer was the pastor at Pleasant Valley, Missionary Baptist Church in the Small Farms Community from 1981 to 1993. He participated in several environmental cleanup projects in the Ambridge-Mann community and conducted community outreach to help bring water lines into the Small Farms neighborhood. Reverend Standifer now lives in Michigan with his wife Connie. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
Kay Westhues interviews Steve Truchan at his office at the Gary Bridge and Iron Company in Gary, Indiana, on December 6, 2019. Truchan is the owner of Gary Bridge and Iron Company, located on 37th Ave. near Chase St. His family moved there in 1950 and he grew up in that neighborhood, and his neighbors included several of the families who farmed near the spring. He described a second nearby spring, a period when the spring stopped running, and what the area looked like during the 1950s-60s. He talked about the practice of hunting and foraging in the surrounding woods. He also discussed how the spring and the surrounding land was impacted by drainage projects and Lake Sandy Jo. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home
“No children were really served in a community setting, in a public school, especially children with moderate to severe disabilities,” explains Pat Barber. Pat received her special education degree in the early 1970s from Indiana University. She started her teaching career at Stone Belt Center in Bloomington, Indiana. There were several classrooms in the building set up for infants to school age children. Pat describes what a school experience was like for a child with disabilities attending the Stone Belt Center. Pat was interviewed in 2017.
“No children were really served in a community setting, in a public school especially children with moderate to severe disabilities,” explains Pat Barber. Pat received her special education degree in the early ‘70s from Indiana University. She started her teaching career at Stone Belt Center in Bloomington, Indiana. There were eight to nine classrooms from infants to school age. Teachers were contracted by the public schools. The program ran year-round.
Somewhere in the late ‘70s to mid ‘80s, children started moving into public schools. Pat gives credit to families for pushing to have their children included in regular public schools. There were families and many teachers concerned if public schools were ready to provide the needed supports. Pat says, “I definitely feel that kids flourished. And one of the fears or worries that a lot of us had is that, can anybody do it as well as we can? They-- you know, people out there, they don't know kids with disabilities…I have to say in all my years of experience that they are. I mean, good teachers, good principals, good administrators are good for all kids."
After teaching preschool for 20 years, Pat became the coordinator of the school corporation’s preschool program. One of her roles was to support five-year-olds entering kindergarten. The transition process would start a year before kindergarten. Pat explains, “We had the most success when we lined out a very specific transition plan at least 12 months before that transition happened. And it included lots of visits. It included parents going to the classroom because they are so critical to help us develop a transition plan.”
Pat also discusses changes to the IEP process, experiences with home visits, assessment tools used in the classroom, and changes in attitudes. She says, “I don't know that I could say that there was one specific event or one specific law that changed. I think attitude started to change with the rules, with parents, and with people showing that kind of respect.” Pat was interviewed in 2017.
Pat outlines her motivations for getting involved with the youth vote, her activism at the time, the youth vote's path from Congress to Supreme Court to constitutional amendment, and the Nixon signing ceremony.
No matter the endeavor, Paul J. Caine has always found himself at the helm. His career has spanned a spectrum of media and major companies, including well-known names like Time, WestwoodOne and Bloomberg. He has held the titles of president, chief revenue officer and CEO among others, but he doesn't define his career as "leadership."
"I never thought about it as ending up in leadership roles. I just get very passionate about ideas and how to better serve people," Caine said. "When I see an opportunity in the market, I get very excited."
Today, Caine is chairman of the boards of video advertising firm Telaria Inc. and global marketing agency Engine Group, and CEO/founder of investment advisory organization PC Ventures.
He started his career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson after graduating from IU in 1986 with a degree in telecommunications and a minor in business.
From there, Caine moved on to USA Today, where he was the company's then-youngest-ever salesman. He did a brief stint at Psychology Today before he was recruited to join the sales team of one of Time Inc.'s most coveted titles: People magazine.
He spent over 23 years rising through the ranks at Time. He wrote the business plan and led the launch of Teen People, a publication that would become a major voice for American teens.
Caine later served as publisher of Entertainment Weekly and People, where he spun off titles including People StyleWatch and People.com. By 2011, Caine was executive vice president, chief revenue officer and group president of Time Inc., overseeing all U.S.-based brands, including People, Time, Sports Illustrated, InStyle, Real Simple and many others.
In 2013, he left Time Inc. to become CEO of Dial Global, the leading U.S. radio syndication company with an audience of over 250 million Americans per week. During his tenure, he renamed the company to WestwoodOne and helped orchestrate its sale to radio broadcasting company Cumulus Media. Today, WestwoodOne remains the largest audio network in the U.S.
Caine left WestwoodOne and joined Bloomberg Media as global chief revenue and client partnerships officer. He left Bloomberg in 2016 and has since devoted his professional time to Engine Group, Telaria and PC Ventures.
PC Ventures' investments include Blue Marble, an organic ice cream company that sells to companies like Starbucks and Whole Foods, and Wolf + Friends, a social networking and content platform for mothers of children with special needs.
Caine has a particular passion for issues related to families, mothers and children. In 2007, Caine and his wife started Griffin Cares at Englewood Health in New Jersey in memory of their son, Griffin. Griffin Cares supports families who have experienced infant loss.
"Pam and I always felt that everyone has the opportunity to help make other people's lives better. Griffin Cares was created to carry on Griffin's legacy and help support families in our community who have experienced this type of devastating loss," Caine said.
Caine is a member of the Advertising Hall of Achievement and the MIN Hall of Fame, and has been recognized with many industry awards, including Radio Ink's 40 Most Powerful People in Radio, the Adweek 50, Crain New York's "40 Under 40" and the Advertising Club of New York's President's Award. In 2010, Caine received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IU's College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association.
Caine is proud to serve on The Media School's Dean's Advisory Board.
When so many of us feel responsible for and powerless against climate change, it can be difficult to assess which actions are effective. In this episode, associate producer Jacob Einstein speaks with Chelsea Campbell about the environmental app she developed and explores the relationship between individual and collective action in the fight against climate change
During the 1970s, El Salvador boasted a vast shrimp industry, and nearly all of the 3700 tons that it exported each year made its way to the United States. As shrimp was transitioning away from luxury status, few Americans were likely to give much thought to how the shrimp reached their plates. Fewer still would ever have heard of the story of Puerto el Triunfo – Port Triumph in English – and the drama of the shrimp industry's rise and fall. Yet now, with consciousness of food at an all-time high, and concerns about fair trade and sustainability much on the public mind, it is time to tell this remarkable story. Puerto el Triunfo is a microcosm that throws into sharp relief some of the most powerful forces shaping Central America, and more broadly, the obstacles facing organized labor worldwide.
In the 1970s, the 1500 organized workers of the port – mostly women – thanks to their struggles and to the profitability of the Salvadoran shrimp industry were amongst the more privileged laborers in the country. By the latter part of the decade, their hopes for a dignified life for their children seemed on the verge of realization. In 1980, brutal state repression eliminated union leaders or drove them into exile. After a few years, the unions reorganized. By the 1990s, however, the collapse of the industry had extinguished the hopes of the port workers. Our story reveals the internal functioning of the unions, including intense gender conflict and sheds light on their early forms of resistance to the neo-liberal inspired transformation of labor relations that emerged on a global scale during the 1980s. Often known as the flexibilization of labor, management typically has striven to cut costs by reducing the permanent labor force to whom it must pay benefits, employing a temporary, "casual," workers who lack fundamental labor rights. In 1987, the fishermen's union launched one of the longest strikes in the history of the world labor movement against such management tactics. The collapse of the strike in 1990 coincided with the demise the largest shrimp company in Central America. Puerto el Triunfo will attract viewers in part because of the raw power of the story and because the small-scale intimacy of our tale will put a human face to the impersonal forces of globalization, tropical deindustrialization and environmental decay.
Port Triumph was a finalist at the Central American International Film Festival and nominated for Best Cinematography at Queens World Film Festival
The Sample: Under sunny early-April skies, IU's First Nations Educational & Cultural Center hosted its Eighth Annual Traditional Powwow. For years, this has been an event where native students can celebrate and non-native students can learn. This year, we chat with recent grad Scout Landin about the jingle dress and why she came back to town for this IU tradition.
The Sample: While most of the country celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride in June, Bloomington celebrates in the month of August. In this episode of The Sample, Kat Spence heads to the LGBTQ+ Culture Center to ask the students who call Indiana University and Bloomington home, what Pride means to them.
Readers! Do You Read by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Mary Borgo Ton, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
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Giving a poster presentation for a class or a conference? In the throes of a research project and need some clarity? This workshop explores poster design as a tool for organizing your research and presenting the results. We’ll discuss project management techniques that not only lead to dynamic and engaging posters but can also help you write papers, articles, and strong grant applications. We’ll share tips for designing your poster as well as identify easy-to-use design tools and on-campus printing resources. Bring a project or an idea to practice with!
Assistant Professor of the Psychological and Brian Sciences Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces discusses depression, psychotherapy, and the potentials of online treatment for mental illness.
This presentation is the first step in an answer to Emily Drabinski’s 2013 challenge to library and information science (LIS) professionals to think about ways in which to ‘queer the library catalog,’ and to represent identity as historically constructed and described. Beginning with a brief outline of the troubled history between marginalized groups and LIS classifications, I examine some of the proposals suggested over the past half-decade by researchers—and their limitations. Instead of starting anew, or using ‘uninformed’ social tagging/folksonomies, I propose a ‘turn’ to the catalogs and controlled vocabularies of archives and special collections, which frequently reckon with unclassifiable material.
Following through on that turn, I will discuss how linked data and linked data vocabularies are currently being used by several digital archives—along with some possible lessons for the LIS field as a whole. The radical and subversive use of linked data by queer digital archives offers a partial solution to the conundrum of minoritized and historical representation in the catalog. Finally, I will conclude by describing my own experiences and considerations in the construction of a new linked data vocabulary.
The Sample: Her freshman year, IU senior Dhara Shukla got involved in the Raas Royalty Dance Competition, the only free garba-raas competition in the nation. Now a co-director of the organization, she reflects on how dance and the friends she's made through Raas have made IU home for her.
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the final episode in our beverage series, and it's all about coffee. We follow guests to Colombia, El Salvador, and Costa Rica to learn about the systems preventing coffee farmers from building climate resilience and possibilities for improvement.
In this episode:
James Harper of the Filter Stories podcast
Jessica Eise of the Purdue University Brian Lamb School of Communication
Thaleon Tremain of Pachamama Coffee Cooperative
What does a Tesla have to do with red mud and white seaweed in Indonesia? What stands in the way of solid state batteries? How can you tell what's really powering your electric vehicle? In this episode, we work through trends and complications in the technology that could deliver transportation powered by renewable energy.
3:30 - Greg Less of the University of Michigan Energy Institute's Battery Lab
14:30 - Ian Morse with a story about nickel mining in Indonesia
Alternative forms of dissertations and theses are hot topics in higher education, but what is it really like to write one? Join Mary Borgo Ton, a Ph.D. candidate in British Literature, for a behind-the-scenes look at her dissertation which takes the form of a Scalar-powered website. The dissertation explores the global history of Victorian screen culture through virtual reality, 3D models, and interactive maps. As she reflects on the design process, she’ll introduce writing techniques that have helped her pivot to a wide range of forms and identify local resources for training, tools, and equipment.
In this episode of Through The Gates, our host Elaine Monaghan sits down with Scott Shackleford and Mike McGinnis to reflect on the life and work of Elinor Ostrom. Elinor was a member of the faculty at IU and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009. For a list of events honoring her legacy visit ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/index.html
A guide for institutions to navigate and create reports using the NSSE Report Builder. Follow along as NSSE analyst show you how to create reports with a few different examples. You will learn how to create reports within-institution and between-institutions. This will serve as a helpful resource to help you create relevant reports for your institution and spread the data from your NSSE data.
Caroline Sinders, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
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Caroline Sinders is an artist and researcher exploring how new kinds of data sets, be it emotional data, traumatic data, or political data can then affect algorithms. How can these outputs be actualized as an art piece? Can the creation of a data set help create equity in digital spaces? Her work explores the intersections of critical design, data, and AI as art. This talk will explore the methodology she's created to guide both her art and research practice, called 'research driven art.' Inspired by photojournalism, critical design, and open source software, research driven art is a process driven artistic methodology, focusing on question answering and question exploring, and how a research process can be an artistic practice as well as an artistic output.
This week Dean Shanahan sits down with IU alumna and Rhodes Scholar Jenny Huang. Tune in to hear Jenny's story: from her avid reading as a child, to field research in Iceland, to her new adventure as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.
“We would get referrals from the workshops usually, and we would meet with the individuals to determine their eligibility.” Roberta Stafford worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for almost 24 years. Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services is a state and federally funded agency working with people with disabilities to assist in finding employment. Roberta describes the work evaluation people would go through to determine what help they might need to do a job. However, at the end of evaluation, people wound up working in the sheltered workshop. That all changed in the mid-1980s with the introduction of supported employment. The counselors were initially skeptical this new program would work. Instead of telling people what job they could have, counselors learned how to empower individuals. Roberta explains, "It's all individualized. So, you know, so we work with people to get them through that process so that they can figure out what kind of job they want." Roberta was interviewed in 2019.
“That was a huge experience for me,” Ronelle Johnson recalls of her term as President of Indiana Chapter of Black Deaf Advocates (ICBDA). “I decided to be involved in the Deaf community because their needs for advocacy was great.” Having lost her hearing when she was 18 months old, she attended the Indiana School for the Deaf in Indianapolis. There all her teachers were required to sign, which they did fluently. “That's when I started picking up more language, more signs, and started becoming more ingrained in the Deaf community.” In 2005, she joined ICBDA. The organization was started in 1991. Its activities include mentoring children, promoting their ability to express themselves, and reinforcing positive values. Ronelle has been active in advocacy for Deaf rights and working for systems change. “Many of the people in our group have experienced suppression and opposition because of being Black and Deaf.” Ronelle became ICBDA’s Midwestern regional representative and got involved at a national level. Ronelle was interviewed in 2019.
Angelina Davydova reports on the environment for Russian and international media. During a visit to IU Bloomington, this Hurbet H. Humphrey fellow from UC Davis sat down with Dean Shanahan to discuss Russian waste management, thawing permafrost and how the changing climate is affecting the natural landscapes of Russia.
Dean Shanahan speaks with Tampa Bay Times food critic, Laura Reiley, a Pulitzer and Beard finalist, about changes to our food systems and whether food in restaurants is always what it claims to be.
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kalani L. Craig, Michelle Dalmau
Summary:
While we often think about the end form - website, digital journal, online resource - when we talk about digital scholarly communications, the work of digital arts and humanities publishing starts at the very beginning of a project. we will walk participants through what digital publications are (moving behind articles and monographs to peer-reviewed datasets and visualizations), how to present these in peer-review and promotion settings, and how to craft a project that takes these publication types and needs to account during the early, mid, and late- research stages. From practical data-management and storage concerns to the more intellectually challenging questions of how to frame the disciplinary outcomes of digital projects to our readers and peers, we will send participants home with a project plan and set of campus resources to support that plan.
The Sample: In this episode, Emily visits the closet of Paige Venturi, editor in chief of IU's only fashion magazine. She and Arjun Madhavan have been a part of Season Magazine since Sharon Hsu founded it in 2018. Season opens a door for students passionate about fusing art and utility into content that fellow students can connect with.
This video remediates some of the interactive features of the Shining Lights website. It includes a walkthrough of some of the most interactive and visually interesting pages on the website.
Wagner, Gerald, Wolf, Ray, Thomas, Ben, Miles, Emily, Shanahan, James
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Late September in the U.S. saw a host of abnormal weather events: record heat in the Southeast, a Category 5 hurricane in an odd location, and five feet of snow in Montana. This episode, the team zeroes in on the early, heavy snows that could have a long-term effect on farmers in the Northern Plains.
2:00 - Gerald Wagner, director of the Blackfeet Environmental Office
14:00 - Ray Wolf, science and operations officer, NOAA/NWS Quad Cities
20:45 - Ben Thomas, director of the Montana Department of Agriculture
This lecture will describe the roots of sociogenomics and how it provides a new framework for understanding the relationship between genes and social behavior. The key discoveries underlying this framework will be discussed: 1) Brain gene expression is closely linked with behavior, across time scales, from physiological to evolutionary; 2) Environmentally induced changes in gene expression mediate changes in behavior; and 3) The relationship between genes and behavior is highly conserved, from animals to humans.
Marizán, Paola, Shanahan, Jim, Eosco, Gina, Berardelli, Jeff
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With rising and warming ocean waters, hurricanes are on track to intensify. This change means greater risk for people in the path and greater need for effective long- and short-term risk communication. But the story of the hurricane doesn't stop with the radar, or the rescues, or la renuncia, or the rebuild. To understand the chatter around hurricane season, the team talks this week with a meteorologist, a risk communications specialist and a podcast host whose family lived through Hurricane Maria. 2:45 - Update on "Huracán Maria changed my family's life" with Paola Marizán from ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest? 16:45 - interview between Jim Shanahan and Gina Eosco from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 27:45 - interview between Jim Shanahan and Jeff Berardelli from Columbia University and CBS News
In a conversation with Gunther Schmidt, MD, Prof. Stephen Porges illustrates his approach and they discuss implications for psychotherapy. Homepage von Prof. Stephen Porges (with concrete explications of the theory): http://www.stephenporges.com
Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK-Y2_eMfgw
Prof. Stephen Porges, the originator of the polyvagal theory illustrates his scientific approach in a conversation with Dr. Gunther Schmidt. They discuss the evolutionary emergence of the polyvagal system, name implications for psychotherapy and give hints for the understanding of psychological trauma.
In the video, Prof. Stephen Porges briefly summarizes his work. Elaborate illustration can be found on his website.
Prof. Stephen Porges website:
http://www.stephenporges.com
Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLEAlhBHPM
This interview "Stephen Porges: Resilience" is part of the series "Hardwiring Happiness: The 7 Essential Strengths with Rick Hanson," originally hosted by en*theos.
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Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeN4mWATl9g
Are you a caregiver who is on the verge of burnout? What is the difference between the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system? What happens if I misread a person's face, especially my partner? Listen to this fascinating interview with Polyvagal theory's founder, Stephen Porges.
Shownotes:
(1:45) Episode 116: Polyvagal theory, safety in relationships.
(4:26) Why knowing how to read other people matters.
(9:50) How our physiology affects how we perceive others, and how others perceive us.
(17:50) Arguments from a biological perspective.
(20:15) Co-regulation.
(25:05) How learning can be affected by a teacher’s physiology.
(27:40) Reading an audience when speaking in public.
(32:15) DPIR enrollment.
(34:10) Difference between the central nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
(42:05) How stress affects to our bodies.
(50:00) About depression.
(55:45) About exercise.
(56:50) How taking care of others can impact your life.
(1:01:20) Final thoughts.
(1:06:40) Action Step.
Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rCIYQVHF4
http://plantyourself.com/340 Stephen Porges' body of work has informed my coaching as much as anything else. My exploration and use of Polyvagal Theory to help clients shift undesirable behavior patterns feels like a superpower.
I wish more coaches - especially, but not limited to, health coaches - knew about his work, and understood how to apply it.
Original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQrgf1SKeU
Stephen S. Mills is an award-winning LGBTQ poet who is a native of Richmond, Indiana. Travis Rountree, assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Program invited Stephen to IU East to read some of his poetry that often refers back to the region. Stephen also visited Dr. Rountree’s Eng-W270 class to talk to the students about growing up in Richmond, how he came out to his family and found his identity, and what inspires him as a writer.
September 20 is the first day of the Global Climate Strike. It's an event that follows the rise of youth organizations like the Sunrise Movement and Zero Hour, a full year of Fridays for Future school strikes and CNN's 7-hour climate change town hall marathon. At every level of society, people have gotten involved in the politics of the environment. In this episode, the team talks with activists, a communication scientist and journalists to find out how much of a difference any of it can make. 4:30 - Louisville, Kentucky, Global Climate Strike and Extinction Rebellion story, featuring Alice Melendez 12:15 - interview between Janet McCabe and IU environmental communications scientist Nathan Geiger 20:15 - interview between Janet McCabe, Zahra Hirji of BuzzFeed News and Nathanael Johnson of Grist
Sydney Stutsman, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
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My project focuses on societal trends and changes surrounding homosexuality as expressed in the Indiana Daily Student (IDS). The paper is an ideal source to track change over time because it has been running with weekly publications since 1867. It also represents a unique perspective on events as it is both written for and by college students. After digitizing issues of the IDS, I will perform a text analysis in order to track how articles portray the LGBT community. Those articles will then be used to create a timeline that visualizes key moments in gay rights history and the public perspective of homosexuality.
This collection of videos to accompany the book, Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora, provides examples of the different ways of styling Blackness as described in the book. Styling Blackness as Afro-descendant appears in a 2009 Pascua de los Negros performance; styling Blackness as Criollo appears during Lumbanga's celebration of the 2009 Dia de la Mujer Afro as well as Oro Negro's performance of the baile de tierra during a Chilean Independence parade; styling Blackness as Moreno appears in a presentation by the Hijos de Azapa during the 2008 Fiesta Chica of the Virgen de las Peñas; styling Blackness as Indigenous appears during the 2009 Carnaval Andino with morenada and caporales performances.
Experimental designs remain the gold standard for assessing causality; perhaps because of this, the use of experiments has grown rapidly in most social science fields such as economics, political science, sociology, and others. While laboratory studies remain popular in some fields, there is increasing interest in bringing the power of experimental designs to more diverse samples. Survey experiments offer the capability to assess causality in a broad range of samples, including targeted samples of specific populations or in large-scale nationally representative samples. The rise of online workplaces and the TESS program offer the ability to bring these samples to applied researchers at a minimal cost, greatly expanding the possibilities for research. This workshop will focus on how to design quality survey experiments, giving researchers the tools to implement best practices. I will also advocate for survey experiments as a tool for tests of intersectionality and other theoretical questions requiring diverse samples.
James Farmer, associate professor from IU SPEA, and Julia Valliant, a postdoc researcher from the Ostrom Workshop, talk with Dean Shanahan about farm transfers, capturing the stories of Hoosier farmers, and sharing those stories in the media.
Brain, Matt, Hou, Yingkun, Pincus, Robert, García de Cortázar-Atauri, Iñaki, Shanahan, James, Miles, Emily
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As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the second episode in our beverage series, and it's all about wine. We start at a vineyard and winery in California, take a look at the growing wine industry in China, go back to 2003's Europe, and finally return to the present day with challenges and opportunities in resilience.
3:30 - Matt Brain of Chamisal Vineyards in San Luis Obispo, California
13:15 - Yingkun Hou of Southern Illinois University Carbondale
23:15 - Robert Pincus of University of Colorado Boulder
30:30 - Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri of the National Institute of Agronomic Research in Avignon, France
Narrative literature reviews, systematic literature reviews, meta reviews, meta analyses, research in context: what should you do when you are asked to provide a review of the literature? What may have served as a fairly routine task in your early years as a student or scholar has been complicated by the growing volume of published research and the interdisciplinarity of many domains. It is becoming common practice to not only meticulously document the methods of your research design, but also to demonstrate the ways in which you searched the literature. Furthermore, there is increased value in the use of reviews to summarize the literature and find evidence across published results. Review articles have high value to the field—as demonstrated through citations—but can also lose their value when authors use ad hoc approaches or fail to acknowledge bias in how the review was assembled or analyzed.
Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) offer a way of producing less biased and more generalizable findings. SLRs use explicit selection criteria and a rigorous, rules-driven approach to the analysis of prior scholarship. The presenters will walk participants through the process of designing and conducting a systematic literature review using Cochrane-Campbell protocols, discussing bibliometric sources for systematically identifying literature, and providing tips and suggestions based on their own research experience.
One of the signature projects for Indiana University’s Bicentennial, the Bicentennial Oral History Project has produced a rich and extensive collection of oral history recordings with faculty, staff, and alumni. This presentation will describe the process of publishing this collection on the web with synchronized transcripts, keyword search, and streaming audio. Supporting software and services used will be detailed, including the Aviary oral history platform, the IU Libraries’ Media Collections Online, and custom scripts to process metadata and transcript information. Details about the information pipeline used to publish this collection on the web will also be discussed, as well as many of the technical considerations made along the way.