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Indiana University Bloomington
Learn more about Indiana University Bloomington
| Image:IU-logo-and-seal-small.png
| Lux et Veritas
(Light and Truth)
|1820 (details)
|public coeducational
|$1.3 billion[1]
|Dr. Adam Herbert
|Michael A. McRobbie
|38,247 [1]
|Bloomington, IN, USA
|small city: 1,931 acres[2] (7.8 km²)
| 24 Div. I/IA NCAA teams
called Indiana Hoosiers
|Cream and Crimson
Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. It is popularly known as "Indiana University Bloomington," IUB, or simply IU. It is located in Bloomington in Monroe County, Indiana. The University is one of the 60 members of the AAU association of leading American research universities. According to "The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities" (2001) by Howard and Matthew Greene of Greene's Guides, Indiana University Bloomington is one of America's "Public Ivy" institutions of higher education.
[edit] Student body/culture
IU's total student enrollment in the fall semester of 2005 was 37,958 students.
Most IU students are white Indiana residents. Of students enrolled in fall 2005, 1,671 (4.4%) were African-Americans, 1,294 (3.4%) were Asian, 849 (2.2%) were Hispanic, 92 (0.2%) were American Indian. More women (19,646) were enrolled than men (18,312). 60% (22,583) of its students in the fall 2005 were native Hoosiers. The neighboring states of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio supply a significant proportion of the out-of-state student population, and the university's relative proximity to both the Southeast and the East Coast continues to attract a number of students from Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York. Currently, the IU student body contains students from every state in the U.S. as well as over 116 foreign nations.[2]
Indiana University's freshman experience was recognized by U.S. News & World Report in 2003 as among the best in the country. The 10th annual Newsweek-Kaplan College Guide, which appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005 issue of Newsweek magazine, chose IU Bloomington as its "Hottest Big State School" and extolled the campus's blend of tradition with emerging technologies. IU was the only Big Ten institution included.
USA Today called Bloomington one of the top 10 student-friendly college towns.[3] The university offers the latest in technology as IU was ranked as one of the top five wired universities in America according to Yahoo! Internet Life. IU is also home to a large and venerable Greek system: nearly 5,000 students (about 17 percent of undergraduates) join one of the 55 fraternities and sororities.
[edit] History
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[edit] Early years
Indiana's state government founded Indiana University in 1820 as the "State Seminary." The 1816 Indiana state constitution required that the General Assembly (Indiana's state legislature) create a "general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation, from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all." It took some time for the legislature to fulfill its promise, partly due to a debate regarding whether the Territory of Indiana's land-grant public university—what is now Vincennes University—should be adopted as the State of Indiana's public university or whether a new public university should be founded in Bloomington to replace the territorial university. While the original state-issued legislative charter for IUB was granted in 1820, construction began in 1822; the first professor was hired in 1823; classes were offered in 1824. The first class graduated in 1830. Throughout this period and until the rechartering of Vincennes University from a four-year institution to a two-year institution in 1889, a legal-cum-political battle was fought between the territorial-chartered public university in Vincennes and the State of Indiana on behalf of the state-chartered public university in Bloomington, including the legal case (Trustees for Vincennes University v Indiana, 1853) which was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
IU developed rapidly in its first years. The hiring of Andrew Wylie, its first president, in 1828 signified the school's growing professionalism. The General Assembly changed the school's name to "Indiana College" in the same year. In 1838 the legislature changed the school's name for a final time to Indiana University.
Wylie's death in 1851 marks the end of the university's first period of development. IU now had nearly a hundred students and seven professors. Despite the university's more obviously secular purpose, presidents and professors were still expected to set a moral example for their charges. It was only in 1885 that a non-clergyman, biologist David Starr Jordan, became president.
Between Wylie and Jordan's administrations, the University grew slowly. Few changes rocked the university's repose. One development is interesting to modern scholars: the college admitted its first woman student, Sarah Parke Morrison in 1867, making IU the one of the first state universities to admit women on an equal basis with men. Morrison went on to become the first female professor at IU in 1873.
[edit] In mid-passage
In 1883, IU awarded its first Ph.D. and played its first intercollegiate sport, baseball, prefiguring the school's future status as a major research institution and a power in collegiate athletics. But another incident that year was far more important to the university: the university's original campus in Seminary Square near the center of Bloomington burned to the ground. Instead of rebuilding in Seminary Square, as had been the practice following previous blazes, the college was rebuilt between 1884 and 1908 at the far eastern edge of Bloomington. (Today, Bloomington has expanded eastward, and the "new" campus is once again at the center of the city.)
The first extension office of IU was opened in Indianapolis in 1916. In 1920/1921 the School of Music and the School of Commerce and Finance (what later became the Kelley School of Business) were opened. In the 1940s Indiana University opened extension campuses in Kokomo and Fort Wayne. The controversial Kinsey Institute for sexual research was established in 1947.
[edit] Campus
The IU campus is considered one of the most beautiful college campuses in the nation, with its abundance of flowering plants and trees and graceful, cool limestone buildings. Art critic Thomas Gaines called IU one of America's five most beautiful universities in The Campus as a Work of Art.
IUB's 1,933 acres (7.8 km²) includes copious green space and historic buildings dating to the university's reconstruction in the late nineteenth century. The campus rests on a bed of Indiana limestone, specifically Salem limestone and Harrodsburg limestone, with outcroppings of St. Louis limestone. The "Jordan River" is a stream flowing through the center of campus. It is named for David Starr Jordan, Darwinist, ichthyologist, and president of IU and later Stanford University.
[edit] Facilities and architecture
Many of the campus's buildings, especially the older central buildings, are made from Indiana limestone quarried locally. The Works Progress Administration built much of the campus's core during the Great Depression. Many of the campus's buildings were built and most of its land acquired during the 1950s and 1960s, when first soldiers attending under the GI Bill and then the baby boom swelled the university's enrollment from 5,403 in 1940 to 30,368 in 1970.
The Bryan House is the traditional on-campus home of the university president. In the 17,000-seat Assembly Hall (home to the IU NCAA basketball team), there are five NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship banners on display. (For more on athletic facilities, see Indiana Hoosiers.)
The 1979 movie "Breaking Away" was filmed partly at IU-Bloomington and IU had a nexus to the plot.
[edit] Indiana Memorial Union
The 500,000-square-foot Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) is the campus centerpiece — a place where students go to study, relax, eat, bowl, play pool, watch movies, and even shop. It is the world's second largest college union. In addition to numerous stores and restaurants, it features a seven-story student activities tower, a 186-room hotel, a 400-seat theatre, a 5,000-square-foot Alumni Hall, and 50,000 square feet of meeting space.
[edit] The Fine Arts Library
The Fine Arts Library houses Indiana University's books and journals in the fields of the visual arts, art history, architecture, design and related disciplines and supports the academic needs of the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, and the Indiana University Department of Fine Arts. The collection is comprised of over 130,000 volumes and 390 periodicals, including collections of circulating slides and plates and a non-circulating collection of over 900 artists' books.
IU-Bloomington's first Fine Arts Library was established in the late 1930s as part of the Departmental office on the second floor, east wing of the University Library which was then located in Franklin Hall. The Library has gone through many changes and now the Fine Arts Library now is comprised of over 100,000 volumes and 390 periodicals, including collections of circulating slides and plates and a non-circulating collection of over 500 artists' books. Find out more about the History of the Fine Arts Library.[4][5].
[edit] Herman B Wells Library
IU's Herman B Wells Library is the 13th-largest university library in North America. Prior to a ceremony in June 2005 when it was renamed for IU's beloved former chancellor, this building was simply called the Main Library. Built in 1969, the building contains 11 floors in the graduate tower and five floors in the undergraduate tower. The building also contains the Information Commons, a fully-integrated technology center for learning and collaboration—open 24 hours a day, seven days a week—which attracts 82 percent of all undergraduate students. (IU Libraries recently earned their highest ranking ever, advancing to 12th place in a survey of North American academic research libraries.)
An oft-repeated urban legend holds that the library sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. The IU Bloomington Libraries website even hosts an official page dedicated to debunking this myth, stating, among other things, that the building's foundation rests squarely on a 94-foot (28.6-meter) thick limestone bedrock.
[edit] The Lilly Library
The Lilly Library is one of the largest rare book and manuscript libraries in the United States. Founded in 1960 with the collection of J.K. Lilly, owner of Lilly Pharmaceuticals in Indianapolis, the library now contains approximately 400,000 rare books, 6.5 million manuscripts, and 100,000 pieces of sheet music. The library's holdings are particularly strong in British and American history and literature, Latin Americana, medicine and science, food and drink, children's literature, fine printing and binding, and popular music. Notable items in the library's collections include the New Testament of the Gutenberg Bible, the four Shakespeare folios, Audubon's Birds of America, George Washington's letter accepting the presidency of the United States, Abraham Lincoln's desk from his law office, and the manuscripts of Robert Burns's "Auld Lang Syne" and J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. The library also owns the papers of Hollywood directors Orson Welles and John Ford, the poets Sylvia Plath and Ezra Pound, and authors Edith Wharton and Nadine Gordimer. Special permission is not required to use the collections, and the library has several exhibition galleries which are open to the public.
[edit] IU Auditorium
Built as a Federal Works Agency Project, the auditorium - located in the heart of campus - opened on March 22, 1941, and has been host for the last sixty years to the world's top performers and entertainers. The Auditorium is also home to Thomas Hart Benton's "Century of Progress" murals, painted for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the priceless Dailey Family Memorial Collection of Hoosier Art, and two Robert Laurent sculptures. It is also home to the 4500 pipe Roosevelt Organ, which is played for university ceremonies and other special events. Closed for a $13 million renovation and restoration in 1997, the Auditorium reopened in 1999.
[edit] IU Art MuseumI.M. Pei and Partners - in its unique design, it has no right angles in its construction. Completed in 1982, the museum collection of over 30,000 objects includes works by Claude Monet and Jackson Pollack. The museum has particular strengths in the art of Africa, Oceania, the Americas, Ancient Greece and Rome, and Early Modernism, and its collections of works on paper (prints, drawings and photographs). The IU Art Museum is also ranked as one of the top five university art museums along with Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
Notable artists who have their work displayed there include Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse.
[edit] Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
Founded in 2002, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center is named after Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall - early African American graduates from Indiana University. In addition to the culture center, it is also the home to the African American Cultural Center Library, the African American Arts Institute and the Office of Diversity Education.
[edit] Academics
IU has 110 programs ranked in the nation's top 20. Twenty-nine graduate programs and four schools at Indiana University-Bloomington are ranked among the top 25 in the country in the US News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2001-2002. Time magazine named IU-Bloomington its 2001 College of the Year among major research universities. Newsweek named Indiana University-Bloomington the Hottest Big State School in the Nation in 2005.
Upon assuming leadership of Indiana University, one of President Adam Herbert's biggest initiatives focused on "mission differentiation" for IU's eight campuses, which includes making the flagship Bloomington campus choosier among freshman applicants. Under the proposal IUB would educate the professionals, executives and researchers while the regional campuses would educate the state's remaining labor force. Advocates believe it will rejuvenate Indiana's economy while critics argue it betrays the university's mission of educating more of Indiana's populace. [6]
The university's academic system is divided into one large "College" (which itself contains one school) and twelve other schools and divisions. Together, these thirteen units offer more than 900 individual degree programs and majors.
[edit] College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences, known as the College, is the largest of the University's academic divisions, and is home to more than 40 percent of IU's undergraduates. In addition, the College offers many electives and general education courses for students enrolled in most other schools on campus. There are more than 50 academic departments in the College, encompassing a broad range of disciplines from the traditional - such as biology, chemistry, mathematics and English - to more modern and specialized areas, including: Jewish Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science, and Telecommunications. Through the College, IU also offers instruction in some 40+ foreign languages, one of the largest language study offerings at any American university. The College is the parent division for fifteen individual research institutes, and holds the distinction of being the only academic division within the university to house an autonomous school (The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts) within it. A number of first- and second-year students from the Indiana University School of Medicine (which is based at IUPUI) complete their preclinical education at the Bloomington campus' Medical Science Program, which is housed within the Department of Biology and the Indiana Molecular Biology Institue.The College is also home to the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the first formally established academic department in folklore at any United States university, and the only such department to integrate these two practices into one field. IUB is the only university in the nation that offers a degree in Hungarian (although it was done through the Individualized Major Program). IUB also features a world-class cyclotron, the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, operated by the Department of Physics.
[edit] School of Law
The School of Law, founded in 1842, is one of the oldest schools on the Bloomington campus. It features a law library recently ranked first in the nation and is situated on the southwest corner of campus. In 2000, then-Chief Justice William Rhenquist presided over a mock trial of King Henry VIII in the school's moot courtroom. In the most recent U.S. News and World Report rankings, the school was ranked 37th in the nation among law schools and 15th in public law schools. Notable alumni from the School of Law include songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton, and Vice-Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and former congressman Lee Hamilton.
[edit] Jacobs School of Music
Founded in the beginning of the 20th century by Charles Campbell, the Jacobs School of Music is consistently regarded as one of the best college music schools in the United States. It especially excels in voice, opera, orchestral conducting, and jazz studies. It has been ranked #1 in the country tied with Juilliard and Eastman by U.S. News.
With more than 1,600 students, the school is the largest of its kind in the US and among the largest in the world. The school's facilities, including five buildings located in the heart of the IU Bloomington campus, comprise recital halls, more than 170 practice rooms, choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms, and more than 100 offices and studios. Its prestigious faculty has included such notable names as János Starker, Andre Watts, David Baker, Earl Bates, Carol Vaness, Sylvia McNair, and composer Sven-David Sandstrom. Notable alumni include violinist Joshua Bell and soprano Angela Brown.
[edit] Kelley School of Business
The Kelley School of Business was founded in 1920 as the University's School of Commerce and Finance. Approximately 4,600 students are enrolled on the Bloomington campus in undergraduate and graduate Business, Accountancy and Information's Systems degrees, MBA and PhD programs.
Kelley is one of the top public business schools in the US. It is one of only five in the nation for whom all undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top 25 of the US News & World Report college rankings. Additionally, it was ranked at eleventh in the nation by U.S. News in 2007 for its undergraduate business program and eighteenth for the MBA program by Business Week in 2004; it was ranked twelfth for the MBA program by the Wall Street Journal in the same year. In 2006, Business Week released their first ever undergraduate business school ranking and the Kelley School ranked 10th nationally and 4th among public programs. Within the rankings, Recruiter's ranked the school 5th in the nation and Student's ranked it 8th in the nation.
[edit] Division of Labor Studies
The Division of Labor Studies, formerly a unit housed within the School of Continuing Studies, was founded in the 1940's during the tenure of Herman B. Wells in response to the growing role of organized labor in American society. Today, the Division is one of only several degree-granting programs in the nation for the area of labor studies or industrial relations. Over the past year, the Division has come under increased pressure [7] to move to a larger academic unit, such as the College of Arts and Sciences. Notable faculty in recent years have included Leonard Page, General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board during the Clinton Administration, and labor economist/author Michael Yates.
[edit] School of Education
The School of Education, formerly a part of the College of Arts and Science, is independent since 1923. One of the largest schools of education in the United States, and consistently placed among the top 20 graduate schools of education in the United States by U.S. News, it offers a range of degrees in professional education: a B.S. in teacher education leading to a teaching license, M.S., education specialist (Ed.S.) and doctoral (Ed.D, Ph.D.) degrees.
[edit] School of Public and Environmental Affairs
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs (or SPEA) is the largest school of its kind in the United States. Through the wide array of concentrations and joint degrees SPEA offers, students can design an education corresponding to their interests. Founded in 1972, SPEA is known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach. It brings together the social, natural, behavioral, and administrative sciences in one faculty.
In the 2005 "Best Graduate Schools" survey by U.S. News & World Report, SPEA ranked third and is the nation's highest-ranked graduate program in public affairs at a public institution. Six of its specialty programs are ranked in the top 10 listings; four others are in the top 20. While similar rankings do not yet exist for graduate schools of environmental science, SPEA's reputation in the field is growing. SPEA is also a founding member of the Council of Environmental Science Deans and Directors.
SPEA is the only institution in its league with an interdisciplinary character where students can combine science and public affairs. Indiana University's other highly-ranked schools and programs complement SPEA's offerings; the school has 15 joint programs in social and natural sciences and professional fields on the Bloomington campus. For example, in conjunction with the Department of Political Science, SPEA offers a Joint Ph.D. Program in Public Policy, the only one of its kind in the country. In addition, it offers many joint Masters degrees, such as MPA/MSES; MPA/JD; and MSES/JD programs.
[edit] School of Informatics
In 1999, the Indiana University School of Informatics was established as an environment for research professors and students to develop "new uses for information technology in order to solve specific problems in areas as diverse as biology, fine arts, and economics. Informatics is also interested in how people transform technology, and how technology transforms us."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The School is one of a handful which offer degrees in Human-Computer Interaction, a specialized field of ergonomics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On July 1, 2005 the computer science department officially moved from the College of Arts and Science to the School of Informatics. This move merged several faculty bringing the total core faculty to over 100. Informatics also has strong ties with Library and Information Sciences, Telecommunications, Jacobs School of Music, and the Cognitive Science program.
[edit] Athletics
See Main Article: Indiana Hoosiers
IUB's intercollegiate athletics program has a long tradition of excellence in several key sports. From its humble beginnings with baseball in 1867, the Hoosier athletic program has grown to include over 600 male and female student-athletes on 24 varsity teams boasting one of the nation's best overall records. Sports sponsored by the university include football, men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country and track, baseball, golf, tennis, rowing, volleyball, and more.
The Hoosiers became a member of the prestigious Big Ten Conference on December 1, 1899. The school's national affiliation is with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The teams won one women's and six men's national team titles (now totaling 25; 24 NCAA, 1 AIAW), topped by a record-setting six straight men's swimming & diving titles, seven men's soccer crowns and five titles in men's basketball. Indiana student-athletes have won 133 NCAA individual titles, including 79 in men's swimming and diving and 31 in men's track and field. In addition, IU teams have won or shared 157 Big Ten Conference championships.
The IU athletics endowment is $42 million, the largest in the Big Ten Conference. The Varsity Club, which is the fund-raising arm of the Athletics Department, drew a record $11.5 million in gifts and pledges in the fiscal year 2004-05. In addition, overall annual giving has increased 8.3% in the last year and 44.8 percent in the last three years.
In spite of this giving, IU's athletics department has been unable to balance its budget. Because of this the university administration has attempted, thus far unsuccessfully, to double the athletics fee which students pay with their tuition each semester. A number of students argue that the athletics department's financial woes are its own problems, and that support of athletics should be voluntary. Others, especially in the athletics department, argue that athletic programs are an integral part of the university experience, and therefore everyone should pay into it, regardless of whether they are interested in it.
In addition to its rich tradition in intervarsity sports, IU also boasts a strong reputation in many non-varsity sports. Many of these "club" teams, especially those in ice hockey and rugby, have achieved a great deal of success in intercollegiate competition. The consistent success of these athletic clubs has several times led the university to establish varsity programs in sports in which there had previously not been a team for NCAA intervarsity competition.
It should also be noted that a large percentage of the IU student body regularly participates in both formal and/or informal intramural sports, including soccer, tennis, basketball, and golf. Among intramural athletics, IU's reputation for student participation and instruction in the martial arts is particularly strong, often regarded as the most renowned at any American college.
[edit] Media
Media outlets of Indiana University include:
- WFIU radio - public radio including NPR and local programming, but predominantly classical music
- WTIU television - PBS station including national and local programming.
- IUSTV [8] (Indiana University Student Television) - an entirely student run television station broadcasting to over 12,000 on campus residents and over 40,000 Bloomington residents via Community Access Television. Founded in 2002, IUSTV has quickly grown to be a leading media entity and student organization on campus.
- Indiana Daily Student [9] - free daily newspaper fully supported financially through ad sales. Founded in 1867, it has a circulation of over 15,000 and is produced by IU students.
- WIUX [10] - an entirely student run radio station that broadcasts currently on FM 100.3 and via live internet streaming on its website. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the fall and spring semesters. Besides playing independent music, the station provides coverage of nine different Indiana University sports teams. The station was established in 1963 under the call letters WQAD. It was granted a low-power FM licence in the spring of 2005, and transitioned to FM in early 2006.
- IU Home Pages, faculty and staff news: In print, the audience includes approximately 17,000 employees on eight campuses—an audience of varied backgrounds and experience such as groundskeepers, hospital workers, Nobel laureates, administrative assistants, clerical, professional and technical workers as well as professors and administrators.
[edit] Faculty
With over 1,823 full-time faculty members, IU Bloomington leads the Big Ten public universities in the number of endowed faculty positions, with 333 chairs, professorships, and curators. IUB also reported in fall 2004 that it employed 334 part-time faculty, totaling 1,877 full-time equivalents. Of the full-time faculty, 76% were tenured. Like the student body, IUB's faculty is predominantly white. Of full-time administrators, faculty, and lecturers, 118 (6%) were Asian, 74 (4%) were African-American, 62 (4%) were Hispanic, 5 (0.3%) were Native American, and 1,535 (85%) were "other." More men (62%) than women held academic appointments at the university.
Professors at IUB were better-paid than their counterparts in the IU system. A full professor earned an average of $126,500, an associate professor $89,000, and an assistant professor $74,400.
[edit] Former notable staff
Notable faculty of Indiana University have included:
- Yuri Bregel, a defector from the U.S.S.R. who became the pioneer of Central Asian Historical Studies in the West.
- Edward Alsworth Ross, sociologist, educator, and President of the American Sociological Society who crusaded against unfair labor practices against Chinese immigrants and indirectly responsible for the establishment of the tenure system
- Robert Daniel Carmichael, mathematician and discoverer of Carmichael numbers
- Lee Corso, former head football coach, current ESPN analyst
- Ray E. Cramer, professor of bands; former director of bands at Indiana University.
- Harry G. Day, the chemist who is responsible for the incorporation of fluoride in toothpaste and public drinking water,
- Carl H. Eigenmann, an ichthyologist who described over 150 species of fish with wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann
- Eileen Farrell, famous opera and concert singer, later professor of music at IU
- J. Rufus Fears, David Ross Boyd Professor of Classics and G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty. The University of Oklahoma,
- Paul Gebhard, anthropologist who later became part of Alfred Kinsey's original research team
- Paul Hillier, choral conductor (most notably of Theatre of Voices)
- David Starr Jordan, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist
- Alfred Kinsey, founder of the academic discipline of sexology, founder of the Kinsey Institute and author of the Kinsey Reports,
- Daniel Kirkwood, astronomer famous for his work on asteroids, discoverer of Kirkwood gaps
- Bob Knight, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team from 1971 to 2000,
- Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet.
- Alfred R. Lindesmith, sociologist, author of The Addict and the Law.
- Salvador Luria, pioneer of molecular biology, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine,
- Hermann Joseph Muller, geneticist, zoologist and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
- Craig Nelson, evolutionary biologist and 2000 U.S. Professor of the Year
- Thubten Jigme Norbu, Buddhist monk and professor of Central Eurasian Studies; elder brother of the Dalai Lama
- Henry Remak, first director of the Living-Learning Center, now Collins Living-Learning Center; close friend of Alfred Kinsey and Germanic studies professor
- B.F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer of operant conditioning model,
- James Alexander Thom, novelist, writer of historical fiction
- Edwin Sutherland, one of the most influential criminologists of the 20th century
- Jerry Yeagley, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team from 1974 to 2003 with an NCAA record 544 wins.
- Max August Zorn, mathematician and originator of Zorn's lemma
[edit] Current notable staff
Notable current faculty of Indiana University include:
- Elinor Ostrom, political science professor
- Martina Arroyo, operatic soprano
- David Baker, notable jazz cellist and educator
- Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, applied linguist
- Matei Călinescu, Romanian literary critic and author of Five Faces of Modernity
- James Campbell, clarinetist
- Frank K. Edmondson, astronomer
- George M. von Furstenberg, economist
- Henry Glassie, folklorist. Author of Irish Folktales, The Potter's Art, and many other books; former member of President's Council for the Humanities
- Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, an IU professor of Cognitive Science, among other things.
- Sylvia McNair, grammy award winning soprano
- Menahem Pressler, pianist of Beaux Arts Trio fame
- Rudolf Raff, Evolutionary biologist. Founder of the biological sub-discipline of Developmental Evolution (Evo-devo). Author of The Shape of Life and commentator on PBS special of the same name.
- Scott Russell Sanders, essayist
- Gyorgy Sebok, pianist
- Giorgio Tozzi, operatic bass and actor
- Olaf Sporns, professor of Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience, worked at the Neurosciences Institute [11] with Gerald Edelman
- János Starker, cellist
- David Ward-Steinman, composer
[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Academics
- Keith Fitzgerald, political scientist
- Barbara Hicks, political scientist
[edit] Arts and Humanities
- Ismail al-Faruqi, philosopher and epistemologist
- Mike Barz, broadcast journalist
- Joe Buck, sportscaster, multiple Emmy Award winner
- Meg Cabot, author The Princess Diaries
- David Chalmers, leading philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind
- Robert Coover, author
- John Crowley, science fiction author, author of The Deep and Little, Big
- Michel duCille, photographer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Dick Enberg, sportscaster, 13-time Emmy Award winner
- Scott Ferrall, sports talk radio host
- John M. Ford, poet and science fiction author
- Don Herold, author, humorist and illustrator
- Andreas Katsulas, actor
- Kevin Kline, Oscar-winning actor
- Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
- Bienvenido Lumbera, poet, critic, playwright, Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and National Artist of the Philippines
- Lee Majors, actor.
- John McKenzie, broadcast journalist
- Don Mellett, journalist, newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Jane Pauley, broadcaster
- Ernie Pyle, journalist Pulitzer Prize winner in 1944
- Will Shortz, puzzle maker (enigmatologist)
- Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio and Public Television host
- Gary Snyder, poet and environmental activist, Pulitzer Prize winner (did not graduate)
- Kevin Stein, poet laureate of Illinois
- Jeri Taylor, screenwriter and television producer (Star Trek)
- Michael Uslan, film producer
- Clark Wissler, anthropology pioneer
[edit] Business
- Cheryl Bachelder, former president of KFC
- Joe Barnette, retired chairman and CEO of Bank One
- John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
- Mark Cuban, technology entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner
- Donald Fehr, Managing Director,Major League Baseball Players Association
- Jeff Fettig, CEO of Whirlpool Corporation
- Katherine Hudson, president & CEO of Brady Corporation
- E. W. Kelley, former chairman of Steak n Shake
- Harold Arthur Poling, retired chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company
- Frank Popoff, retired chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company
- Fred Steingraber, retired chairman and CEO of consulting company A.T. Kearney
- Corey Torrence, president and CEO of marketing company Epsilon
- Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; Founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; Co-Founder of Broadcast.com
- Jimbo Wales, former CEO of Bomis, founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation
[edit] Music
See related article: Jacobs School of Music
[edit] Politics/Government
- Michael Badnarik, 2004 US Presidential candidate
- Evan Bayh, US Senator, former governor of Indiana
- LeRoy Edgar Burney, former Surgeon General of the United States
- Dan Coats, former US Senator, former US ambassador to Germany
- Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defense, former CIA director and National Security Council member
- William E. Jenner, former US Senator
- Charles Peter Kennedy, British politician and Member of Parliament, former leader of the British Liberal Democrat party
- Richard Monroe Miles, former US ambassador to Georgia
- Frank O'Bannon, former governor of Indiana
- Paul O'Neill, former US Secretary of Treasury
- Rod Paige, former US Secretary of Education
- Newell Sanders, former US Senator
- Edgar Whitcomb, former governor of Indiana
- Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential candidate
- Selim al-Hoss, former Lebanese prime minister
- Paul Helmke, former mayor of Fort Wayne
[edit] Science and Technology
- Carl Otto Lampland, astronomer
- Wardell Pomeroy, sexologist
- Vesto Slipher, astronomer
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Motherhood is a special vocation and Birthright honors all mothers throughout the year.
This year, Birthright plans to honor those mothers in our local nursing homes and is accepting pledges to purchase carnations in honor of mothers and to support the Birthright mission this Mother's Day.
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You featured a Web site a few weeks back called Evite.com and I wanted to use it for my family's Easter gathering, but I'm not really sure how to do it. Can you help? Please!
Oh, that sounds like so much fun! Whenever you're planning a party or a get together, you know it's going to be a good time, especially if you're celebrating something really special. So, if your event is special, shouldn't you have an even better way to invite everyone? Yeah, I think so too! Well, that's what we'll go over today by using the Web site of Evite.com, which can be found right here.
Okay, so what does Evite do? Its main purpose is the invitation side of things. You can use their site to send out invitations for your events via e-mail. Yep, that's right, everything is done through e-mail. And let's face it, that just makes everything so much more convenient. You don't have to worry about buying invitations, addressing the envelopes or spending all that money on stamps. You just enter in the e-mail addresses of your friends or family and the same invite goes out to everyone. It really is just too simple. So, what do you say we design an Evite for the person who asked this question's Easter celebration? Sounds good to me!
First, go to www.evite.com and on the very first page, you'll see a box that says "Send Free Invitations." Right there is where you can pick the theme for your event. Since Easter is coming up very soon, they have an option for that at the very top. Click on that and then hit the button that says "Create Invitation." The next page will then show you some different designs that you can choose from. A lot of them are very cute, so if you see one you like, go ahead and click on it. You can also click on the View Larger button to see a better view of it. I personally like to design my own evites, so I'm going to use the Design Your Own choice for this tip. But, you choose what you want!
If you're going along with me, the next thing to do is choose your background layout. They have like 36 choices, so just scroll through them and pick the one you like the best. I actually chose the Polka Dots design on the very first page. It looks so Springy and the polka dots look like little Easter eggs! Now, you can also upload your own background image if you'd like to do it that way. Just click the button next to "Upload Your Own Background Image" and hit the Browse button to find your image. Otherwise, select the design you want and then hit the Select button.
The next thing you'll want to do is choose an image for your evite. They have 109 to choose from, but I couldn't really find a cute Easter one, so I just opted not to have a main image on my invitation. If you find one you like though, go ahead and add it. When you're done, just hit the Select button. Next, you can choose some accent images, which will go on both sides of your invitation. For mine, I chose the little yellow chicks, because they're perfect for Easter. Plus, they look cute against the polka dot background! Choose what you want and hit Select.
Now comes the best part: choosing the colors. You can choose your colors for the text on your evite, the event title color, the text link color, the reply box color, the header color and the header bar text color. So many options! Just choose which item you want to change and then select a color from the palette on the left. It's as easy as that! I chose a light blue color for my text, a purple color for my title and so on. Make your selections and hit Finish.
Next, you get to enter in all of the details for your event. Put in your event title, the host's name, a telephone number, the location of the event, the date and the start time. You can even type in a message to your guests if you want. Another great thing about Evite is that you can include a map to the location of the event. That way, if all of your guests don't know how to get there, they can just look at the map and find out.
When you're done, click on the Add Guests button. You can then type in the e-mail addresses of all your guests. Just make sure you separate them by commas or hit the Enter key on your keyboard after each one. There are some other things you can customize on this page too, so just read over everything and make your selections before you finish up. When you're all done, click on the Preview Invite button to see what your evite is going to look like to your guests. If you're happy with it, click Send Now or if you'd like to make some changes, go ahead and do so.
You will be asked to register with Evite.com, but it only takes a couple minutes. Your invitation will then be sent out to your guests and you can wait to hear back from them as to whether or not they'll be able to attend. You can then go and get started on another evite right away. Maybe a birthday or maybe even one for the final game of March Madness. Evite has them all!
Now, just a couple more things. If you chose one of Evite's designs at the very beginning, it will take you right into filling out your information and adding your guests. You'll go past a lot of what I talked about for designing your own. Also, if you want to preview your evite at any stage of the process, just click the Preview button and it will come up on your screen. That way, you can see what it's going to look like for sure and you can make any changes right away, rather than later. And one more thing. Evite does not get along well with the Back button on your browser, so try not to use it. If you do, you may have to start all over, so just try to use Evite's own buttons, arrows, etc. and you should be fine.
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Well thought I would give you guys an update. I tore into the carbs today and used a borrowed set of numbered drill bits on the IFR's. I went one step larger, but I do not know what size. What I did was take the largest bit that would just slide through and then went up one size. Honestly, my eyes can't read numbers that small anymore. Started the car and the idle was of course a lot richer. Went about 1/8 turn closing on the 8 idle screws and got a 12.5 AFR smooth idle. At 2,000rpm now have 14.0 cruising and at 2,500rpm it is 14.7! Man I am damn happy now. Tip in and it goes to 13.0 and a little more throttle and it is 12.5 . I think this is just about dead nuts for a blower motor.
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Well this is my first time posting, and after searching around on here a lot, I've noticed that there are more than a few people who know their bodywork. Here's my q:
I've got an '86 Astro van which I've been shaving out for a long time now. I'm in the process of applying filler to the door handles, and the problem I'm running into is the bodyline. It sunk in a bit when the handle was welded up, and it's not coming back out. I can apply filler all day long but it just doesn't seem like its coming out, so I've stripped it back down to bare to try again. Any tips? I've heard something about using tape, but I can't find that tip anymore. Thanks again.
From Knowledge Base, exsterior, articles, how to do basic bodywork. [quote] Using Filler, technique #2: If applying filler to a surface where a bodyline is present there are a few tricks to doing it but the easiest is as follows:
You need a roll of scotch tape (I use 3M, but any will do). Tape down a 2" long part of the tip of the tape to the center of the bodyline and stretch the tape at least 6" from the other side of the affected area, this will be used as a guide or template to where the bodyline once was.
DO NOT continually press down the tape as you work your way to the other side of the affected area, this will void the whole purpose. You may smooth tape after you attach 2" of the tape to the other side, securing it to the center of the bodyline, then smoothing it. Apply filler to the side of the tape which is centered in the bodyline, wait till jelly-like and peel off tape, this will put a "lip" on the filler where the line used to be. Apply filler 5" below the "lip", this will give you a straight smooth line. Let harden until firm to the touch, but not completely hard. See Working with Filler, technique #2.

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Ok well see I saw that, but I'm still kinda lost. My bodyline forms an almost goes from straight to a 45 for about a 1/2 inch, then goes straight again. Do I duplicate the tape process for each part of that?
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The Kentucky Legislature's budget bill will guarantee funding for capital projects at 16 Community and Technical College campuses, including one at West Kentucky Community & Technical College.
The college will benefit from $7.5 million in agency bonds to renovate the 25,000-square-foot Kitchens Inc. building in Paducah's Lower Town district. The building will house classrooms, studios, offices and gallery space for the Paducah School of Art & Design, Gov. Steve Beshear said Friday in a news release.
"In many ways, these campuses are factories that build Kentucky's workforce, and they are long overdue for expansions, upgrades and improvements to enhance the learning environment," Beshear said.
Beshear's agency bond plan includes a $145.5 million proposal that represents the largest investment in the KCTCS system since its formation. When paired with local matching funds, the bonds will finance nearly $200 million in construction across Kentucky, Beshear said.
Beshear used a line-item veto to eliminate language in the budget bill that would have prevented nine other KCTCS campuses from taking advantage of the agency bonds that support these investments.
"We're pleased that we're still in the forefront of the budget discussions," WKCTC President Barbara Veazey said. "I'm very thankful that the governor continues his support of the KCTCS. That is what we as a community want."
Veazey said that, as is the case with other KCTCS institutions, WKCTC must raise 25 percent of the funds for the capital project. Agency bonds fund the remaining 75 percent of the $10 million project.
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Maiese MAAC Named MAAC Pitcher Of The Week
EDISON, NJ - Redshirt senior Alyssa Maiese earned her second MAAC Pitcher of the Week honor of the season, as announced today by the conference. Maiese went 2-2 in the circle, allowing five earned runs in 25 innings of work for an earned run average of 1.40.
Against Sacred Heart, Maiese earned the win after allowing one unearned run with 10 strikeouts in a 9-1 Gaels win. Against FDU, Maiese allowed four earned runs in seven innings. Against Niagara, Maiese allowed just two hits and one walk while striking out 15 in a 3-0 Iona win. Against Canisius, Maiese wrapped up the week with a six inning, four hit performance, allowing one earned run.
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Pino Gate Prairie Dog Study: Mound-scale Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Plot Data from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (2000-2001)
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Pino Gate Prairie Dog Study: Mound-scale Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Plot Data from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (2000-2001)
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Keystone species have large impacts on community and ecosystem properties, and create important ecological interactions with other species. Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) and banner-tailed kangaroo rats (Dipodomys spectabilis) are considered keystone species of grassland ecosystems,and create a mosaic of unique habitats on the landscape. These habitats are known to attract a number of animal species, but little is known about how they affect arthropod communities. Our research evaluated the keystone roles of prairie dogs and kangaroo rats on arthropods at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico, USA. We evaluated the impacts of these rodents on ground-dwelling arthropod and grasshopper communities in areas where prairie dogs and kangaroo rats co-occurred compared to areas where each rodent species occurred alone. Our results demonstrate that prairie dogs and kangaroo rats have keystone-level impacts on these arthropod communities. Their burrow systems provided important habitats for multiple trophic and taxonomic groups of arthropods, and increased overall arthropod abundance and species richness on the landscape. Many arthropods also were attracted to the aboveground habitats around the mounds and across the landscapes where the rodents occurred. Detritivores, predators, ants, grasshoppers, and rare rodent burrow inhabitants showed the strongest responses to prairie dog and kangaroo rat activity. The impacts of prairie dogs and kangaroo rats were unique, and the habitats they created supported different assemblages of arthropods. Where both rodent species occurred together on the landscape, there was greater habitat heterogeneity and increased arthropod diversity. there was great habitat heterogeneity and increased arthropod diversity.
Davidson, Ana; Lightfoot, David (2016-03-03): Pino Gate Prairie Dog Study: Mound-scale Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Plot Data from the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (2000-2001). Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/9a9e8adb5aa6abe97ca839ad707e7436
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Is it good to have multiple links to the same destination on one page, for instance, a link in the text, in the navigation bar, and on the right side of the page? Or do too many redundant links make the page harder to use because people have to scan through more things to get to what they're looking for?
Tune in for a detailed discussion of the desert climate of Arizona compared to the oppressive humidity of the deep south… or tune in to gain some insights on where your users expect to find certain links within your designs. (We cater to many audiences.)
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari is in the midst of a remarkable five-year run that includes three Final Fours and a national championship.
His success can be attributed in part to an NBA rule, implemented in 2006, that requires draft picks to be one year removed from high school and at least 19 years old. Calipari has built his teams since then around top freshmen who need to play one year before going to the NBA.
On Tuesday, Julius Randle became the 12th such Wildcat under Calipari to leave for the NBA.
Many people have criticized the rule, including SEC commissioner Mike Slive, who spoke to reporters Monday during a nearly hour-long meeting with reporters at the Associated Press Sports Editors southeast region meeting at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Here's what Slive said about the one-and-done rule and other issues impacting the SEC.
What are your thoughts on the one-and-done rule?
It's a bad rule. You know why it's a bad rule? Because academically it's a bad rule. Because when a young man leaves after one year, his chances are statistically lower that he's going to come back and get a degree. If he stays two or three years, he's probably going to come back.
It's not the NCAA's rule. It's not the SEC's rule. It's the NBA's rule and the NBA Players Association's rule. If they wanted to change the rule, we'd be delighted that our kids would be staying longer. Right now, I'd take anything. What I'd like to see is a rule that provides a young man with an opportunity to compete and get a degree or get close to a degree.
What effect can Bruce Pearl have on SEC basketball in terms of perception and performance?
We'll see, especially on the second part. Bruce is an energetic guy who brings a lot of enthusiasm. There's a lot of excitement that he's back in the league, particular by the folks at Auburn. We'll see how he performs.
He and I have had our moments, as you're aware. We've cleared the air. Bruce has faced up to the mistakes he made, publicly. Assuming he does what he says he's going to do then we're ready to move ahead.
What do you make of the recent series of African-American basketball coaches leaving the SEC in arguably lateral moves? (Cuonzo Martin left Tennessee for Cal and Frank Haith left Missouri for Tulsa this month.)
When Sylvester (Croom) was hired by Mississippi State, it was a big story. A huge story. The best thing in the world is we've hired a whole lot of wonderful minority coaches since then and guess what? It's never a story. That's the story.
(Diversity) is something that I've always been proud of and something that I felt we had to do if we were going to be in the kind of league that we wanted to be. We can only be great if there are opportunities for everybody.
What are your thoughts on the Northwestern football players' efforts to unionize?
I don't believe student-athletes should be employees. If you put the union issue aside and look at the substance of what's being asked for, you will see that in part, maybe in great part, that what's being asked for are the same kind of things that the 65 institutions (in the five power conferences) put forth in the vision as early as last fall. I prefer to think about what's the substance of issue rather than the nature of it.
There is an element of frustration when I say to you that we started this last summer. It's not unfair to say that to turn the NCAA is not unlike turning an aircraft carrier from north to south. It's taken time. These are things that we believed in and wanted to get on the table much earlier than we have been able to.
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Red lipstick and purple underwear – the lucky talismans of Canadian halfpipe favourite Roz Groenewoud – failed to work their magic at Sochi.
Groenewoud, who had been heavily favoured for a medal, finished seventh Thursday night. She crashed in the first of her two final runs and performed far better in her second. But the better run was wholly inadequate to land her on the podium. "Just being at the Olympics wasn't my goal," she said. "My goal was to ski in a way that I was proud of and I didn't do that tonight."
Known as Roz G, the 24-year-old Calgarian indulges her superstitions by always wearing bright red lipstick, purple underwear and purple hair elastics in competitions. The red-and-purple routine have brought her ample luck in competitions.
In 2012, the same year that her friend and halfpipe mentor Sarah Burke died in a training accident, she was the halfpipe champion in the X Games. She won the same title the same year in X Games Europe. Last month, just five weeks after undergoing double knee surgery, she won silver at the X Games.
Luckier, and perhaps more skilled, was Maddie Brown of the United States, who won gold. The medal means that the Americans have won a medal in all four new Olympic events in freestyle skiing – the men's and ladies' ski halfpipe and the men's and ladies' ski slopestyle.
Marie Martinod of France took the silver and Japan's Ayana Onozuka won bronze.
The Canadian men had a rough go on the same mountain earlier in the day, in the ski cross race. Three Canadians were seeded near the top of the pack in a race that thrills audiences with its crashes and collisions and ramps that send the four duelling competitor soaring through the air.
One of them, Brady Leman of Calgary, made it into the final. But coming from behind not far from the end of the race in a bid for a medal, he got tangled with another skier and went down.
In a clean sweep, the medals all went to France. Jean Frederic Chapuis won gold, Arnaud Boloventa silver and Jonathan Midol bronze.
No, the French trio did not conspire to shut out poor Leman. "We didn't have a strategy," Chapuis said. "There are three places for the podium, there is one loser place. We are friends off the slopes, but on the slopes we are enemies, so I tried to make my best."
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Media Factory began streaming the first promotional video for the anime adaptation of Atto's Non Non Biyori manga on Friday.
The slice-of-life comedy is set in a countryside school with only five students total. The nearest bookstore is 20 minutes away by bicycle, a certain "Ju_p" magazine comes out on Wednesdays instead of Mondays, and the video rental store is 10 stations away.
Fifth-grade schoolgirl Hotaru Ichijō transfers from Tokyo to this school and readjusts to the slow life in the country. Her fellow schoolmates are first-year middle schoolgirl Natsumi, second-year middle schoolgirl Komari, first-grade schoolgirl Renge, and Komari's big brother Suguru in the third year of middle school.
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What type (if any) primer?
I'm painting the windows and the window trim around my house. They are about 100 year old and have many coats of paint on them. In addition the wood underneath seems to be somewhat damp but not spongy or rotted. I'd say at best they were painted 30 years ago as when we bought the house 20 years ago much of the paint was chipping and flakeing off.
I took a heat gun, a scraper, some sandpaper, and a nice resperator and went to work stripping the old paint off. 80% of it is bare wood now while some areas have a very thin coat of what is probably the original paint. All the seams are caulked with DAP dynaflex 230 50yr paintable caulk. The heat gun seams to have taken care of the moisture problem as well.
I was useing a Benjamin Moore oil based primer then a coat of Shirwin Williams flat exterior paint, then a coat of Shirwin Williams Gloss White. Both paints from Shirwin Williams are the cheaper 15 year line. The reason for the two differant colors is the flat paint I got for nothing so I figured I'd use it for a first coat then put my finish coat over it and only have to buy half the amount of paint.
Now. A painter I know saw me doing this and explained this to me: The wood has moisture in it (he's right about that), oil and water don't mix (so far so good), oil based primer won't adhere to the wood because of the moisture content (?). Only water based paints should be used because if their is any moisture in the wood, too much humidity, or if it rains the oil based primer won't properly adhere and will begin to come off. Also that the oil primer couldn't be topcoated for a month after it was put on. He said I should just put the flat paint I have right on the wood/paint/caulking and that it would hold up fine.
Should I continue useing the oil base? Switch to a water based primer? Or not use any primer?
You MUST use primer on bare wood surfaces.
First thing... the moisture content must be at 14% or below. So you must allow the wood to dry out properly BEFORE priming or painting. At least 2-3-4 days (depending on the moisture issue)of good drying weather after you prep the surface.
It doesnt matter if its oil or latex primer/paint... if there is a moisture problem and you seal the surface... the moisture will have know where to go or evaporate... so it will cause your piant to fail prematurely...
Apply 1/coat of Ben Moore's OIL Primer...Fresh Start 09400...
There's no waiting a month to apply a finish coat... you can apply it next day... read the label...
AFTER priming then you caulk all areas as needed... do not caulk before priming...
Then you can apply the finish coat... I would recomend Ben Moore's Moore Glo (Soft Gloss)
Go here for more information.... www.paintquality.com
I'll keep useing the Benjain Moore primer you recommended but I'm going to stay with the Sherwin Williams topcoat as I have 10 gallons of it already.
Thank you.
The advice JMGP told you is good stuff. You should not paint until the wood is dry, no matter what paint you choose. If you have some extra money(but only if) you could grab a moisture meter. The cheap ones suck, but the good ones cost a bit. Your call.
As far as what kind of paint to use....SW, BM, and Zin are the best. The paint you are using will work fine.
Now, I personally disagree when I hear painters (or anyone for that matter), say using flat paint as a primer is ok. I use primer for primer, and paint for paint.
These are the steps: ( on dry wood)... prime, lightly sand, caulk, paint, paint
good luck, see ya
There is a point in there
If the wood has a lot of moisture, oil-based primer could lift
This happens a lot on "wet" houses, and if the house has a lot of moisture, latex/water-based product should be used
Not only water-based paints only forever
That's not true
If the house has a high moisture content, yes, the oil could lift and the paint would fail
I was going to give the "painter" the benefit of the doubt, and maybe you mis-heard or mis-understood him with the other stuff
But that's just a crock
Don't take any more painting advise from this guy
Hey, that doesn't mean he's not a great guy, and maybe he knows a lot about other stuff
He's full of bad advice isn't he?
To answer whether you should use oil or latex, we must know why the wood is wet
Is it wet from recent rain?
Can it, or does it ever dry out?
Is it getting wet from the inside out?
As for why it's wet, it's just wet because the wood has basically been exposed to the elements for about thirty years due to flaking/peeling paint. The wood is actually in good shape though once its cleaned up, not rotted or spongy.
I'm not sure about when if ever it dries out, as I don't and havn't ever checked it regularly. I'm assuming since the only way it can get wet is from rain that it does dry out. When I stripped the paint it hadn't rained for about two days and the wood was wet. I used a heatgun in stripping the paint though and when I got through the wood was hard and dry which I assumed was dry enough for painting. I guess the moisture content is really a judgement call unless one spends the money for a moisture meter.
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Bass Coast Shire Council wants more resources from the State Government to deal with the influx of tourists who stay in the area over summer. Council employs more staff over the summer period to deal with the increased number of visitors and this stretches resources, says Steve Piansente, community and economic development officer at Bass Coast Shire Council.
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In the past, Bass Coast Shire Council have asked the State Government to take into account the increase in the shire's summer population when allocating funding to the council and the council have received a small increase, but this is still not enough, Mr Piasente says.
"We never get enough money from the government in terms of the services we provide," he says.
Mr Piasente says the population of Bass Coast Shire's bigger towns such as Inverloch, Cowes and San Remo, more than double over the summer period.
"It's a significant benefit to the local businesses in terms of trade and it certainly has its challenges in terms of staff having to deal with any issues that come up," Mr Piasente says.
He says the strain on resources is felt mostly by the council's local laws staff.
Incidents of illegal fireworks, sleeping in cars and fires on beaches are the most common breaches of local laws by visitors to the shire.
Under local laws, police in Bass Coast Shire are given power to deal with infringements because council has limited resources to deal with these problems, Mr Piasente says.
The 'Enjoy It..Don't Spoil It' campaign was launched five years ago to try and curb antisocial behaviour in public, in particular among younger visitors to popular spots such as Phillip Island.
Bruce Clark, manager of the Inverloch Esplanade Hotel, says an increased police presence around summer has meant less antisocial behaviour and drinking in public.
"It's a lot more regulated and a lot better received. People seem to be aware of where we're at and what they're meant to be doing," he says.
He says visitors are most confused about the local law under which people can be fined for sleeping in their cars in town.
"It's a bit of a grey area. If you want to have a powernap in your car I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to sleep in your car," Mr Clark says.
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MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Joey Coulter's bid for the 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship begins Friday night when he pilots the No.18 GunBroker.com Tundra in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. The 22-year-old driver, who will begin his third full-time season in the Truck Series and first with Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM), knows that a strong start to the season will play a pivotal role in improving upon his third-place finish in the final point standings from last season. Coulter was relegated to an 18th-place finish in last year's season-opening race at Daytona after being involved in a last-lap accident. He dug a further hole in the point standings when in the second race of the season, at Martinsville, he cut a tire near the hallway mark and wound up finishing 30th. The Florida native found himself 24th in points after two events and his championship hopes were very slim with a 22-race schedule in the Truck Series. Under the veteran leadership of crew chief Harold Holly, Coulter and the No. 22 team mounted a remarkable rally over the final 20 races of the season. The talented youngster picked up his first career Truck Series win at Pocono Raceway in August, captured three pole awards and each week slowly but surely moved up the point standings. When the season was finished, he had accumulated eight top-five and 15 top-10 finishes and over the final 20 races of the season accumulated more points (749) than any other driver. In the final seven races of the season, the 2011 Truck Series Rookie of the Year posted five of his eight top-five finishes, including third-place results in the final two races of the seasons and ended the season third in the final Truck Series point standings, 19 points behind James Buescher, the 2012 champion. Coulter heads into the 2013 season with a new team, a new number and a new sponsor. The talented youngster is hoping all the changes will be for the better and it will allow him to get off to a strong start in his bid for the 2013 Truck Series championship. Joey Coulter, Driver of the No. 18 NCWTS GunBroker.com Tundra: What have you been doing in an effort to ensure that you get off to a fast start this year? "I've been down in Florida running both dirt and pavement late models – just trying to get a lot of seat time before the Truck Series season starts. Anytime you can get behind the wheel of any race vehicle, it helps knock the dust off and gets you fired up for the start of the season. Harold and I feel like we've never really had a good start to a season, so hopefully running all these races and having some good finishes will help. I hope to gather a few trophies before the big race on Friday night." How has the transition to KBM and Toyota gone so far? "It's been a smooth transition. Everybody at both KBM and Toyota has gone out of their way to make sure that Harold and I have what we need to succeed. We tested at Gresham (Motorsports) and it went really well. Toyota has been fantastic in getting my engineer up to speed on all the technology that he has at his disposal. It is pretty amazing what they do for their teams — I've never seen anything like it. I'm excited to get to Daytona. All the guys have been working really hard on my GunBroker.com Tundra." What is your goal for the 2013 season? "To go win the championship — Harold and I were hired to win KBM their first driver's championship and we feel like we have a great shot at it. All the things that we've learned working together the past few years, we can plug into the winning formula that KBM has already established. If we can mesh everything together and get off to a really good start, I think that we'll be the team to beat at the end of the year." Harold Holly, Crew Chief of the No. 18 NCWTS GunBroker.com Tundra: What needs to happen for Joey to get off to a better start this season? "Joey and I sat down and we tried to look at where we were last year — what our average qualifying spot was, what our average finish was and which races got us. Basically, it was the first two races of the season that cost us the championship. At Daytona you are at your competitor's mercy, so I don't really know what you can do. Last year, we were racing for the win in a green-white-checkered finish and got wrecked — there is not a lot you can do about that. At Martinsville, we had a failure that we probably could've stopped. The biggest thing is to look at the mistakes we did make in the past and try not to repeat them." How has the transition to a Toyota team gone for you? "This is the first time for me in the Toyota camp and I've been amazed at what they have to offer. Once I got here, I was able to see what is available to us and then got to visit TRD (Toyota Racing Development) and see the tools they have — their tools are really sharp and they have a lot to offer that will help our race team." Joey Coulter's No. 18 GunBroker.com Tundra: KBM-13: The GunBroker.com team will be unloading a brand new Tundra for Friday night's NextEra Energy Resources 250. -Kyle Busch Motorsports PR
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