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September 20, 2002

State of the University
IU President Myles Brand will deliver his 2002 State of the University address during the opening meeting of the University Faculty Council, Tuesday on the IU Bloomington campus.
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A chancellor for IU South Bend
The South Bend campus’ fourth chancellor will be installed at ceremonies Sept. 27.
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Arias in Indiana next week
Oscar Arias, former president of Costa Rica and winner of the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize, will visit Indiana next week, with two public presentations at IU Bloomington and one at IUPUI.
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Fashion plates
Some called him the King of Seventh Avenue, but Fort Wayne native Bill Blass had a “serenity of spirit” that was decidedly Midwestern. A retrospective of the late fashion designer’s work is being curated by IUB’s Kathleen Rowold. The exhibit opens next month at the IU Art Museum.
Rowold also comments on the state of campus fashion, as it is today, as it was a century ago. Articles

FACET
IU’S Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching will help guide a new endowment that will fund the Mack Center for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning. Read more about FACET and its 350 statewide IU faculty members. Article

IU scores in ‘U.S. News’ annual ranking
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CREF celebrates golden anniversary;
IU alumnus principal architect in 1952
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Photo by IU Home Pages photographer Paul Martens
Jane Goodman (far left, foreground), a faculty member in the Department of Communication and Culture at IU Bloomington, joined several hundred from the Bloomington community taking part in the Rolling Requiem, held at Recital Hall at the School of Music Sept. 11. With her are music students Robin Hayes (center) and Eliza Jacques. To Jacques’ left is visiting faculty member Steve Larson. Mozart’s Requiem was sung in all 26 global time zones to memorialize the victims of 9/11. Photos from events commemorating the first anniversary from IU campuses throughout the state are in today’s online edition of Home Pages. More photos

Today's feature
Carving a niche in scholarship publishing
How does a university press stay true to a mission that is 52 years old and take on new challenges, such as mega-bookstores and online vendors? Peter-John Leone, director of the IU Press, talks about the triumphs and pitfalls in the world of university publishing. Take a look, too, at the Press’ new fall catalog, with previews of Cloister and Community, Poetry After Auschwitz and Dissent in the Heartland.
Sacred space, memory space
Weaver’s ‘Cloister and Community’ examines sacred space in everyday life
Gubar: Remembering what one never knew
‘Dissent in the Heartland’ looks at IU student protest in the 1960s
‘We publish scholarship’
IU Press Q&A

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