Traditions & Spirit

I was. Taught. Every. Way. Good. Afternoon to you. My name is Chuck Krabbe. I'm one of the associate athletic directors here at Indiana University. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure to have today with. The class of 2001. Today of course this is experienced the PRI. Probably during the last few months as you're visiting with people at home they keep saying What's a Hoosier

and you're going to learn a little bit of definition today and help us define that as we get ready with you to start this next millennium as you came into the new auditorium today. You came into one of the most remarkable landmarks here on the Bloomington campus of the city that dates back to 1941. Perhaps if you came in maybe you looked up above and you saw that Thomas Hart Benton murals. This campus is an area that has a great deal of tradition and you should look at those because it tells the story of this prairie state dating back to 1816. The murals were created for the Century of Progress the International Exposition in 1933. And here we have them in the auditorium. Also in the theater to the east portion of this building and a few of you are probably going to have a class or two and would burn one on one so you'll see some of them in there also. That gives you a little bit of a taste for this

facility. Our campus dates back as I said to 18 20 with the start of Indiana University in this small southern Indiana community. We have with this today a gentleman who have a video presentation to tell you a little bit more about what's made up the development of Indiana University as we know it today. He is the vice president of Indiana University and serves as the chancellor for the Bloomington campus. Please greet Chancellor Kendall. Our Ardrossan Lewis. Thank you Jack. I hate to begin with a Purdue joke. But. You may have heard that this year. That's good news at Purdue actually the gene Katie is only dressing seven players for the basketball team.

And that's because the other five can now dress themselves. Sometime in two or four years here and now. Here's an offer real offer some time in your four years here. I'm confident that Cam Cameron is going to take you football to one of the alliance bowl games. When that happens. First person who comes to my office which is in Brian Hall 100. And just says I attended the chancellor's slide show. I'll pay you two plane tickets and your room for the first question that comes to tickets today. Today it's my pleasure to welcome you to the life into the world of this university. Which is Chuck Krabbe indicated celebrating his hundred and seventy seventh birthday in the years since its founding. The university has grown and changed but in one basic way students have not changed that much. Photographs. Or moments in time to stand

still for us by a technician or an artist with a box. Today I want to introduce you to the world of you with photographs taken as early as they could have been photographs that will show you what each succeeding freshman class found when it first arrived in Bloomington. You know the university was founded in 1820. It was five years before the first freshman class began his studies the world at large with that first class had some important things going on. Bonaparte had died only four years earlier. Thomas Jefferson died. The university was founded. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony which was performed for the first time. The Erie Canal was completed and John Quincy Adams was beginning his first term as president of the United States. In that context Bloomington was barely more than a frontier town when the state legislature decided to put what was then called Indiana State Seminary here in this painting start to see it in this painting called political meeting on the square. We see the village of Bloomington through the eyes of the of this Wiley the 7th Professor hired to teach it are you.

This is painted about 1839. And you can see clearly the blooming was barely more than a backwoods community. When early catalogue described Bloomington quote. Pleasantly situated in an elevated and well-watered limestone region a place universally considered one of the most healthy in the state. The population consisting of some 16 hundred persons is moral and intelligent and well calculated to exert a good influence upon the youth who resort to the university. On the other hand a freshman from Providence Ind. about 150 years ago had another view of Bloomington. Here's a letter he wrote home in May of 1843. The folks they all live here by eating and drinking as usual. That was about as much Tases which is about fear of hogs and a pig pen. If any of them were taken through their catechism and asked what this man's chief end there's no doubt that they would answer. Making money. Mr Archer would answer man's chief end is to make all he can and to cheat all he can. And he's not alone in that particular. There's certainly less taste less sense higher prices and more

rascality in this place than exist in any other spot of ground in the United States. In short. This place would never be heard of except of its bud and counterfeiters. If it were not. For the college down at the lower end of it. In common language it's about 100 miles from every other place and 200 to where anybody lives. It's no wonder then that nothing of importance has to be told of this place or its people. And no wonder the short letters find their way out of here. End quote. How you was born of course in the days before photography. But here's a drawing of the first campus building's. First campus buildings made by Cornelius pairing. An Englishman who was the principal of the female seminary a private written matter about the specifications of the building. The drawing contained in a letter to parings relatives back home in England is the only record we have of the first buildings. This letter was returned to America to piercings granddaughter. Seventy five years after it was written. 1838 the wife of the the member who

came to Bloomington mistook the university classroom building. There was only one. For the local cotton factory but he she refer to it was located at the site of the old campus which you'll find someday if you don't know it already. So at the intersection of college Avenue and second Street and it's called seminary park there are two things on the current campus that come from that first campus. One is a sundial that's between Maxwell Hall and the student building and the other with the portals that are in the well house that's across from actual hall. In those days most students came to Bloomington unlike you. But what was called the ride and tie method. One would ride ahead a certain distance on horse tied to a tree and then walk on foot. The other when he walked as far as the horse would take his turn riding a spell and the two alternating either would have to walk all the way to Bloomington to go to school. One reason why that person from Providence was preoccupied with counterfeiters high prices and the manners of the

natives was that there were no women at all you to distract his attention. In fact you as an all male school until a young woman from Salem Indiana. Resenting the fact that her brothers could attend you and she could not meet a protest. And made a special request of the board of trustees in 1867. To allow women to come to this university. Her father. At. That time there were seven trustees. After much discussion of the pros and cons of higher education for women and a personal appearance at the board of trustees meeting by the woman herself Sarah park Morrison is your name. The trustees voted to admit her. The vote was for yes three No. Is a sort of park Morrison looked like in the days when she applied for entrance to you. Now the majority of women on campus. Are the majority of students on campus are women.

In fact in the freshman class I'm told there are 58 percent female 42 percent male. You have to check the quality as well as the quantity. Remember. SARAH. Parke Morris has a admission to an all male student body called Shock waves among the faculty. When she walked across the platform to get a diploma some argued her ankles would be seen by people in the audience and how could the university maintain its reputation. Ms Morrison knew that the reason the students were horrified at the prospect of sharing the platform with women is that sooner or later they would with some of the prizes. And indeed in three years all the women won the highly prized scientific prizes within several decades I was firmly coeducational Hissar park Morrison in the front row fourth from the left. In a photograph of coeds in 98 or 1868 and

it is all of the co-eds in 1868. Every one of them obviously dressed as civil war era addresses his campus in 1876. This is now the old campus still down at college in the seminary park on second Street in college Avenue. Real concern on the part of university officials. When the new the new Albany and Salem railroad tracks were laid along one side of the campus there was concern that the noise from the engines would drown out what was going on in the classrooms but also more so that sparks and the engines were considered a fire hazard. In fact the science building on the right one of the two buildings remember the only two was destroyed by fire in 1883 or caused by lightning. Had the freshmen from Providence been in Bloomington 1876. You might have thought that you looked more like university sure but still in the foreground you can still see. Unpaved street mud steppingstones 1882. Are you is still a far cry from what you see around you today.

14 family members were here teaching 11 different departments. There are 81 full time students an 84 part time students freshmen who were obliged to attend four lectures each weekday. There were no fees for classes like today. But the university charge $3 for term contingency fee and 50 cents for the use of the library. Discipline was described in 1882 catalog as preventive rather than penal based and a sense of honor expected of the students. 1883 however marked the beginning of a new era. When the fire I mentioned caused by lightning destroyed one of the two buildings that the university had caused the trustees to do a lot of soul searching about where to move another location or to move elsewhere in the state legislative from Indianapolis also had ideas about the location of Indiana University. As early as 1852 in Indianapolis editor wrote the newspaper. In the university. Is located in such an out-of-the-way place that no man well qualified for the station of teacher will

live there. No railroad passes that no state route a mud muntjac is the only convenience to it. It would really be somewhere in the world if we were moved to Franklin or Columbus Noblesville or Greenfield. One of those historical events. Going to hear a lot about in the short presentation today. Because think what would have happened in any of those locations and cities Bloomington had that been the case. But then present the board of trustees amening David Banta who indeed walked all the way from Iowa to come to Bloomington to go to school. Bullet his fellow trustees into moving the university to Dun's woods. Then at the eastern edge of Bloomington they initially bought 20 acres from a man named Moses Dunn who lived in Bedford at the time. Now the campus has eighteen hundred and fifty nine acres at the center of the campus between Beck chapel and the union building. You'll find an old cemetery that is the Dunn family cemetery where the original owners of the new campus are buried. And where occasionally you'll

see one of the descendents still buried there these days. Here's the name Dunn Moses Dunn exists of course in Dunn meadow which is here. It also exists on Dunn Street which is one block from the western side of the campus. So you had a new look in the 1890s as it moved east to the edge of campus of the university. Its remote location was not popular when newspaper editor said it's well on its way to Brown County. No one can get there. There's really was in the woods the post-Civil War era years brought a number of first to you. Including some significant firsts. I'd like to focus on. Here's our first I-man Malcolm McDonnell Civil War veteran from Indianapolis who brought the campus to a new game called Baseball Between his army buddies play when they weren't fighting. Here's a slide of professors Daniel Kirkwood on the left and the office Wolley on the right. Photographed him with the Bloomington minister at the train station in downtown Bloomington in the 1880s

customary for faculty to meet important visitors to the university. This is one of those occasions here believe it or not is the first rec sports center. Ever year I show that I can imagine what possible thing could be played in this building. But anyway this is the sports center existed northwest of Owen Hall where crossing the bookstore entrance. You know what that is the one this was built in 1892 it later was a carpentry shop. For maintenance man. His I use championship baseball team in 1893. To win the state championship. It was no big 10 then remember the team beat Rose Polly Purdue and Wabash but lost her to PA by a score of 12 to three. Two years ago by the way you won the Big Ten title for the first time in 47 years. First African-American to graduate from university with Marcellus Neal from Greenfield.

You got his bachelor's degree here in mathematics in 1895. There had been other black students here before but he was the first to receive a degree in the early 1900s a woman named Francis Eagleson Marshall graduated. And as for these two the first woman to graduate the first African-American to graduate that the Neal Marshall education center that's going to be built during your years here is named is the first band of the university appearing in the student in 1896. His I used first biological field station. This is. 1895 at Lake while we're seeing some of you may know I'm not sure what the studying was going on at this particular research site but there it is. This is from an 1899 yearbook photo. Even after moving to Donne's Woods university was not entirely immune to costly fires. His while the hall and 1300 of those he was seen widely called no know that does not have now a steeple. And

that's because in 1900 you now see Blue Mountains horse drawn fire vehicles coming to the fire at Wiley taking down the tower. And the third floor the tallest building still stands without a tower was the site of the women's gym in the basement. In the later years the first sight the Alfred Kinsey Institute for sex research itself a first insurance company by the way. It's a place to visit. Next week at this time for a paid price. I show slides from the Kinsey Institute. The. Insurance company by the way pay the university nineteen thousand four hundred four dollars and ninety cents for the fire. His young women of the PI beta Phi sorority lining up at 1300. The oldest fraternity in campus was beta Theta Pi founded here in 1845. The old a sorority Kappa Alpha Theta founded in 1970 his early football. Game

between you in Cincinnati played on the field called the Jordan field. It's located where the union building parking lot now is. That's where the football field was that year 1800 university had 14 men on the team and outscored their opponents 110 to 29. They defeated Earlham then Sens. Notre Dame and Purdue. And lost to Northwestern and to Michigan. 19:00 a pop and extracurricular activity was the married folks club. And here they are. Requirement for membership besides a marriage certificate with senior status in the university. The yearbook described the purpose of the club as quote social culture and quote calling attention to the fact that married people are not lost. Quote To all intellectual literary a social effort and refuting the notion quote that since such matters pertain to the young or at least to the unmarried is I use first obs.. 1886.

Was living like an large outhouse doesn't it. Had a four inch telescope made in England. Normas technical problems. The Dome had to had to be moved by hand. The shutter was frequently off the track etc.. Anyway 1886 the first Observatory but 1890s. Here's what the campus looked like. This section is called the old Crescent as protected by the National Historic Register. The original buildings left to right a Maxwell Owen. Wylie named after the band you saw before on the screen in Kirkwood Hall's all named for persons important in the early life of the university. Together with a couple of small frame buildings that's all there was to you. In those days this is called the old Crescent. Clean Donne's Woods is filled in the area that you see with just a few trees here and so you don't get this Vista except perhaps when the leaves fall and it's winter. 1890s. I hear the side of a redone Owen Hall. Down the sense of being

reconstructed remodeled and the very rare scene when it snows in bloom it is very unusual. 1890s in university look new. The administrations long well established parental attitude to students hadn't changed much. Andrew Wylie. First president wrote an early catalogue of quote purity of morals should be made a primary object whenever any student shall show symptoms of sloth or any other vice commencing upon him. He shall be addressed in the subject and if admonition proven effectual he shall be sent away. 1848 quoted discipline quote. The discipline is intended to be strictly parental and to accomplish its effect by appealing to the better principles of the heart avoiding a possible severe and disgraceful punishments. Students are treated as reasonable beings 1850 catalogue again written by Wiley quote With regard to apparel or pocket money it's earnestly recommended to all parents sending their children to this institution no matter how wealthy they are not to furnish them with extravagant means the character and scholarship of students are often grievously

injured by free indulgence in the use of money. Whatever is furnished me out a moderate supply for ordinary expenses exposes the students numerous temptations and endangers rather than increases happiness and respectability. Well Bloomington those days had its share of saloons and the kind of temptations that worried President Wiley. On one occasion a student by the name of Barkman and two of his fellow students stopped by a house where some women. Were as students later explained to the disciplinary committee doing quote some interesting dancing. End quote. The faculty committee expelled one student and suspended the other two. 1850 code of conduct about class attendance. No apology. The thought of sickness or other unavoidable accident is sufficient to excuse a student from a regular attendance at recitation nor with students excuse a mandatory chapel services six days a week that they attitude is adjusted by the president and members of the faculty. They came to the chapel. To see the chapel. The doors were locked.

And sermons were given lasting sometimes an hour and a half in case it sounds a little ridiculous in these rules. Here are some examples of behavior by students. In 19th century. A student named Palmer from Elkhart Indiana was charged with appearing in chapel under the influence of alcohol lying down on the bench during hymns. After. Having his knife open and laughing with the president prayed. 1863 President W-well Prather removed the pipe from the chapel stove and filled the room with smoke. 1873. Named W.T. Maxwell became bored with commencement speeches and SOED birdshot and beans all over the audience. 1880 code of conduct spelled out in detail it was not tolerable to the administration faculty and I quote immoral and dishonorable conduct. Subjects of the college discipline. Under the head of immoral and dishonorable conduct may be named the use of profane language. The carrying of concealed weapons if not concealed was OK. Visiting billiard

gambling or drinking rooms using intoxicating liquor as a beverage as opposed to other means printing or circulating bogus programs or other lampoons and the practice of dishonesty or assisting to shield dishonesty in examination or elsewhere. End quote. Some bad students in 1999 prompted Mrs. Frank Clampett to own the boarding house house to file a complaint with the students. Is Mrs Clampett told the disciplinary committee. That the student who lived in her house uttered curses and habitually used vulgar indecent language allowed to be heard all over the house threatened with violence threats to burn down the house throw heavy boxes down the stairs. Also the bed clothing made no day and night. It is impossible to sleep and the noises are kept up at all times even at times even occasionally after midnight. Does this happen in spite of the threats of retaliation. This is clamper the last word. As all the students were expelled from university. Early tradition the development on campus you'll be blatherers past was the annual shearing of

freshmen. Heads but sophomores. Even though was called shearing. Actually the freshman's heads were shaved and then they were given little green caps to wear call through and call Riney POD's. I come back to that despite the fact that the administration tried to keep the freshmen sophomore scraps from getting out of hand. They often spilled over into surrounding neighborhoods in downtown victory's value athletic teams also gave the students what they thought was a good excuse. Extracurricular activities. So for example in the last major event I remember was the NC to a basketball title in 1987 when they were celebrating and Showalter fountain out here people of course with soap in the fountain which happens with some frequency but also when you go out there later. Look around at some of the dolphins. Most of those dolphins disappeared in 1987. They all were found later in return but nevertheless after a while the tempest made to get the freshman and sophomore men something physical to do. And in

1918 the game was simply pushing the ball around. Each year the freshmen because of sheer numbers would win when this took place just before the first football game. In these years the university too was suffering from Growing Pains. One of our U.S. presidents named David Starr Jordan who later helped found Stanford University left you to go to California. And there was some discussion about naming something for him. Jocund he said that the trustees needed that little stream that goes to the campus. Thus they did this little innocent Jordan river sometimes in the spring when you here will overflow has in fact been known to cover all of done metal William O'Brien who was president for 35 years from 1982 to 1937. Helped to revive the Indiana Daily Student when he was an undergraduate paper was started in 1867. Ran for seven years then was defunct for eight years. And he started again in 1882 his editorial that you wrote at that time I quote the fate of the bill

is now a bill for the general assembly for funding the fate of the bill is the barometer which shows that we have not as a people reach the longed for intellectual eminence. We may lose some of our distinguished teachers our best brains will go to other states for training. That the legislature or the people cannot see the folly of allowing this is their misfortune. It's lamentable to observe the extent to which the opinion prevails that a college is a pile of bricks and that a college course consists of four almanacks and a sheepskin and quote editorial that might have been written anytime in the last hundred years. Yet in spite of economic troubles the faculty the administration coped with a shoestring budget and built us made University which is in many ways your property. Since a majority of your students are Indiana taxpayers are related to them. Five out of every students on campus come from. I come from in-state. However. There are students in Bloomington from all 50 states from what seems to me an extraordinary number of 135 different countries.

The catalog in those days. Gave you a very strict diet. Of Latin Greek. Mathematics logic moral philosophy. Did you have all four years. So if you look at the catalog. Is a page from early catalogue. First term second term third term meaning meaning the freshman sophomore junior senior year with one or two exceptions the senior year every semester with Latin mathematics Greek French history and sometimes history was replaced by philosophy over the years of course life has changed influenced by national trends influenced by fads influenced by what's happening elsewhere in the world. Look at some of these things thinking now 80 years ago. This is 1911. The first airplane flight in this county. This took place undone metal that had not been level properly and taking off in the bumpy bumpy field. The daring young man is flying machines not good enough. Our attitude. And collided with an apple tree. Pattis survived but obviously the airplane did not I was original

Founders Day January 19th. This university was founded by the general assembly January. 19 1820. Now found his days will discover celebrated in March. Three speakers come including various presidents the United States has spoken here familiar face on campus for many years. Samuel Saul Dargan received his batch of laws degree here in 1999. After this. This is a dog and a dog a relative out there. After this he was named librarian archivist of the law library and became a friend to generations of Hoosier lawyers. This portrait now hangs in the law school. 19:15 student cheerleader. Named Brandon Griffiths from Richmond Indiana. Got his bachelor's degree in 18th 1916 and took a job at the Army company in Chicago. His the 19:15 cross-country team. Lined up for their official butis photo. It's not clear whether the dog is a member of the team

or mascot. In the world were won by a lot of changes to campus army training corps. It's taken in front of the student building looking 70 years ago a diversion in the 1920s was a clumsy sport called auto polo. Actually the purpose of the match was to raise enough money to pay for the band to go to the Purdue game at West Lafayette. This is taken from the 1923 match which was a draw one to one because the car the car broke down. There was written that was driven by a man named Ernie Pyle who later became a Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent in World War II and for whom the journalism school. Building or in the pool hall is named here in the 20s the varsity dancing team. It's unclear what these folks did. And. Against whom they competed. But it is the varsity dancing team

the alumni in Chicago decided the university should have a traditional trophy for the football game and that's when they chose the oaken bucket first made its appearance at the game or Memorial Stadium. In 1926. Now you get to keep the bucket that year because the score was 0 0 and the home team cuts him in a tie. And this is still as many of you know when the game is held at the oaken bucket. One person I know here. Former head of the alumni association long retired named name of Claude rich. But to my astonishment He's seen every Indiana Purdue game since 1926 when the bucket was introduced. That incredible campus variety show called the Jordan River review. These dapper song and dance man looking like the keystone cops when they posed with the 1926 or butis. Is the new bookstore in 1921 started then looks like the sports center of any two years started as a cooperative venture to save students money on textbooks and supplies.

The co-op angered the local book dealers who didn't like the competition and still in New Years. You may notice in the newspaper editorials critical of the bookstore because it's competing unfairly because it doesn't pay taxes. The local bookstore owners people think the 20s was a time of speakeasies short dresses Charleston dancing etc. bassoons get very interested now from the 9029 or butis and trying to persuade the legislature as indeed while he had done some years before. In Jordan after him to get more money from the general assembly. You can read it here. But the sign says Tell the people of Indiana that the state must have provision for education at least comparable with that of other Northwestern states. I think of Indiana in the 20s think of itself as a Northwestern State. This requires meeting Indiani versus budget request of $2.6 billion in full by the 9029 legislature. That meeting this budget in full will mean an additional tax of only 21 cents on each one thousand of assessment. Really the price of a packet of cigarettes in a state which is spending 1.3

million for luxuries. University budget now is 1.6 billion dollars. Sixty years ago kein briberies among the classes climax by the smoking of the peace pipe. This goes back to what I said before when the freshmen's heads were sheared paper on these little green caps called Riney pods. And at the end of the first semester they could burn them on a bonfire and then they had this peace pipe with the upperclassmen. I don't know what they smoked but from looking at the glazed look the person on the left could be or. Rather. Early early hasheesh anyway. The. Annual beauty contests. Here's the junior prom queen in 18 in 1932. This woman is still living. She lives in Muncie got a business degree here married. This is probably the first slide that has some link with you because she is alive. She's still out there. Her great grandchildren may well be at you for all that. All I

know I'm never really tracked it down. It's one of those connections that you see more of as we go. As I go through this the 1930s art butis says quote The athletic co-ed has entered into her own kingdom. No longer need she camouflage behind romance languages and home economics. Women for the first time were trying their hands at basketball field hockey soccer. Now you know. Now as you know the institute has mandated gender equity. And I'm pleased to say I'm proud to say. That Indiana University is the first institution in the country that I'm aware of. In division one that has pledged not only of gender equity which is 60 percent 40 percent. That would be 50 50 by the year 2003. I used to say in the 30s love putting on musicals. Here's a 1933. Right. This is a musical opening on their winning smiles. Here are the first two campus

policemen hired. Called Pete and Clay sitting next to a kind of Bonnie and Clyde type car. Included in the 1934 butis on a page of photos titled aides to the administration. Is a football game ritual called a powwow. This is held this is in the 30s. On the left is Truman B wells who as you know was president from 37 to 62. So an active force at the university. On the right is William O'Brien who was used 10th president and president in 1982 to 1937. And the first in the middle. You can just see the zoner. Obviously the opponent this time was Arizona 50 years ago. New thing in the Union Building a jukebox. Instant Music for dancing. Students in the 40s. I had to stand in long lines to register for classes. These students in 1945 are waiting in line in the in the wilderness intramural building on 7th Street. In those days and for a long time students were required to schedule

50 percent of their classes in the afternoon. A less excuse for employment reasons given by the university was to keep the students from goofing off in the afternoon. Annual ritual started by the blue society in 1930 was the burial of old John perdu. John Perdue a dummy which you'd expect is resurrected every fall. Laysan state. Lays in state of the union building for several days before the ceremony and is visited by Mark mourner's election of 1950s to the Sphinx club much sought after honor membership had to have a record of campus activities. Good grades you can't see the caps on top of that caption says BMOC for big man on campus. Now in contradiction contradiction to the Sphinx club here are members of the dragon's head organization. They pride themselves on doing nothing. Their members according to their bylaws was selected on the basis of political maneuvering. Dashing

personality enthusiastic handshaking and gracious living while attending are you. 2030 years ago you know the Vietnam War culture caused turmoil. Across the country. And this is no exception. This is a anti-Vietnam rally on gunmetal. Student body president at that time Keith Parker from Indianapolis opposed the war. And with the enthusiastic approve of some sharp denunciation of others. Ashley Parker traveled to North Vietnam and conferred with the country's leader Coachy men about trying to end the war. The students in those days were so so committed that instead of having the pictures of the class offices in 1971 in the yearbook they had the peace sign put in there instead. Because in a sense to your years since most of you were born in the late 70s maybe a few of you in the early 80s a time of now you are now. Am I now no longer these people behind us. My mother saved all of my letters I

sent from college. Here's a quotation from my first letter home doesn't quote say much. Just the facts but the facts in retrospect reveal a sense of being alone in more than one way. Came by the way from a town of 800 people in southern New Hampshire went to Columbia in New York City. Enormous change. Mom and Dad. Everything is going fine. New York is bigger than Wilton. Indeed but I'm getting around. I did not get all of my choice of classes but someone feel that my schedule anyway. Two of my classes meet at the same time and I was just two. Of my roommates come from Utah Ohio and New York. Rudy from New York drinks a lot. But he is fun. There's a part to the west which we were warned not to go into after 5 p.m.. There's a part to the east which we were warned not to go into either after 5 p.m. or before 5 p.m.. Now bureaux doesn't hold all of my clothes so I've left some of it in the trunk and stored in the basement. Though it is wet. Haven't bought my books yet but I'm getting ready for classes. It's surprisingly quiet here. It's

such a big city. Students from New York know each other and go out a lot together. Uncle Al has called twice to make sure that I'm OK. He must think I'm still a kid. I'm anxious for classes to start. Everything is fine. Have you come from that small town in New Hampshire. I understood all too well that life is different in a big city but didn't fully understand. With all of my professors had a non-classroom identity and that they too had hopes and fears and ambitions. Entirely possible that they envied us in some ways as I think the faculty here in view in many ways don't let them down by not taking advantage of their desire to get to know you. Some of you teachers are the best in the world and this specialization. The faculty may be shy about you as you may be about them but keep in mind that all of us entered this profession because we loved our subjects and chose the life of exploring them with young people for the rest of our lives. Maybe would be qualities that we can always generate for ourselves. More skeptical approach to all ways of doing things. Eagerness to learn hopes and dreams will have enormous challenges

the next four years. You're working after all. To learn to make the right choices about careers about friends about how to budget your time. You're working to discover your identity to prepare for an entire lifetime. Questions are how would you spend your time. Will this quality be. How much satisfaction would have been to you and to others and how much of it is going to waste. Going to be studying one of the world's great universities take full advantage of that fact and take advantage as well of the people who are here to help you with all the residence hall staff advisors faculty members. First days here you're not going to find all of the campus treasures. Some of them are attractive and showy others are not. Don't let your four years slip by making them a part of your memories. Let me just run through some of these. It's going to be familiar to you. I say a few things about them to make them more than just a part of limestone. Here was a show all the fountain in the building that you're on show all the fountain was a gift to the University of Mrs. Ralph Showalter in memory of her husband the founder figure a a a sculpture Venus was designed by a professor of sculpture here at you Herman Welles

built this auditorium as the WPA progress. Program. It opened in 1941. It is the largest building of its kind in the Midwest. Question is why did then President wels want to build a building that at that time was really enormous. Well you have to do is to run through who came here the first four or five years that building was open including the Metropolitan Opera making its first visit to university campus. Famous poets famous dancers famous singers then you knew he built it. It was his way of saying to Indiana students and other students that are you the whole world is yours and you can learn about it here in this campus and in this auditorium a landmark on campus is the student building architect. The building was Kurt Vonnegut's grandfather. Building was built. With money from the Rockefeller Foundation. It was first built and first named of the Woman's Building series of crises when it was built but it got done a serious fire took place in December of 1990. Here's the building that you see now with the clock tower.

At the time the tower fell out the roof fell. The bells everything fell took a long time to complete the remodeling. But now of course you hear the bells once again through there was. Probably the most spectacular fire in my years here in terms of the of the. Flame the height of the flames and the. Intensity of the musical arts center called the Mac showplace for the foundations of the School of Music famous Alexander Calder sculpture in front of it. Music has been named number one on music schools in the country. This. Year dedicated just to the south of the Musical Arts Center for Education building is now also part of the music school. So the whole corner of that that part of the campus is not dedicated as it should be to the music school. A number of other dedications I come to in a minute delay library which is just outside to my left. One of his most prized possessions because it's a place we can both look at and

study some of the treasures of the past. It contains one of the few copies of the Gutenberg New Testament. The United States for Shakespeare ff.. The first printing of the Declaration of Independence. George Washington's handwritten letter accepting the presidency of the United States. One hundred thousand first editions of musical scores compositions many by Hoagy Carmichael and I graduate. Handwritten manuscripts of Sylvia Plath Ernest Hemingway many others even the books rebidding and forboding. It's a place with the staff really want you to come in ask them to see some of these treasures. Maxwell Hall places the headquarters of the University Division of the now that division is everywhere on campus. Building has been the home for the law school for the library for the chapel at the chapel I showed you before it was in Maxwell Hall the 19th century. The to move into bureaux center on 7th Street. Place. It's now obviously been added to by the new rec sports center but that used to be before the rec sports center some 990 integral basketball teams. And they played it 24 hours a day. There was no way to get the schedule in the building was functioning 24 hours a

day. Power Plant on campus. Source of energy. The Bloomington campus a source of letters come to me and the letters. And because of the emissions from the power plant however largely under control that it fits the meets the EPA standards to replace the power plant and have to play some day. Have you done by some private company. It's going to cost 8 8 80 to 100 billion dollars. Probably being built built at some remote location. Short digression. When this was built by the way. It was built in German wells his presidency. At a time when it was in the woods. It was so far from the campus that Wells was criticized in local paper for having built a power plant at a place where nobody could ever get to it had to be done. Now Questors you know it's in the middle of a campus. Student Services Building struction beginning. Of construction beginning in 5:41. Already part of your life because it houses the registrar The are our financial aid. Dean of Students. This used to be the library when I first came to you. This was the library. That's why the inscription over

the main entrance entrance is facing us here. A good book is a precious lifeblood of the master spirit. Challenge you to find where the quotes from. A lot of problems with built sample gates. Are rapidly becoming a landmark. Even though he's only been here about a dozen years people who come to Bloomington I think they've been here for a hundred years. It was a gift to the university. In honor of the parents of ETs and sample retired eight years ago as University director of scholarships and financial aid main library. The 13th largest research library in North America. Those of you saw breaking away the film Breaking Away. This on the steps of this building. David his father set his father limestone Carver carved much of the limestone to the building and yet felt too awed by the building to go inside it. Wonderful scene arboretum. This is where this is where where the football was played after was moved from the parking lot of the stadium here. The stadium that now exists football didn't open until the early 60s. And there was a

decision made when this all Stadium was torn down. There's a lot of pressure on the university to make it into a parking lot. Instead. The trustees wisely with President Ryan at the time made the decision to turn it into the arboretum. It's one of those historical moments. Or they could have decided for a parking lot here or some other building. Something that you'd have to decide because some of you out of here is likely to be a trustee in the future and making a decision like this one. Madrigal dinner is held every year in the union building during the Christmas season. Serve delicacies with medieval ancestors singing groups like this. Packed chapel just east of the Union Building. Interdenominational chapel was given to the university in memory of Dr. Frank Beck and his wife Daisy. You have a picture of it. It's a chaplain going to any time. Take a look at it small. During my years here many couples decided to be married here. Either they had their reception in large a place across and this is the chemistry building. Has several major remodeling. This is the most recent one cost 40 billion dollars made it really state of the art. And yet even now it's ready for another and other

remodeling the bicycle race and made famous in breaking away in this now takes place in the little 500 Bill Armstrong Stadium. It's also where the soccer team plays. Next spring will be the 44th anniversary of the of the of the race. Our museum dedicated in the mid 1980s designed by the famous architect I ente standing in harmonious contrast with some of the more traditional architecture on campus. The inside of the building. I should see the inside. They wanted it to the flowers inside and the plants and the planters to benefit from the natural rain and snow of the falls and Bloomington. So we left slits in the in the roof. Not a good idea that turned out because it was the first January everything froze in the building. So it was it had to be sealed up again. Schools of business and public affairs are side by side. And this is. This is more. Of. A laugh. As some of you may know they share a common library underground looking out into the courtyard.

Jordan Hall it is a real find if you hadn't found it this is on the third street side named again for the new president who founded Stanford University's biological sciences. Here's. Here's Jordan Hall from the other side. This is a remodeling done in the 70s. A nice nice plaza there. School of Education building built in the 80s this was built with a combination of state funds federal funds and private dollars completely equipped state of the art computer equipment. But AT&T is the new sports building. That Akkad just two years ago. Much needed. Here's a sketch of the Neal Marshall education center and the new theater building. If you see where you're sitting in the show Alta fountain and then the auditorium and you'll see that the new theater and the marshals are going to be built behind the auditorium here going all the way to Jordan.

Those buildings that are between here and Joyal come down. I'm sure they will be finished. If you're a freshman before you graduate new alumni center just dedicated the spring to 17th Street name for an alumnus named Virgil t divulge who gave the naming gift for it really. Transformed an ugly building into this gorgeous gorgeous places you should visit in front of the new music building I mentioned. This fountain is dedicated again just in the spring. It is named for Frank McKinnie Jr. given by his wife. McKinney was captain of the swim team here won a bronze medal at the 1956 Olympics in silver and gold medals in the Rome Olympics in 1960. Killed in a plane crash in 1992. This is supposed to be about by the way as you may know the fountain and you don't see the rest of the fountain here but this is supposed to be a depiction of a conductor in front of an orchestra. That's when you go out take a look at that as you can imagine with all of the work being done by limestone carvers and architects. There always was something whimsical. And I can tell you where

this is. Sometimes you should find. The Donald Duck. But the more Debord on his head that's on top of one of the buildings in the center of the campus. I'll tell you what but maybe you know what building it is. But if you want to know if we graduate have it found it give me a call or drop me an email I'll tell you where it is. Right. These are some of the treasures of the campus. The danger of being here is it should be gone. If we have a chance to see them all are the greatest danger of your freshman year perhaps of all your years here is how much you might do wrong but rather what you don't do it all. Seems for me to say but I would encourage you to take risks to study subjects that you'd never heard of before. Open your minds to new perspectives. Really is a new beginning for you. You can be what you want to be. Be who you want to be. It's a time to put things together. Won't be long before you'll be your commencement. Here's a slide taken of the 1992 commencement at Memorial Stadium. Won't be followed immediately with a slide an aerial view of the campus. And this is looking from. 3rd Street north.

And you can see the union building in there. Some of the other buildings I mentioned well the word convocation which I've often use for this event. So it means the act of calling together. That's what I've been trying to do. Callie calling together you is freshmen individuals who are part of this campus but also call I think the other portions of our use past with you even now as a hand they become a part of that past call together you and me who share this campus. You representing obviously yourselves be representing other students faculty and staff who are now assume will be part of your lives calling together your thoughts about the future of your dreams and aspirations maybe your fears and anxieties. Callie to get the time. The past. The present. Looking ahead to the future perhaps cling to each other my past is yours the future which can be clarified in part by our understanding of the past and our acceptance of the challenges of the present. Does a convocation perhaps the beginning of a coming together. For this campus despite its

size can be personal and can be small. I do the talking today but hopefully in the next four years to hear from you. So we'll be joined with all of those you've already met. And those you've seen on the screen but will never meet and welcome you most heartily. The family of the university and best of luck. So. All.

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eye. To eye. We hope you enjoyed the video. Now it's a chance for you to find out a little bit about how you can be involved in Indiana University athletics during the course of this next year. We have a group that's been very dynamic on our campus called Student athletic board and to tell you a little bit about the spirit behind you athletics in a way that you can become involved is this. Here's President loosley Brown from Richmond Indiana. As a freshman coming to a large campus like Indiana University it's sometimes difficult to find ways that you can get involved on campus. Well I'm here tonight to make your decision a little bit easier. Student

athletic board is the largest campus organization as well as the only organization that works exclusively with the athletic department and the 22 varsity sports. Athletes and coaches. There's a lot of exciting things happening in the next few years in the athletic department. So now is your chance to get involved and become part of us. If you're interested our mass member meeting is Wednesday September 10th at 8:00 p.m. an assembly hall as you can see on the card that you received when you came in. Coach Cameron is going to be there. We've got a lot of exciting things planned and a few surprises so we'd love to see you all Wednesday September 10th at 8:00 p.m. and Assembly Hall. Welcome to you athletics. Let me give you a little bit of an idea of what comprises Indiana University athletics were a program that is now some 22 varsity sports. We've added our 22nd for this current year women's waterpolo and as chancellor groats Lewis was telling you we have the very dedicated purpose that by the year

2003 that we hope to be at least 50 50 an hour breakdown of male female participation. So we're a program on the growth. A lot of things are happening with those 22 varsity sports. Leslie told you about student athletic board which is certainly a way that you can participate in a great number of ways. But we also look forward to seeing you come and support the Hoosiers in our 22 different sports. I mean would you realize that most every sporting event on this campus will have about 160 home dates this year. Almost every one of them are free to you as I use it. All you have to do is show your IQ. Student ID card. The one exception to that is men's basketball. But if you live in the dormitories all you have to do is go to the center desk because any person in the dormitory system thanks to the residents life and halls of residence association you have free eye you football tickets absolutely free to you if you live in the

dorm system. Or any other students those living off campus. We invite you to come visit us at the athletic ticket office in the assembly hall where you can get more information about the purchase of the tickets. Now one thing about Indiana University football so you can enjoy all of the action in Memorial Stadium for the six games we have open seating for the students. You have no assigned seats in the east side so you can come with the groups. The groups of friends that you make here during the early start of this 1997 98 school year. So with a different group at every gate just to give you an idea of what we have up coming in athletics tomorrow is our first official home event women's soccer. You saw it on the screen the women's soccer team of which we're very proud. Big Ten champions from last season. They're getting ready now for their fifth year. They open our competition against Temple at 8 p.m. tomorrow evening in Armstrong Stadium next weekend on September

5th and 6th. That's really our biggest home. Men's soccer competition during the year the annual Adidas footlocker classic. Four teams will be in Armstrong Stadium Indiana of course the host and more often than not a member of the Final Four in Division One soccer place here in Bloomington. During the Adidas footlocker classic football of course the home opener. Coming up on September the 13th in Memorial Stadium a 6 p.m. kick off against Ball State the regular season starting on September 6th. On the road at North Carolina. And you'll be able to watch that game on the Deuce on ESPN too. And for those of you come next Tuesday the one sport that I mentioned where we do have ticket purchases involved for everyone regardless of where you're living. Men's basketball. The claim card sale will begin next Tuesday September 2nd at 9:00 a.m. and the athletic ticket office in assembly hall through the door doors. Well

we talked about the spirit of 1997 experience the PRI. Now after having heard you a little bit as we started as you were cheering it's time to start getting a little bit of that pride brought to the forefront. Now I'm getting ready to start my 21st year. I've had the opportunity to be the announcer at you. That's been a wonderful seat for football and men's basketball but you got to be just a little bit straitlaced when you do that. I'm not the cheerleader. I've got to be a little bit neutral but I guarantee you being a 1973 graduate of this institution I have a great deal of pride in athletics and certainly want to see those teams succeed in all 22 of our varsity sports at our homecoming every year. I usually have the opportunity to be that cheerleader. Now the one thing I'd tell you is we usually start that pep rally where I say who's in the house. And your response is yes.

Now we've now we give you a little moment to let loose. So. I do have to admit I have shared this Mike with Bob Knight before so he's said a few words beyond hell but. Yeah. So you know that's how we're going to kick off this next segment as we start seeing you become hosier's so. Hosier's. In. The. Ladies and gentlemen your day out. You're. An. An.

We're going to play the school song one more time and this time we're going to put the

words up on the screen. You guys also have a card that has it we want you to learn the words. So every time I read the games and every time we play the song. You guys know the words and you can sing with us. If you don't know how to do the you all you do is put your arms up. Put their arms making you said the end of the school song every time you hear when you say you want your arms to go. Here we go. Again. OK the next thing we're going to do is you guys probably heard Doctor Who at.

Basketball games or you've heard it on the TV if you're high school don't play the way we do it here is when when you're supposed to say hey we say go next time we say big and then we say red and we want you guys to say this so we got the whole crowd doing the same thing. Let's hear. One. On.

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captain this year. He last left from Richmond and ironically BARCS from Richmond also. And of course we have members of the I-You marching Hubbard with us starting at second century who the director of the new athletic band programs you saw him OUTFRONT just a moment ago Mr. David Woodley. Seeing all of you out here. Certainly reminds many of us in the department it wasn't so long ago that we were seeing our our head football coach sitting out here in this very same seat. He came to Indiana from Terre Haute Indiana where he was a two sport star for Terre Haute South Vigo high school and then played two sports here at you. He then went on to 10 years of coaching at the University of Michigan in that very successful program where he learned from both Schembechler and then went on to the professional ranks where he's been with Norv Turner

at the Washington Redskins for the last three years. He's kind of a completion of a circle if you will when Indiana University started football in the year 1885 for the first three years. Our football program was coached by an Indiana University alumnus. The only time that it happened until last December. AB Woodforde was the first guy you grad to coach Indiana University here is now the second you grad to coach Indiana University football please welcome. Head football coach Cam Cameron. Hi. Thank you very much. There must be one person from Terre Haute out there who was out there was klap a year ago.

I let me let me say a couple of things before. Before I talk about our football team a little bit and how you people are part of that. It's been 18 years since I was sitting right where you were sitting and the one thing I want all of you. First of all I would say welcome. But let me say this to you all saw live cam Cameron wouldn't be standing here is that as the head football coach of Indiana University. If it were not for the really what I believe is the number one faculty and the number one administration of any and any any university in the country and I and I want you people to know that you're coming in as freshmen I looked at it probably a lot like you looked at it and then I want you to know you're going to have four or five years four or five of the best years of your life and you're going to get all the help you can get from our faculty from our administration and do yourself a favor and get to know this faculty they're awesome. They really are. And I know they've done a lot for me and I know when I became the head football coach at the end of November I looked out at the press

conference and there was at least 10 or 12 of my professors sitting there and administrators people that had helped me when I was your age and I and I want to say thank you to those people at the same time to you make sure you get to know those people why you're here. OK. This football team. One thing I would say to you and I was going to bring the freshman class here here tonight but we just got done with the scrimmage this afternoon and we've been we've been going for two or three weeks and we've been going hard and I gave him the night off so if you see our football team out tonight you make sure they behave. All right. Because they're going to be out there. And if you see someone out around a quarter till midnight tell him they've got 15 minutes for this supposed to be in. All right. So we gave him a curfew of midnight tonight and I think I think we have a freshman class that that you people are really going to be excited to be a part of their Come and again the same time you are. It's going to be a group it's maybe as talented a group as we've ever had here in Indiana and football. And I think the other

thing that they're going to do is compliment a team that that really is going to be a little bit better football team than people think. You know I look back and I go through and the people who know me that well yeah I think you're going to get a chance to know me but I've expressed a lot of things all of you are going to experience when I live in a dorm for two years about that I live and I live then I live to make not so they not here. Well then I moved out of the dorm my sophomore year and moved into a fraternity. I know many of you all get involved in fraternities. And and then my last year I lived off campus in an apartment. So I had a chance to do a little bit of everything for you guys out there. Be careful how I say this but I'm telling you fellas there ain't a better looking female student body in America right here.

You've got that. And you know how I get away with saying that about my wife or the little 500 my junior year. So. You get a chance to at some point try to beat my wife. Messy and messy lived in foster care. And then she went on and and joined a sorority. But she was a cheerleader about that. And. My. And how about this one. You guys think you guys will think I'm like my brother in law was in the band about that there. So I think and I think as you get to know me and you get to know my style I love Indiana University and I've been gone for 13 years and I'm thrilled to death to be back. The head football coach at Indiana and I think it's going to be a fun time for me. It's going to be a fun time for my family. It's going to be a fun time for our football team. But I know one thing is going to be a heck of a lot of fun for you that I do know.

Now a couple of things that we're doing a little bit differently and I'm a guy that we've got to get everybody involved in this football program just like we do the basketball program just like we do the soccer program swim program baseball and all the sports here at Indiana University. We've got to get all of you and this entire student body involved in any athletics and specifically for us Indiana football. And I think as I look back when I played here and I was lucky enough my freshman year to be on to a bowl championship team my freshman year and then went on my senior year and was on a big 10 championship basketball program basketball team and I know this there's nothing more important to an athlete at Indiana University than the support of his students. I know that I live that I've experienced it and I know sometimes we do a poor job as coaches and I think sometimes a poor job as players of letting people know that. But I know. And and as long as I'm here I want you to know

we need your support and there's nothing nothing more important to me and my players than the fact that people come to come and support us and we need every single one of you. OK. Another thing that will do as long as I'm here we're going to listen to you people. And I'm not that old. I'm getting there. But we want to do things that you people want to do because I and I know this. We can't do it without you. And that is something that we can do better to get young people involved and gets you excited about what you're doing you've got to let us know you've got to come and see me. My office is on the east side of a memorial stadium and don't hesitate to come down and let me know what you think we can do to improve getting you involved one thing we've done is we've taken the team we're going to move the team back over to the students side. All right. And we're going to be over there with you people and so we'll be on the east side of the stadium with the students. How about that huh.

And see if they'll let us. We'll start doing like the Green Bay Packers when we win. We'll bring the whole football team up there with you. How's that. Another thing we've done. And if you're interested make sure you get a hold of John Laskoski John Laskoski and I have you may have heard of play basketball here. He's going to host the cam Cameron football show and we're going to have a student segment on every show. So if you're interested in being on the show come to come to this Cowden Memorial Stadium try to get a hold of John Laskoski and the show's going to air at 11:30 this Sunday will be on every Sunday at 11:30 and we're going to have a student segment where one of you. Freshman sophomore junior senior It doesn't matter. It's going to be able to come on the Cam Cameron's show and and ask me a question and be a part of the show. So we don't want you people to be a part of that show. And if you're interested come and see us how you like that.

Other things we've done. We got a little input from everybody on our uniforms I think. Hopefully you'll like our uniforms. I don't know if we have him here tonight but I've got to have David hold off because they don't look near as good this without a body. So. We're well you're going to get to see everybody have their way up a. Tree. Believe me I've seen this act once already. You're. Awesome. Thank you. I saw this act the other

day and I would you. As we're going to do a lot of thanks as long as I'm around. And we want to give you people. Gave you believe the head football coach is standing there doing this. Back saying. The. Lesson If. You. Let. Me let me add one thing. Believe me I've been around this state for about three months for the last three months and that is an indication of all of those Yasm that everyone has so it's been awesome.

It really has. Let me say one thing and then I'm going to get out of here I'm going I'm going to close this thing out. But the last time the last time I was on this stage I was standing right back here and most of you you most the freshmen wouldn't have been here but John Mellencamp was given a concert right here by the way there's not a bigger than a football fan and John Mellencamp and you'll see him around our football program a lot. But I'll tell you what I did. I came the first night of that concert and sat in the balcony and then I got a chance to come backstage with John and his wife Elaine and I looked out and I saw this place was packed and you know the energy and excitement and enthusiasm was unbelievable. And I think what I did as I came back the next night and I sat up there again and then I came back and all the students here duplicated that same energy for two nights in a row. And then missy and I came back a third night

and watched that Mellencamp concert again. And let me tell you this if people can take the enthusiasm that they had here that those three or four nights when John Mellencamp was here I'll promise you this by the time you freshmen graduate we'll be taking all of you to Pasadena. We're going to win the big ten championship. Thanks for coming. Let's

before we head to the fine arts plaza around the show Walder fountain following this afternoon's spirit of I-You experience the pride. We invite you to join the cheerleaders. I'll be leading you out through the aisle ways to the shoulder fountain or a free picnic dinner later this evening. Again the fine arts plaza all round the show water fountain 8:30 p.m. will be the Baucus blast and then you'll see some flyers out around the fine arts Plaza. Pick them up. It will explain. Midnight Madness this evening there'll be maps for some shopping activities for you later tonight. Of course tomorrow is a part of Mission Possible. Indiana University welcome week will have open houses in various locations on campus. Pool parties and that on Saturday from 3 p.m. until 12:00 midnight. You live on Saturday on the Jordan Avenue parking garage on the top deck. That's a little bit about what we're all about. Now you're all Hoosiers. It's great to have you with us now. As a part of Indiana University enjoy the picnic. Follow the cheerleaders. And here's the pep

band to lead you on. Thing open football practice for you tomorrow. Open football tomorrow at the grass fields North Memorial Stadium. 4 p.m.. Come out and watch the team. 4 p.m. on Friday open football practice. Mr. Woodley would probably like you to come out Saturday for the marching hundred practice in Memorial Stadium at 7 p.m.. Thanks for coming and enjoy your day. As