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School of the Arts seeks teddy bear donations

By: RACHAEL PITTMAN Staff Writer @RayTheTweeter With the holidays coming up, it is time to enjoy festivities with family and friends while also giving back. The Teddy Bear concert at IU South Bend will be held at 7 p.m. December 11in the Northside Auditorium to have fun, celebrate and help people in need. Marvin Curtis,

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Art studio opens near campus, seeks student artists

By: RACHAEL PITTMAN Staff Writer @RayTheTweeter Art is central to the community in South Bend. Where and how art is created in South Bend is changing with community creative spaces like MAKE South Bend. Creative spaces are areas for people to either meet together or work independently on projects ranging from painting to digital design.

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University replaces broken chiller

By: RACHAEL PITTMAN Staff Writer @RayTheTweeter Student reader Katy Bail asked The Preface whether the university was adding on to the Education and Arts Building and Northside Hall when she noticed construction crews on campus in October. Preface staff writer Rachael Pittman found the answer: The Schurz Library and Northside Hall are receiving a cool

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Florence street photography on display

By: RACHAEL PITTMAN Staff Writer @ralypitt Student street photography from Florence will be displayed starting Monday, Sept. 14, on the second floor of the Administration Building. According to the IU South Bend Arts Community Outreach Board, photographers will entertain on Thursday, Sept. 17, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. with light refreshments and discussion of their

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IU South Bend enrollment continues to decline

A change in demographics has produced a downward trend in enrollment since 2011. This according to Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs Dr. Jann Joseph. According to Joseph, the university saw a huge uptick in enrollment in 2011, particularly from adult students who were unemployed or underemployed during the great recession. But as those students

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Caps, gowns, and back for more: The Graduate Research Journal

By: RACHAEL PITTMAN Staff Writer @ralypitt While the conference had four undergraduate journals this year, there was also a graduate journal of interdisciplinary projects from graduate students, the IU South Bend Graduate Research Journal. Co-editors Stephanie Foreman and Brandi David had been working since the July to get this project started. This is only the

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IUSB welcomes Vera D. Dwyer College of Health Sciences with banquet

By: RACHAEL PITTMAN Staff Writer @ralypitt The Louise E. Addicott and Yatish J. Joshi Performance Hall was filled with faculty and red-scrub-wearing students for an invite-only event celebrating the naming of the Vera D. Dwyer College of Health Sciences. The Dwyer Charitable Trust recently made a generous donation to IU South Bend for the health

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