The Horizon

Editor implores courtesy from drivers

IUS Horizon • September 18, 2011

With the recent closure of the Sherman Minton Bridge, a typical drive to work and school has become a strategic, daily challenge for me and many other residents of Southern Indiana and Louisville. I...

IUS celebrates 70 years of progress

IUS Horizon • August 28, 2011

As the fall semester begins and students return to campus for classes, the celebration of IU Southeast’s 70th anniversary will be commencing. Before IU Southeast covered 180 acres in New Albany and more than 7,000 students were enrolled, IU Southeast was a small, commuter campus located in downtown Jeffersonville. The original campus was created in 1941, with 291 students enrolled, four of those with full-time status.

Dresses add up for math lecturers

IUS Horizon • March 18, 2011

On most days in the Physical Sciences Building, professors may be heard instructing their students. However, on one Friday of each month, the sound of rumbling sewing machines can be heard from the building’s...

Disney, ‘Twilight’ give unrealistic view

IUS Horizon • March 8, 2011

Before 7-year-olds had cell phones, Facebook accounts and Netflix, they spent their days watching imaginative Disney movies in hard, plastic cases. Each Christmas when I was a child, I eagerly opened...

Catwoman prowls Ogle Center

IUS Horizon • March 8, 2011

As the final weekend of the IUS Theatre Department’s production of “Equus” began, the audience had a famous viewer from the theater industry. Lee Meriwether, 77, well-known actress and former...

Student mayoral candidate drops out

IUS Horizon • February 22, 2011

Matt Owen, political science sophomore and candidate for Jeffersonville mayor, withdrew his name from the mayoral election a few minutes before noon on Friday, Feb. 18. The deadline for filing candidacy...

Surviving Valentine’s Day solo

IUS Horizon • February 15, 2011

While pink and red hearts decorate store windows and excited couples make romantic plans for Valentine’s Day, I am thinking about my upcoming psychology test. Valentine’s Day has always been a day...

From café to campaign trail: IUS student runs for mayor

IUS Horizon • January 31, 2011

On any other day at the Adrienne & Co. Bakery and Café, Matt Owen, political science sophomore, could be seen working the cash register or baking his favorite raspberry cheesecake. On Friday,...

Generic resoultions fail to succeed

IUS Horizon • January 25, 2011

Almost one month has flown by since the new year began, and with the start of a new year came fresh hopes for improvement. These hopes are often shaped into a New Year’s resolution. Unfortunately, as...

GOP takes control of House, Democrats retain Senate

IUS Horizon • November 7, 2010

Polls across America were filled with citizens casting their votes for various candidates in the 2010 election. Sarah Kincaid, business junior, was among those citizens. Kincaid and her family experienced confusion on their voting registry because they have moved three times in the last four years. Despite the frustration of filling out three change-of-address forms and traveling to various schools and community centers, Kincaid was able to place her vote at South Central High School in Elizabeth, Ind.

Speaker cautions students against online exposure

IUS Horizon • November 4, 2010

C.L. Lindsay, attorney, author and speaker, visited IU Southeast to discuss campus computing and potential legal problems students face. Lindsay is the founder and executive director of CO-STAR, the Coalition for Student and Academic Rights. CO-STAR is a national, non-profit student rights organization that assists college students dealing with legal problems.

Ultra Violet event supports sorority with chili, activities

IUS Horizon • October 25, 2010

Sigma Kappa, a sorority at IU Southeast, held their first Ultra Violet event where they had a chili cook-off, silent auction and various festivities. Sigma Kappa decided to hold the cook-off to raise awareness and funds for their foundation. The ticket proceeds went toward Sigma Kappa’s philanthropies. “We picked a chili cook-off because we thought it would be something that our community would respond to,” Samantha Forehand, elementary education junior, said. “It was a very successful turn-out, and there were many organizations and businesses willing to donate baskets for us.”