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Robin Pitmann, communications and outreach coordinator for Harbor House of Louisville, sits at her organizations table at the annual IUS Volunteer Fair.

IU Southeast hosts annual Volunteer fair

Aubryn Crotchett, Staff Reporter October 9, 2019

Over 20 local organizations visited IU Southeast’s campus on Monday, Oct. 7 to inform students on volunteer opportunities happening in the community. The mission of each organization is to get students...

Lissa Gamsky, international business junior, at the Preservation Louisville booth at the NuLu Festival.

IU Southeast students volunteer in their community

Hannah Foreman, Staff Reporter November 16, 2015

Sitting on your couch, watching the same episode of Criminal Minds for the fifth time, you think to yourself, "Isn’t there something more productive I could be doing? Something that isn’t homework?...

Mackenzie Burns, education junior, pulls a New Chapel Fire Co. fire truck during Pi Kappa Alpha’s fire truck pull on Monday, Sept. 28. Burns completed the pull with Isaac Barrow, general studies sophomore.

Student organizations dedicate time and service to community

Kristin Kennedy, Social Media Coordinator October 5, 2015

Running down the road in front of the University Center, three IUS Police officers and seven Campus Life staff members leaned forward, pulling a blaring fire truck 100 feet. The team completed the task...

Donated dresses save Henryville prom

IUS Horizon March 18, 2012
Erin Tyler, business marketing and management junior, is collecting donations of prom and pageant dresses for storm victims. On March 2, a tornado outbreak traveled through Southern Indiana and Kentucky. Washington and Clark counties were greatly affected, and Henryville schools also had significant damage, causing students to finish their school years in alternate locations. Tyler said she considers prom one of her best high school memories and could not imagine a young girl not having the same opportunity.

Clean-up follows tornado

IUS Horizon March 18, 2012
Chris Noonan, criminal justice junior, has been volunteering in Henryville since the tornado hit, in what he said was an organized disaster. Noonan was in Charlestown when the tornado happened and said he could see the huge funnel as it hit Henryville. “When I heard the high school was hit, my heart sank,” Noonan said. “I heard 30 to 40 students were still in the high school, and I was shocked. That sums up my emotions before I got there.”
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