Afro-Latin Music Scene
Emerges
Outreach Kenya
Development Volunteer
Program And AIDS
Increased Interest In
Middle East Brings
New Classes To IU
Culture Center
Undergoes Development
Foreign Cultures In
Bloomington Church
Plasma Donation
Continued Trend Among
College Students
Whole New World
Number Of Peace Corps
Volunteers Increase
Along With Budget
LookOut chronicles the links connecting Bloomington and the Indiana University community to the world. On our pages readers will find articles ranging from the local effects of world political and economic decision. We have produced articles targeted at an audience of 18- to 35-year-olds interested in how their community fits into a world seemingly getting smaller by the day.
Learning In All Languages
Written by C. Warner Sills, Edited and Layout by Norm Harnick
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On the first day of classes Catherine Marchese walked into her classroom with a different kind of curriculum in mind. Wearing a pointy wizards hat and waving a long wand, Marchese was ready to work some magic.
As a teacher at University elementary school in Bloomington, Marchese is using the theme of magic to teach her students their daily lessons. “It was a great way of opening because I didn’t have to say anything, they just had to watch,” said Marchese.
Honor And Chivalry As A Hobby
Written by Thomas Bender, Edited and Layout by Megan Rogers
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When Katherine Davies decides to spend a weekend in the European Middle Ages, she does not compromise. She does not talk about computers or cell phones, and she does not eat potatoes because they were unknown to Europeans then.
Davies and other members of the Society for Creative Anachronism do not want their time warp ruined. "Some people in the Society give modern things pseudo medieval names like calling a cell phone a far speaker," Davies said. "I think that's really silly and it drives me up the wall!"
A Whole New World 
Written by Maria Paz Vera, Edited and Layout by Sarah Swearingen
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Connie and Richard Romine saw a woman walking backwards, but their attention quickly shifted to the little girl she was holding.
"The woman from Holt Adoption agency walked backwards so that we could see Erin's face first," said Connie, adoptive mother and Bloomington resident. In 2003, U.S. citizens adopted 21,000 foreign children like Erin, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of State.
Increased Interest in Middle East Brings New Classes to IU
Written by Robert Schmitt, Edited and Layout by Kourtney Teegardin
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Military Lifestyle
Blake Puckett's home on the south side of Bloomington is a testament to his military lifestyle. The rigid principles enforced on him through years of training at West Point have rubbed off onto his home life. The house, despite the presence of two young daughters, is spotless, having the kind of clean you find in homes of service men that were forced to do push-ups if the blankets on their bunks weren't tucked in tight enough.
OTHER ARTICLES Volunteers travel to Honduras to assist locals, distribute eye glasses Written by Rawand Darwesh, Edited and Layout by Andrea Opperman Ethnic Art at the IU Art Museum Afro-Latin Music Scene Emerges Bloomington community responds to national trend Cultural Center Undergoes Development
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