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MAY 15-20
GEARING UP FOR
GRADUATION IU will award 9,844 degrees this weekend to students from all 50 states and 136 countries.
Local shops prepare for graduation
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By Clark Gudas ckgudas@iu.edu | @this_isnt_clark
7,140
2,704
11,202
undergraduate degrees awarded at IU-Bloomington
graduate degrees awarded at IU-Bloomington
degrees being awarded across all other IU campuses
22% of 69.2 % of total IU graduates are Indiana residents and students come from all 92 counties in Indiana.
graduates are first-generation college students.
Student undergraduate speaker shares advice and IU memories
In 2016, 19,477 students between 18 to 71 years old graduated from IU campuses, according to IU’s website. This year, undergraduate and graduate students will undertake commencement May 4 and 5. For Bloomington stores, graduation weekend is an event they prepare for. Located on Kirkwood Avenue just down from the Sample Gates, the gift store Greetings sells apparel, IU merchandise and other trinkets. The store owner used to say graduation weekend, like the first IU football home game of the season, was enough to keep the store running for the following months, employee Arman Reihani said. “Overall, it’s a pretty big increase from a normal day,” Reihani said. “We also have the benefit of graduation being so close to Little 5. It’s one of those things, months down the road, we have to prepare for.” Reihani said the store stocks certain items during graduation
weekend that it doesn’t normally. “We’ve been getting alumni apparel, which we don’t normally get,” Reihani said. “We get some IU gift-type stuff, and postcards, because people like to get pictures of the Sample Gates.” A short walk down Kirkwood to Tracks Music & Videos shows much of the same IU alumni apparel in the window. Tracks general manager Jay Wilkin said graduation weekend brings sales equivalent to a Saturday baseball game at home, except there are three days of it. “It’s a good weekend,” Wilkin said. “It’s the only good weekend in May. Right after, business is going to fall off the cliff for that second and third week, until public school is out.” Wilkin said along with alumni shirts and sweatshirts, other products also sell well. “You do sell more of the stuff we call novelties, stickers and barware, and glasses and license plates,” Wilkin said. “Maybe more sweatshirts than you would exSEE STORES, PAGE 7
Each IU School will have a senior recognition From IDS reports
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Eashan Kumar has kept himself busy while at IU. The graduating senior, who will have a dual degree in neuroscience and international studies along with minors in chemistry, psychology and Spanish, was selected as the 2018 student speaker for spring commencement. Kumar grew up in Munster, Indiana, and said he came to IU because of how affordable the school was and the quality of the programs it offered. Prior to Saturday’s spring commencement at Memorial Stadium, Kumar spoke with the Indiana Daily Student about his time at IU and what he took away most from his college experience. What was your life story prior to coming to IU? I have an older sister, younger brother. I’m the oldest of a bunch
of cousins. Our family story is that my grandma came here in like 1970 to work as a nurse while she left my grandpa, mom and uncle back in India. So she like came here to work to pay money for their airplane ticket. My mom came here, she was raised here, she moved here when she was like two with them. My dad is from India, they met in India. I’m from in northwest Indiana, that’s where my family’s always been, my grandma moved there, my mom was raised there. Came to IU because of how affordable it was, good program, friends were here. My dad owned a liquor store, and he sold it, he works as a construction worker for a union with road testing and my mom was a nuclear medicine tech, but she quit that and became a realtor. What was the thought behind your diverse group of majors and minors? I guess I’m interested in a lot of different things. I came into college
as a philosophy major, actually, and then I realized that’s not what I wanted to study. I knew I wanted to do something with science, my friends told me like neuroscience was one of the best majors for premed. I’ve always been someone who’s interested in a lot of things whether it’s been language or philosophy or math or history, so international studies, I added that after I studied abroad. I felt that was the most interdisciplinary major in terms of, you get a language concentration, a regional concentration, you get a thematic concentration and you take classes from like a wide variety of different disciplines. I was in Barcelona, did the advanced liberal arts program. Took two classes at the University of Barcelona, two classes with the program and one internship. It was cool. I hope to use Spanish in my future. I can understand Hindi and SEE COMMENCEMENT, PAGE 7
Kelley School of Business Friday, May 4, 8:30 p.m. Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall Doors open at 7:30 p.m. School of Public Health Saturday, May 5, 12:15 p.m. IU Auditorium School of Education Saturday, May 5, 12:45 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. School of Education Atrium School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Friday May 4, 10 a.m. Solarium and Alumni Hall in the IMU IU Mauer School of Law Saturday,May 5, 3 p.m. IU Auditorium Jacobs School of Music Saturday, May 5, 12:30 p.m. Musical Arts Center
School of Nursing Saturday, May 5, 12:30 p.m. DeVault Alumni Center School of Optometry Friday, May 4, 5:30 p.m. Monroe Convention Center School of Social Work Saturday, May 5, 12:30 p.m. Cedar Hall Auditorium The Media School Friday, May 4, 5 p.m. DeVault Alumni Center School of Global and International Studies Friday, May 4, 5:30 p.m. Whittenburger Auditorium College of Arts and Sciences For a list of each department’s event visit https://commencement. indiana.edu/about/recognitionevents.html Matt Rasnic
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Congratulations, Class of 2018 Check out the full list of graduates in today’s insert.
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