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60-504: Victorian Studies was established in 1956 at Indiana University by Philip Appleman , William A. Madden, and Michael Wolff. The journal is hosted by the university's Victorian Studies Program, in conjunction with the English department. The current editors-in-chief are Ivan Kreilkamp, Rae Greiner, Monique Morgan, and Lara Kriegel. Recent issues of the journal have focused on a variety of topics, ranging from science, including "Darwin and

120-455: A Palestinian-American artist. Both of these events occurred after the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel and in the wake of national attention on alleged antisemitism on college and university campuses. They also occurred in the midst of changes to Indiana laws that some perceived as attacking academic freedom . In the spring of 2024, the university's faculty voted no confidence in

180-572: A ceremony in June 2005, when it was renamed for IU's former president and chancellor , this building was simply called the Main Library. The architectural firm Eggers & Higgins designed the largely windowless, limestone paneled library, whose construction began in 1966 and was completed in 1969. The building contains eleven floors in the East Tower (research collection) and five floors in

240-545: A collection of 30,000 mechanical puzzles from Jerry Slocum . The collection will be on permanent display. Special permission is not required to use the collections, and the library has several exhibition galleries that are open to the public. Within the Lilly Library is the Ruth E. Adomeit collection of miniature books, one of the world's largest. Among the collection are rare miniature books such as "From Morn Till Eve",

300-638: A collection of over 200 film cameras and projectors, more than 80,000 commercials from the Clio Awards , and approximately 50,000 educational films that Indiana University circulated to classrooms nationwide during the 20th century. In 2012, the Moving Image Archive was accepted as a member of the International Federation of Film Archives . The Lilly Library is one of the largest rare book and manuscript libraries in

360-531: A conference in Fort Worth, Texas in December 2015. The Fort Worth Police Department declined to press charges. In May 2016, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights initiated another Title IX investigation into Indiana University for failing to hold a university student accountable for an off-campus rape of another student and failing to follow proper Title IX procedures subsequent to

420-428: A federal investigation of Indiana University's Title IX compliance, encompassing more than 450 sexual harassment and violence complaints filed with the university between 2011 and 2015. The complaints involved both students and university staff or faculty. The investigation revealed concerns with timeliness of response, lack of documentation, not preventing retaliation, and the creation of sexually hostile environments at

480-676: A four-floor, 55,000 square-foot facility in a wing of the Bess Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center, dedicated in November 1995. The collection comprises over 700,000 cataloged items on 56,733 linear feet of shelves. The Cook Music Library holds many special collections, including audio and print collections. One notable collection contains items from Leonard Bernstein 's compositional studio, including items such as clothing, furniture, recordings, books, and awards. Residence hall library programs began in

540-804: A gentleman, and stood in contrast to the service-oriented curriculum at Purdue University , which presented itself as of direct benefit to farmers, industrialists, and businessmen. The first extension office of IU was opened in Indianapolis in 1916. In 1920/1921 the School of Music and the School of Commerce and Finance (what later became the Kelley School of Business ) were opened. In the 1940s Indiana University opened extension campuses in Kokomo and Fort Wayne . The Kinsey Institute for sexual research

600-402: A miniature book that presents biblical quotations in a devotional form, with one phrase for each morning and evening of a month. The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) had listed that, "the only known copy as being in the collection of famed miniature book collector Ruth E. Adomeit", which is now in the Lilly Library. IU's first Fine Arts Library was established in the late 1930s as part of

660-500: A reenactment of the annual Little 500 bicycle race. The IU campus also has trails that many utilize for biking and running. The trails in Bloomington and nearby areas total nearly 1,200 miles (1,900 km). The over 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m ) Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) is the second-largest student union in the world. In addition to stores and restaurants, it features an eight-story student activities tower (home to

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720-630: A result of these efforts, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built one of the finest facilities in the country. He added matching funds from the state legislature and opened a full-scale fund-raising campaign among alumni and the business community. In 1942, Wells reported that "The past five years have been the greatest single period of expansion in the physical plant of the University in its entire history. In this period 15 new buildings have been constructed. In 1960,

780-514: A scandal broke regarding his involvement with a female professor. Jordan (president 1884–1891) improved the university's finances and public image, doubled its enrollment, and instituted an elective system along the lines of his alma mater, Cornell University . Jordan became president of Stanford University in June 1891. The growth of the institution was slow. In 1851, IU had nearly a hundred students and seven professors. IU admitted its first woman student, Sarah Parke Morrison, in 1867, making IU

840-456: Is a stream flowing through the center of campus. A section of Bloomington's Clear Creek , it was formerly named the "Jordan River" after David Starr Jordan , Darwinist , ichthyologist , president of IU, and later, of Stanford University . The name was changed, along with several campus buildings, in 2020 by the IU trustees due to Jordan's support of eugenics becoming widely known. Bloomington

900-683: Is the home of the Indiana Murals , created by American artist Thomas Hart Benton . 16 of the 22 total panels created are housed at the auditorium. Indiana University's athletic facilities are located on campus and are grouped between East 17th Street, Dunn Street and the IN-45 / IN-46 bypass. In the 17,000-seat Assembly Hall (home to the IU NCAA basketball team), there are five NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship banners on display. Cook Hall, Memorial Stadium , Mellencamp Pavilion ,

960-774: Is the largest public collection of art outside of a museum. Indiana University Auditorium is a 3,200 seat performing arts venue situated in IU's Fine Arts Plaza alongside the Lilly Library and the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Construction on IU Auditorium began in 1939 as a part of the Federal Works Agency Projects. IU Auditorium officially opened its doors March 22, 1941. Today, IU Auditorium presents Broadway touring acts, popular musical artists, comedians, classical musicians and more. IU Auditorium's Hall of Murals

1020-765: The Gladstein Fieldhouse , the IU Tennis Center, the Billy Hayes Track and Bill Armstrong Stadium are all also located within the complex. The Indiana University Bloomington Library System supports over twenty libraries and provides access to more than 9.9 million books, 800 databases, 60,000 electronic journal titles, and 815,000 ebooks. The system is the 14th largest library in North America by volumes held. IU's Herman B Wells Library holds more than 4.6 million volumes. Before

1080-527: The Hoosiers men's soccer team , a record-setting six straight in men's swimming and diving, five by the Hoosiers men's basketball team , three in men's cross country, one in men's track and field, and one in wrestling. Indiana's state government in Corydon established Indiana University on January 20, 1820, as the "State Seminary." Construction began in 1822 at what is now called Seminary Square Park near

1140-599: The Indiana University Student Association , Indiana Memorial Union Board, and a variety of other student organizations), a 189-room hotel, a 400-seat theatre, a 5,000-square-foot (460 m ) Alumni Hall, 50,000 square feet (4,600 m ) of meeting space, and a bowling alley. The IMU houses an outstanding collection of Indiana art including artists from Brown County , the Hoosier Group , Richmond Group and others. This collection

1200-823: The Lilly Library , Eskenazi Museum of Art , and the Indiana Memorial Union . Indiana athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I and are known as the Indiana Hoosiers . The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference . Since it does not have a mascot, all teams are known simply as "Hoosiers". The Indiana Hoosiers have won 24 NCAA national championships and one Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) national championship, in addition to 145 NCAA individual national championships. Titles won by teams include eight by

1260-557: The National Register of Historic Places in 1980. They are the Collegiate Gothic style Student Service Building (1906–1908); Indiana University Museum (1905); Richardsonian Romanesque style Maxwell Building (1890, 1907–1908); Owen Hall (1885); Wylie Hall (1885); Kirkwood Hall (1895); Lindley Hall (1903); Gothic Revival style Rose Well House (1908); and Kirkwood Observatory (1900). The Sample Gates serve as

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1320-477: The University of Michigan , and others. The Indiana University Bloomington campus of 1,933 acres (7.82 km ) includes abundant green space and historic buildings dating to the university's reconstruction in the late nineteenth century. The campus rests on a bed of Indiana Limestone , specifically Salem Limestone and Harrodsburg Limestone , with outcroppings of St. Louis Limestone . The "Campus River"

1380-639: The "Dunlap Broadside") that was printed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, George Washington 's letter accepting the presidency of the United States, Abraham Lincoln 's desk from his law office, a leaf from the famous, Abraham Lincoln "Sum Book" c. 1824–1826, Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son, the manuscripts of Robert Burns 's "Auld Lang Syne", the Boxer Codex , annotated production scripts for Star Trek , J. M. Synge 's The Playboy of

1440-620: The 1930s at Harvard University. By 1978, there were twenty-one institutions with residential library systems. Today, Indiana University has only one of two residential library programs that still operates. Additionally, Indiana University has continued to expand its residential library system, adding the most recent branch in 2017. As of 2018 there were fourteen library branches: Briscoe, Campus View Apartments, Collins LLC, Eigenmann, Forest, Foster, McNutt, Read, Spruce, Teter, Union Street Center, Wells Quad, Wilkie, and Wright. The libraries are open daily while classes are in session. Previously, half of

1500-453: The 1950s and 1960s when first soldiers attending under the GI Bill and then the baby boom swelled the university's enrollment from 5,403 in 1940 to 30,368 in 1970. Some buildings on campus underwent similar expansion. As additions were constructed by building onto the outside of existing buildings, exterior surfaces were incorporated into their new interiors, making this expansion visible in

1560-549: The Americas, Ancient Greece and Rome, and European Modernism. It also holds a substantial collection of works on paper (prints, drawings, and photographs). The museum routinely has been ranked among the best university art museums in the United States. Seminary Square Park Seminary Square Park , also known as the Seminary Park, is a historic public park located at Bloomington , Monroe County, Indiana . It

1620-848: The Departmental office on the second floor, east wing of the University Library which was then in Franklin Hall. In 1941, two important events occurred: art historian Henry Radford Hope became chairman of the Fine Arts Department in the Fall and the Fine Arts Center was created by remodeling Mitchell Hall Annex. The Fine Arts Library moved into IU Art Museum designed by I.M. Pei in August 1981. This location

1680-632: The Evolution of Victorian Studies", to the more subjective sphere of "Victorian Emotions". The journal is abstracted and indexed in MLA Bibliography , Arts and Humanities Citation Index , Current Contents /Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences Citation Index , ProQuest , and EBSCO databases . This article about a humanities journal is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on

1740-548: The IU student body elected Thomas Atkins , an African-American from Elkhart, Indiana , to the position of president of the student body. A throng of white students protested the result by parading around campus waving Confederate flags and allegedly blamed Atkins' victory on a "bunch of beatniks." When the protesters approached the female dormitory on campus, they were met with "a barrage of cosmetic bottles, old shoes, and other objects." In April 2002, thousands of IU students and staff, along with Bloomington residents, rioted across

1800-490: The Indiana University Art Museum, was established in 1941 and has occupied a building designed by the world-renowned architecture firm I.M. Pei and Partners since 1982. The museum houses a collection of over 40,000 objects and includes works by Claude Monet , Marcel Duchamp , Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , and Jackson Pollock . The museum has particular strengths in the art of Africa, Oceania,

1860-488: The Indiana University system president, the Bloomington campus's provost and executive vice president, and the Bloomington campus's vice provost for faculty and academic affairs. In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights again initiated a federal investigation of the university in response to a complaint of the violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The complaint

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1920-727: The United States. Founded in 1960 with the collection of Josiah K. Lilly Jr. , of Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis , the library now contains approximately 400,000 rare books, 6.5 million manuscripts, and 100,000 pieces of sheet music. The library's holdings are particularly strong in British and American history and literature, religious texts, Latin Americana, medicine and science, food and drink, children's literature, fine printing and binding, popular music, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and early printing. Notable items in

1980-679: The West Tower (the undergraduate core collection). In 2014 the first floors of both towers were renovated and reintroduced as the Learning Commons and Scholars' Commons. The library is also home to Indiana University Press and the University Graduate School. It is the former home of the Information and Library Science Department, which is now hosted by Luddy Hall. An oft-repeated urban legend holds that

2040-478: The Western World , and J. M. Barrie 's Peter Pan , and typescripts of many of Ian Fleming 's James Bond novels. The library also owns the papers of Hollywood directors Orson Welles and John Ford , the poets Sylvia Plath and Ezra Pound , and authors Edith Wharton , Max Eastman and Upton Sinclair . The library is also home to four Academy Awards , donated by alumni. In 2006, the library received

2100-400: The affected buildings' architecture. The Chemistry and Biology buildings serve as examples, where two of the interior walls of the latter's library were clearly constructed as limestone exteriors. The Bryan House is the traditional on-campus home of the university president. Nine of the oldest buildings are included in a national historic district known as The Old Crescent . It was listed on

2160-459: The article's talk page . Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington ( IU Bloomington , Indiana University , IU , or simply Indiana ) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana , United States. It is the flagship campus of Indiana University and its largest campus, with over 40,000 students. Established as the state's seminary in 1820,

2220-421: The best education. The first class graduated in 1830. From 1820 to 1889 a legal-political battle was fought between IU and Vincennes University as to which was the legitimate state university. In 1829, Andrew Wylie became the first president, serving until his death in 1851. The school's name was changed to "Indiana College" in 1829, and to "Indiana University" in 1838. Wylie and David Maxwell, president of

2280-434: The board of trustees, were devout Presbyterians. They spoke of the nonsectarian status of the school but generally hired fellow Presbyterians. Presidents and professors were expected to set a moral example for their charges. After six ministers in a row, the first non-clergyman to become president was the young biology professor David Starr Jordan , in 1885. Jordan followed Baptist theologian Lemuel Moss , who resigned after

2340-557: The branches offered only DVDs and CDs. In 2018, the decision was made to have all library branches offer books in addition to movies and games. The libraries hire graduate students in Indiana University's Master of Library Science program to act as center supervisors, who lead a staff of seven student assistants in staffing the libraries each evening. New material is added to the libraries each week, and any student or staff member of Indiana University can check out material using their Crimson Card. The Eskenazi Museum of Art , formerly known as

2400-641: The campus. The investigation further criticized the lack of mandatory sexual harassment, misconduct, and awareness training for staff, as well as the lack of institutional support for its Title IX Coordinator to oversee compliance by the university. In February 2016, the university's Associate Dean of Students, Director of Student Ethics, and Title IX Deputy Director, Jason Casares, abruptly resigned his position after sexual assault allegations were made against him by Association for Student Conduct Administration president-elect, and New York University Assistant Director of Global Community Standards, Jill Creighton, during

2460-511: The cultural whole of the student body. After learning of the accusations and resignations, U.S. Representative Jim Banks sent a letter to university president Pamela Whitten denouncing such conduct, identifying it as a violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and threatened the continued federal funding for the university if the conduct was tolerated by the university administration. Accused student body president Aaliyah Raji responded by denouncing both Islamophobia and antisemitism and stating that

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2520-586: The entryway to Indiana University's campus and the Old Crescent. It is positioned between Franklin Hall and Bryan Hall. After several failed attempts to create an arched entrance to campus, in 1987, Edson Sample provided funding to build the archway based on the 1961 design proposed by Eggers & Higgins . The Indiana University Cinema opened in January 2011 in the former University Theatre building, which

2580-596: The fourth public university to admit women on an equal basis with men . Morrison went on to become the first female professor at IU in 1873. Mathematician Joseph Swain was IU's first Hoosier-born president, 1893 to 1902. He established Kirkwood Hall in 1894; a gymnasium for men in 1896, which later was named Assembly Hall ; and Kirkwood Observatory in 1900. He began construction for Science Hall in 1901. During his presidency, student enrollment increased from 524 to 1,285. In 1883, IU awarded its first PhD and played its first intercollegiate sport (baseball), prefiguring

2640-404: The intersection of Second Street and College Avenue. Classes began on April 4, 1825. The first professor was Baynard Rush Hall , a Presbyterian minister who taught all of the classes in 1825–27. In the first year, he taught twelve students and was paid $ 250. Hall was a classicist who focused on Greek and Latin and believed that the study of classical philosophy and languages formed the basis of

2700-652: The library is sinking because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. An article in the Indiana Daily Student newspaper debunks this myth, stating, among other things, that the building rests on a 94 ft (28.6 m) thick limestone bedrock. In addition to IU's main library, the Bloomington Libraries support more than twenty additional libraries: The Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A), located at Indiana University,

2760-790: The library's collections include the New Testament of the Gutenberg Bible , a first edition copy of the Book of Mormon , the first printed collection of Shakespeare 's works, a pair of the Spock 's ears worn by Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country , Audubon's Birds of America , one of 25 extant copies of the "First Printing of the Declaration of Independence " (also known as

2820-721: The name was changed to "Indiana College" in 1829 and to "Indiana University" in 1838. Indiana University is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Its schools and programs include the Jacobs School of Music , Kelley School of Business , School of Education , Luddy School of Informatics , O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs , School of Public Health , School of Medicine , School of Nursing , Hutton Honors College , and Maurer School of Law . The campus also features

2880-689: The reporting of the incident. The university also charged the victim a dorm-relocation fee after the suspected rapist continued to harass the victim around her dormitory, which also went without intervention by the university. The victim's case was also handled by former Title IX Director, Jason Casares prior to his resignation amidst sexual harassment and misconduct allegations as the university's student ethics director and Title IX deputy director. In November 2023, Indiana University Student Government treasurer Alex Kaswan and co-director of DEI Makiah Pickett resigned after accusing other student government leadership members of antisemitism and failure to represent

2940-485: The school's future status as a major research institution and a power in collegiate athletics. But another incident that year was of more immediate concern: the original campus in Seminary Square burned to the ground. The college was rebuilt between 1884 and 1908 at the far eastern edge of Bloomington. (Today, the city has expanded eastward, and the "new" campus is once again in the midst of the city.) One challenge

3000-506: The student government combats against those issues. Also in November 2023, the university attracted national attention when the university barred a faculty member from teaching after alleging that he improperly assisted the Palestine Solidarity Committee, a student group, in reserving a space on campus. Shortly thereafter, the university's administrators also cancelled a planned art exhibition by Samia Halaby ,

3060-472: The university campus before merging into adjacent city blocks after the IU men's basketball team lost the NCAA Basketball championship game to the University of Maryland Terrapins. Rioters caused extensive damage to university buildings and city businesses, and at least 45 people were arrested during the riot. In March 2014, the U.S. Department of Education 's Office for Civil Rights initiated

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3120-515: The world, photographs and film stills, and manuscripts of filmmakers and scholars. Although the materials are not available for circulation or distribution, the archive has rooms for viewing films and utilizing materials. The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) is one of the largest repositories for educational film and video in the United States. Founded in 2009, IULMIA contains over 100,000 items spanning over 80 years of audiovisual history. Highlights of its holdings include

3180-468: Was "established in 1981 as a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans." Professor Phyllis R. Klotman founded the repository when it became apparent that rare and valuable films created by and about African Americans were being lost due to lack of preservation and inadequate resources. The BFC/A has an extensive collection that includes films on various physical media, posters of numerous sizes for films distributed throughout

3240-561: Was built in the 1930s. The Bloomington campus also has a biology research greenhouse in the Biology Building that is open to the public, one of the highlights of which is a corpse flower ( Amorphophallus titanum ) named Wally. Also on campus, the Kirkwood Observatory is open to the public one day a week. The 1979 movie Breaking Away was filmed on location in Bloomington and the IU campus. It also featured

3300-625: Was closed for renovations to the museum in spring 2017. Most fine arts materials are currently located on the 9th floor of the Herman B Wells Library with the remaining items being located towards the back of the 10th floor. The William and Gayle Cook Music Library, recognized as one of the largest academic music libraries in the world, serves the Jacobs School of Music and the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University. It occupies

3360-408: Was established in 1816 by an Act of Congress as the original site of Indiana Seminary, a preparatory school that by 1838 became Indiana University . The first building was erected on the site in 1824, and it remained the school campus until Indiana University moved to its new campus in 1883. The Old College building, built in 1854, remained in use as a school until destroyed by fire in 1967. The site

3420-567: Was established in 1945. During the Great Depression , Indiana University fared much better than most state schools thanks to the entrepreneurship of its young president Herman Wells . He collaborated with Frederick L. Hovde , the president of Purdue; together they approached the Indiana delegation to Congress, indicating their highest priorities. For Wells, it was to build a world-class music school, replacing dilapidated facilities. As

3480-412: Was filed by Dr. Zachary Marschall and alleged lack of response and complacency by the university administration to an increasing number of anti-Semitic incidents at the campus. The complaint also led to additional federal investigations at the University of Wisconsin , Northwestern University , and the office is also conducting parallel investigations of Johns Hopkins University , Harvard University ,

3540-513: Was ranked 5th best city for educated millennials by Business Insider . College Ranker listed Bloomington as #6 Best College Town to Live in Forever. Many of the campus's buildings, especially the older central buildings, are made from Indiana Limestone quarried locally. The Works Progress Administration built much of the campus's core during the Great Depression . Many of the campus's buildings were built and most of its land acquired during

3600-402: Was that Bloomington's limited water supply was inadequate for its population of 12,000 and could not handle university expansion. The university commissioned a study that led to building a reservoir for its use. In 1902, IU enrolled 1203 undergraduates; all but 65 were Hoosiers. There were 82 graduate students including ten from out-of-state. The curriculum emphasized the classics, as befitted

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