IUN Anthropology News
Last Anthropology Club Meeting of the semester is from noon to 1:30 pm
on Thursday December; feel free to drop in any time during that hour and
a half and join the discussion. Big items are plans for next semester.
PARTY
The IUN sociology & anthropology department holiday party will be held on the
evening of Saturday December 20, 2003 at IUN professor Jack Bloom's
house near Valparaiso; we expect a large crowd. All students, former
students, staff and faculty with any connection to the clubs or department
are invited to join us. It's a great opportunity to meet and talk with other
people who are interested in the same things as you are. Come any time
after 7 pm, and we expect to go late; families are most welcome.
It's pot luck, so please bring a dish or chips or soda to share;
ethnic dishes and snacks are encouraged. BYOB if you're 21
and also bring a designated driver.
Address is 189W150N, phone is 219-477-5740.
Driving directions: From the interchange of I-65 & US 30 in
Merrillville, go east on US 30 a little over 10 miles to the stoplight of
N250W (first light after passing Sherwood Forest);
go south on N250W less that a half mile to W150N
(also known as Horn Rd) and go east a half mile.
Soon after the stop sign, look for a big red brick house on
a hill on the north side of road; Jack's house is the next one to the
east and marked by a sign "Black Belt Blvd".
If you are coming from I-80, you can also go south on Indiana 49
to US 30 west and go 3 miles to Hayes-Leonard Street south,
then west on 150N to the Black Belt Blvd driveway.
If the driveway is full, park on the grass where you see other cars.
Note: Mapquest and other internet maps
give the wrong location for the address; the correct map is found by typing
in 189 W Horn Road even tho there are no signs calling 150N by the
name of Horn Road, lol.
please come to the party, and invite your students
In Chicago at DePaul University:
The next CAPA meeting will be on Sunday December 14, from 3-5.
The room is still being reserved, so email me on Saturday if you want to come.
The meeting will be held at DePaul (main campus).
The discussion for this meeting will be in a round table fashion,
so we welcome everyone to participate and bring ideas, examples,
problems, and solutions regarding the topic, which will be:
Methods Round Table (Qualitative and Quantitative)
Most ethnographic projects include in their scope
relevant quantitative data, like ages, how many times
people have done a certain activity, the census data
of the geographic area, and much more. How do you
manage the resulting mass of qualitative and
quantitative information? What works for you, and what
problems have you run into? Are there software
applications that you use?
This meeting will be an open discussion and forum for
sharing ideas. We would like to encourage people to
bring examples or visuals from projects to aid in the
discussion if possible. We will be inviting several
people with experience in different aspects of
qualitative / quantitative information synthesis
methods to discuss their experiences.
More about CAPA at: http://www.erickamenchen.net/capa/
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Snowflake, an extremely rare albino gorilla and the
most popular resident of Barcelona Zoo, died of skin cancer early Monday
morning, zoo officials said.
The white gorilla's health had deteriorated in recent days, and he was taken
out of his public exhibition space last Wednesday, news reports said.
Snowflake, or Copito de Nieve in Spanish, was taken to the zoo's veterinary
department for an autopsy.
The gorilla was thought to be between 38 and 40 years old. The average life
span in the wild is 25.
In his 37 years at the Barcelona zoo, he fathered 22 offspring with three
different females. None is albino.
Snowflake was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2001.
The gorilla's wrinkly white face is on postcards all over the city. He was a
main character in a novel and even had memoirs written in his name.
--
Bob Mucci
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408
219-980-6607
RMucci@iun.edu
http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw
"Education not slogans is our motto"