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The Horizon

The student news site of Indiana University Southeast

The Horizon

Carlos Kuria, biochemistry junior, moved to the U.S. in 2012 to live with his dad. Originally from Kenya, he said joining campus organizations helped him adapt to campus life and life in the U.S.

Students in a foreign land

Kristin Kennedy, Staff Reporter May 14, 2015

In 2012, Carlos Kuria traveled thousands of miles from Kenya to New Albany. He was 18, and he didn’t know anyone in the U.S. besides his sister, who traveled with him, and his father. Kuria, a biochemistry...

Students scavenge Louisville at WorldFest

IUS Horizon September 16, 2012
The plush, behemoth of a coach bus lumbered to a curb stop at Louisville’s Belvedere entrance. IUS students poured out and scattered up the concrete ramp into the 10th annual WorldFest for the free, three-day event, hosted by the city of Louisville, to display its growing cultural diversity. The event highlighted food, music and culture from around the world. Spices sailed in the hot river breeze. The humidity carried distant rhythms of world music for blocks. After the bus arrived at the Belvedere entrance, most of the students headed straight into WorldFest, but a group of five students, led by Chris Cole, general studies senior, headed out on foot for the first IU Southeast scavenger hunt in downtown Louisville.

Volunteers voice honest accounts of Africa

IUS Horizon April 1, 2012
The Common Experience event “Volunteerism in Africa” focused on two individuals who volunteered in Africa and their involvement in educating youth. The speakers were introduced by Maria Accardi, assistant librarian and co-chair of the Common Experience Program, who said the purpose of the Common Experience for the 2011-12 school year is to join people together with the common theme of liberty and justice. The two women, Karen Kaye, adjunct instructor of English, and Jill Erwin, instructor of English at Elizabethtown Community College, both volunteered in different parts in Africa.

Dresses add up for math lecturers

IUS Horizon March 18, 2011

On most days in the Physical Sciences Building, professors may be heard instructing their students. However, on one Friday of each month, the sound of rumbling sewing machines can be heard from the building’s...

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