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Recently, a group of IUS students were able to visit Asia by simply riding a bus.
Valerie Scott, senior lecturer in psychology, took her Psychology 451 class to the Crane House in Louisville where they immersed themselves in Asian culture. Also known as the Asia Institute, the Crane House provided the class with their first trip of the year.
“It’s nice to get out of the classroom,” Emily Merk, nursing junior, said. “It’s nice to actually see what we are learning about.”
Accounting majors multiplied their networking skills with local businesses during a Career Day event on campus.
Hosted by the Career Development Center, students participated in a two-part event where they met face-to-face with employers and listened to speeches from professionals.
Lynn Prinz, assistant director for the Career Development Center, said the opportunity to network is the most important aspect of these types of events.
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.
