December 2009/January 2010

Finding Your Passion Is Key to Exercising, IU Study Finds

First Posted: 8/24/12 01:35 PM EDT Updated: 8/24/12 01:36 PM EDT
Originally published December 2009/January 2010

BY DALE BURG Yet another group of researchers—this time from Indiana University—has found a correlation between even very modest physical activity and a positive mental state. It’s another incentive to get yourself moving. But when you’re trying to get started, instead of vowing to exercise more, resolve to find a physical activity you enjoy. You’re far more likely to persevere, says Bryan P. McCormick, Ph.D., an associate professor of recreation, park, and tourism studies and a lead author of the study. McCormick explains that any pursuit can be viewed in terms of avoidance goals and approach goals. Either you do it to avoid a negative outcome or because you enjoy it. Many people engage in physical activity for the former [...]

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Filed Under: Health/Fitness Tagged With: Bryan P. McCormick, Dale Burg, Indiana University

John McCluskey, Jr.: Educator and Author

First Posted: 5/31/12 09:48 AM EDT Updated: 5/31/12 09:48 AM EDT
Originally published December 2009/January 2010

BY JANET MANDELSTAM Like many who come to Bloomington, John McCluskey, Jr. “figured we’d be here a couple of years.” And like many, “We looked up and, lo and behold, it’s been thirty years.” By the time the distinguished educator and author retired at the end of 2008 as professor of African-American Studies and African Diaspora at IU, he had led the successful efforts to establish first a master’s and then a Ph.D. program in the department; recruited and supported minority students as a graduate school administrator; co-edited Black Men Speaking, a 1997 collection of voices, stories, and poems, as well as several anthologies; cofounded the IU Press series Blacks in the Diaspora; and taught classes in creative writing as [...]

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Filed Under: Our Town Tagged With: IU Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Janet Mandelstam, Jim Krause, John McCluskey, Jr.

The Village Deli, Eat and Get Out—Or Not!

First Posted: 2/26/12 03:12 PM EDT Updated: 3/1/12 09:34 PM EDT
Originally published December 2009/January 2010

Colossal, Huge, Ginormous Pancakes. Photo by Christine Barbour

BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose motto is “eat and get out.” The original Village Deli was tiny but cozy and diners tended to linger and linger and linger over their coffee, eggs, and home fries. In the restaurant business, a table unturned is income lost, so the restaurant took to nudging their patrons-in-residence toward the door with server T-shirts that invited them to leave. Since Bob Costello bought the Village Deli in 1999, he has slowly expanded its 85 seats to a spacious 221 by absorbing the neighboring buildings, but people are still wont to hang around and the motto is unchanged, if somewhat tongue in cheek. The Village Deli has been a Bloomington institution [...]

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Filed Under: Food/Wine Tagged With: Christine Barbour, restaurant review, The Village Deli