While Indiana University’s iconic landmark the Sample Gates has become synonymous with today’s vision of the campus landscape, few realize that while this is a product of relatively recent memory it has quite a storied past. Whether it be the Class of 1899’s Arch fund, turn of the century suggestions to repurpose the porticos of the old University Building as a monument, proposals from the 1930s by noted university alumnus Senator Newell Sanders, or the ultra-modern concept designs by university architects Eggers and Higgins of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the desire to mark the original entrance to the university has a long history. Drawing from the extensive collections of the Indiana University Archives, the exhibit includes correspondence, sketches, architectural renderings and photographs documenting the numerous Kirkwood gateway proposals dating from as early as 1899 through the completion and dedication of our present day Sample Gates in 1987.

Recurring 8-5pm daily on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, through April 30th

Lost Now found is a series of found photographs currently on exhibit at the Pourhouse Cafe on E. Kirkwood across from MCPL. The photos were shot by an anonymous photographer whose negatives were discovered by David Derkacy, photo instructor at IU and professional photographer, in Mitchell Hall at Indiana University before it was torn down to make room for a new building. David and one of his students, Sarah McAleer, also a photographer and representative of Oliver Winery, made prints from the negatives and put together an exhibit. The photos depict a sustainable coastal village somewhere, we believe, in Honduras. There are scenes of villagers making food, building their own boats and buildings and enjoying celebrations. The villagers seem totally self-sufficient and enjoying a sustainable culture.

This talk will address some aspects of the inspiration and methodology behind professor Catherine Evtuhov’s recent book, “Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod.” Free and open to the public.

Matthew Jones, associate professor of history and James R. Barker associate professor of contemporary civilization at Columbia University, discusses the decisive contributions by Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) to such diverse fields as hydraulics, probability theory, decision theory, geometry, theological polemics, Christian apologetics, and religious and anthropological philosophy, not to mention his role as inventor (he made one of the first calculating machines) and entrepreneur (he conceived Paris’ first public transportation system). Free and open to the public

Ph.D. student Shuo Tang will present “The Visual Framing of Earthquakes in China: A cross-national study of news photographs in China, Great Britain and the United States”. The IU School of Journalism’s Research Colloquium series provides a venue for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from colleagues, as well as a way for others to learn about projects. Anyone is free to attend.

Campus MovieFest (CMF) is the world’s largest student film festival and a premier outlet for the next generation of filmmakers. It began in 2001 when four students at Emory University provided fellow students with everything they needed — including camcorders and Apple laptops — to make movies in one week. Since then, more than 500,000 students at colleges and universities globally have received all the necessary technology and training to tell their stories on the big screen through film. CMF is free to students thanks to corporate partners and schools.

In a single recent year the U.S. classified about five times as many pages as were added to the Library of Congress. We live in a world where the production of secret knowledge dwarfs the production of open knowledge. Depending on whom you ask, government secrecy is either the key to victory in our struggle against terrorism, or our Achilles’ heel. But is so much secrecy a bad thing? This film explores the vast, invisible world of government secrecy, and the tensions between our safety as a nation and our ability to function as a democracy.

Running time: 85 Minutes

Director Peter Galison is scheduled to be present.

Oboe recital

Learn how to craft your own chapbook: a collection of poems, stories, pictures, recipes, etc., put together in a way that is easy to share. Participants will enter the month of May with a small edition of their book and the capacity to create more copies. Workshops offered each Monday of April.

The Short List consists of 10 different acts, for 10 minutes each, on the first and third Mondays of each month at Cafe Django. The show includes everything from live music and dance to comedy, poetry, and trivia. For upcoming show details and more information, check the website.

7 – 9 pm.