Project goal- design walking tour booklet for Indiana University campus

1. INDIANA
UNIVERSITY
Self- Guided Walking Tour

2. TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Campus
Treasures
Seventh Street:
The Heart of Campus
Third Street
to Indiana
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3. SEVENTH ST
THE HEART OF CAMPUS
Begin at the Indiana Memorial Union, or IMU, where you can eat, get a
haircut, watch a movie, shop, bank, bowl, study and much more. Hourly
parking is available in 2 nearby lots. Enter the IMU from the circle drive
off 7th street. Inside the revolving doors is the lobby for the Biddle Hotel,
adjacent to the IU Credit Union branch and UPS store. Stairs from the hotel
lobby (and the elevator behind the stairs) lead to the Mezzanine level’s
large relaxing East Lounge. Just beyond the lounge is a directory of the
IMU’s offerings.
Walking further brings you to a row of computers for quickly checking
e-mail and a few different bank ATMs. Nearby, the Back Alley provides
bowling, billiards and arcade games. At the end of the building are the
Union Studios (dark room, ceramics studio and art classes). Back by
Continue past the directory down the hall toward the 2-floor IU Bookstore,
which offers textbooks, supplies, IU-themed clothing and gifts. Across
from the Bookstore is Sugar & Spice, a popular spot for snacks and coffee.
Walking further down the hall brings you to more options for eating.

4. Find your way back to where you
entered the IMU and exit to continue
the tour. Take a right on 7th street.
Walk past the parking lot, cross a street
and continue past Woodburn Hall,
where the Political Science Library
offers a quiet, lesser-known place to
study. The Lilly Library, containing
rare books, manuscripts, and special
collections Trek scripts, is the next
building on your right. Behind the
Lilly Library are walkways leading
to the verdant Bryan House (the IU
President’s residence) property and
the Musical Arts Center or MAC.
The world-class Jacobs School
of Music hosts performances of
its opera, jazz, ballet and other
programs there. Most of these
events are free.
The IU Auditorium marks the end
of 7th Street. High-profile lectures,
Broadway musicals, nationally touring
bands and myriad other performances
happen here. Volunteering as an usher
gets you a deal on otherwise expensive
admission to the hottest shows.
Walk up the stairs near the row
of computers to the 1st Floor.
Alumni Hall, a space for large
events like lectures, is on your
left. Smell the Starbucks coffee
brewing in the IMU Gallery,
another large space to study and
meet, along with the adjacent
South Lounge. Continue through
the lounge (past the 2nd floor of
the Bookstore and the escalator)
to the Whittenberger Auditorium,
where lectures and the popular
Union Board “Flicks at the Whitt”
free film series are hosted.

5. CAMPUS
TREASURES
Walk south on Indiana Avenue from 8th Street (passing
Dunn Meadow) to the Sample Gates at Kirkwood Avenue.
East of the Sample Gates you will see the Student Building
(with the clock tower), one of nine university buildings built
between 1884 and 1908 making up the
“Old Crescent,” which is listed on
the National Register of Historic
Places. Walk east further into
campus - away from the
Sample Gates. On your
right, you will pass the
Chemistry Building,
engraved with element
and alchemy symbols
on its limestone exterior
walls, then Ballantine
Hall, the largest
academic building on
campus at nine stories
high. Walk up a hill to the
back of Morrison Hall, one
of the buildings of the Agnes
E. Wells Quadrangle. Morrison Hall
is home to two notable cultural resources:
the Kinsey Institute and the Archives of Traditional Music.
The Kinsey Institute promotes the study of human sexuality,
gender, and reproduction, housing a library of materials and
artifacts related to sexuality. A gallery with rotating exhibits
of these materials is open for public viewing. The Archives
of Traditional Music contains the United States’ largest
university-based ethnographic sound archive of the world’s
music and oral traditions. Its listening library and Friday noon
lecture/concert series are open to the public.

6. The Thomas Hart Benton Murals
can be viewed inside the IU
Auditorium, the old University
Theater and Woodburn Hall (on
either side of the Lilly Library). The
restored murals have constituted
one of the university’s—and the
state’s— greatest artistic treasures.
At the same time, they have
served as the focus of continued
controversy, dispute, and dialogue
within the university community. The IU Art Museum and the Henry
Radford Hope School of Fine Arts
are visible from the front of the
Lilly Library. One of the largest
university art museums in the
country, it contains works such as
African masks, ancient jewelry, and
works by artists such as Claude
Monet, Diego Rivera and Èlisabeth
Vigée-LeBrun. The Grunwald
Gallery inside the School of Fine
Arts displays the cutting-edge work
of current art students. Both venues
host evening events such as gallery
walks and coffee house nights that
provide opportunities for both
viewing art and socializing.

7. The newest addition to the campus’ stock of outdoor sculpture is the bronze Hoagy
Carmichael Landmark Sculpture on the walkway between the IU Auditorium and School
of Fine Arts. It celebrates Bloomington native and IU alumnus Hoagy Carmichael, who
went on to pen jazz standards such as “Stardust” and “Heart and Soul.” The Showalter
Fountain in front of the Auditorium features a two-ton sculpture illustrating “The Birth of
Venus.” Student ire over the dismissal of former IU Basketball coach Bob Knight led to
the burglary of four of the fountain’s fish, which were later returned unharmed.
Now walk west on 7th Street to the circle drive in front of the Indiana Memorial Union.
Stairs between the parking lot and the building lead to the Dunn Cemetery and Beck
Chapel. Dunn Cemetery is what remains of the private land sold by Moses F. Dunn to
Indiana University in the late 19th century. Buried there are three sisters who cooked
and made clothes for Revolutionary War soldiers. Nearby, Beck Chapel is a small
nondenominational chapel where students can spend time in quiet reflection or study.
There are copies of the Bible, Koran, and Torah for visitors to use. Each year around
150 wedding ceremonies take place there, many of them between students who met at
IU. Beck Chapel is open seven days a week, and during finals week it is open 24 hours
a day.