Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

My dc was harassed by a cultish religious group even at campus sponsored events at the beginning of their freshman year. An adult male found out my kid's name and major and showed up at all my kid's freshman events with a few 20 something year old non students and would not leave my kid alone. I told my kid to call campus security if they approached again. The school does not stop these people although they did throw one "preacher" off of campus for getting too aggressive with the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

There is nothing wrong with white, white, white, so long as there are no remnants of those who allowed slavery, racism, or segregation, which you will find very little in Indiana as another PP alluded to, and you will find some traits of those in all Southern towns, such as Charlottesville. Let's not forget where the phrase "sold down the river" came from, it is from Charlottesville where they sold the slaves down the James river to southern plantations, where the life expectancy were less than 5 years because of the hard toil in the southern plantations. Indiana doesn't have that history.

Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

It still is this way. My kid went to a very diverse high school and IU is white, white, white. The business school tends to have more diversity than the other colleges.

Anonymous wrote:My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

What is hilarious and sad at the same time is that there are so many "enlightened liberals" who write off entire states and regions based on some aspects of politics. You assume a place will be closed-minded and bigoted based on....your lack of direct knowledge and experience of it! When you make assumptions about "flyover country," you sound as stupid as those who write off people who are different from them in other ways.

My very liberal dc loves IU. We had some reservation about it, and being in ‘gods country’ and the home of Our current VP. But not anymore. Ironically, most of dc friends are from the dmv or Chicago. So no real interaction with the right.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there an incident there?

Like a protest getting mowed down at UVA, rampant child abuse at Penn State, or the murder at UMD in recent years? Can you be more specific?

What reason do you have to bring UVA up? The UVA haters on this forum are getting restless...

UVA is not racist. The protests a few years back were mostly organized by out-of-towners who had converged at Charlottesville to protect a Confederate statue. It is only an unlucky set of circumstances that those protests are now associated with UVA. Please get your facts straight before attacking a school.

And for the record, UVA offers a fantastic education and is in a much better location than fly-over country Indiana. Charlottesville is a sophisticated, charming town every bit as worldly as D.C./NOVA/Bethesda. These days, the student culture at UVA is very left-leaning so you won't have any issues with diversity or racism.

Thank you, white person! My Asian husband had a different experience.

So anyway, Indiana is a state that never allowed slavery. The campus and buildings were not built with slave labor or by a slave owner. And while it may not be a perfect town, there wasn't an actual hate crime murder there in very recent memory, as there has been at UVA and UMD. So don't try to act like Midwestern schools automatically equal less diverse/more racism, when you have plenty of that right here in the DMV.

Wood Grill Buffet is excellent.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there an incident there?

Like a protest getting mowed down at UVA, rampant child abuse at Penn State, or the murder at UMD in recent years? Can you be more specific?

What reason do you have to bring UVA up? The UVA haters on this forum are getting restless...

UVA is not racist. The protests a few years back were mostly organized by out-of-towners who had converged at Charlottesville to protect a Confederate statue. It is only an unlucky set of circumstances that those protests are now associated with UVA. Please get your facts straight before attacking a school.

And for the record, UVA offers a fantastic education and is in a much better location than fly-over country Indiana. Charlottesville is a sophisticated, charming town every bit as worldly as D.C./NOVA/Bethesda. These days, the student culture at UVA is very left-leaning so you won't have any issues with diversity or racism.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there an incident there?

Like a protest getting mowed down at UVA, rampant child abuse at Penn State, or the murder at UMD in recent years? Can you be more specific?

Granted this was a while ago (early 2000s) but someone burned a cross on the lawn of a black student building. You can also search anti-black crime Bloomington IN and you’ll get a scary number of much more recent events. Here’s one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/bloomington-indiana-vauhxx-booker.amp.html%3f0p19G=2103

So what you are saying is, nothing with actual fatalities, as you would find right here in the DMV very recently with the murders of Heather Heyer and Lt. Collins? Got it. Or the shoot-up at The Hotel in College Park recently? Noted.

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Anonymous wrote:Was there an incident there?

Like a protest getting mowed down at UVA, rampant child abuse at Penn State, or the murder at UMD in recent years? Can you be more specific?

Granted this was a while ago (early 2000s) but someone burned a cross on the lawn of a black student building. You can also search anti-black crime Bloomington IN and you’ll get a scary number of much more recent events. Here’s one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/us/bloomington-indiana-vauhxx-booker.amp.html%3f0p19G=2103

Great all-around school. Gorgeous campus and Bloomington is a fun college town. Very diverse—there’s something there for everyone. Yes, there are kids from the backwoods of Indiana but also a large international contingent Also many kids from Chicago and other more urban areas. The music school is fantastic. Great place to go if you like basketball. Going to games at Assembly Hall is a true experience.

DP. I went to IU in 1986 and I'm Jewish. I grew up in NW Indiana and yes, there are Jews there. My parents met at IU in 1956 and my uncle graduated from IU med school. IU has a Hillel, holds High Holiday services on campus and has 3 Jewish frats and 2 Jewish sororities. I lived in McNutt my freshman year and half my dorm floor was Jewish. My dad had a scholarship offer to play baseball for a small school in Michigan but my grandparents wouldn't let him go there because there weren't any Jews there. They sent him to IU. My dad was a SAM and kept in touch with all of his fraternity brothers through the years. My mom was an SDT.

More recently, I two friends of mine sent their kids to IU. They are all Jewish and all loved it.

Like others have said the Music and Business Schools are top notch. Bloomington is a great college town. Bottom line, IU is a great school with plenty of Jewish life. There is plenty of diversity of all kinds at IU.

Anonymous wrote:When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana)....

You do realize this describes most of America, right? All big state schools across the USA are going to be “mostly” white Christian kids. Indiana is not exactly some backwater wasteland. Lots of people from all over the world with all kinds of backgrounds are there.

When I went there the school runs a bit white christian. I am Jewish and many of the kids there never met anyone who was Jewish (many were from small towns in Indiana). This was many years ago though. Because of all the kids coming in from the East coast, I'm sure the Jewish population has grown a bit and hopefully cultural advances have been made since I was last there. I lived in one of the smaller hippy dorms (Collins) and there was a good mix of POC, artists, free spirits, etc. But most of the school is not like that.

Anonymous wrote:Was there an incident there?

Like a protest getting mowed down at UVA, rampant child abuse at Penn State, or the murder at UMD in recent years? Can you be more specific?