"Folklore of Student Life" holds the accumulated wisdom and wit of several IU undergraduate classes and of a good many IU undergraduates, all focused upon the folklore -- those shared avenues of creativity and expression -- that is part of the college experience at Indiana University. This website is a joint production of Prof John McDowell and his students in a number of undergraduate classes
Item 5: Greek Art, advertising little 500 Artist: Unknown member of fraternity and sorority Location: Pi Kappa Sigma and Gamma Phi Beta Context: These works of art can been seen in front of every Greek house on campus. These paintings Continue Reading …
John’s artworks Item 1: World made out of cigarette butts Date: Fall of 1996 The cigarette Earth was created by three students living at Collins Living Learning Center in the Fall of 1996. This entire work is made from cigarette Continue Reading …
Item 2: Sharpie mural created on student’s living room wall Date: 2007-2008 Location: Student Apartment The art mural was created by an unknown number of students. Dry erase board was tacked onto the wall in the living room of a Continue Reading …
Collected from Barb Scherer by Linda Morgan in 1968. This is one of a series of interviews collected by Linda Morgan in the late 60’s about “The Black Lady of Stepp Cemetery.” These interviews have been heavily edited for grammatical Continue Reading …
The Bee Movie Script The Bee Movie is an animated children’s movie released in 2007 whose script was resurrected on the Internet in the mid-2010s, plaguing users on both Facebook and Tumblr. The copypasta typically appears in two forms. At Continue Reading …
The Copypasta Meta On November 8th of 2020, Tumblr user violetsandshrikes responded to an ask from an anonymous user revolving around jokes about a popular character pairing of two characters from the show Supernatural known as Destiel. The user assumed Continue Reading …
Interview with Purdue Student Interview was collected from Purdue Senior Trent, 21. Trent has lived in Indiana for his entire life and has attended Purdue for his whole undergraduate career. Interview was conducted via Zoom. Full interview: Selected quotations “The Continue Reading …
Instagram Etiquette: The Unspoken Rules Noah Pujol: IU senior, 4/18/21 Interview Text: How often do you think posting is appropriate? No more than twice a day because then you’re just annoying people Do some people post too often/little? I personally Continue Reading …
Game 2: Flip Cup Date Collected: April 10, 2008 Flip Cup is another non-official game/sport played among college students. This particular game I only observed, but was informed that there is pretty much one standard set of rules. From watching Continue Reading …
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