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networked computer music education facility in the United States. The goal was to provide an individual workstation for each student in a class. The lab doubled as a research and development center for exploring new computer-based music education methods. The Music Lab would assist in hosting the
International Music and Technology Conference every June at IUPUI beginning in 2000 to 2006.
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to the elementary school. The theatre faculty and staff renovated the gymnasium into a usable theatre. Other renovations included the homemaking classroom converted into a costume classroom, the cafeteria converted into a stagecraft laboratory, a coal storage room converted into a studio theatre, and
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Language School moved to the Mary E. Cable Building alongside the Estonian Language School and German Language School. By 1988, the Mary Cable Building was the primary site for writing, communications, journalism, and theatre education on campus. The University Theatre occupied
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In 1992, IUPUI added a new state-of-the-art music facility at the Mary E. Cable
Building for students in computer music classes. The new music laboratory consisted of 21 lab stations that contained IBM computers and Roland keyboard synthesizers. At the time, the music lab was the largest fully
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Indianapolis schools for 40 years. Cable was served in many all-black schools during segregation in Indiana. Cable was born in
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who is known for their decades of teaching in
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contamination. The
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to the elementary school in 1982. The building housed most of the
English composition programs with some remaining at Cavanaugh Hall. The University Theatre also moved from the
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secretly hired Micro Air, a local environmental services firm, to perform a 48-hour air sampling test in the basement of the Cable building. The test found elevated levels of
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the remodeled elementary school gymnasium. The
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in 1862, worked in Indianapolis schools between 1893 and 1933, and died in 1944 at the age of 82. In 1893, Cable began teaching black children who suffered from
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cooperation with the IUPUI Office of Computing Services and represented a growing partnership between the School of Music and Computer Services.
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of public education. IUPUI acquired the building and used it to house various academic programs and departments until its demolition in 2006.
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program, the IUPUI Day Care Center, and the Department of Communications and Theatre. The IU Speech department moved from
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Brown, J.M.” Radon level at Mary Cable above EPA action mark.” The Sagamore. February 15, 1998.
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