My dad would have kicked my ass if I had wasted m college years on this… I mean, come on, Journalism is kind of a bust, but… Read on for an unfairly edited article, and link at the bottom.
Known as The Great Jordini to some, Jordan Goldklang is a senior from the San Francisco area. He is the only student at IU, and the only one in the U.S., who is majoring in magic — a major he created through IU’s Individualized Major Program.
Since then, he has devoted his time at IU to the major.
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The Jacobs School of Music thought he was good too, so he enrolled at IU as a violin major. But at New Student Orientation, Jordan heard about a guy named Will Shortz, an IU alumnus and the poster boy for IMP. During his time at IU, Shortz created his own major, enigmatology, the study of puzzles. He went on to become the puzzle editor for The New York Times.
People told Jordan, “Well he majored in puzzles, so you can major in magic.”
By sophomore year, when Jordan didn’t know what he was going to do with a music major, he thought about what else he could do.
He thought about Shortz. He thought about magic.
So Jordan followed all the steps to create the major. He found two advisers and put most of his studying into psychology and performance techniques. He also found other ways to enhance his major. He looked for other resources on campus, such as the Lilly Library, which happens to have books about magic history. He contacted Joel Silver, the curator of books, and the two worked together for two semesters on the history of magic. They read from “Houdini!!!” by Kenneth Silverman, and “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,” by William Kalush, and Jordan ended the study with a magic show, using what he had learned from magicians of the past.
