Video: Physics students send pumpkins airborne

pumpkin trebuchet

The Illinois State Trebuchet Team may not have been able to defend its first-place title at the Morton Pumpkin Chuckin contest this fall, but students are not just sitting on their hands.

Video: Deaf student helps power Big Red Marching Machine

When the Big Red Marching Machine takes the field at Hancock Stadium on Saturday for the last regular-season football game of the year, there will be 275 color guard members, dancers and musicians in its ranks – including a trombone player named Mark Reppen. Reppen, a deaf sophomore from Alsip, has been playing trombone since

Video: How is the Homecoming court chosen?

Homecoming court speed interviews

Homecoming week begins today at Illinois State, and our 10 members of the Homecoming court (five men, five women) are unveiled tonight. But how are the 10 members of the court chosen? To find out, the STATEside crew headed out to a key part of the selection process called “speed interviews.” Think of it like