The November issue of Illinois State magazine should be hitting your mailbox this week. You can read every story on our new magazine website, at IllinoisState.edu/Magazine.
Now available: November’s Illinois State magazine
Category: STATESide
Illinois State tech expert takes on Sandy mission
Emergency management officials from around the country have descended on New York and New Jersey to help pick up the pieces after Superstorm Sandy. Among them is Eric Hodges, Illinois State’s director of enterprise architecture for Administrative Technologies. Hodges pulls double duty as chief of operations for the McLean County Emergency Management Agency, and triple
College degree gives drag-racing alum a boost
Not many Illinois State alumni become professional drag racers. And not a lot of drag racers are college grads. T.J. Zizzo, a 1997 alum, is a rare breed.
Dinner date offers unique twist on gen-ed writing class
On a recent Thursday night, tucked away in a corner room in an otherwise quiet Stevenson Hall, 14 freshmen taking their first writing course at Illinois State were completing a very important assignment – a dinner date with four particularly judgmental strangers. They had planned the 2-hour dinner entirely on their own, securing and spending
Student leads high school volleyball team to state title
Illinois State senior Mike Bolhuis hasn’t even begun his teaching career yet, but he’s already led a high school volleyball team to a state title in his first year as head coach. The Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School varsity girls won the Class 2A state title Saturday at Redbird Arena, a fitting end to an impressive
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
A Week in Illinois State history: November 15, 2012
Every week on STATEside, we take a look back at the recent and not-so recent past.
South Campus memories: Love stories, laundry lessons
Hamilton-Whitten and Atkin-Colby and the Feeney Dining Center were decommissioned in 2012.
A Week in Illinois State history: November 9, 2012
STATEside looks back at the recent and not-so recent past, using the archives at the Vidette. If you recall any of the campus happenings referenced in our This Week in Illinois State History feature, feel free to post in the Comments below.
Alum’s model replica is tribute to Watterson Towers
Watterson Towers holds a special place in Jim Sheldon’s heart. And in his basement.
