Spring Break
Macomb gets 'reel'Rialto Cinemas opens its doors to the public
The Rialto Cinema will open its doors for the first time on Thursday, June 18 at 9 p.m. for a sneak peek with the official opening on Friday.
Rialto will seat 650 people split between six separate screening rooms. The largest will hold 170, while the smallest will hold 55 and be the likely home of the International Film Festival, a mainstay of the old Cinema 1 and 2.…
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Students from surrounding states get domestic price
Western Illinois University's Board of Trustees decided at its June 5 meeting that residents from Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa could pay in-state tuition while attending the school in order to attract more students.
The idea had been discussed at previous meetings and after reviewing the competition, it was clear this was a move that needed to be made.…
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Student earns Employee of the Year Award
David Sharer, a senior computer science major from Fulton, Ill., was named Student Employee of the Year at the end of the Spring 2009 semester at Western Illinois University.
Sharer, a student worker in Western's Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood, used the expertise developed in his major to design, develop, maintain and revise websites that allow the department to educate and communicate effectively.…
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Designers earn honors
Recent Western Illinois University graduate Alex Lake (Arlington Heights, Ill.), a graphic communication major, is a "quack" shot when it comes to T-shirt design.
Lake's winning design -- based on the early Nintendo game "Duck Hunt" -- "brought down" first place in the "Leisure Service" category in the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association's T-shirt and Apparel Competition at NIRSA's annual conference in April.…
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Western has peculiar history
The Western Illinois University Archives and Special Collections has started a new blog series called "Forgotten Western," which spotlights lost or relatively unknown pieces of campus history.
The first entry in the series, "Forgotten Western: The Wishing Well," focuses on a once popular landmark on the WIU campus during the first half of the 20th century.…
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Bierman named Supervisor of the Year at Western Illinois
Matt Bierman, director of residential facilities at Western Illinois University, has been named the 2009 Employee of the Year by the Council of Administrative Personnel (COAP) for his extraordinary leadership of Western's housing division.
The annual award, presented by COAP in conjunction with the University president, recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of a COAP member who has far exceeded his or her duties.…
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