CRU hosts Virginia Tech visitors

“Hokies for Huskies,” an event sponsored by NIU’s Campus Crusade for Christ, will take place tonight at 9 p.m. in Wirtz Hall.

Some of the 15 students visiting Chicago on their Spring Break from Virginia Tech will make the trip out to DeKalb today to present a banner to the students of NIU showing support from their university.

Free NIU remembrance T-shirts will be given out to anyone who attends.

For more information, contact Brent Batiste at 815-757-1464.

St. Patrick’s Day concert

NIU’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall will host the Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band on Sunday, March 16 at 3 p.m. “Echoes of Erin” is the title of the performance. The all-volunteer band will play a variety of Irish songs.

The concert is free to all.

ONE-LINERS

* Nominations for the Outstanding Service Award, given to up to four NIU Civil Service employees annually, are due on Friday, March 7 at 4:30 p.m. Winners will be announced at a banquet later this spring. For more information, including the nomination forms, go to http://www.niu.edu/osc/serviceaward/index.shtml.

* The University Bookstore will be closed from Monday, March 10, through Wednesday, March 12, for inventory. Regular hours resume Thursday, March 13.

• The deadline to apply for NIU journalism scholarships has been extended to Wednesday, March 19. The application form is available at http://www.comm.niu.edu/fileadmin/application.pdf. Applicants must be journalism majors or minors.

• NIU’s Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. today in Altgeld Hall, Room 315.

• NIU’s Regional History Center/University Archives is looking for any documentation regarding the Feb. 14 tragedy from students, staff or faculty. Submissions can include e-mails, correspondence, poems, official documents, class projects, photographs and videos. For more information, call 815-753-1779.

• Nominations for the fourth annual Ally Awards, presented by the LGBT Resource Center, are due Friday.

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