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Eric Kussin, the founder of #SameHere Movement talks about his experiences at an event organized by the NIU Counseling and Consultation Services Department on Tuesday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. 

#SameHere Movement advocates for mental health conversations

By Courtney Ransom | October 11, 2018

Eric Kussin, the founder of #SameHere Movement talks about his experiences at an event organized by the NIU Counseling and Consultation Services Department on Tuesday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center.

 

Siew Lian Lim, sculpture graduate student and Buddhist nun,
stands in front of her shadow puppets, which she fashioned from
refuse material such as aluminum cans, food wrappers and
Styrofoam.

Buddhist nun advocates peace through sculpture

By Chelsey Boutan | November 2, 2011

Sculpture graduate student Siew Lian Lim isn't your typical Buddhist nun. Wearing her traditional gray Sangha robe, Lim scours campus parking lots and dumpsters looking for aluminum cans, food wrappers, Styrofoam and other items that she will later use...