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Groups need ‘super-events’

Groups need ‘super-events’

By AJ Edwards | October 14, 2013

Campus organizations and resource centers come together regularly for events and activities, which serve as examples of our great communiversity.While an individual organization’s events are wonderful, the best ones are those where several groups come...

Research Rookies explore reasons behind Civil War enlistment

By Lauren Dielman | March 6, 2012

Men joined the U.S. army to fight in the Civil War for multiple reasons. Wayne Duerkes will be trying to discover these reasons through his Research Rookies project. Duerkes, a junior history major, and his mentor Bradley Bond, Dean of the Graduate School,...

‘Back in Town’ photo gallery shows everyday life in Iraq

By Olivia Willoughby | February 29, 2012

He is “Back in Town,” filling a DeKalb gallery’s walls with colorful photos of everyday life from his time in Iraq. Trevor Alan Elliott shows his photographs at The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway. After serving in the U.S. Army for eight years,...