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The WRC is a great place to be…and you can go, too

By Jessica Jenks | November 15, 2010

A few days ago I journeyed to a place on campus I had never been before: The Women's Resource Center. I wondered why I had never ventured there before. I am a woman, and I like resources. What kind of resources did this place have to offer? I arrived...

Women’s Resource Center receives $300K grant

By Rikki Cottrell | October 18, 2010

The Women's Resource Center was awarded a $300,000 grant Monday that will allow it to hire a full-time victim advocacy coordinator. According to a NIU Media Relations press release, the award was announced by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and will be...

Joslyn Martarano, freshman undeclared major, plants tulips outside of the Pay-It-Forward House during Selfless Saturdays hosted by the Women's Resource Center.

Volunteers pay it forward

By Kyla Gardner | October 10, 2010

Nine a.m. on Saturday morning wasn't too early for the volunteers of Selfless Saturdays to get down in the dirt to help out a local charity. Participants of the monthly Women's Resource Center program gardened and cleaned at the Pay-It-Forward House in...

Rockford Rage Roller Derby member Melissa "May Q. Hurt" Bland participates in an informational event hosted Saturday at the Chick Evans Field House.

Roller derby burst into Chick Evans Field House

By Maryjo Kratochvil | September 12, 2010

DeKALB | The Rockford Rage Roller Derby rocked the Chick Evans Field House Saturday. The roller derby team paired up with the Women's Resource Center to show students of NIU the skills it takes to play roller derby. With names like Killswitch and May...