NORMAL, Ill. - A monthly event involving comic book and convention-culture is recognizing LGBTQ history in October. October is LGBTQ history month and ReggieCon is ready to tackle this topic. ReggieCon which prides itself on deconstructing gender ethnicity and race through movies and comic books, will be taking a dive into a graphic novel called The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen. The story follows a mother and her gay […]
NORMAL, Ill. - A film festival is coming to the Normal Theater this spring that will give Illinois State University students experience in filmmaking. The Foxtail Film Festival is now accepting submissions to be curated by ISU students for class credit. The course Film Festival Management and Curation sees students view and select movies given by participants leading up to the festival in April where the films are shown at […]
NORMAL, Ill. – The Big Red Marching Machine will undergo a large change this year as their iconic voice Dave Colee says goodbye. “Dave Colee served as the iconic voice of the Big Red Marching Machine for over 30 years,” said Associate Director of the Big Red Marching Machine Dr. Mack Wood. A member of the Redbird Hall of Fame, Colee has been involved at Illinois State University for almost […]
Image courtesy of Jimmy Naprstek and Kodiak Creative NORMAL, Ill - Halfway into Illinois Wesleyan University’s football season they sit at a record of 3-2, with their most recent game being a loss to Washington University of St. Louis. Both of their losses are blowouts on the road against conference opponents, but they remain undefeated at home. Two of their wins were against College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin teams. […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Illinois State University Senior Ali Schrock matched the college’s record for best score in a single round at 68. The last person to score a 68 for ISU women’s golf was Rachel Powers almost exactly ten years ago. The Pontiac, Illinois native is not new to impressive matches. As a Junior, Schrock’s scoring average was 75.7 and she played in every round of every match that year. […]
NORMAL, Ill.- The Town of Normal held their first town meeting of the month October 3. Council member Stan Nord began by bringing up concerns with a recent large expense for Wi-Fi, citing lack of proper procedure. City Manager Pamela Reece responded, stating the expense was for the procurement and installation of equipment for uptown public Wi-Fi which Normal had already paid for. Nord requested that for the future proper […]
Photo provided courtesy of Illinois State University NORMAL, Ill. - The Illinois State University Planetarium hosted the “Undiscovered Worlds” event this Friday. This event was focused around the discovery of exoplanets; which are planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Planetarium Director Thomas Willmitch anticipates viewers will learn a plethora of new things about the universe from this presentation. “The program explores the topic of planets orbiting around other […]
NORMAL, Ill. - The College of Business at Illinois State University hosted the virtual handshake sales and marketing job fair from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. this afternoon. Upon discussing some of the primary aspects and benefits of the event program coordinator and Executive Director of the Professional Sales Institute at ISU, Michael Boehm, elaborated on how students can benefit taking part in the fair. "Students attending the fair would meet with […]
Image courtesy of Nexstar Media Group. NORMAL, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker and state Sen. Darren Bailey faced off in the first gubernatorial debate of this election season. Both candidates faced off on Friday, October 6th at 7 p.m. Gov. Pritzker and Sen. Bailey went head to head in the Brown Ballroom in the Student Bone Center at Illinois State University. The Safe-T act was the first topic to be […]
