NIU’s baseball team will face Notre Dame in a 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, contest at U.S. Cellular Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. Tickets are on sale.
Proceeds from tickets sales will benefit NIU’s February 14 Student Scholarship Fund. The Huskies and Fighting Irish last met on the diamond in 2005.
“It is an incredible show of support from the Chicago White Sox and from [head coach] Dave Schrage and the University of Notre Dame to be able to do this,” NIU head coach Ed Mathey said. “To have the ability to put together an event like this at an amazing facility like U.S. Cellular Field to generate financial support for the scholarship fund is tremendous.”
All tickets are $10 for lower-level reserved seating and are available at whitesox.com, Ticketmaster phone lines, Chicagoland Ticketmaster outlets, the NIU campus box office and the U.S. Cellular Field box office.
Gates to the ballpark will open at 6 p.m. Parking is free in Lots A (bus parking), B and C, and concession stands will be open during the game.
“We look forward to a great contest on the field and hope that all the NIU alumni and fans in the Chicago area will come out to support this endeavor,” Mathey said. “Because the proceeds for this event are going to the February 14 Student Scholarship Fund, I would certainly like to see this become one of the highest-attended college games in the Midwest this season.”
“The White Sox are honored to host Northern Illinois and Notre Dame at U.S. Cellular Field for this special game and important cause,” said Brooks Boyer, White Sox chief marketing officer and vice president. “Both schools boast a significant fan base in Chicago that will make for a great night of baseball while serving a much more important cause.”
George D. Kuh, chancellor’s professor of higher education and former director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, Bloomington, will present “What Matters to Student Success: Lessons for NIU” from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today. The event will take place at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center ballroom. A reception will follow.
Kuh is a nationally renowned researcher focusing on the assessment of undergraduate student learning and personal development, campus cultures and the institutional conditions that foster student learning. He is the author of 21 books and hundreds of publications on many aspects of higher education and the student experience. He also is the founder of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and related surveys.
For more information, contact the ACCESS office at (815) 753-1141. This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
The First-Year Composition Program is sponsoring a forum for NIU students to share their writing publicly.
The Showcase of Student Writing will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. today in the Holmes Student Center Regency Room.
“In the spirit of moving ‘forward, together forward,’ we are hoping that many students and members of the NIU community and the DeKalb community will join us in supporting and celebrating the excellent academic writing that our students participate in,” said Kathleen Turner, a teaching assistant and member of the First-Year Composition Committee.
Students will display projects created in their courses taught by first-year composition instructors. The projects include aspects of visual rhetoric ranging from PowerPoint presentations, posters and brochures to debates and skits.
The ReadNex Poetry Squad, four spoken-word poets and emcees from New York City, will come to NIU at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 31, in the A/B Formal Lounge of the Grant South Complex.
Squad members will give a spoken word performance with the purpose to uplift urban communities using hip-hop, soul, Latin and Caribbean music. Afterward, they will host an open mic event.
Call (815) 753-1555 for more information.
After 15 years as a neo-Nazi white supremacist activist and recruiter, Tom “TJ” Leyden experienced a profound change of heart, turned away from hate and began teaching tolerance.
Leyden will visit campus at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, to speak on “Turning Away from Hate.” The free speech takes place in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center.
Call (815) 753-1963 for more information.
All University Women’s Club members, spouses and guests are invited to attend the annual potluck supper to be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at the Ellwood House Visitor Center in DeKalb.
Bring a dish to share and your own table service. Donna Peterson of Sycamore’s Chapel in the Pines will entertain with “The Bride Wore Duct Tape.”
For details, contact Mary Lu Strack at (815) 756-4390 or strackfolk@tbcnet.com.