FEATURE PHOTO: Climbing the steps
Raine Zhu, Photographer
June 26, 2019
Jessica Valenzuela, a senior Elementry Education student from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, climbs stairs back and forth on Wednesday evening at the Mellin Steps outside the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Valenzuela said she does this to keep her body moving. She said she usually climbs...
‘Take Back the Night’ moved to Friday in front of Doudna Steps
Staff Report
April 18, 2019
Take Back the Night has been rescheduled to Friday due to rain on Thursday and has been renamed Take Back the Day. The Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service will host Take Back the Day alongside its tabling event called SACIS on the Steps. Both events will be at the Doudna Steps from 10 a....
SACIS to host tabling event
Katelyn Edgington, Contributing Writer
April 18, 2019
Anyone walking past the Doudna Steps Friday morning and afternoon can learn more about sexual assault awareness and the Sexual Assault Counseling and Information Service (SACIS) at the organization’s informational tabling. The event is called SACIS on the Steps and Stephanie Anderson, volunteer c...
Student senate plans student outreach
Samuel Nusbaum, Contributing Writer
September 27, 2017
Student senate discussed a proposed Aldi’s bus stop and introduced a new event during their meeting Wednesday evening in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Student Senate Speaker William Outzen introduced his event “1st Thursday” to the senate. Outzen said the senators will go in front...
Rally shows support for marginalized communities
Cassie Buchman, News Editor
February 9, 2017
Ask Beluchukwu Ebede, an international student from Nigeria, about his time in the United States, and he will say he has seen both unity and diversity. However, recent concerns regarding actions taken by President Donald Trump have started to “twist things apart,” he said. It was this feeling...
Unity Rally held to protest Trump
Kalyn Hayslett and Cassie Buchman
November 11, 2016
Days after they were shocked by Republican nominee Donald Trump winning the presidential race, students and community members convened on the Doudna Steps to protest the now-President Elect at a Unity Rally. Chants of “Dump Trump,” “No Trump, No KKK, No racist USA,” “When they go low we ...
