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Inside the hub: Redbird Esports Arena connects gaming community
The hum of high-end PCs mingles with bursts of laughter at the Esports Arena located in Illinois State University’s Bowling and Billiards Center. For Redbird gamers, the arena is not just another campus facility; it is a creative hub and the heartbeat of a strong and accepting community. Junior integrated marketing communications major Camilla Blacha
Punk rocker, Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye draws hundreds for School of Creative Technologies talk
More than two decades after Fugazi’s last performance, the scene outside of the Normal Theater on November 11, was reminiscent of a 1990s preshow crowd gathering to hear the influential punk rock band. Well before the doors opened, a line stretched down North Street, with fans hoping to snag free walk-up tickets to experience a
Archeologist Michael Wiant traces 12,000 years of Indigenous ingenuity
For at least 12,000 years, Indigenous societies flourished along the Illinois River. Dr. Michael Wiant ’71, M.S. ’77, a retired archeologist with the Illinois State Museum, has dedicated nearly 50 years to researching the communities of Native people who built a legacy of ingenuity and tenacity in the lower Illinois River Valley. Dr. Michael WiantNews
