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2016 Student Gift survey goes live

Kori Bowns
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

For the past six years, IIT’s Student
Gift Campaign has raised money from the
student body to help purchase a variety of
campus improvements as a gift from the
student b odyto the university Previous student
gifts have included bike racks for campus, new
furniture for Galvin Library, improved water
fountains, and this year’s gift, renovations to
the Keating Sports Center weight room. The
tradition of the annual Student Gift Campaign
aims to allow students to give back to the HT

community.

IIT’s Student Gift Campaign has a
committee that includes a number of students.
The committee selected a variety of options
for the 2016 student gift, and is now surveying
the HT community to see which gift option
they’d like to see make a difference on campus.
The survey went live last week and was also
announced in an email to students from
Provost Frances Bronet on the morning of
November 2.

After following the link in the
email to the survey, students can choose the
project that they’d most like to see brought

to campus. Four options are offered in the
survey One option, an emergency textbook
fund, is a fund of money that would help
students experiencing financial hardship
purchase textbooks. Another option, charging
stations and lockers, would bring locking
phone charging stations to The Bog, MTCC,
and academic buildings on campus. A third
option is the implementation of solar—powered
crosswalk signs that have flashing LED lights
to alert traffic of pedestrians crossing the street
in an endeavor to increase safety when walking
through campus. The final option included
on the survey is solar—powered picnic tables

that would have power outlets for student
electronics.

The survey also offers the option
for students to share ideas for future Student
Gift Campaign projects and allows students
to sign up to be involved in the campaign.
Last year’s campaign raised over 25 thousand
dollars including donations from 781
undergraduate students. After selection of the
next student gift, students can look forward to
the opportunity to donate toward a project to
improve the university.

RHA creates spooky Halloween festivities

Rayleigh Stevens
TECHNEWS WRITER

Screams of terror and fright could
be heard resounding from South Hall this
past Friday night. South hall’s first and second
floors were turned into a terrifying haunted
hall, creating a freaky frightening feel to MSV.
However, it wasn’t all fright in the dorms, as
in the courtyard there was apple bobbing and
other activities. There was also a scavenger
hunt that traversed the entirety of the dorm,
causing students to explore areas they might
not have been before, while trying figure out

the clues.

The haunted hall was definitely a
fan favorite. The decorations and preparations
began at 7 p.m., and the hall opened at 8 pm.
Students were made to go through a black
curtain covering the entrance, and into the first
floor, and that’s where it all began. Residents
of that floor were also in good spirits, helping
add to the fear: by quickly opening doors as
people passed by, jumping out of their rooms
wearing creepy masks, and screaming to make
people jump. The first floor had ghosts flying
across the hall on powered wires, and creepy

skeletons shrouded in cloaks roamed the floor.
The lights were off and there were a few dim
lights emanating throughout the floor. Spider
webs had been hung from the ceiling, hanging
low to make people crouch as they went
through.

The second floor was a step up
from the first floor; the antics were turned up
a notch. The lighting was lower, there were
screams resounding from a speaker at the other
end of the hall, and there were more frights.
Lights were flashing on the second floor,
creating shadows that moved and other frights
in students’ minds. At one end of the hall, the

phone was ringing incessantly, antagonizing
someone to answer it. Once it was answered,
a creature would climb down the wall in front
of the phone, scaring the answerer. After the
phone, students were lead out of the house and
back downstairs.

The residents were so into these
festivities that if one student was particularly
terrified, they would begin to follow them out
of the hall. Terror could be felt throughout the
hall, as even some of its own residents would be
too scared to enter the hall. It was the perfect
touch of horror that should be present in every
Halloween celebration.

 

Photos by Kaylez'gh Stevens

Union Board in need of performers for Hawks Coffeehouse

Reno Waswil
TECHNEWS WRITER

Union Board’s Hawks Coffeehouse,
though one of its primary reasons for existence
is to give students and others within the HT
community an outlet to perform in a casual
and yet professional coffeehouse style venue,
has historically had trouble booking these
sorts of acts. This semester particularly, they
have begun to rely on professional performers
more heavily than ever due to a lacking ability
to find interested and able student/ faculty/ staff
artists.

Hawks Coffeehouse takes place

every other week, Tuesday nights starting
at 7 pm. and running usually to 8 pm. or a
little longer in the MTCC Welcome Center.
There have been five performances so far this
semester, and two more are planned to take
place throughout the month of November.

For the purpose of ensuring that the
gig is made as accommodating as possible to
those on campus that are artistically inclined,
the very last Coffeehouse this semester on
Tuesday, November 24, 2015, will be something
of an open mic night, and will feature multiple
acts in the time period, who are offered the
opportunity to perform sets ranging from
under 10 minutes to over 30.

 

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Union Board and WIIT, IIT’s student
run radio station, ask that all campus affiliates
that find this opportunity compelling, whether
they be in bands, a solo artist, a spoken word
performer, or skilled in any of a plethora of
performance based art—forms, join to whatever
capacity they feel comfortable. Coffeehouse
performances are a great outlet for performers
to engage in creative expression in a judgment
free environment, which is rare outside of the
Greek community. Performers on the bill that
night will be provided Union Board swag as a
“Thank You” for their addition.

There will be food (sweets, coffee, tea,
hot chocolate, and possibly others) available

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for those that perform and attend. Prior to
the event, WIIT will be conducting interviews
with the performers interested in participating
to help promote it. These “Unknown Talent”
interviews are very casual and always a blast.
Seeing that there are so many great
and creative artists in the HT community that
truly deserve to be heard but just don’t have
a suitable outlet, Union Board and WIIT are
confident that this event will be a high point of
the semester as long as they get the message out
in the right venues. Interested individuals are
encouraged to write unknowntalentchicago@
gmail.com to setup a brief audition, which will
involve the performance of one set piece.