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#ILoveMySelfie
NIU’s Asian American Center is teaming up with departments and student organizations to support Independent Awakening’s “#ILoveMySelfie” national campaign. Tables will be set up at DuSable Hall and the Holmes Student Center from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, for students to take “selfie” photos. Independent Awakening is partnering up with multiple universities, high schools...
Students gathered during the week of Jan. 21 to attend four different events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The week was facilitated by a committee of 11 staff and faculty who represented 10 different campus offices (Asian American Center, Center for Black Studies, Career Services, Military Student Services, Women’s and LGBT Resource Center, Latino...
Martin Luther King Jr.
NIU’s 2014 MLK Service Week will take place the week of Jan. 21. The week will promote civic reflection, community service, equality and diversity awareness throughout campus and in the community. Members of NIU’s MLK Week of Service planning committee were awarded the MLK Day of Service Collegiate Challenge grant for $1,200 from Illinois Campus...
Cover of “Vincent Who?” DVD
A screening of the documentary film “Vincent Who?” will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, in the Illinois Room of the Holmes Student Center. In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments, Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers who lost their jobs and took it out on him. When the...
Philippine Madrigal Singers
The Philippine Madrigal Singers will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in NIU’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. This event is free and open to the public, and the auditorium is accessible to all. Composed of students, faculty and alumni from the different colleges of the University of the Philippines, this 22-member choir is one...
Anthonie Tumpag
Anthropology graduate student Anthonie Tumpag grew up  in the rural South, but at a young age he became interested in cultural objects from Southeast Asia, Madagascar, Taiwan and the Pacific. “I have been collecting objects from this region since I was young as a means to find and connect with my identity as a Filipino...
NIU students, faculty and staff are invited to attend SerendipiTEA, an evening dedicated to exploring relevant topics pertaining to Asians and Asian Americans and how to effect change. The discussion titled “My Voice Counts” will be held at the Asian American Center from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17. Free tea and refreshments will...
Latino Resource Center
De Mujer a Mujer: Latina Assistance Program, part of the Latino Resource Center, will host the “Latinas Rompiendo Barreras, Becoming Tomorrow’s Leaders” conference from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 30. The conference, which takes place in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center, is aimed at providing young Latina students with the...
Flag of China
As a result of a site visit to Inner Mongolia and Beijing, China, this past summer, Michelle Bringas will lead a Study Abroad trip to summer to Beijing, China. Bringas, director of the NIU Asian American Center, will travel from Wednesday, June 14, through Saturday, June 30. The program takes an innovative, collaborative approach for...
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