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coverage from the memorial and the future of cole hall
Tuesday, March 18
- Peters hopes to bring about Cole Hall consensus
- Student expresses gratitude with Operation Thank You
Monday, March 17
Thursday, March 6
- Message walls, crosses to be saved in archives
- Library seeks to archive impromptu memorials
- Peters announces three-phase process for Cole Hall decision
- Faculty Senate passes resolution about Cole Hall future
Wednesday, March 5
- NIU considers text message alert system
- Students petition for involvement in status of Cole Hall
- President Peters reconsiders plans for Cole Hall
- Virginia Tech students to visit NIU campus
Monday, March 3
Friday, Feb. 29
- Religious organizations offer helping hand
- CRU hosts visitors from Virginia Tech
- Illinois legislators express initial opinions on Cole Hall plan
Thursday, Feb. 28
- Blagojevich, Peters propose $40M to replace Cole
- Anime club displaced by Cole Hall closing
- To help campus healing, Phi Sigma Kappa makes ribbons
Wednesday, Feb. 27
- Blagojevich speaks on future of Cole Hall
- Students calmer, appreciative of counselors in classes
- Schedule changes cause problems, but students may still have options
Tuesday, Feb. 26
Monday, Feb. 25
- Memorial service brings together Huskies' family
- Students react to Sunday's memorial service
- Editorial: Shooting brings community, university closer together
- Musicians play to raise money for Feb. 14 memorial funds
- Sports teams show support for NIU
- Editorial: Peters, police deserve credit for response
- Column: Keep your head high as you return to class
- Column: For those in the Cole Hall classroom, memories will stay forever
- Academic deadlines remain the same
- Mental health clinicians will be available in every classroom Monday, Tuesday
- Men's golf first sport to begin since incident
- Hundreds of people fill MLK Commons for moment of silence
- Column: Don't let shooting replace optimism with pessimism
- Virginia Tech Greek council members detour to NIU campus with gifts, support
- Virginia Tech students reach out to NIU students via Facebook
- 200 volunteers make 40,000 ribbons to show unity, support
- A letter from President Peters: Resolve to move forward
coverage from the first week and a half
Thursday, Feb. 14
- Cole shooting leaves gunman dead, others wounded
- Seventeen victims at Kishwaukee
- Kishwaukee confirms 18 victims
- Hospital confirms one death
- Students react to shootings
- Students describe aftermath of shooting
- Profile of the shooter
- Students express their support for victims
- Students, frantic for information, look for answers
- Information about shooting spreads in various ways
- One shooting victim identified
- Hospital conducts news conference on incident
- Leave your messages of support here
- Hospital releases information on victims
- Governor declares state of emergency
- Status updates from NIU
- Students get rides home from parents, friends
- NIU has lost members of family
- Officials stress now is the time to grieve
- Plan had been discussed
Friday, Feb. 15
- Five shooting victims identified
- Cole Hall shooter identified
- Authorities release information on Cole Hall shooter
- Governor orders flags lowered to half-staff
- DeKalb-Sycamore basketball game to honor shooting victims
- Victims' information released
- NIU grads identify shooter as former neighbor
- Downers Grove hospital releases information on victims
- Students stand strong together
- Injury details emerge from hospital press conference
- New hospital rises to occasion
- Practice makes perfect
- Governor speaks with NIU students after shooting
- Campus empties for weekend
- Blagojevich responds at news conference
Saturday, Feb. 16
Sunday, Feb. 17
- All athletic events postponed
- Parents speak about daughter's injuries
- Oceanography instructor's coworkers react to shootings
Monday, Feb. 18
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Thursday, Feb. 21
Friday, Feb. 22
- NIU releases more information for Sunday's memorial service
- President's letter to the campus community
- A special message to parents from President Peters
- Letter to students from Dr. Hemphill
Saturday, Feb. 23
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Monday, Feb. 24
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Reports from the Northern Star and NTC.
- Official NIU memorial page
- Official campus memorial events page
- Official NIU condolences page
- Official NIU counseling page
- Official NIU vigils page
- Official NIU notices page
- Official NIU community support page
- Official NIU February 14 Student Scholarship Fund page
- Spring Semester classroom reassignment details