Thumbs up to Nelly coming to Dillo Day.
There has been a lot of uneasiness around campus for the past few weeks as students waited to find out the night headliner for Dillo Day. Any concerns that the long wait would result in a subpar act were erased last night with the announcement that Nelly would be playing on The Lakefill next weekend. This is a great selection-Nelly is popular and high energy. His songs are known by a majority of people. Almost everyone will love getting Hot out Therre on Dillo Day.
Thumbs up to the creation of a new off-campus housing liaison.
The Daily has advocated in the past for more help for students who are moving off campus for the first time. Finally, it seems these students will have someone to turn to. We don’t know exactly what the liaison will do. We hope that they will provide tips for dealing with landlords and advice on how to deal with neighbors. Maybe this position will bring down tension with Evanston residents and off-campus students.
Thumbs down to the baseball team for giving up a 14-0 lead.
Normally, NU students get excited when one of the school’s sports teams makes it onto ESPN. This time, though, watching highlights of last weekends’ debacle could only bring embarrassment. We know that things happen in sports. Leads get blown and games get lost. But this loss-coming less than a decade after the NU football team was on the wrong end of the biggest comeback in NCAA history-certainly stings. This loss can be forgotten, though, with a Big Ten tournament berth.
Thumbs up to Relay for Life for raising more than $105,000.
About 900 NU students marched around the track in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Aquatics Center between 6 p.m on Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday. The money raised by participants, who made up teams representing various groups on campus, will benefit the American Cancer Society. Relay for Life leaders said they expect about an additional $10,000 in donations for the total amount of money raised.
Thumbs up to an impressive haul of grant money earned toward the installation of solar panels on the Ford Center’s rooftop.
We may not know the finer points of this plan down to kilowatt hour-detail, but we trust that those who recently wrote a $65,000 check to help fund the project do know and consider it a viable and prudent step toward a greener NU. What we do know is that the approximate equivalent of four acres of trees saved annually is no small deal. The environmental advocacy of groups like Engineers for a Sustainable World, Green It Now and the Northwestern Sustainability Fund is something for which the University should be proud. By this time next year, organizers plan to have the panels installed and pumping renewable energy into the NU grid. By this time next year, the Ford Center rooftop will stand as an example of the potential that renewable energy has for NU and the broader Evanston community looking toward green (and potentially turbine-dotted) horizons of its own. This is another positive step toward NU becoming as green of a school as it can.
