Monday February 1, 2016
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Volume 116 Issue 35
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Women’s basketball snaps losing streak with buzzer beater
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NIU women’s basketball players celebrate a last second victory by lifting junior forward Cassidy Glenn off the floor. Glenn scored 13 points for the Huskies, including a buzzer-beating three pointer to seal the 76-74 comeback win over Buffalo on Saturday. To read a recap of the game, go to Page 12.
NIU volunteers to help Egyptian Theatre with $2.5M Students help apply for theater’s grants
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Scott Nicol Staff writer
DeKalb | The Egyptian Theatre, with the help of NIU students, is searching for $2.5 million in grants to keep their doors open year round. The Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., opened Dec. 10, 1929, and currently hosts plays, musicals, films, fitness competitions, concerts and pageants. It is believed that the initial construction cost was $250,000, according to the Egyptian Theatre website.
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We’ve invested, over the past 10 years, just over $2 million into the building on different projects... .” Alex Nerad Executive director of the Egyptian Theatre
The theater can seat 1,400 and brings in 30,000 people per year, which included former U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald
The Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St., on Thursday before the movie showing and comedic performance of “Clue” on Friday. The theater is unable to maintain its operation during the summer due to a lack of air conditioning. NIU students are working on developing a plan to find grants for the theater to pay expenses.
Reagan, said Alex Nerad, executive director of the Egyptian Theatre. The non-profit theater is unable to maintain its operation during the summer months because the 86-year-old building lacks an air conditioning unit, Nerad said. “We’ve invested, over the past 10 years, just over $2 million into
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the building on different projects,” Nerad said. “Everything from replacing the roof, to upgrading the fire alarm system, to upgrading lighting and sound and technologies associated with the stage.” NIU students worked this past semester on trying to develop an initial plan to find grants for the theater said
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Alicia Schatteman, assistant professor of Nonprofit Management. The initial step in grant writing is finding a match between the grant and the organization based on a variety of details, Schatteman said. “[Certain organizations] fund arts and education, but don’t fund animals or the environment,”
Schatteman said. “So doing that research of identifying the match and the organization, to me, is the first step.” Prior to writing up the grant, the searching party must contact the granting organization to ensure they are interested in providing the grant to them, Schatteman said. This past fall semester her students identified three to five grants they thought the theater could potentially qualify for. “Now this semester we’ll have a group of students decide, in conjunction with the Egyptian Theatre, which grants have the most likelihood of funding,” Schatteman said. “Then they will work on actually putting the grant proposal together.”
Read Egyptian | Page 2
Cinemas in Sandburg wants support Cinemas in Sandburg, a movie event held 7:30 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday nights in the Holmes Student Center, is looking to raise attendance after 7-8 attendees at first few events. Read more on Page 6.