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Go to NorthernStar.info/Calendar/ to submit your local event. All events must be submitted two days in advance. Placement is not guaranteed. Today 260 E. Lincoln Highway. DJ Off-Campus and Non-TradiQuickMixin’Nick will provide tional Student Services will music. Contact Debbie Witmer at hold the Housing Fair noon to 815-748-0000 or olearysgroup@ 4 p.m. at the Recreation Center. gmail.com for more information. Students will learn about cost, furniture and leasing options Friday for off-campus housing. Contact Halloween Party will be held 9 Daniel Thetford at 815-753-9999 p.m. to midnight at O’Leary’s, or ocntss@niu.edu for more 260 E. Lincoln Highway. There information. will be live music and $500 in costume prizes. Contact Debbie Thirsty Thursdays DJ will be Witmer at 815-748-0000 or oleheld 9 p.m. to midnight Thursarysgroup@gmail.com for more days until Dec. 18 at O’Leary’s, information.
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Community members share poetry
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Vickie Novak, customer support services associate, reads an original poem Wednesday at Poetry Reading and Recitation Night in Altgeld Hall. Local poets gathered to read poems on the topic of gender and identity.
Group uses Halloween to raise awareness of suicide prevention Jackie Nevarez Campus Editor H @NevarezJackie
Sycamore | Project Seth Ltd., a non-profit organization aiming to support, empower, teach and honor young adults, will raise money through a Halloween party with a costume contest Friday. The organization, named after Seth Bartosik, 20, of Cortland, a DeKalb High School graduate who died June 26, aims to get the word out about suicide prevention to help young adults like Seth. “We’re going to hold events to publicize warning signs of suicide and depression and we’re going to try to involve suicide survivors, such as ourselves, as a teaching process,” said Laura Bartosik, Seth’s mother. “And just do anything that can help any young adults feel empowered and recognize other young adults that may be at risk.”
The first official event for the organization, dubbed the Sethtastic Spooktacular Halloween Costume Party, will feature a costume contest where attendees may be awarded for best couple, funniest and spookiest costume. Light appetizers and drinks will be served. Bartosik said the event will be use to bring awareness to the newly formed organization, which is using a Facebook page, on.fb.me/103PCLk, until an official website is launched. The website will provide suicide prevention resources and upcoming event information. “It’s just positive. It’s reinforcing that they should feel nurtured and supported,” Bartosik said. “We want this to be a good environment where they just feel they’re comfortable enough that if they have any problems or issues we can either help them or direct them to who can help
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What: Sethtastic Spooktacular Halloween Costume Party When: 7 p.m. Friday Where: Jane Fargo Hotel, 355 W. State St. in Sycamore them better.” Before Project Seth Ltd. was established in August, the inaugural Sethtastic Scavenger Hunt took place August 8-10. The charity event garnered $2,000 from around nine teams that participated. The money raised was split into two scholarships: one for a hockey player and the other for a culinary student — two of Seth’s favorite activities, Bartosik said. Brett and Laura Bartosik, Seth’s parents, matched the amount of money raised and donated it to Suicide Prevention Services in Batavia.
Center uses $2M grant on fellowships Northern Star Staff
The center will distribute nine
DeKalb | Federal grants awarded fellowships to graduate students
to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies will go to fellowships and the center’s foreign language program. The center will use $2 million in grants, awarded Oct. 7, to provide Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships and expand language instruction to community colleges.
and four fellowships to undergraduate students, according to an NIU Today news release. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies has received four other Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education since becoming a National Resource Center in 1997.