It will be lights out for SIUE Saturday as a planned power outage will temporary cut off electricity to all core campus buildings. Director of Facilities Management Bob Washburn said Ameren IP will cut off the electrical distribution system to replace a 40-year-old switch mechanism near the Early Childhood Center that controls power to every building on the core campus.… Post the First Comment

Senior special education major Ashley Guntel of Macon has spent the summer in the overflowing stacks of books as an employee of Textbooks Services. Throughout the summer Guntel has worked to log new books into the system, put new textbooks away and help students return and check out their textbooks.… Post the First Comment

Attracting students to voting booths might seem like a challenge, but giving them a purpose behind their vote can be even harder to inspire. Representatives from different departments on campus, as well as members of the area community met last Wednesday to strategize how to encourage SIUE's growing student body to vote in this year's presidential election.… 1 Comment

From now on students who forget their cell phones will be out of luck looking for a pay phone. Director of telecommunications Dan Chase said all the pay phones have been removed on SIUE campus because AT&T no longer offers pay phone services. "All the pay phones will eventually be removed if they are already not," Chase said.… Post the First Comment

While most of SIUE is focusing on the oncoming hoard of freshmen, the Alumni Association is looking back at the university's graduates. With the growth and expansion of SIUE, Director of Alumni Affairs Steve Jankowski said the university decided to start the Alumni Hall of Fame, honoring two alumni from each school except the College of Arts and Sciences, which gets four.… Post the First Comment