NIU – what to do with Cole Hall?

Gov. Rod Blagojevich wishes to tear down NIU’s Cole Hall. "Cole Hall will be torn down, but what happened there will never be forgotten," Blagojevich said. Students say, "It was a sad thing that happened in there, and the worst thing you could do is just tear it down. We'd erase what they (slain students) stood for, what they were trying to do in that building.”


If they do demolish the building I would hope a memorial would be placed there instead of another building. The students that were killed deserve to be remembered and not quickly erased from NIU’s history.

What do you think? Yes or No?

Obama at NIU vigil

At 7 p.m. a vigil for the victims of the NIU shooting will take place on the campus. Obama will attend but is not planning to give any remarks.

NIU Tragedy--- 6 dead in college shooting

If you haven’t heard there was a shooting that took place this afternoon at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. I was notified at work about the shootings and immediately thought of a close friend in her last year at NIU. I called her and she is fine, she was next door to the shooting in the auditorium. But 6 others including the gunman are dead.

In December there was a threat and reference to the Virginia Tech shootings as well as racial slurs written on the bathroom walls. This threat shut down the school. My friend also told me after that December incident that there have been a lot of threats and tensions on the campus.

My thoughts and prayers are with family, friends of the deceased as well as the victims and students who will have to live with this tragedy forever.