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• Leatherneck Social in Rock Island
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• Bulls vs. Suns in Chicago
• Town & Gown
• 4th Annual All Leatherneck Reunion
• Student vs. Alumni Basketball
• WIU vs. Iowa Baseball

Leatherneck Social
in Rock Island

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Quad Cities Campus

Riverfront Campus Update | WQPT Special Event | WIU-QC Faculty & Staff Enjoy Leatherneck Baseball at Modern Woodmen Park

Riverfront Campus Update

The WIU-QC Riverfront Campus continues to take shape, and recently received flood protection. The state of Illinois commissioned an earthen berm in March to protect the $15.2 million building renovation on the property just west of 34th Street. Construction of the berm by McCarthy Improvement Co. is complete. The berm will hold back a flood of up to 24 feet.

For other construction updates, read the latest WIU-QC newsletter or visit the WIU-QC website.

WQPT Special Event

Fifty years ago in May, the Freedom Riders rode into the segregated South to fight for equal rights. Drake University student Ryan Price from Des Moines, IA will be following in these courageous footsteps as he takes a bus route from D.C. to New Orleans.

The students, accompanied by "Freedom Riders" filmmaker Stanley Nelson and some original riders, will travel the route taken in 1961, leaving from D.C. May 8 and traveling through Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and ending with a commemoration in New Orleans on May 16.

The bus will stop at historically significant locations along the way, such as the Anniston Bus Station, where one of the buses was firebombed in 1961, and Montgomery's First Baptist Church, where original Freedom Riders, along with Martin Luther King, Jr. and 1,500 others, were trapped by a mob until the Kennedy Administration summoned federal marshals, marking a turning point in the civil rights movement.

Ryan Price will be WQPT's special guest at the Special Preview Screening of Freedom Riders on April 26 at the Putnam Museum & IMAX Theatre.  For more information on the Freedom Riders or the 2011 Student Freedom Ride, go to www.wqpt.org 

Mark your calendar....Wednesday, May 25 at 8:00 p.m. to view Freedom Riders on WQPT.

WIU vs. Iowa Baseball at Modern Woodmen Park

Several WIU-QC faculty and staff watched the Western Illinois baseball team square off with Iowa for the fourth time this season on Wednesday, April 20 at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport. Errors plagued the Purple & Gold and Western Illinois dropped the midweek contest 14-8.

The WIU Alumni Association hosted a social at Modern Woodmen Park beginning at 6:00 p.m. Guests, and the two teams had to navigate a maze of planks and bridges to access the stadium as recent storms have created an island of a stadium in the often flooded part of the city.

For more on the game, visit the WIU Athletics webpage.

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