Dubuque History Loras Style

Loras students and faculty put up their exhibit at the Dubuque River Museum. The project featured major events in the past 100 years and personal information on real estate.

Mens and Womens Basketball Last Two Games

Loras takes on Simpson for Senior night at the AWC. Loras got pounded by the Storm.



That Saturday the men and women took on UD over at UD and won.



Loras coach Greg Gorton advising his players late in the game verse UD.



The man of the game was Rickey Kolze.



The team celebrating after Kolze knocked down the game winning shot with no time left.

NIU One Year Later: Multimedia Presentation

If you saw my post earlier this week about Northern Illinois the back story was I covered the tragedy last year so I went back this year to see how the campus has been over the past year. I made this slideshow for LCTV's site and our story on the event. Go there to see the video and read the story. Here is the slideshow I made for the site. Tell me what you think of this because we are planning on doing more of these.

IBM Comes To Dubuque

IBM announced it was bringing an advanced data systems help center to Dubuque that will bring in 1400 new jobs for the city. The leaders of the project were in Dubuque last week to discuss all of the job openings on staff. If you're a technical personal look into it!



The leader of the Dubuque project discusses what he is looking for in potential job applicants to a room of 100 people.



Around 100 people gathered to hear IBM discuss job openings.



A representative from IBM talks to Dubuque college students about job openings.

Northern Illinois: One Year Later

Last year I covered the shootings at Northern Illinois University and I became very connected to stories I heard of the students and the staff. This year my friend Andrew and I decided to return for the one year anniversary these are the scenes I saw and the people I met. February 14th is no longer Valentines Day to me but the day when all of us for that day are all NIU. Please remember the students that lost their lives in Cole Hall that day.

Students stand in remembrance in front of five crosses with the names of each student who was killed last February.



The carpenter who made these crosses this year and last stands and talks to students and family members.



The president of the college hugs a victims family member at a memorial service.



Students, staff, and families walk by memorial wreaths just placed at a future memorial by the victims family members.



Two students stand on a bench in front of Cole Hall, where the shootings took place, to get a glimpse of a memorial service being held.



Noel Gamay (right) helps Dana Colovono and Amanda Cox pick out tiles to paint for a memorial being built on campus.



Scott Cerny, an NIU student, plays the guitar at a memorial concert.



A volunteer passes out candles at a candle light vigil held where a memorial was set up last year.



Three students embrace each other as NIU's president honors those who died last year.



The crowd ended the vigil by chanting NIU cheers.



After much of the crowd left two NIU students stayed to pay tribute to the five students who passed away.



An NIU student kneels in front of five crosses for the five students who died in Cole Hall.



A reminder on the doors of Cole Hall that the day was Valentines Day.

Sick Day!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was good... I went to Northern Illinois University to cover the one year anniversary of the shootings there that I covered last year. I will post lots of those photos when I feel better. (Hopefully tomorrow.) Tomorrow I am suppose to cover an IBM meeting we'll see if I can stop coughing.

Thanks!

Daniel

Dubuque Live

Loras College and Clarke College teamed together to bring students Dubuque Live, an event of business leaders in Dubuque. Employers told students about the positions that had available both for graduates and internship posibilites. If you're looking for a job in Dubuque click here.



A speaker talks to students at Clarke College about job opportunities in Dubuque.



Stan Rheigans, of the Dubuque Community Schools, talks to students about employment opportunities. He stated that Dubuque Schools will have 36 retiring teachers this year.



Corey Becker, a senior at Loras College, looks on as a Dubuque bank reviews his resume.



Alice Schmidt, a Senior education major at Clarke College, talks to Holy Family Schools curriculum director Todd Wesells, at Dubuque Live.



Students talk to potential employers at Dubuque Live.

Winter Sports Rap Up Seasons

Winter Sports are rapping up for the year and I spent some time in the Graber Center this past week taking it all in.



Loras hosted the Duhawk Open in the Graber Center. The meet featured big names at all levels of wrestling.



Two division one wrestlers battle it out at the Duhawk Open hosted by Loras College, a DIII school that does not give out scholarships.



Barb Kremer practices hurdles in the Graber Center. The Junior has qualified for nationals in the 55m hurdles for DIII indoor.



Barb Kremer warms up alone in the Loras Graber Center. She practices daily at 10 AM and has already left her mark on Loras Track and Field with a year left to go.

I'm back in the swing of things with the blog. I need to stop taking breaks! (Sorry readers, I know I say that a lot. I promise to do better.)

Chelsea and Kyle Engagement

Chelsea and Kyle were nice enough to ask me to take their engagement photos and of course I agreed because we're Duhawks! We went up to Eagle Point Park on the warmest day of the year so far and got some great shots. It's interesting for me to take couples since I am so used to news, its getting easier and easier and is a lot of fun to get to know good people!

Mock Trial Madness

I got an assignment to cover a mock trial competition and I had no idea what to expect. So I walk in the doors and instantly I find myself in a crowd of hundreds of other colleges students dressed up going crazy trying to practice and prepare, and I decide this could be fun!



Professor Neuhaus, the organizer, gives jury instructions to students who volunteered to be jurors.



The whole event revolves around these two boards and this organizer is in charge of telling all 70 teams at the event where their next trial will be.



Loras Junior, Jared Vasilauskas, prepares to defend Drew Walton in the second round of competition.



Unniversity of Missouri at Kansas City students Nick Bose (left), Jacquelyn Hoermann (center), and Brynn Hardy (right) practice before their trial.



Loras takes on Hamlin University in the second round of competition.



Loras defends "Blitz News Network" as they are being sued for liable.



Loras's mock trial team prepares its questioning during a court recess.