Students, faculty, community members and staff have come together in a “Hoops for HOPE” basketball match to help raise money for the charity, HOPE of East Central Illinois against Domestic Violence. People who attended needed to donate an item for admission. “Hoops for HOPE,” an annual event at EIU, is also in celebration of Homecoming 2009.

Hooping and HOPEing / by Sam Sottosanto from DEN Online on Vimeo.

On the evening of Oct. 19, a knock came at my parents’ door.

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