Senior Matt Rillie was part of the team that brought the nation’s largest LGBT college conference to Illinois State.
LGBT student leader takes pride in Illinois State

Senior Matt Rillie was part of the team that brought the nation’s largest LGBT college conference to Illinois State.
Thousands of students from across the Midwest will gather in Bloomington-Normal for the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference (MBLGTACC) from Feb. 13 to 15.
Festival ISU is the day when many registered students organizations (RSOs) make their pitch to new members for the first time. This year’s Festival ISU was a huge success.
Think back to your freshman year at Illinois State University. Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give your freshman self?
Six years ago, Illinois State sophomore Alex Shelton was in a coma. Doctors told his parents he only had a 10 percent chance of living after suffering a traumatic brain injury in an accident.
How do you boil down years and years of hard work into a single word? That’s the challenge we posed to Illinois State’s spring graduates at last weekend’s commencement.
It’s Finals Week at Illinois State, but at least 50 students are making time to travel to hard-hit Washington, Illinois, to help the community with tornado damage cleanup.
Around 370 student organizations, local businesses, campus units, and community groups made their pitch to students at Festival ISU on the Quad.