Elmhurst College News

• Ex-Elmhurst College student found guilty of hate crime (Chicago Chronicle)
  posted on May 16, 2012 at 10:13:00 am
  May 16, 2012 (WHEATON, Ill.) (WLS) -- A 21-year-old Libertyville man has been convicted of a hate crime after carving anti-African American sentiments on a window ledge outside an Elmhurst College ...
• Former Elmhurst College Student Guilty Of Scrawling Racist Graffiti (Chicago Chronicle)
  posted on May 16, 2012 at 08:55:00 am
  WHEATON, Ill. (CBS) -- A former Elmhurst College student has been convicted of a hate crime, for carving racist epithets outside a dorm at the school. Following a one-day bench trial, DuPage ...
• Ex-Elmhurst college basketball player convicted of hate crime (Arlington Heights Daily Herald)
  posted on May 15, 2012 at 08:02:00 am
  A former basketball player at Elmhurst College was convicted of a felony hate crime Tuesday for etching racist sentiments on the home of the school's only African-American dorm supervisor. DuPage County Judge George Bakalis found 21 -year-old Myles Burton of Libertyville guilty after a two-hour bench trail.
• Catholic Group Demands Apology After Dan Savage Speech At Elmhurst College (cbs2chicago)
  posted on May 8, 2012 at 11:52:00 am
  The Catholic League is upset over what it calls "obscene, anti-Catholic rants" made by anti-bullying advocate Dan Savage at Elmhurst College.
• Sports Digest: Reynolds named Elmhurst's Female Athlete of Year (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
  posted on June 28, 2011 at 02:13:16 am
  Megan Reynolds (Marian Catholic) has been named Elmhurst College's Female Athlete of the Year. Reynolds sparkled during her freshman volleyball season with the Blue Jays.
• Sports Notes: Gulf Coast football players move on to college ranks (Naples Daily News)
  posted on June 22, 2011 at 01:50:00 pm
  Gulf Coast High School running back Sebastian Zuluaga, who graduated in June, has agreed to play for Baldwin-Wallace College, a Division III school in the Cleveland area. Two other Sharks also agreed to Division III programs. Defensive back Stephen Ritter will play for Elmhurst College (Ill.), and receiver Andrew Tague committed to Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.
• COLLEGE REPORT: Wargo helps Elmhurst beat defending national champs (The Ottawa Times)
  posted on May 14, 2011 at 05:37:08 am
  For Streator grad Tyler Wargo and Elmhurst College for that matter, it did not get any better than beating Illinois Wesleyan University. "It showed what we could do," said Wargo, a freshman. "Taking two of three from them was
• Marching Illini director leaving UI (The Champaign News-Gazette)
  posted on May 3, 2011 at 05:40:49 pm
  The director of the Marching Illini will leave May 15 to take a new job as chairman of the Department of Music at Elmhurst College. Asssistant Band Director Peter Griffin accepted the job on Saturday, according to Professor Robert Rumbelow, director of UI bands. read more
• Hathaway presents at symposium (The MidWeek)
  posted on May 3, 2011 at 04:40:53 pm
  Samantha Hathaway of Genoa was among 54 Benedictine University students who presented academic research projects at the 2011 Student Scholarship Symposium, sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area at Elmhurst College.
• Elmhurst College drops some tuition rates (Daily Herald)
  posted on April 28, 2011 at 06:59:00 pm
  Tuition rates will drop for adult students enrolled in one of four accelerated-major programs at Elmhurst College, officials said.
• Q&A with Angela Loconte, Morton slap hitter (Berwyn Life)
  posted on April 22, 2011 at 07:38:56 pm
  With former teammate Clare Bukowski now playing softball at Elmhurst College, Morton’s Angela Loconte now has an opportunity to be re-united with her friend.
• Williamsville standout will play wideout after prep career as QB (The State Journal-Register)
  posted on April 20, 2011 at 05:11:57 am
  Josh Gentile, who passed for 1,484 yards and rushed for almost 1,000 more as a Williamsville High School senior last fall, hopes to display his talents in a third category — receiving — for Elmhurst College.
• McHenry area gives Elmhurst plenty of talent (Northwest Herald)
  posted on April 16, 2011 at 05:21:18 am
  Recruiting talent from the McHenry County area has paid dividends this season, and likely in the future, for Elmhurst College baseball coach Joel Southern.
• Incumbents McDermott, Lynch, Hundley victorious in Addison trustee race (Daily Herald)
  posted on April 6, 2011 at 02:08:00 am
  Addison voters re-elected three people to the village board on Tuesday. Incumbents Joseph McDermott, William Lynch and Tom Hundley all won new terms on the board. McDermott, Lynch and Hundley ran together under the Addison United for Action banner. Kathleen Willis, a librarian at Elmhurst College and a current member of the Addison District 4 school board, was the fourth candidate in the race.