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NORTHERN NEWS

T HE CEREMONY took place at the location of the planned residence hall, near South Washington Street and 12th Avenue Southeast. The 144-bed residence hall will house a mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. It will include a variety of suite-style options throughout the facility, including 14 two-bedroom suites, 10 one- bedroom suites and 17 two-bedroom semi-suites. The main floor houses a large lobby/lounge area complete with kitchen space, study space and social space. The first floor has a small conference room that can be used by staff as well as students for small group study sessions. The second and third floor both have smaller public lounges that offer kitchen amenities and a social gathering space. There is a small study room on each of these floors for study sessions. Six small study coves will be scattered throughout the facility. Northern State University held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new residence hall on May 4. Groundbreaking ceremony held for new residence hall

2 bed unit

residence hall coordinator

FIRST FLOOR LOUNGE

4 bed (bunk beds) unit with living

4 bed (bunk beds) unit

COMMON READ BOOK ANNOUNCED FOR 2016-17

THE NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY Common Read Committee chose “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson as the university’s common read for the 2016-17 academic year. Author Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his legal practice to defending the poor and the wrongly condemned. By the time his book published in 2014, Stevenson and attorneys working for the organization he established, Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), had won relief

(by overturning convictions or receiving new trials or sentencing hearings) for 100 death row inmates in Alabama alone. Mr. Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years in solitary confinement on Alabama’s death row for two robbery-murders he did not commit and who was freed in 2015 through the work of Stevenson, will deliver the NSU Common Read Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Johnson Fine Arts Center Theater. Admission is free.

NORTHERN TODAY 7 SPRING 2016