Members of the Secular Humanists for Inquiry & Freethought brought the Darwin fish to the Rock Thursday. SHIFT is a newly founded student group that advocates “religious freedom and freedom from religion.”

Cast and crew of the Purple Crayon Players’ fall play Holes painted the Rock midnight Wednesday. The adaptation of Louis Sachar’s well-known novel runs Thursday through Saturday at the Shanley Pavilion. Tickets are $5.

Members of Amnesty International’s Northwestern (AINU) chapter painted the Rock for Stop Violence Against Women Week, which runs Monday through Friday. AINU will celebrate Stop Violence Against Women Week with programs including a viewing of a documentary addressing international sex trade and a discussion by women’s rights activist Ahmed Ghasmery on Friday at Norris.

Members of the Taiwanese American Students Club painted the Rock at midnight Thursday morning to advertise their upcoming event. Karaoke Night: Taipei Drift will be held at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Norris Louis Room.

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Members of the University Lutheran Church painted the Rock at 10:30 Wednesday night. In its message, ULC invited students to its Sunday morning worship services at 2204 Orrington Ave.

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A bright white sun rose on the Rock’s black sky Wednesday morning to shine on the Night in Manila Cultural Show hosted by Kaibigan, a Filipino student organization. The Multicultural Student Affairs event takes place at the Ryan Family Auditorium at Tech on Sunday at 3 p.m.

Red and green hot air balloons floated to a baby blue the sky on the Rock in celebration of McCormick senior JJ Cheo’s 23rd birthday Thursday. Friends of JJ included the uplifting message “The sky is the limit.”
JJ shares his birthday with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jim Henson.
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Cast and crew members of the Web series (Un)Dead Seriously painted the Rock early Tuesday morning with haunting messages from the “living” to promote their online “zombicomedocumentary.” With splatters of red dye, the crew warned students to run for their lives on the first day of classes and brought awareness to the concerns of zombies [...]

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Wildcat Welcome staff members painted the Rock Monday night with a greeting for new students. The message coincided with Tuesday’s move-in activities and the beginning of Wildcat Welcome week. The staff of peer coordinators, peer advisers and members of a board of directors work to acclimate incoming students to their new [...]

The new pledge class of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) painted the Rock on Wednesday night. After the painting, the new pledge dads were revealed to the new pledges.

Lovers & Madmen will stage an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s comedy, Pericles.

Students protest the American prison system Monday at the Rock. Photo by Alex Campbell / North by Northwestern.
On Monday, metal bars encircled the Rock in a protest of the American prison system, while a handful students slept nearby.
During the protest, dubbed “Starving the Prison Industrial Complex,” fifteen people fasted and camped out by the [...]

In which Cinco de Mayo, zebrafish and dandelions tickle our noses.

And let’s stop ruining the Rock with runny paint.