Members of the Northwestern chapter of the Roosevelt Institute painted the Rock to promote the Illinois Youth Town Hall event, which will be held Sunday afternoon at Dyett High School to address violence, unemployment and access to education among young people in the state. The Roosevelt Institute is a network of college student think tanks [...]

The visage of Frances Willard, the 19th century Evanston suffragette who is the namesake of Willard Residential College, greeted students from the Rock Saturday morning. Willard residents also included the Latin words for “Liberty, Chasity, Sobriety” when they painted the Rock at midnight to show off their impressive portrait-drawing skills.

Cast and crew of Lovers and Madmen’s production could not be subdued Thursday night, covering the Rock and a nearby tree to publicize this weekend’s running of the William Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew.The show runs until Saturday with performances 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. tonight at Shanley Pavilion.

The Rock took on a bright spectrum of colors announcing Rainbow Week, a nine-day program put on by the Rainbow Alliance addressing LGBT issues. Members of the group painted the Rock at 10 p.m. Wednesday to make “an overt statement concerning the involvement of LGBT students at Northwestern,” said co-president Will Pearse. Rainbow Week continues [...]

Residents of Shepard Residential College, who call themselves “sheep,” decorated the Rock early Thursday morning with cotton balls in the shape of the hall’s fuzzy mascot. According to Shepard president Trey Herr, the dorm’s homecoming committee planned the display as demonstration of pride for alumni on campus for homecoming this weekend.

A speedy devil raced across the Rock Thursday to promote Demon Dash, Kappa Delta’s fall philanthropy project. The Halloween-themed 5K run to support Prevent Child Abuse America will be held 9 am Saturday at the Lakefill. Tickets are available at the Norris Box Office.

The NU American Sign Language Club painted the Rock Tuesday night. The club advocates for sign language classes to be offered at Northwestern. ASL Club holds weekly Tuesday meetings and is open to all students.

Sophomore members of Gamma Phi Beta painted the Rock early Monday morning. A nearby tree also bore the sorority’s Greek lettering. Gamma Phi Beta member and Medill sophomore Simone Slykhous said the sisters painted the Rock to “get the word out” about their chapter. Gamma Phi Beta had planned to paint the Rock [...]

The Associated Student Government exec board painted the Rock Tuesday night to welcome Morton O. Schapiro to the office of president of the university. “We painted it as part of his inauguration gift being given to him on behalf of the student body,” ASG Director of Publications Claire Lew said in an e-mail.
Schapiro will [...]

The Muslim-cultural Students Association (McSA) painted the Rock Sunday night announcing the launch of Islam Awareness Week. McSA, which works to advance understanding of Islam at Northwestern, will host a number of events this week including fireside discussions, open prayer services and a final conference on Friday at Ryan Auditorium addressing cooperation between [...]

Members of the Chinese International Association (CIA) painted the Rock Wednesday evening to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the People’s Republic of China. The CIA also commemorated China’s Communist Revolution by watching the National Day parade from Tiananmen Square on television.
The exhibition in Beijing celebrates Mao Zedong’s declaration of a Communist victory [...]

Photo courtesy Samantha Brown.

From Weinberg senior Samantha Brown:
Seniors in the Integrated Science Program (called Entering Class 2005, or EC 05) painted the rock to celebrate our last days together, but more importantly to promote science! All over the rock are various science-y things, like a dinosaur, a paramecium, the wave equation, a volcano, a [...]

The Shakespeare-oriented theater group Lovers and Madmen painted the Rock on Tuesday to advertise their upcoming performance of Much Ado About Nothing, and continued painting it today. Although painting the Rock during the day is generally frowned upon as unacceptable behavior as per tradition, the performances will be taking place at the Rock and the [...]

The Northwestern Community Development Corp (NCDC) painted the Rock on Wednesday to advertise their upcoming Arts Fest event. The event is taking place this Sunday, April 26, on both Norris lawns from 12 to 5 p.m.
Although painting was completed on Tuesday night, members of NCDC stayed near the Rock throughout the day, encouraging group members [...]

The Northwestern chapter of AIESEC painted the rock on Friday for their Global Village event. The event takes place this Sunday, April 5, in Parkes Hall at 4 p.m.
From their Web site: “AIESEC at Northwestern University works toward two primary goals: (1) to secure jobs within the Chicago area from a pool of many student [...]