A Trip to DeKalb for NIU Basketball-- Part 3: Lincoln and Douglas Halls

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22

We next went to Village Commons Bookstore right across from West Campus on Lucinda Drive.  This place can cost us a bit of money because of all their NIU stuff for sale, but we managed to get out just as rich as we went in.  Also stocked up there on Northern Stars, the student newspaper.  Always good to be in the know.

So sad to see Lincoln Hall, where I lived freshman year 1969-1970  is closed and has been for several years.  Liz stayed in Douglas Hall sophomore and junior years and that has been torn completely down.  She is not happy about that not am I happy about Lincoln being closed and I'm sure eventually to be torn down.

That is two big dorms closed now.  Each one housed 1000 students back in the day.  There is a new dorm at Northern, right across from the old Lincoln Hall to the north of it.  Student population at NIU was about 24,000 when we attended 1969-1973 and remained around that until a few years ago.  It has now dropped to about 17,000.

Definitely a cause for concern.

Reopen Lincoln!!!  --RoadColn