We stand 13,000 strong. We live in a town where the norm is 6,000 in the summer and at Christmas and 19,000 the rest of the year. WALMART is where you to go buy everything from tires to pizza. Subway, Subway and Subway. $5 Pizzas when the bars close and $2 HOT DOGS. Cafeteria Brunch on the weekends tastes good to everyone, even the off-campus students eat it! DAVID LETTERMAN called ADAMS STREET one of the TOP PARTY STREETS IN AMERCA. Take a walk down Adams any night of the week, find a party, everyone is welcome, bring your friends. Murray St. is a close 2nd and rumor has it, Stadium is catching up with the rest. The Annual WHEELER BLOCK PARTY! It needs to be at least 45 degrees so we can party outside again. ISS. Tailgaiting so hard that we never make it to the games-WIN OR LOSE, WE’LL STILL BOOZE! OAR, Trippin Billies, 7th Heaven, Terri Clark, Colin Mocherie. Looking in the WESTERN COURIER on Wednesdays to get a list of the Weekly Drink Specials at the Bars: including $1 You Call It!, Quarter Drafts, $1.50 Pitchers, the occasional Quarter Vodka or Captain Nights. The ever lasting, never talked about, silent rivalry between the CHICAGOANS and the SUNBURBANITES… GREEK LIFE. Beer Bongs at 4 a.m. in the middle of Charles. THROWING EMPTY KEGS DOWN MURRAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Law Enforcement Majors and everyone else. One of the Top LEJA Schools in the country! PLAYING B-A-G-S for hours (literally, hours) on end! Frisbee Golf Course on campus. Celebrating anything and everything with a keg of KEYSTONE (Ground Hog’s Day, Your friend getting his Driver’s License back after losing it for a year due to a fake ID at the bars, being Single on VALENTINES DAY). Where else can you play drinking games with your TA’s at the bars??? DD doesn’t always mean “Designated Driver”. Taking a snow day when its 80 degrees outside, just because you “feel like it”. Sitting in the library, admiring the strange plants that surround you, all while you should be studying. Burger King, Sbarro’s, Sub Connection, “We Proudly Brew Starbucks”. There is only a line at Hardees after the bars close. Everyone has BARRYS phone number (309.833.1700) in their cell phones (or they know it by heart) and are well aware of the blacklist… Grocery Shopping at the C Store because A) your parents pay for it or B) Wal*Mart is just too far away and you're just THAT lazy… Everyone knows that one of the most social places on campus is in the front of your dorm where the smokers will sit for hours, waiting for the drunks to come home from the bars in a Barry’s Mini-Van. Higgins Hall and it’s infamous INTRUDER. “Keying” yourself up to your floor in some of the dorms. We are the LEATHERNECKS and we LOVE DON PATTERSON! (Admit it, if you live off-campus, you miss getting phone calls from him, reminding YOU to attend the Leatherneck Football game, THIS Saturday)… Are you on FACEBOOK? AIM—You’re an addict, I know, we all are... Rocky the Bulldog. Diamond Dave’s, the Red Ox, Chandlers, Aurelios, Magnolias, Rockys-Macomb’s Finest. THE SQUARE (for the shopping obviously-no, just kidding, for the bars)! We have said GOODBYE to the LINK and the TOP (bittersweet for most)... however, we have said HELLO to the FORUM-word on the street is that it is one of the largest college bars in the country!! but then there's always TWO DOGS for the quarter beers during the week and the PACE for the beer garden, the RITZ for happy hour and fish bowls and PARKSIDE for karaoke, BOOTLEGGERS for the martinis, the CAFÉ and DOWNSTAIRS for the Quaaludes and the DOG POUND for finals week. Cubs Fans vs. Sox Fans vs. Cardinals Fans; Bear Fans vs. Rams Fans (and sometimes the occassional Packers Fans-obviously a confused Chicagoan)… The melting pot of M U S I C you hear while walking around campus on a busy night… HAPPY HOUR IS OUR FAVORITE HOUR!!! Our weekends start on WEDNESDAY… the occasional movie nights with your closest friends… Oh, you hate Q Lot too? University Parking Tickets. The sometimes LONG WALK home from the BARS. MACOMB is the #1 distributor of KEYSTONE in the country and a 30 pack is as cheap as $11.99 (sometimes with a $5.00 mail-in rebate), it still tastes good for its CHUGABILITY and has its own group on facebook. Pierce Liquors. CO-OL (Corbin, Olson)… Linc-Wash and their “super-singles”… New Hall (when are they going to name that dorm?!). Higgins and Thompson-tallest buildings on campus. North Quad (Bay-Henn, Tanner, Wetzel) and S O B E R H I L L. Beer Pong Tournaments and playing Flippy Cup at the bars. MAXIM MAGAZINE dubbed WIU as the BEST KEPT SECRET IN ILLINOIS! The Annual (and infamous) AGR SMOKING HOG PARTY. HOMECOMING WEEK. “Go West Transit” by day, the “Drunk Bus” by night. The VCR House. The Peanut Butter and Jelly House. The Friends we make and the Pictures we take. The lives we lead and the Pride we bleed. We are the LEATHERNECKS of WESTERN ILLINOIS. We come from near and far to live in MACOMB but its our friends and the atmosphere that make Western what we call HOME. PURPLE AND GOLD are the COLORS and we wear them proud, We are WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY-SING IT LOUD. WIU Home Page Link: http://www.wiu.edu If you want to see some pictures/videos of some WIU students and what it really is like on the weekends click the link below!!!: www.rhamilto1.neptune.com If anyone has pictures/links to pictures they would like to add, send them to me (info found in the "contact" section at the top of the page) If there is anything I am forgetting, or anything you would like to see on this page, send those to me as well! Sample Heading 4