Campus Lake

Faner Hall

Cardboard Boat Regatta at SIU 2025. Some boats had problems right at the start on Campus Lake.

Cardboard Boat Regatta at SIU 2025.

Cardboard Boat Regatta 2025. Crossing the finish line.

Cardboard Boat Regatta at SIU 2025. The Batmobile got off to a slow start.

SIU Cardboard Boat Regatta 2025. Who knows what these folks were thinking? Hard to believe that anyone thought this would float.

Video from the 2025 SIU Cardboard Boat Regatta

CARDBOARD BOAT REGATTA 2026!!!!!!

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The $6,000,000 Tedrick Welcome Center at SIU. Remember where McAndrews Stadium used to be? That's where it's being built, with money donated by a couple of graduates who stayed in the area. Money well spent? We'll see.

The backside of Woody Hall, now home to the SIU Alumni Association.

Pullman Clocktower as viewed from the Kumakura Japanese Garden behind the north end of Faner Hall.

Paddleboat on Campus Lake during the Homecoming game.

A small crowd waiting for Mary Lou's to open on Homecoming Saturday. It's much as you remember it, only It's moved one door down.

Entryway to The Communications Building

Mae Smith dormitory at sunrise this morning.

The new Fountain on Campus Lake at night.

Faner Hall Morning Light

The new fountain recently installed at the Campus Lake, directly across from the Boat House and right in front of Thompson Point.

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After working hard for years to end the tradition of celebrating Halloween on the Strip at SIU, the school, the city, and the alumni are working hard to resurrect it. Remember when they used to shut the University down and send students home during Halloween in an effort to stop the partying?

Anybody remember this retro futuristic installation on the second floor of the Student Center, just outside the theater? The solar panels revolved. What was it for? What was it called?

Bailey Hall at Thompson Point. Student Housing with a waterfront view.

Television coverage of the Greek Row Demolition that began yesterday. SIU Carbondale hosts Old Greek Row demolition party share.google/PTEUVQgtQKGC...

The Pulliam Hall Clocktower, the way to say Southern Illinois University without uttering the words.

The escalators and staircase at the south end of the Student Center

Built originally as a women's residence hall in 1953, Woody Hall was converted to office use in 1968. In 2013, a new Student Services building opened where the old parking deck across from the old stadium used to be. So, a lot of what used to bring you to Woody takes place somewhere else.

It's not an uncommon sight around Campus, scattered electric scooters.

Boat House on Campus Lake behind the Ralph E. Becker Pavilion, where you can rent paddle boats and canoes.

The Big Chill replaced the Dairy Queen on the Strip. Multiple DQ'S across Illinois were forced to give up their franchise when Dairy Queen corporate demanded changes their owners didn't agree to.

Faner Hall, primarily housing the College of Liberal Arts, was built in 1974. It's 278,000 square feet of Brutalist architecture and measures 914 feet long.

Saluki Village is the proposed replacement for Greek Row. The mixed use housing would include 898 new beds, a community building, and 4 to 5 houses for special interest housing. Target opening August 2027.

SIU College of Business and Analytics Rehn Hall. Starting with bookkeeping classes in 1894, the business school came into its own in 1957. Rehn Hall was dedicated in 1983.

2025 Cardboard Boat Regatta at SIU. This year was the 50th Anniversary. Here you see entrants paddling in front of Thompson Point. Good times on the Campus Lake.

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The Buckminster Fuller Dome Home is celebrating his birthday with a block party.

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Wheeler Hall. Home to the SIU School of Medicine offices. Built in 1904, it's the 3rd structure built on Campus. It was also the first stand-alone library on Campus, known for decades as Wheeler Library.

Saluki Formula Racing? Walking around campus not long ago, I noticed an open door, and inside, they were working on this. I had no idea.

The Allyn Building on the Quad at SIU is home to the Art Education & Art History departments.

Thompson Point viewed from across Campus Lake, where the beach used to be.

Another successful deer sighting in Thompson Woods, behind the Student Center. This was one of four deer lounging about on Campus early one morning recently.

Pulliam Hall viewed through Stonehenge at SIU.

Faner Hall, where it meets the Student Center on the Campus at SIU Carbondale.