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NIU officials decide to renovate murder site
05/09/2008 08:08:47
By The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD - The head of Northern Illinois University wants to preserve a building where five students were killed and construct a new lecture hall nearby. NIU President John Peters says he has decided on a plan to renovate Cole Hall, where the shootings took place on Valentine's Day. The building's facade will be updated, and the auditorium in which the students were killed will no longer be a classroom. To make up for the lost space, a new 400-seat auditorium would be built nearby. His plan would cost about $7.7 million. Peters says the decision was made after he and campus leaders reviewed a survey of campus opinion. NIU officials believe the project could be finished by 2010 if the state agrees to pay for it this year.
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