January 3, 2007

WIU Employees Return Jan. 3; Classes Begin Jan. 16

MACOMB, IL - - Western Illinois University reopened today (Jan. 3) after a nine-day holiday and administrative break, with administrative and civil service personnel returning to work.

During the morning of Friday, Jan. 5, there is a planned outage of many of Western�s servers, mainframe (MVS), storage area network (SAN) and backup devises. MVS, STARS, web server, e-mail, WebCT Vista and server home directory access will be unavailable that morning. MVS and STARS should be restored by 10 a.m., with other serves restored by noon. Internet access will be available throughout the outage.

Students may move back to residence halls beginning at noon Sunday, Jan. 14.

The University will be closed Monday, Jan. 15 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and Spring 2007 classes will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16.

The University Union�s break schedule is listed below. The schedule for the Donald S. Spencer Student Recreation Center is available at www.student.services.wiu.edu/crec.

Monday-Friday, Jan. 8-12
Union Bookstore and Student Assistance and Parent Service Center (University Union) are open from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 13
Union Bookstore is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 14
Residence halls open at noon for student move-in
Union Bookstore is open 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 15
University closed, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Union Bookstore is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Student Assistance and Parent Service Center (University Union) is open noon-4 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 16
Classes begin at 8 a.m.

Other dates to remember during Spring semester include:

Monday, Feb. 12
University Closed, Lincoln�s Birthday

Saturday, March 10
Residence halls close at 10 a.m. for spring break

Monday-Friday, March 12-16
Spring Break

Sunday, March 17
Residence halls reopen at noon

Monday-Friday, May 7-11
Final exams

Friday-Saturday, May 11-12
Commencement Weekend in Macomb

Sunday, May 13
Commencement in the Quad Cities


University Union Winter Break Schedule

Various offices may be closed for the lunch hour - 12:00 pm -1:00 pm

Wednesday, Jan. 3

General Building (8:00 am � 4:30 pm)

Thursday, Jan.4

General Building (8:00 am � 9:00 pm)

Friday, Jan.5

General Building (8:00 am � 4:30 pm)

Wednesday-Friday, Jan. 3 - 5

Union Service Center (8:00 am - 4:00 pm)

Offices (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Bookstore (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)
Bowling/Billiards (Closed)

Burger King (8:00 am - 4:00 pm)

Copy Center (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Student Assistance & Parent Service Center (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Saturday, Jan. 6

General Building (7 am � 12:30 am)

Sunday, Jan. 7

General Building (Closed)

Monday-Thurdsay, Jan. 8-11

General Building (8:00 am � 4:30 pm)

Friday, Jan. 12

General Building (8:00 am � 8 pm)

Monday-Friday, Jan. 8-12

Union Service Center (8:00 am - 4:00 pm)

Offices (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Bookstore (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Bowling/Billiards (Closed)

Burger King (8:00 am - 4:00 pm)

Copy Center (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Student Assistance & Parent Service Center (8:00 am - 4:30 pm)

Saturday, Jan. 13

General Building (7 am � 12:30 am

Union Service Center (8:00 am � 8:00 pm)

Bookstore (10:00 am � 5:00 pm

Burger King (7:00 am � 10:00 pm

All Other Areas (Closed

Sunday, Jan. 14

General Building (8:00 am � 11:00 pm)

Union Service Center (10:30 am � 6:00 pm)

Bookstore (10:00 am � 8:00 pm)

Burger King (8:00 am � 10:00 pm)

All Other Areas (Closed)

Monday, Jan. 15

General Building (10:00 am � 5:00 pm)

Union Service Center (Closed)

Bookstore (10:00 am � 5:00 pm)

Burger King (10:00 am � 5:00 pm)

Student Assistance & Parent Service Center (12:00 pm � 4:00 pm)

All Other Areas (Closed)

Tuesday, Jan. 16

Resume regular semester hours




Copy By: Bonnie Barker, University Relations
Phone: (309) 298-1993 * Fax: (309) 298-1606