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De-Stress Days

Stressed with finals? Come check out the De-Stress Days activities in Maucker Union and Rod Library! May 1-5 Rod Library and Maucker Union will be holding activities to help you take a break from studying and to de-stress.  To begin the week, during May 1-3 Student Wellness Services will have de-stress day activities in Mauck Union including yoga, rock painting, slime, and lemonade! To continue destressing, May 3-5 Rod Library will have activities including Legos, a graffiti wall, coloring pages, and P.E.…
Trevor Penning

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Jim and Bonnie Raasch

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Oksana Grybovych Hafermann

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UNI practice carillon

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