The IIT community will celebrate Mardi Gras in July at the annual university picnic hosted by President Lew Collens . The Mardi Gras festivities will include food with a Cajun flavor, door prizes, volleyball competition and other games. Only registered guests will be admitted to the picnic, and guests must be registered prior to July 18 to be eligible for raffle drawings. Among the eight team women's division is a team formed by members of IIT's women's basketball team, the Lady Hawks. This year, professional players in the men's 10 team division will include Elton Brand and Ron Artest of the Chicago Bulls, Juwan Howard of the Washington Wizards, Glen Robinson of the Milwaukee Bucks, Antoine Walker of the Boston Celtics, and Michael Finley of the Dallas Mavericks.
Admission is free and concessions are available.
Please note that in order to accommodate the games, Keating Hall will close at 5 p.m. on Fridays, and 4 p.m. on weekends during the tournament. Keating Hall will also close at 4 p.m. on Thursday, July 27, August 3 and August 10. The two-part report is the Microsoft Excel template, which does totaling for the user. This can be used by anyone with Microsoft Excel. The second part is an Excel spreadsheet which benefits users of Palm computer, and have that data automatically passed to the Microsoft Excel template.