Hope everyone is having a fantastic summer and enjoying the break to the fullest!
Although it is summer and most people are on a break, there are still a number of students that are still on IIT campus, either working, taking a class, doing some sort of enlightening research, or simply sticking around and exploring the city of Chicago.
If you are one of these people staying on campus, you might have noticed a rather amazing sight...there's an elephant on campus!!! Well not a real elephant anyway...I know cause I tried giving it peanuts from the Admission Office and it didn't even flinch...hey, got to check right? You never know! Nevertheless, its magnificence is quite overwhelming.
Anyways, this cool looking elephant's name is Nomkhubulwane, and she's one of the elephants from the Human Elephant Foundation, an organization that helps create awareness in people of the world we live in.
Things like sustainability and keeping an ecological balance in the world are some of the organization's main objectives. The elephants, like the one we have standing in front of Crown Hall, are made out of recycled material. The Human Elephant Foundation hopes that these elephants will inspire and cause people to become more involved with protecting the environment we live in and create a better tomorrow. More information is given through the organization's main website:
http://www.humanelephant.org/
If you stop by campus, please do say hi to Nomkhubulwane and try to give her some peanuts, I'm sure she'll love it!