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        5 Things to Know Today: Jan. 15, 2014

        Redshirt senior quarterback Jordan Lynch carries the ball against Purdue Sep. 28 in West Lafayette, Ind. Lynch threw for 2,892 yards and 24 touchdowns and rushed for 1,920 yards and 23 touchdowns in his Heisman campaign.

        Redshirt senior quarterback Jordan Lynch carries the ball against Purdue Sep. 28 in West Lafayette, Ind. Lynch threw for 2,892 yards and 24 touchdowns and rushed for 1,920 yards and 23 touchdowns in his Heisman campaign.

        By Northern Star Staff
        January 15, 2015

        1. Jordan Lynch signs with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.


        2. Obama calls upon Congress, states and cities to create paid leave measures for millions of workers.


        3. Free climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson complete a 19-day free climb of the 3,000-foot Dawn Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.


        4. DeKalb residents still concerned about business-friendliness of inspection ordinance.


        5. Five men are released from Guantanamo and resettled in Estonia and Oman.

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        AMC Market Square 10 sits located at 2160 Sycamore Road. The theater offers a discount to students who show their OneCards and matinee pricing every day before 4 p.m. (Edison Miller | Northern Star)

        NIU student discount at DeKalb AMC

        2
        The Holmes Student Center towers over MLK Commons. NIU union members bargained for higher wages on Thursday in the Lincoln Room of the Holmes Student Center. (Photo courtesy of Dinesh Medidi)

        NIU union calls for $3,500 raise amid negotiations

        3
        Former NIU baseball Head Coach Walt Owens.

        Remembering Walt Owens: Coach, teacher, mentor

        4
        Nicole Jewula (right), a sophomore marketing major, and Treyvon Crigler, a sophomore public health administrations major, browse through NIU shirts on Thursday at the Huskie Closet in the Chick Evans Field House. The Huskie Closet is open on Monday from noon to 1 p.m. and Wednesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

        Huskie Closet provides clothes for students in need

        5
        Mila (left) and her father Mike Meegan, both Ottawa residents, solder a connection for a “blinkie” at the Build-a-Blinkie station on Saturday at STEM Fest inside of the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center. A “blinkie” is a small board cut into a design with flashing LEDs, supplied by the 501(c)3 organization Build-a-Blinkie. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

        Gallery: STEM Fest welcomes all ages with over 100 exhibits

         

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