Normal Road closed

Crews will be installing chiller lines beneath parts of Normal Road, leading to its closure.

The street, from Davis Hall north to Lucinda Avenue will be closed through August 1.

Steam outages to take place

To perform maintenance and repairs on high pressure steam lines on campus, the Physical Plant and Heating Plant will conduct the annual steam outage.

West Campus: through noon Friday, May 23. This will include all buildings west of Carroll Avenue, except Stevenson and the Neptune Complex, and various other smaller buildings not served by steam. Domestic and heating hot water will not be available.

East Campus: 9 p.m. Sunday, May 25, or Monday, May 26, through noon Thursday, May 29. This will include all buildings east of Carroll Avenue and the Neptune Complex, except for various other smaller buildings not served by steam. Domestic and heating hot water will not be available.

Address any questions or concerns to Kevin Vines, chief engineer, at 815-753-6090 or via e-mail at [email protected].

Parking deck work begins

Portions of the campus parking deck will be closed through June 15 for maintenance.

During this time, crews will clean, seal and stripe the pavement in the parking deck. At any given time during this period, two levels will be closed while three will remain open for parking.

There is a possibility that the entire parking deck will close on the weekends of June 6 through June 8 and June 13 through June 15 to ensure that striping is completed and dried by the start of summer classes.

Star editor named in top 100 list

Northern Star editor-in-chief John Puterbaugh is one of the top 100 student journalists, as announced by UWIRE Tuesday.

Puterbaugh, a 2008 NIU graduate, oversaw the newspaper’s coverage of the Cole Hall shootings this past February.

The full list includes journalists from 66 college campuses.

Information from the Northern Today was used in this article.