By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| November 30, 2023
DeKALB – Smoke weed everyday, or whatever Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg said. Excelleaf, DeKalb’s first recreational cannabis dispensary, will be soon hosting its upcoming grand opening.
Excelleaf, 305 E. Locust St., opens its doors for its grand opening...
DeKALB – NIU requested $116.4 million in state funding at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees on Nov. 9.
This comes after NIU’s CFO George Middlemist announced a multi-year budget plan to reduce NIU’s $32 million deficit in early November.
The...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| November 26, 2023
DeKALB – “Warmer” and “drier” are adjectives better suited to the summer season, but they will now also apply to the coming winter.
In a recent three month outlook, an El Nino winter has been predicted in Illinois with a higher probability...
DeKALB – Men, it’s time to put away your socks and release your joysticks – No Nut November is upon us.
No Nut November is a challenge in which participants attempt to refrain from orgasming during November. The challenge started as a parody...
DeKALB – NIU has eaten around 53,000 pounds of chicken tenders, 116,000 pounds of french fries last year.
Daniel Koenen, executive director for Campus Dining Services, took this amount from the 2022-2023 dining hall orders. Koenen said there are...
Editor's Note: This piece was updated to reflect that Hensley stated that he issued 3 warnings, not 33.
DeKALB – Students filled the back rows of Friday’s SGA meeting, awaiting the approval of a statement addressing SGA’s position on the ongoing...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| November 3, 2023
DeKALB – NIU is making plans to cut its $32 million deficit in half by the end of fiscal year 2025.
At Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, George Middlemist, vice president and chief financial officer, and Laurie Elish-Piper, interim executive...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| October 29, 2023
DeKALB – Green, soul exempt eyes, diseased and rotting skin, distressed and knotted hair and covered in blood and scabs is not what Margot Robbie looked like in the “Barbie” movie. Actually, far from it.
Robbie would look that terrifying if she...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| October 25, 2023
Editor’s note: This article does not claim that ghosts are real.
Who you gonna call when there’s something strange in our neighborhood? Local residents share their ghostly stories, showing that in DeKalb, things that go “bump in the night”...
DeKALB – Sycamore’s 62nd annual Pumpkin Festival will be taking over downtown Sycamore in the upcoming week.
The Pumpkin Festival will run from Wednesday through Sunday with events scheduled throughout the week.
The festival will begin at 5...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| October 11, 2023
DeKALB – An update of the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act’s utilization at NIU was discussed at Wednesday’s University Council meeting.
MENTAL HEALTH EARLY ACTION ON CAMPUS ACT UPDATE
The Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act is...
DeKALB – NIU has proposed a sustainability plan to do its part in the efforts to slow the effects of climate change.
In 2022, NIU President Lisa Freeman signed the Second Nature President’s Climate Leadership Carbon Commitment. The commitment...
