NIU’s Department of Student Involvement and Leadership Development is using random compliance checks to ensure student organizations are following regulations that limit the size of off-campus parties, alcohol consumption and the length of parties, among other things. The random compliance checks started this semester.
Freezing rain and the overcast from which it arrived will clear up by the end of the week.DeKalb is experiencing the last remnants of a weak 10-mile wide storm system, said NIU meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste. The end-of-the week break from the rain may...
Northern Lights are looking for ambassadors for the 2015-16 academic year.Applications for the position are open to undergraduates. Ambassadors work with other students, faculty and staff to "assist with retention, engaged learning, fund development,...
After a month-long recovery from a shooting, an alumnus resumed his job Monday morning at a Waco, Texas, TV station, where his coworkers had planned a surprise.“All of my coworkers … during a commercial break, they all pulled out these yellow shirts...
Blake Grigsby, junior digital cinema major at DePaul University, brightened students’ day during finals week by asking random passersby to slow dance in the Holmes Student Center.Grigsby, who runs a YouTube channel, said that although he has help from...
An NIU meteorology alumnus has given his first weather report in more than a month for a Waco, Texas, TV station after being shot in December. Patrick Crawford, who was shot Dec. 17 outside KCEN-TV, resumed his job Monday as morning meteorologist, according...
NIU's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women is looking for nominations for its 2015 faculty and staff awards.The Wilma D. Stricklin Award for the Enhancement of the Campus Climate for Women is awarded to the person who improves NIU's campus climate...
NIU will hold two town hall-style meetings so attendees may learn about NIU's reprioritization and "key strategic initiatives" to improve recruitment and retention, according to a Tuesday announcement.NIU President Doug Baker and Provost Lisa Freeman...
Judge Harry Leinenweber, in a 26-page decision, has allowed for the civil rights lawsuit of Don Grady, former NIU Police chief, to proceed.Grady attorney Michael Fox said this decision allows him to acquire more information to move the case forward, including...
All weekA school supply drive will be held in the Student Involvement and Leadership Development Office, Campus Life Building, Room 150. Supplies will be gathered until Friday and donated to the Barb Food Mart, 1515 S. Fourth St., which will distribute...
An NIU professor will incorporate his experience living in Paris during the Charlie Hebdo attacks into his teaching next school year.Associate history professor Brian Sandberg was living in Paris only a few hundred meters away from where the Jan. 7 Charlie...
The following was taken directly from the NIU Police Department. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The NIU Police Department provides police reports online at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety.Wednesday1. At 1:15...
