DeKALB – Over 100 protesters gathered on Wednesday at NIU’s Sunken Garden next to the Founders Memorial Library to show their support for international students, faculty and staff following the revocation of at least five international student visas...
DeKALB - The NIU Naperville campus will lease a space in their building to the Illinois Health & Hospital Association (IHA). The Naperville campus is located at 1120 E. Diehl Road.
The lease agreement signed by the IHA and the NIU Board of Trustees...
NIU hosted a basketball tournament for juvenile youth on campus March 26 as part of an initiative held by the NIU College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education.
The basketball tournament consisted of five competing teams...
DeKalb - Human Resource Services is relocating from the Human Resources Building to 102 Lowden Hall, across from Altgeld Hall.
The move, which will take place on May 9, is meant to reflect their “ongoing commitment to enhancing service accessibility...
DeKALB - Every Tuesday and Thursday morning a group of students gather in an Anderson Hall gymnasium to practice the ancient tradition of Tai Chi. Now, that group hopes to share what they’ve learned with the NIU community.
The students are in a...
DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) approved its annual funding budget for student organizations and passed several other bills and resolutions at Friday’s meeting.
RESOLUTION TO APPROVE SGA ANNUAL FUNDING BUDGET FOR ORGANIZATIONS
The...
DeKALB – In Fall 2024 NIU had 3,416 students whose county of origin is Cook County.
The majority of instate students come from Cook, with the next highest coming from Kane county with 1,586 students and DuPage with 1,537 students.
The...
By Emily Beebe, Assistant Opinion Editor
| April 17, 2025
DeKALB – The information in this report is compiled from the NIU Police Department’s Daily Crime Log.
Any case defined as “unfounded” was not included in this list. Any case “closed by exception” is closed due to circumstances outside of...
DeKALB – In the year 2000, the world was using pagers, VHS tapes and phone books. The internet was slowly starting to become more common and a new era of space exploration was underway.
NIU and Northern Star relics left behind in a time capsule in...
DeKALB – Gaming is used as a space to displace the labor of leveling up onto chinese and asian citizens, furthering racial stereotypes, according to a Northwestern professor who spoke at NIU on Monday.
The Asian American Resource Certificates Program...
The Northern Star’s annual Treasure Hunt has officially come to a close.
From April 7 through 11, clues hinting at the Northern Star paperweight’s location were revealed to point students toward the right spot on the treasure hunt.
Early Friday...
DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) confirmed Nathan Gonzalez as Speaker of the Senate for the 57th session at its meeting Friday.
RESOLUTION TO CONFIRM SPEAKER OF THE SENATE FOR 57TH SESSION
The SGA passed a resolution to confirm...
