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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Women’s Resource Center to host clothing swap today

By Northern Star Staff | October 17, 2012

What’s better than cheap clothes? Free Clothes. The Women’s Resource Center is hosting a clothing swap today in the Holmes Student Center’s Capitol Room. This event is held every semester. It is recommended for students who need business clothes...

Office designed to improve graduation, retention rates

By Brian Singer | October 17, 2012

There’s an office on campus dedicated to making sure students graduate. The Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL), a Vision 2020 initiative, was put into place to help improve graduation and retention rates among students to...

History department to host reception for Hoffman’s new book

By Northern Star Staff | October 17, 2012

A new book was published by Beatrix Hoffman, NIU history department chair, according to a University of Chicago Press article. The book is titled Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930. The book examines the way the...

Ethics training to begin Tuesday for NIU employees

By Northern Star Staff | October 17, 2012

NIU employees will need to complete their ethics training soon, according to a Human Resource Services press release. The online ethics training began at 8 a.m. Tuesday and ends at 5 p.m. on Nov. 14, according to Human Resource Services. Employees include...

More turn themselves in to police on charges related to Coffee Fund

More turn themselves in to police on charges related to Coffee Fund

By Northern Star Staff | October 17, 2012

1:40 p.m. update: NIU Police Sgt. Alan Smith said Susan Zahm and Lawrence Murray have turned themselves in to the NIU Police Department. Zahm is charged with three felonies and one misdemeanor. Lawrence is charged with four felonies and one misdemeanor....

Bethany Hill educates the crowd on the history of transgender people. Hill also spoke about some of her own personal challenges with being a transgender student on NIU's campus

LGBT Resource Center hosts transgender history event Tuesday

By Sierra Lowe | October 16, 2012

A look inside the evolution of transgender identity throughout history was hosted by the LGBT Resource Center on Tuesday. With the Elagabalus to Chaz Bono: Trans People Through History event, attendees were able to hear of prominent transgender people...

Coffee fund investigation leads to arrest warrants for nine current & former NIU employees

Coffee fund investigation leads to arrest warrants for nine current & former NIU employees

By Kelly Bauer & Felix Sarver | October 16, 2012

Arrest warrants for eight current NIU employees and one former employee have been issued in regard to the coffee fund investigation. Robert Albanese, Michael Hall, Lawrence Murray, Susan Zahm, Kenneth Pugh, Keenon Darlinger, Mark Beaird, Joseph Alberti...

NIU police handing out tickets for jaywalkers, crosswalk misuse

By Cierria McPerryman | October 16, 2012

Students who do not obey traffic signals at on-campus crosswalks can be ticketed. The NIU police have been taking measures to protect students at crosswalks and prevent accidents. They have been keeping watch of crosswalks, like those located at Annie...

Blotter 10/14 – 10/15

By Northern Star Staff | October 16, 2012

The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Sunday At 2...

Arrest warrants issued for nine former, current NIU employees in “Coffee Fund” case

By Kelly Bauer & Felix Sarver | October 16, 2012

Arrest warrants for nine NIU employees, or former employees, have been issued in regard to the coffee fund investigation, according to a news release from the office of Clay Campbell, DeKalb County state's attorney. Robert Albanese, Michael Hall, Lawrence...

The Latino American Association invited 22-year-old Daniel Hernandez Jr. to speak about his struggles and successes as a Latino and gay man. Hernandez spoke in the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium on Monday.

Speaker opens up on identity

By Erin Kolb | October 16, 2012

Daniel Hernandez Jr. decided he wanted to help people when he was 5. When he was just a boy, he split his head open and had to go to the hospital. After getting five stitches, he had the chance to shadow a doctor for about a half an hour. This sparked...

Guest professor to discuss election Thursday as part of Presidential Speaker Series

By Northern Star Staff | October 15, 2012

The next entry in NIU’s 2012 Presidential Speaker Series will begin Thursday. Emory University’s Alan Abramowitz will give a presentation titled Predicting the 2012 President Election at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Holmes Student Center’s Sky Room. According...

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