By MaryJo Kratochvil and Jacqueline Evans
| September 29, 2010
After all of the campaigning and voting the results are in for the 2010 Student Association Senate elections. There were over 1,043 votes in total, and SA election commissioner Patrick Frierson said he believes it's more than they had last year. "We had...
Deciding on a major might come easy to some and be nerve-racking for others. Some students took advantage of the sixth annual Exploring Majors Fair on Wednesday and learned more information on all the majors and minors that NIU has to offer. "I enjoyed...
Power outage hit two residence halls Wednesday. Grant North’s power was reported to be out, said Dan Lingafelter on call Hall Director of Grant Towers. “Grant North has a power outage and we have no idea why,” Lingafelter said. “They been working...
Rewards offered on crime tip lines have created a helping hand to DeKalb area law enforcement. As of 2009, police tip lines have helped the DeKalb County Sheriffs Department make 11 arrests, solve nine cases and help recover $900 in stolen property and...
A student suffered superficial injuries during a battery Wednesday night on Ridge Drive, according to NIU Sgt. Alan Smith.The alleged offender is in custody after she was found trying to get into one of the residence halls.Smith said that the suspect...
DeKALB | Michael Sunderman, freshman biology major, lost his room key on the circle left Huskie bus. "I called the Huskie Line immediately after I got off the bus," Sunderman said. "The operator at the Huskie Line then found out exactly which bus I...
By MaryJo Kratochvil and Lauren Stott
| September 29, 2010
University officials have revealed another facet of campus safety this semester. The NIU Police Department and Media Relations developed a new system of advising the NIU community of possibly harmful situations. The system is a counterpart to the text...
Residence hall students discussed problems between roommates and within the community Tuesday night. Housing and Dining hosted Conflict Management/Roommate Mediation program in the Lincoln Commons Room to help students know how to handle mediation situations....
NIU's Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) chapter will host Clay Kohl from Abbott Labs in a speaking event on the benefits of virtualization. "Virtualization is a process of consolidating multiple servers into one server in order...
By Jacqueline Evans and MaryJo Kratochvil
| September 28, 2010
Student Association elections started off smoothly Tuesday and will continue today. At the DuSable location for the polls, Pat Lundardon was in charge of handing out the ballots. Lundardon said the election so far was going well. "We've done really well...
The cold September night temperatures dropped down into the 40s, so low that most people would be begging for their warm beds, but not the cadets of NIU's ROTC. Over 60 NIU ROTC cadets took off in a Chinook helicopter Friday afternoon from the DeKalb...
The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. MONDAY At 11:53 a.m.,...
