DEKALB | The Student Association and the Campus Activity Board held their debate Tuesday night at the Altgeld Hall Ballroom, where fewer than 50 students were in attendance. The candidates answered questions from a panel. The main points of contention...

After allegations that Dion Smith, Campus Activities Board president and Student Association senator, is involved in a conflict of interest, Smith is fighting back. In a column published Monday, a Northern Star opinion columnist maligned Smith. Smith's...

A seven-part lecture series addressing the many aspects of climate change will begin Thursday and run through the end of the semester. The series was set up by the NIU geography department with the help of David Goldblum, assistant professor of geography,...

Students who are part of the Delta Psi Alpha business fraternity are upset because the Student Association reportedly refuses to recognize them. Students are saying the reasons the fraternity is not being recognized is lack of organization on the part...

Leggings, scrunch socks and big hair are, like, totally in at the Campus Recreation Center in March and April. Activity rooms at the Rec will be decorated 1980s style for the ‘80s Flashback Fitness Challenge. Participants in the challenge can earn one...

Campus Activities Board candidates: President Dion Smith Year: senior Major: political science 1.) What are your goals for CAB? "My goals are to reach out to the non-traditional students, enhance weekend programming and make NIU campus activities fun...

Treasurer Candidate Ricky Garcia Year: junior Major: finance 1. Goals for the Student Association: - Work with student organizations to promote fiscal responsibility and work with organizations that have fallen into deficit - Provide students with a more...

DeKALB | The race for NIU's next liberal arts and sciences dean is on, and the finalists include a communication professor, a statistician, a mathematician and an anthropologist. The first of four public forums took place Monday for faculty and staff...

DeKALB | Marta Burnett works about 20 hours a week at the Huskie Telefund. The sophomore public health major makes about $350 a month at her job and would normally qualify for $1,350 a year in work-study awards. Unfortunately for Burnett, the Huskie Telefund...

DeKALB | This Spring Break, some NIU students travelled on service trips instead of going on vacations. "A lot of students probably spent their break trying to get laid," joked graduate accountancy student Matt Elakatt. "We weren't even getting paid."...

DeKALB | Students interested in protecting, educating people about, and cleaning up the environment don't have to look far. An NIU environmental group is doing just that. Allison Sacerdote, a fourth-year doctorate graduate student in biological sciences,...

DeKALB | Two NIU students were killed in a car accident early Wednesday. About 1 a.m., NIU students Tommy Young Choi, 20, of Palatine, and Cindy Young Kim, 20, of Northbrook, along with Purdue student Karen Chiang, 19, died traveling home in the north...