Some students may remember searching for a parking space in the Chick Evans Field House parking lot for more than half an hour while trying to avoid pedestrians and other cars. The reconstructed parking lot provides new pedestrian walkways and one-way...

At the start of every semester, the Campus Recreation Center is full of students motivated to get daily exercise. But classes may get more difficult, parties may pop up and working out may become less important. Attendance at the Rec shrinks and the health...

DeKALB | Buying books, breaking in meal cards and bribing roommates for the bed by the window is how most students spend their first days at NIU. So how did new students fare this past week? The Northern Star sat down individually with three freshmen...

The semester is just starting, but there are still many jobs available on or around campus for students. "Annually, between 3300 and 3800 student employees are hired," said Steve Cunningham, assistant vice president of admissions and human resources....

In the last four years, fewer than four percent of NIU students voted in the Student Association general election. The Spring 2006 executive election had 410 votes — less than two percent of the student population. Even though the SA election was combined...

Amid all the ruckus of move-in day, many students over the past years dealt with additional chaos when told their residence hall room was not yet ready. Not this year. In a change from previous years, no overflow students were reported as temporarily...

Recreation meets passion in the department of Recreation Services, with Sandi Carlisle taking over as director this year. In her plans to improve Recreation Services, Carlisle wants to reach out across the campus community to find out what the students...

DeKALB | Students who completed an opt-out waiver for NIU's student insurance during a previous semester may have been surprised to find a charge for student health insurance on their most recent bursar bill. The Student Insurance office has reinstated...

Students living in the residence halls this semester were greeted with a tweaked Cisco Clean Access program for connecting to the NIU network and Internet. Clean Access was first used in fall 2005 to address the abundance of Internet-related computer...

DeKalb | Wireless Internet access has been added to the lounges on each floor of Stevenson, Grant and Neptune for the Fall 2006 semester. NIU Housing and Dining requested the additional Wi-Fi locations to make Internet more accessible to students wishing...

DeKalb | NIU estimated that nearly 6,000 students came to NIU on Thursday, planning to start down a new road in their lives. "College is scary and exciting," said biology major Amber Misiowiec, an incoming freshman with mixed emotions. "It's scary because...

Over the summer, NIU welcomed new provost Raymond W. Alden III, hoping that with his arrival, change is on the horizon. Alden was appointed June 1 as executive vice president and provost. Alden joins NIU from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where...