The SGA special elections are over and the list of winners has been posted to the SGA’s HuskieLink page.
The election results are as follows:
Executive Branch
Treasurer: Ciara Myhre – 137 votes
Legislative Branch — Senators
College of Liberal...
DeKALB – DREAM Action NIU hosted its 8th annual Coming Out of the Shadows event Wednesday via Zoom where students shared personal stories about their time living in America as an undocumented citizen.
“We will continue the tradition of Coming Out...
DeKALB — NIU announced Thursday that three students and no employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, and two students have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Thursday, 39 students and three employees are currently...
By Yari Tapia, Assistant News Editor
| April 8, 2021
DeKalb – Northern Star wants to improve its coverage of the Latinx community. We are starting an advisory board to listen to different perspectives. If you’re part of the Latinx community, we’d love to hear what you have to say! Please attend our...
Associate History professor and acting director of NIU’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies Eric Jones and the Lifelong Learning Institute of NIU will virtually present “Revisiting the Vietnam War” Thursday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. This event is...
DeKALB – WNIJ 89.5 FM is celebrating 30 years of public broadcasting this April. WNIJ began broadcasting on April 28, 1991.
For the month of April, the station is hosting “30 Reasons to love WNIJ.” Students can download the WNIJ app, or listen...
DeKALB — NIU announced Wednesday that nine additional students and one employee have tested positive for the coronavirus, and no students or employees have recovered, according to the Campus COVID-19 Dashboard. As of Wednesday, 38 students and three...
Content warning: This article and the embedded FOIA documents contain harmful language, including racial slurs, that the Northern Star doesn’t use. The decision to include the FOIA documents used in this article serves as a right to readers as these...
DeKALB —The award-winning “Swept Under the Rug” exhibit returned to the Pick Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit, which received the “2020 Award of Superior Achievement” from the Illinois Association of Museums, will be showing throughout April.
Curated...
DeKALB – Mike Verbic leads in re-election for DeKalb 6th Ward Alderperson by 155 votes, while mail-in ballots still need to be counted.
Verbic first ran for Sixth Ward Alderperson in 2017. Verbic remained unopposed in the April 6 election and will...
DeKALB – Amanda Harness, Ariel Owens and Deyci Ramirez are leading the race to join the DeKalb School Board in the 2021 consolidated elections, while mail-in ballots still need to be counted.
Harness leads with 2,517 votes, Owens has 2,220 and Ramirez...
DeKALB — Mary Hess is in the lead for the 2021 DeKalb Township Supervisor with 75.2% of votes, or 2,365 votes, according to the 2021 DeKalb consolidated election results. Among her list of goals, she said she intends to structure township programs and...
