The Student Dietetic Association will hold an event called Empty Bowls on April 13 in Adams Hall, Chandelier Room. The event is held to spread awareness about food insecurity and to raise money for local nonprofit organizations that aid food security....
The Student Association Senate approved supplemental funding for NIU Forensics and the NIU National Society of Black Engineers at its meeting Sunday.The SA approved $250 for NIU Forensics to attend a competition in Indiana.NIU Forensics is a student organization...
Potential new locks are on display in the Recreation Center. Student Association President Nathan Lupstein and Michael Agro, SA director of Athletics and Recreation, will be meeting this week to establish a budget for the new locks that are to be installed in the Recreation Center lockers.
Students danced for eight hours to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network during the first annual NIU Dance Marathon Saturday in the Recreation Center. The event raised more than $34,000.
Correction: This Northern Star article incorrectly spelled the name of Chris McCord, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.Scot Schraufnagel, director of Graduate Studies for the Political Science Department, said the political science graduate...
Although a leap year only happens once every four years, NIU has had many important events happen on the day.Feb. 29, 1968Men at NIU weren’t as shy about marriage as it had been rumored. A woman named Marianne Bretsnyder asked men to marry her in light...
Feb. 20• Aaron M. Gaines, 26, of DeKalb, was charged with battery and disorderly conduct.• Steven A. Maze, 26, of Hanover Park, was charged with resisting a peace officer.• Lizbeth P. Arias, 18, of DeKalb, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia...
A student trustee has yet to be nominated for Student Association Senate approval, with the deadline for SA President Nathan Lupstein’s nomination on Thursday.In order for there to be a student trustee at the Board of Trustees meeting March 17, members...
As a 26-year-old, psychology graduate student Ray Geosling knew that waking up at 6 a.m. feeling out of breath and with pain in his abdomen and shoulder was not normal.Geosling is not the type to go to the doctor, but he called his father, a chiropractor,...
An off-campus armed robbery was reported to have occurred at approximately 10:04 p.m. Friday near the 1200 block of Blackhawk Road, according to an NIU safety bulletin.The victim reported that he was approached by two individuals and one of them hit him...
The Indian Student Association will host Kalakriti 2016 at 7 p.m. today in the Holmes Student Center, Sandburg Auditorium.The event, which means "works of art," will showcase Indian culture and tradition through music, dance and more.For more information...
Juan Vargas, 60, of DeKalb, was charged with distribution and possession of aggravated child pornography, among other charges, Thursday.DeKalb Police conducted a search on Vargas' home in connection to a child pornography investigation, which was discovered...
