NIU police evacuated and closed all university buildings Thursday evening after a bomb threat was called in. The threat was determined to be a hoax, one of several that have been reported at various colleges and universities in the northern Illinois...
A tracking system that may not be installed in HuskieLine buses until next semester will cost the Student Association and NIU $41,090 initially.Rob Jusino, Student Association director of Mass Transit, said the SA is in the contractual stages with ETA...
The NIU Huskies Cricket Club will go on to the American College Cricket national tournament in the spring after having won its regional tournament.Rizwan Mirza, president of the NIU Huskies Cricket Club, said the group has put in a lot of strong performances...
A robbery was reported to have occurred Wednesday night at the 800 block of Spiros Court, according to an NIU Police safety bulletin.DeKalb Police notified NIU Police at 11:10 p.m. that a male was approached by two males when one of the males punched...
The following was taken directly from the NIU Police Department. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The NIU Police Department provides police reports online at niu.edu/publicsafety/.Sept. 301. At 12:45 p.m., aggravated...
Huskie Pups, small electric shuttles introduced last October as a part of NIU President Doug Baker’s plan for a 10-minute campus, will not be returning for general student use this year.One large Huskie Pup and three smaller ones, which cost $40,000...
A revised policy on appropriate use of the NIU Network will be submitted to the president’s cabinet for final review in January.The Division of Information Technology has been working for more than a year to revise the Appropriate Use policy, formerly...
Students may not see a new HuskieLine bus tracking system until next semester, said Rob Jusino, Student Association director of Mass Transit.The new GPS system, which Jusino said would range in the thousands of dollars, stemmed from SA’s 2015 spring...
The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or from DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.Sept. 30• Markita M. Scott, 30, of DeKalb, was charged with...
The increase in drug law violations, as reported in the 2015-2016 Annual Safety and Security Report, may be a result of increased patrolling, said NIU Police Chief Tom Phillips.The report, which was published in compliance with the Clery Act, among other...
