NIU should create a more thorough back-up plan for Monetary Award Program grant recipients in case MAP state appropriations are not given out.MAP grants, based solely on financial need, are given to Illinois residents who attend approved Illinois colleges,...
Pass:There is now an NIU app for sexual assault help that will be released in the fall. Safe Passage expects the app to reduce the amount of calls they receive on their 24-hour hotline. The app will go through a list of questions to let users know what...
With the upcoming sexual assault app in the works, survivors will be given a options with how they want to handle their situation. The app will also reduce the 6,500 calls that Safe Passage's 24-hour hotline received in 2015. Read more at bit.ly/1SfTinq.
Inclusive bathrooms demonstrate support of transgender communityThe university should continue to create more gender-inclusive bathrooms on campus to show that it supports those who identify with a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.Contrary...
As noted in the Northern Star there are faculty members who are concerned about salary inequity based on gender, and who believe that the administration has been slow to respond. In fact, members of NIU’s senior leadership are aware of and concerned...
Pass:NIU made history this year by voting its first female speaker onto the SA board. Gender inequality is an issue that is still argued by women. Many women’s rights activists find that there is discrimination towards women seeking positions of power....
Pass:There is a draft in place for NIU to include gender-inclusive bathrooms on campus.These bathrooms will allow anyone to use the bathroom regardless of what gender they identify as. It is important for students to feel fully comfortable on their campuses...
NIU should make its information more transparent and easier to locate by including more links to documents and creating a daily Freedom of Information Act response log on its FOIA website.The FOIA website allows the public to request information from...
Abigail ZaccariaDeKalb should change the liquor law because I believe it will do no harm and only generate more business for Starbucks. Most people are not going to go to Starbucks to chug a bunch of beers. The drinks that Starbucks serves will also not...
Let me first start off by congratulating Giuseppe Lagioia and the rest of the One NIU ticket. They ran a great campaign and should be proud of themselves.Just because I will not be assuming the role of Student Association president, it does not mean that...
Pass:The program prioritization academic task force will be allotted more time to do its job and thus more carefully make decisions. Previously, the program prioritization academic task force had been spending four hours every Friday putting acadmeic...
Faith MellenthinColumnistCounter:Transitioning to Microsoft Outlook 365 will be a difficult process that will permanently leave behind the popular Gmail that is more convenient and easier for students to use.Google has always been famous for quick search...
