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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Blotter 4/3 – 4/4

By Northern Star Staff | April 7, 2013

The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Wednesday At...

Blotter 4/4 – 4/6

By Northern Star Staff | April 7, 2013

The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.WednesdayAt 1:00 a.m., officers were dispatched to the NIU Police...

Week One Storylines for the Cubs

By Rob Willer | April 7, 2013

With the first week of the MLB season in the books, here are some of my week one storylines for the Cubs: Demotion of Carlos Marmol: Marmol has always been an interesting one for Cubs fans with his antics as the closer. Marmol has had many great outings...

Student organization hosts social entrepreneurship workshops

By Logan Love | April 7, 2013

The Collegiate Association of Unreasonable Social Entrepreneurs (CAUSE) hosted four workshops at its inaugural Social Impact Summit on Friday. The event focused on social entrepreneurship, said senior finance major Kyle Lundin. Lundin was in attendance...

City Council to vote on budget for new police station

By Ali Combs | April 7, 2013

City Council will vote on a bid of $86,766 to build the foundation and main component of a communications tower for the new police station at today’s meeting. The construction of the communications tower is a necessary step toward completing the police...

City clerk election holds four write-in candidates

By Ryan Chodora | April 7, 2013

Aside from electing a new mayor, DeKalb residents have another vote to cast on Tuesday: city clerk. The names of the four candidates--Lynn Fazekas, Steve Kapitan, Leonard LeGrand and Liz Peerboom--will not appear on the ballot, as each are running as...

New bridal shop opens in DeKalb

By Erin Kolb | April 7, 2013

Store owners Dawn and Marissa Caltagerone are taking advantage of DeKalb by starting a new business in the heart of downtown. The mother-daughter team opened Alexis Kay Designs, Inc., a bridal and formal wear boutique at 128 E. Lincoln Highway, about...

Local liquor store hosts wine tasting event

By Alan Kozeluh | April 7, 2013

Lundeen’s Discount Liquors, 1030 Arcadia Ave., and 1760 DeKalb Ave. in Sycamore , held its annual spring wine tasting on Saturday. The liquor merchant has been hosting wine tastings in the spring and fall for the past five years. The gathering brought...

‘Hannibal’ series comes to the small screen

By Aymie Telinski | April 7, 2013

Students can feast their eyes on a new television series about the infamous, but fictional, cannibalistic psychiatrist known as Hannibal. The show is a prequel to the books and the movie. Dr. Hannibal is not yet the crazed serial killer who is locked...

Kim Jong-Un is not capable but should not be ignored

Kim Jong-Un is not capable but should not be ignored

By AJ Edwards | April 3, 2013

Over the past couple of weeks, whenever we turn on our television to watch the news there has been some sort of story on about North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. Usually the programs focus on how he is consistently bringing up talks about a nuclear strike...

(From left to right, across table) Rachel Udley (left), sophomore family social services major, Shelbey Lippeth, junior elementary education major, and Manas Chug, freshman biology major help serve food Wednesday night at the Relay For Life benefit dinner in the basement of the Newman Center.

Relay for Life

By Paul Skager | April 3, 2013

(From left to right, across table) Rachel Udley (left), sophomore family social services major, Shelbey Lippeth, junior elementary education major, and Manas Chug, freshman biology major help serve food Wednesday night at the Relay For Life benefit dinner in the basement of the Newman Center.

Mike Morocco, senior time arts major, takes the eco park bike pah as a shortcut back to his apartment in September 2011.

City plans to add bike paths to DeKalb

By Ali Combs | April 3, 2013

The city of DeKalb is making plans for a nearly $1 million bike path. The path will be funded mostly by a grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) through a bike trail enhancement grant. The grant will be used to build a bike path that...

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