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The Associated Press - Temple head football coach Steve Addazio, left, speaks alongside athletic director Bill Bradshaw during a news conference to announce the addition of Temple to the Big East Conference for football next season and all other sports in 2013 in New York, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Bill Bradshaw, Steve Addazio

By Frank Franklin II | March 7, 2012

The Associated Press - Temple head football coach Steve Addazio, left, speaks alongside athletic director Bill Bradshaw during a news conference to announce the addition of Temple to the Big East Conference for football next season and all other sports...

Quality students

Quality students

By Kyla Gardner | March 7, 2012

(From left to right) Nathan Underwood Wheaton North High School senior, accompanied by his mother Virginia Underwood, submits an undergraduate application to Katy Saafeld senior assistant for undergraduate admissions at NIU, during an undergraduate information...

Future of student quality for NIU means building mode, fierce competition

Future of student quality for NIU means building mode, fierce competition

By Kyla Gardner | March 7, 2012

In his Vision 2020 plan, NIU President John Peters identified student quality as an area for improvement for the university over the next eight years. This is the third installment in a three-part series that has looked at past trends in student quality...

Campus blotter for 3/8/12

By Northern Star Staff | March 7, 2012

The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety.TuesdayAt 10:40 a.m.,...

Linda Sons talks about the Faculty und Foundation Scholarships at the Faculty Senate Meeting Wednesday at the Holmes Student Center.

Faculty Senate discusses changes to faculty workload policy

By Joe Palmer | March 7, 2012

The Faculty Senate met Wednesday and discussed possible changes to workload policies for faculty. The current workload policies are handled on a college basis, and no university-wide policy currently exists. The current policy draft was put to the floor...

Freshman nursing major Catie Kulhan (left) and Samantha Coleman freshman health science major (right) eat dinner at "A Night at The Oscars" in Lincoln Hall's food court Wednesday night.

Housing and Dining holds special Oscars-themed dinner event

By Perri Killam | March 7, 2012

Chicken Carbonara, carved beef, sparkling grape juice, chocolate covered strawberries and red velvet cake - not your typical college food. The Oscars may have ended over a week ago, but NIU’s Housing and Dining celebrated Wednesday night at dining halls...

 

City council to vote on construction of new hotel

By Melissa Mastrogiovanni | March 7, 2012

The DeKalb City Council will vote on zoning changes Monday night to allow for a Hampton Inn and Suites to be built in DeKalb, said Mayor Kris Povlsen. “I think it’s greatly needed,” Povlsen said. “We have a large drawing to the community because...

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Campus online piracy may cause legal penalties for students

By Josh Green | March 7, 2012

At NIU, 200 to 400 students per year are caught pirating materials from the Internet, according to Jim Fatz, Director of Information Security and Operations. According to the ITS Copyright and File Sharing page, if a student uses NIU’s network to download...

Super Tuesday holds surprises for Santorum

By Joe Palmer | March 6, 2012

Santorum fights back and Romney widens the gap after Super Tuesday’s primaries. Nine states held Republican primary elections Tuesday, with seven states hosting primary votes, and two holding caucus votes. 410 total delegates for the Republican National...

Letter to the editor: Preparation for death has been around for ages

By Letter to the editor | March 6, 2012

In response to “Last one to die, make sure you hit the lights” by Linze Griebenow, I don’t know where our columnist has been all of her life, but such practices of death preparation are and always have been in place and are operating today at full...

Research Rookies explore reasons behind Civil War enlistment

By Lauren Dielman | March 6, 2012

Men joined the U.S. army to fight in the Civil War for multiple reasons. Wayne Duerkes will be trying to discover these reasons through his Research Rookies project. Duerkes, a junior history major, and his mentor Bradley Bond, Dean of the Graduate School,...

State's attorney Clay Campbell speaks about corruption of public officials in the Five Seasons Room of the Community Outreach Building 2500 N Annie Glidden Rd, Tuesday evening.

Campbell addresses affect of corruption in northern Ill.

By Joe Palmer | March 6, 2012

DeKalb County State’s Attorney Clay Campbell told citizens there is a high price for staying silent about corruption at a town hall meeting Tuesday. Campbell spoke at the DeKalb Community Outreach Building, 2500 N. Annie Glidden Road, and gave his view...