The Student Association will host informational tables from noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 20 and Feb. 22 in the Stevenson resident hall.The tables will have two surveys, the Student Satisfaction Assessment and General Transit Feedback Survey. There will also be...
The Northern Star took home 16 individual awards and an honorable mention in general excellence Sunday at the Illinois College Press Association convention.Several current and former staff members won individual awards for their contributions to the paper....
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. Wednesday At 3:35...
The King Is Dead.And so is Banquo, so is Cawdor and so is everybody else. Why all of this death?Because the NIU School of Theater and Dance's production of Macbeth has hit the stage.Long proclaimed as Shakespeare's bloodiest, most brutal play, Macbeth...
I wish I could bring some comfort and relief to Linze Griebenow ("Theory of Higher Education Doesn't Match Reality") and her "emotionally and mentally exhausted" classmates. Unfortunately, what she says about the job market is quite right, and she's in...
Apparently, an angry article about unemployment and student debt is "morale-crushing propaganda."Ms. Howard says that she works "one job that pays for less than a quarter of [her] housing." If this is so, then she is either going to be over $40,000 in...
Electronic music has been influencing rock and roll for decades, creating new genres for fans of both styles.Brothers Past, a recently-reunited band with a slew of festival slots lined up, is the product of this pairing. The careful song writing and memorable...
Irish eyes are smiling on DeKalb. Gaelic Storm will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St. Gaelic Storm is an Irish band that performs spin-offs of Celtic classics and their own original songs with a modern twist of American...
NIU will have a new mission statement in the future. The Faculty Senate met Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center Sky Room to discuss the mission statement, among other topics. NIU's mission statement was last revised in 2003. The current series of revisions...
A thirty-piece punk rock marching band is coming. Mucca Pazza will play at 9 p.m. Saturday at Otto's, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. With thirty pieces, such an ensemble had to find some way to section off. However, for this group, typical ensemble sections...
Jesse White, secretary of state and state librarian, awarded the DeKalb and Sycamore public libraries with grants from the Illinois Public Library Per Capita and Equalization Aid grants funding. The DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St., received $44,980.48,...
