Tom Anderson helps keep the canoe steady as his wife, Cindy Anderson, climbs in and grabs an oar from an Outdoor Adventures volunteer Friday at the East Lagoon. "We have been canoeing a lot, but this would be our first time canoeing in [NIU’s East Lagoon," Anderson said.
Clue #1Ready for the second Northern Star Scavenger Hunt?Don't expect our clues to be very blunt.I'm not underground - don't dig up the dirt.Follow the rules, I must reassert.I'm on university grounds,Golf courses and rivers are out of bounds.Scavenger...
Emergency 911 phone services are working after Frontier Communications Corp. engineers resolved a hardware or software issue that disabled NIU’s service from 7 p.m. Sept. 19 through 2:20 p.m. Sept. 22.Frontier Communications, a telecommunications company...
Last spring, the winner of the Northern Star Scavenger Hunt was Emily Majewski, sophomore elementary education major. The medallion was found under a white Spruce tree in Annie's Woods, 401 Lucinda Ave.
Junior football kicker Christian Hagan“I think [the time obligation change] will be good. It is pretty different from what we have now, the MAC made some big changes on the fly. I think it is good to have the week off when you come back to campus at...
DeKALB | The Student Association’s It’s On Us campaign will be partnering with Health Services to offer bystander intervention courses this semester.Two years ago, SA joined the campaign which is a presidential task force that aims to work with universities...
An off-campus armed robbery was reported to have occurred at 4:17 p.m. today at DeKalb Country Credit Union, 305 E. Locust St.No one was injured during the incident and the police deemed no imminent threat is present to the campus or surrounding community,...
Stage Coach Players and NIU graduates will be performing a “dramedy” about life-long college friendships that debuts Sept. 15 at the Stage Coach Player Theatre, 126 S. Fifth St.The Stage Coach Players have been performing in the DeKalb community for...
The Northern Star is giving away free headphones. To enter to win, either- Like the Northern Star on Facebook and share one story or- Follow @NIUNorthernStar on Twitter and retweet one story.The contest will at midnight Sept. 1 and the winner will be...
Latin Chill 2016, an event sponsored by The Latino Resource Center and The Center for Latino and Latin American Studeis, will be 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.The free event, which is part of Welcome Days, will be held in the Latino Center. There will be dancing,...
