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Mariestrella Corral

Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor

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A welcome sign is inside the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. The center held a series of activities and events for students to participate in during the first two weeks of school. (Austin Lamb | Northern Star)

GSRC welcomes students with open house events

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor
September 4, 2025
A row of Roma tomatoes begin to ripe in the Anderson Market Garden on the east side of Anderson Hall. The produce grown from the Anderson Market Garden is either bought by the Campus Dining Service to be served to students or gets used somewhere else on campus. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star)

Edible Campus provides local, sustainable food for all students

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor
August 26, 2025
Bus 10 sits in front of the Holmes Student Center bus stop with its new paint scheme similar to the “Warbonnet” paint scheme of the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway. Only two buses of the entire DeKalb bus fleet have received the new paint scheme. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star)

City of DeKalb revamps 2 public transit buses

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor
August 26, 2025
Cars enter the East and West entrance of a roundabout on Friday at the junction of Lucinda Avenue and Normal Road. The newly finished roundabout features flashing lights and audible alerts for pedestrians to cross the entrances. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

New roundabout on campus to improve road safety

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor
August 23, 2025
A mini felt graduation cap and diploma scroll rest on one side of a golden balance scale. According to a study using 2022 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics, Illinois has the fourth-lowest rate of student migration in the U.S. (Courtesy of Getty Images)

Illinois has the fourth-lowest rate of student migration in the U.S.

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor
July 6, 2025
Michael B. Erickson is pictured at DeKalb County Jail. He was arrested and charged with 21 counts of production of child pornography, disseminating child pornography and possession of child pornography on Monday. (DeKalb County Jail)

NIU student arrested on child pornography charges

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor
June 4, 2025
The Student Government Association sign hangs on a wall located in the Holmes Student Center ground floor in the OASIS space. SGA held the Fall 2025 State of SGA Address on Monday. (Rachel Cormier | Northern Star)

SGA touts student org growth among successes at address

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
April 28, 2025
The sign for NIU's Naperville campus is pictured on a cloudy day. The NIU Naperville campus will lease a space in their building to the Illinois Health & Hospital Association (IHA). (Devin Oommen | Northern Star)

NIU leases out a space to IHA on Naperville campus

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
April 22, 2025
A class practices Tai Chi in Anderson Hall. On April 26, the class will share the traditions of Tai Chi with the NIU community for world Tai Chi day. (Courtesy of Paul Wright)

NIU students to bring Tai Chi to the community on World Tai Chi Day

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
April 22, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a joint news conference with Japan’s Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the Ministry of Defense in Tokyo Sunday, March 30, 2025. An NIU professor said military leaks on the messaging app signal could have had dangerous implications for the U.S. (Kiyoshi Ota_Pool Photo via AP)

NIU professor discusses controversial military leak

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
April 2, 2025
President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Pool via AP)

NIU removes DEI language from its website

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
March 19, 2025
A graphic shows a compilation of new slang that is used in the mainstream. The American Dialect Society chose rawdog as its 2024 word of the year. (Tim Dodge | Northern Star)

Rawdog is the American Dialect Society 2024 word of the year

By Mariestrella Corral, Anna Wittenkeller, and Abel Naranjo
February 24, 2025
Former New Jersey Governor and Administrator of the EPA Christine Todd Whitman smiles at the camera. Todd Whitman said we are losing important parts of our democracy in her lecture on Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Christine Todd Whitman)

Christine Todd Whittman says we are losing important parts of our democracy

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
February 21, 2025
DeKalb resident Norma Gregorio-Perez speaks to a group of protestors gathered at the corner of Lincoln Hwy and 1st Street. Gregorio-Perez said since January immigrants have been living in fear of their safety. (Devin Oommen | Northern Star)

Area residents march through DeKalb in show of unity with immigrants

By Devin Oommen and Mariestrella Corral
February 17, 2025
An image shows water freezing on the outside of the Stevenson Residence Hall after a burst pipe caused some floors to flood on Jan. 21. Students on certain floors have been asked to move to the Holmes Student Center Hotel while the University continues attempts to dry the water. (Katie Follmer | Northern Star)

Stevenson residents asked to move to Holmes hotel for the weekend

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
January 30, 2025
Charles (Chuck) Rose, a Sycamore attorney, sits in front of a gray background. Rose was hired to be the new interim director of Student’s Legal Assistance and will begin work on Feb. 1. (Courtesy of Charles Rose)

Chuck Rose hired as interim legal assistance attorney

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
January 27, 2025
Kenneth Genalo, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s New York City field office, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. On Saturday, NIU released a guide directing students, faculty and staff how to respond if ICE comes to campus. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

NIU releases guide preparing students for potential ICE raids

By Mariestrella Corral and Abel Naranjo
January 23, 2025
A photo shows the Northern Star office with chairs and office items piled in the office as the space is redesigned. A plastic covering separates a new entrance into the Northern Star office. (Ethan Rodriguez)

Northern Star office under construction

By Mariestrella Corral and Anna Wittenkeller
January 20, 2025
A group of fursuiters at Midwest FurFest wait outside an area that is labelled by a hanging sign that says “Art Show”. NIU’s furry club is focused on the furry subculture which, at its core, is an art-centric community. (Ryan Day | Northern Star)

Feature: NIU Furry Club

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
December 9, 2024
The Annette Johns box office sits inside the Stevens Building on Wednesday afternoon. At 8:30 a.m. Monday, around 70 faculty and students delivered a petition to NIU President Lisa Freeman at Altgeld Hall asking for the pause on recruitment for the MFA in Acting program. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star)

Protesters rally to lift the MFA in Acting recruitment pause

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
November 21, 2024
McAlister's Deli sits on Monday afternoon. McAlister's is known for their club sandwiches and sweet teas. (Marco Alvarez | Northern Star)

McAlister’s Deli officially opened its doors Monday

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
November 4, 2024
The Huskie Marching Band performs the Huskie Fight Song as they march past the University Police and Public Safety building on Lucinda Avenue. The Marching Band led the voter march to the Holmes Student Center performing their usual marching set. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

Huskies Vote hosts March to the Polls event

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
October 30, 2024
Walter Edwards, a Residential Dining Service cashier, hands a bag to a student in the Depot at the Holmes Student Center. If areas are not in compliance with health code regulations, the violated area gets marked on the report. (Marco Alvarez | Northern Star)

On-campus restaurants are in complicance with health code regulations

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
October 24, 2024
Smoothie King workers stand behind the counter preparing smoothies. Located at 1015 W. Lincoln Highway, Smoothie King opened Monday. (Mariestrella Corral | Northern Star)

Smoothie King serves up smoothies to DeKalb community

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
October 15, 2024
The entrance to Ellington's Restaurant sits on the main level of the Holmes Student Center on Monday. Ellington's will open for the semester from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday. (Zahra Yousif | Northern Star)

Ellington’s Restaurant to open for fall 2024 semester on Tuesday

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
September 30, 2024
Representative Don Bacon (R-Neb), smiles for the camera. The Rebuilding Democracy lecture on Thursday discussed topics concerning the state of democracy in America. (Courtesy of Paula Meyer)

NIU hosts Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series on Thursday

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
September 26, 2024
A group of students march on Normal Road while holding flags. In honor of Latino Heritage Month, the Latino Resource Center hosted their kick off parade at 4 p.m. on Monday. (Marco Alvarez | Northern Star)

Latino Resource Center hosts kickoff parade for Latino Heritage Month

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
September 16, 2024
Baba's Steak and Lemonade, located at 1015 W. Lincoln Hwy, sits on a sunny day. Baba's opened on Aug. 5 and is known for cheesesteaks and lemonade. (Sam Dion | Northern Star)

Business spotlight: Baba’s Steak and Lemonade

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
September 15, 2024
Luis Hernandez, left, an Elgin resident, and Noe Mendez, a DeKalb resident, order wings at the new Wingstop. The new Wingstop opened at 11 a.m. Monday in Sycamore. (Marco Alvarez | Northern Star)

Wingstop opens Sycamore location

By Mariestrella Corral, News Reporter
September 10, 2024
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