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SA to add Lucinda Avenue extension to Barsema Express

By Leah Nicolini | November 18, 2015

The Student Association may soon begin test runs of a modified HuskieLine bus route that will add the Lucinda Avenue extension to the Barsema Express.The Lucinda Avenue extension, a project that concludes with a ribbon cutting Wednesday at 2 p.m., extends...

The Lucinda Avenue extension sits partially constructed on an area of land where Douglas Hall used to stand. 

Lucinda extension to open Wednesday

By Northern Star staff | November 17, 2015

NIU will hold a grand opening of the Lucinda Avenue extension, a stretch of road that connects Lucinda Avenue to Stadium Drive West, Wednesday.The event will mark the conclusion to a year-long project to help create what NIU President Doug Baker has called...

Douglas Hall torn down to make way for Lucinda Avenue extension

By Satta Kendor | January 12, 2015

The ramped-up deconstruction of Douglas Hall during winter break was the first step in extending Lucinda Avenue.The deconstruction is part of NIU President Doug Baker’s Master Plan Thesis, an outline of ideas to improve campus. The extension of Lucinda...

Michael Herrera, senior political science major, looks out the window of the Huskie Pup Tuesday. The shuttles run on the sidewalks between the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons and Recreation Center. Three more Pups will be added.

More Huskie Pups to be added

By Margaret Maka | October 7, 2014

Three $18,500 Huskie Pups are expected to roll into campus in the coming weeks after the university’s first 11-passenger shuttle was debuted Friday.The first Pup will ideally run 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, said Belinda Roller, an Architectural...