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Speaker Dallas Douglass reads from the agenda during the SGA senate’s meeting on Friday. The agenda featured a digital public comment from SGA alumn Jacob Burg, who criticized the SGA’s recent actions and performance. (Cheyanne Quintanilla | Northern Star)

Alum criticizes SGA for ‘rash decision making’

By Evan Mellon and Bridgette Fox | April 10, 2023

Clarification: The public comment by Jacob Berg was submitted as an email and read by Speaker Dallas Douglass. DeKALB – The usual calm of the Student Government Association senate’s weekly meeting was disrupted by an alum’s public comment,...

NIU alum to speak on sports and presidential campaigns

By Northern Star Staff | March 19, 2013

During GradComm’s Spring 2013 Colloquium, alumnus Michael Lawrence Butterworth will describe how sports and statistics were used in presidential campaigns. Butterworth will examine the media’s usage of sports metaphors and the impact it had on 2012...

Alumnus Wheeler G. Coleman was recently appointed to the NIU
Board of Trustees.

Alumnus appointed to NIU Board of Trustees

By Lauren Dielman | January 16, 2012

NIU alumnus Wheeler G. Coleman is the most recent addition to the NIU Board of Trustees (BOT). Wheeler was appointed Dec. 19, said Paul Palian, Director of Media and Public Relations. Palian explained the purpose of the BOT. "A board of trustees is basically...

NIU alumnus/author visiting campus Thursday

By Phil Case | November 8, 2010

On Thursday, NIU welcomes back Kenneth Womack, professor, published author and alumnus, to give a lecture in Reavis Hall Room 211 at noon to 2 p.m. Being an English major and aspiring writer myself, I was interested in interviewing someone who had studied...