![The Forward, Together Forward memorial outside Cole Hall honors the lives of the five students lost in the Feb. 14, 2008, shooting.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/8c4ccbcb31330e27b1b100b7daedaa4f-900x600.jpg)
Open Letter: To the NIU community
By Northern Star Staff
| February 18, 2019
![Clayton Parks, poses for the camera during his study abroad trip to Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico in March 2014.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/f2cbf735c5b4b04a59a85bbacf141caa.jpg)
Parks remembered by determined personality and compassion toward others
By Sophia Mullowney
| February 18, 2019
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