Student Association Senators listen to a presentation during the SA Senate meeting Sunday. SA Senate meetings are open to the public and take place 5 p.m. Sundays in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room.

Students raise their fists and chant, "black lives matter," after the national anthem at the football game Saturday in Huskie Stadium against Central Michigan University.

NIU President Doug Baker (left) shakes hands with David Sam, President of Elgin Community College, after agreeing to a Business Dual Degree Program.

Demonstrators made up of Black Student Union members and students lay across a bridge to honor the Black Lives Matter movement outside Cole Hall around noon Tuesday. Some students wore garbage bags to represent those who died and others held signs with information about individuals who died at the hands of police. About 200 students stopped to watch the demonstration.

Michael Montgomery

Jon Shott, 44, of DeKalb talks with friends about the incident that occurred at Buffalo Wild Wing's, 2466 Sycamore Road, today. He and his friends planned on eating and watching the Cubs game. 

Debrece G. Shields, 25, of DeKalb, received one or multiple gunshot wounds Thursday night at 810 Kimberly Drive, which is 0.7 miles from the Campus Life Building and 0.2 miles from the School of Nursing. Shields died after being transported to Kishwaukee Health Systems Hospital, 10 Health Services Drive.