![The Rainbow Rave will take place from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday in the Sky Room of the Holmes Student Center. Registration is free.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/GettyImages-994185058-900x675.jpg)
Rainbow Rave; night of contests, face paint, free food
By Joseph Howerton, Video Editor
| March 31, 2023
![The entrance to the Asian American Resource Center. NIU is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month during April. (Evan Mellon | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Evan-Mellon_AARC_March-29-2023-900x675.jpg)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, April celebrations
By Daniel Massa, Lifestyle Writer
| March 29, 2023
![SGA Senators Edwin Perez-Hernandez (left), Atlas Babcock, Princess Rogers, Arianna Ramos, Alexia Musgraves and Debbie Allen discussing the meaning of diversity. The senators were disappointed with the outcome of the SGA petition for Black students. (Caleb Johnson | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SGA_DEI_Caleb-Johnson_Spring-2023-900x591.jpg)
SGA’s DEI comments on failed petition, discuss future
By Caleb Johnson, Lifestyle Writer
| March 19, 2023
![Vernese Edghill-Walden founded the office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Edghill-Walden will no longer be working at NIU following Spring 2023.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Vernese-Edghill_Walden_Courtesy-641x900.jpg)
Founder of DEI office leaves after 8 years
By Caleb Johnson, Lifestyle Writer
| March 1, 2023
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