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3 ways to eat free on campus this week

3 ways to eat free on campus this week

By Northern Star staff | October 18, 2016

1. All students are welcome to Chai Chat 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday in Campus Life Building, Room 100. There will be free tea and international snacks.

2. Second-year NIU Law students are invited to a brief pancake breakfast 8 to 11 a.m. Friday in Swen Parson Thurgood Marshall Gallery.

3. Students can enjoy free caramel apples 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday in the Holmes Student Center Promenade Lounge.

Carl Sandburg Auditorium to screen Human the Movie

By Northern Star staff | September 8, 2016

First and Second Year Experience will be holding a film screening and discussion for Human the Movie – Vol. 1 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 12 in Holmes Student Center Carl Sandburg Auditorium.The film follows interviews with people from 60 different countries...

First- and Second- Year Experience to hold Sophomore Days of Service

By Northern Star staff | February 2, 2016

First- and Second- Year Experience will hold Sophomore Days of Service starting on Feb. 4.Sophomore Days of Service is the chance for second-year students to do community service around DeKalb. There will be 11 events from Feb. 4 to 27, each a two to...

UNIV 101 needs better description, curriculum

By Abby Zaccaria | October 15, 2015

UNIV 101 does not give students the university experience it describes.UNIV 101 is a course offered at NIU that is supposed to acquaint students with the university and give them important tips on how to make it through classes.My expectationsThe course...

First- and Second-Year Experience’s Interfaith Conversations to introduce attendees to belief systems

By Kristin Maglabe | February 2, 2015

First- and Second-Year Experience is holding a series of seminars known as the Interfaith Conversations to introduce belief systems to attendees.The conversations are 7-8:30 p.m Wednesday, Feb. 11, 18, 25 and March 4 in the Founders Memorial Library staff...

Patel urges students to be diverse

Patel urges students to be diverse

By Harold Myers | October 27, 2014

Eboo Patel, founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core, told students Monday that every person is responsible for the growth of a diverse, accepting and great community.The Interfaith Youth Core is a community effort to bring together people from...

Mentoring program to be improved for fall

Mentoring program to be improved for fall

By Betsy Mathew | April 22, 2014

The Student-Faculty Links mentoring program will integrate Blackboard to broaden the communication between faculty mentors and students in the fall.The Student-Faculty Links mentoring program is provided through First- and Second-Year Experience and serves...

Editorial: NIU needs more help for transfers

By Northern Star Editorial Board | March 25, 2014

Despite transfer students from community colleges composing a significant portion of NIU’s population, they remain some of the most ignored people on campus.The school is hemorrhaging transfer students: 544 transfer students who attended NIU in the...