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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Blotter 9/17

By Northern Star Staff | September 18, 2012

The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Sept. 17, 2012...

Students can explore academic opportunities at event Monday

By Felix Sarver | September 18, 2012

Students curious about majors or minors may want to visit the Exploring Majors Fair Monday. The seventh annual Exploring Majors Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center. The fair began in 2005...

Job fairs planned in October

By Northern Star Staff | September 17, 2012

NIU will be hosting fairs for students seeking job employment or enrollment in graduate school this fall, according to NIU Today. Staring Oct. 2, a graduate and professional school fair will be held for students wanting to attend graduate school or learn...

Curse of the ‘Subway smell’

By Troy Doetch | September 13, 2012

A disclaimer: I love Subway. The breads, the condiments, even the bagged avocado—I love it all. The story you’re about to read is a contemplation on a real phenomenon about which I remain conflicted. I am not endorsing that any student abstain from...

Junior illustration major Tim Schad bags items for junior kinesiology major Chris Golab in the student bookstore in the Holmes Student Center.

Thousands seek jobs at university

By Erin Kolb | September 12, 2012

Student employment is in high demand at NIU, with close to 3,000 students working at the university every year. The largest employers on campus are Housing and Dining, the Holmes Student Center and the Campus Recreation Center, said Steve Cunningham,...

Office Manager Pat Siebrasse looks up forms for a faculty member at the School of Family, Consumer and Nutrition Sciences in Wirtz Hall.

Longest-serving employee retiring, rewarded

By Julia Layton | July 10, 2012

Pat Siebrasse is retiring after 50 years at NIU. Siebrasse is the longest-serving employee at NIU and did all of her work in the school of family, consumer and nutrition sciences as an Office Manager. She said she remembers the Holmes Student Center was...

Holmes Student Center

History’s Foundation: Holmes Student Center

By Olivia Willoughby | May 6, 2012

Pointing high up in the sky, this building can’t be missed. Whether it was for orientation or to wait impatiently for the Huskie Bus, a student has been here at least once. With its first two floors built in 1961, the Holmes Student Center might just...

Three DeKalb businesses offer book buybacks

By Juliana Leprich | May 2, 2012

Students who want to get cash back for their textbooks have a number of places where they can do so. The NIU bookstore in the Holmes Student Center has a buyback event going on. Though the bookstore buys books back year round, is it offering more incentives...

A group of students on a walk.

NIU offers summer camps for high school, junior high students

By Ian Gough | April 25, 2012

While the semester is ending for college students, learning opportunities are only beginning for junior high and high school students. Starting June 1, NIU will offer numerous summer camps for junior high and high school students. The camps are set up...

Delta Chi Fraternity organizes cancer awareness week

By Chelsey Boutan | April 25, 2012

Cancer has touched the lives of the Delta Chi Fraternity men. Member Justin Larsen said students in the fraternity feel connected with each other because many, including him, have had family members die from cancer. For that reason, Delta Chi has organized...

Lauren Pagán performs Ice, Ice Baby during Gay Jam Saturday night in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium.

NIU Prism hosts Gay Jam variety show

By Katie Finlon | April 22, 2012

“You know it’s a party when the police arrive!” That was one response to security being called when an audience member got on stage and booed one of the Prism Gay Jam performers off-stage 7 p.m. Saturday in the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg...

NIU Jazz Ensemble to perform songs of Ellington Ballroom namesake

By Alex Fiore | April 11, 2012

Come Thursday evening, the Duke Ellington Ballroom will be filled with the sounds of its namesake. The NIU Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. tonight in the Ellington ballroom located inside the Holmes Student Center, performing songs by Ellington and...

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