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Northern Star Playlist: Covers of The Beatles

By Parker Otto | June 26, 2019

Daily Playlist: John Denver

By Parker Otto | May 17, 2019

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AMC Market Square 10 sits located at 2160 Sycamore Road. The theater offers a discount to students who show their OneCards and matinee pricing every day before 4 p.m. (Edison Miller | Northern Star)

NIU student discount at DeKalb AMC

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The Holmes Student Center towers over MLK Commons. NIU union members bargained for higher wages on Thursday in the Lincoln Room of the Holmes Student Center. (Photo courtesy of Dinesh Medidi)

NIU union calls for $3,500 raise amid negotiations

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Former NIU baseball Head Coach Walt Owens.

Remembering Walt Owens: Coach, teacher, mentor

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Nicole Jewula (right), a sophomore marketing major, and Treyvon Crigler, a sophomore public health administrations major, browse through NIU shirts on Thursday at the Huskie Closet in the Chick Evans Field House. The Huskie Closet is open on Monday from noon to 1 p.m. and Wednesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

Huskie Closet provides clothes for students in need

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Mila (left) and her father Mike Meegan, both Ottawa residents, solder a connection for a “blinkie” at the Build-a-Blinkie station on Saturday at STEM Fest inside of the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center. A “blinkie” is a small board cut into a design with flashing LEDs, supplied by the 501(c)3 organization Build-a-Blinkie. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

Gallery: STEM Fest welcomes all ages with over 100 exhibits

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