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Cole Hall, Room 100, sits empty after classes on Tuesday. Cole Hall houses the Pick Museum of Anthropology. (Ariyonna McGahee | Northern Star)

Examining the effectiveness of lectures

By Brandon Clark, News Reporter | November 9, 2023

DeKALB – If you listen close while walking the corridors of DuSable Hall, you can hear the sound of higher education, and it sounds like a lecture.  Lectures have been used to educate since the time of Socrates and Plato, but modern students, like...

An alter to nats stored in the Pick Museum of Anthropology.

To be or “Nat” to be – a look into Burmese spirituality

By Anika Haley, Lifestyle Writer | March 1, 2023

As a part of a lecture series hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Catherine Raymond, a professor in art history and the director of the Center for Burma Studies at NIU, gave the lecture “Healing while Performing the Ritual to the Burmese...

Continuously leaving classes can have a number of impacts on a college student's career.

Point/Counterpoint: Leaving class in the middle of a lecture

By Summer Fitzgerald and Zulfiqar Ahmed | January 19, 2022
The college experience consists of having total freedom, especially when it comes to attending classes.
Melanie Joy, Harvard graduate and University of Massachusetts professor of psychology and sociology, gives a presentation about Carnism on Sunday evening in Wirtz Hall. Carnism she explains, is the belief system that influences people to consume meat. Joy's lectured on the occasion of Earth Day.

Award-winning author lectures students on carnism

By Erin Kolb | April 21, 2013

In honor of Earth Day, author and psychologist Melanie Joy gave a free lecture Sunday night based on her award-winning book “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism.” Joy focused on the concept of carnism, which she said...

Celebrate Women's History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month

By Hayley Devitt | March 27, 2013

Normally for Women’s History Month, or at least in the past couple of years, I would have compiled a mix CD featuring all female musicians to distribute to my friends and loved ones. However, I am unhappy to report that this year I somewhat slacked...

Grace Place lecture series hilights beliefs

By Maria Ahmad | September 12, 2012

Grace Place is holding an interfaith lecture series in hope of opening the door for dialogue and understanding between different beliefs. Grace Place, 401 Normal Road, is a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church...

Economics professor Kahn Mohabbat teaches his ECON 361 class
supply and demand in DuSable Hall Tuesday afternoon.

No universal teaching method

By Felix Sarver | November 6, 2011

Josh Navarro doesn't like memorizing facts for class."I don't think memorization is really that good," Navarro, junior business administration major, said. "It seems like as soon as the test is over, it's like you don't need it."Navarro said he takes...

SSDP hosts psychedelic drug lecture

October 17, 2011

Thomas Roberts, professor emeritus of educational psychology, will speak on the broad field of psychedelic drugs at a lecture hosted by Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).The lecture is at 8 p.m. today in Room 405 of the Holmes Student Center and...

Attending class is worth the trouble

Attending class is worth the trouble

October 3, 2011

Even though strong winds blow away your good mood, it is not an excuse to blow off classes. Instead of skipping a lecture, you could find that tackling the weather head-on actually brings great rewards.On a rainy Tuesday, several students from my journalism...

Changing up lecture, study methods may help students

By Alyssa Pracz | September 26, 2011

I'm sure everyone can relate to having that one class that you just could never really grasp. No matter how much you study, it just never seems to make sense. You sit in class and no matter how hard you try to concentrate, you just feel like you can't...

Peace activist will share her Afghanistan, Pakistan experiences

By Chelsey Boutan | September 21, 2011

Kathy Kelly, a Chicago-based peace activist, has sat next to a child whose body had been torn apart by a bomb. Kelly watched a woman tell a boy who lost two arms that she is his only surviving relative. She has stood next to families as they looked at...

Even if attendance isn't mandatory, it's still important

Even if attendance isn’t mandatory, it’s still important

By Phil Case | April 19, 2011

At some point during our time in college, I'm sure we have all noticed that attendance in large lecture halls tends to be rather sparse. Whether students are nursing themselves through another hangover, avoiding the walk through unbearable DeKalb weather...