Marine corps veteran Levi Kammes said he looks back on his time in the military with a smile. Kammes, who served from 2001 to 2005, also serves as the president of the NIU Veterans Club, which hosts a Veterans Day memorial service at 11 a.m. today in...
NIU will team up with Lextech Global Services to create new courses. The courses will teach students how to write applications for several different smart phone platforms. The university offers two courses now, but the full program will be offered fall...
Campus Activities Board (CAB) set up shop in the MLK Commons Monday afternoon to let everyone know that homecoming week is here. From noon to 3 p.m., members of CAB, accompanied by members of the homecoming court, handed out T-shirts, mini-footballs and...
Netflix generates more head-scratching plot twists than a cheap B-movie. On Monday, the company said it would reverse a previously announced decision to put its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services on separate websites, a plan that was widely...
There's something to be said about tradition.During Homecoming week every year, the campus bursts with energy. Right around the time we start to break down under the relentless weight of papers, tests and group projects is a week-long celebration, filled...
To the NIU and DeKalb community: We would like to sincerely apologize for the cartoon published in Wednesday's edition of the Northern Star. The publication was a clear misjudgment on our part. Though the aim of a political cartoon is to provide its readers...
Call it a tale of two presidents. After the Student Association Supreme Court ruled to uphold Darren Howard's election as Black Student Union President last week, other members of the organization voted to impeach Howard. As it stands, Khiry Johnson,...
UPDATE (10:35 a.m.): No arrests have been made in relation to the late Wednesday shooting near Lucinda Avenue, said DeKalb Police Lt. Gary Spangler. Police are still looking for suspects. UPDATE (5:33 a.m.): DeKalb Police Chief Bill Feithen said the victim...
Today, the Student Association Supreme Court announced it will uphold the election of Darren Howard, Black Student Union president. Howard, who won the BSU presidency in April's executive elections, was dismissed after other BSU executives claimed to...
NIU President John Peters received unanimous approval to move forward with the Vision 2020 Initiative at Thursday's Board of Trustees meeting.Trustee Marc Strauss said the Vision 2020 process revealed a goal important to the university's success - an...
By 2020, NIU hopes to have 30,000 students enrolled.This announcement came as part of President John Peters' annual State of the University address Thursday afternoon. For the second year, the speech focused on the Vision 2020 initiative.During last year's...
"Welcome to another wonderful year at Faculty Senate."With these words Wednesday afternoon, Faculty Senate President Alan Rosenbaum opened another year for the legislative body and urged its members - which counts one voting member for each university...
