By Audrey Wilson and graduate clinical mental health
| August 31, 2015
I would like to take a minute to publicly thank Rasheen Lemon, from the NIU football team.I dropped my iPhone in the middle of a parking lot. Rasheen found my phone and took the time to call both my partner and my roommate in an effort to return my phone...
Correction: There is no Reading Day this semester. Perspective Editor Danny Cozzi was referring to Dec. 6, the Friday before finals.Pass: Use Reading Day as you need to; study, sleep equally importantReading Day is probably the best idea NIU has ever...
Football made history in a number of ways with its 33-14 victory over Western Michigan at Huskie Stadium on Senior Night.The Huskies (12-0, 8-0 MAC) finished the season with an unblemished record and went undefeated in the regular season for the first...
Less than two months in and the DeKalb Firefighters Union, Local 1236, has nearly reached its $30,000 fundraising goal from custom T-shirt sales and donations.The DeKalb Fire Department began a fundraising campaign for the Associated Firefighters of Illinois...
No. 5: Cafe has high hopes despite lease issueThe leasing issues with the House Cafe, 263 Lincoln Highway, have been going on for a while. While I’m not the biggest fan of the venue, I know many students find refuge here for music and find it a place...
Local support for the Huskies will be more visible next week, when an NIU football schedule will be put up on the corner of Lincoln Highway and First Street.The sign will cost about $8,000 and will be paid for by resources set aside by the athleticdepartment...
By Matt Hopkinson and Brian Thomas
| November 7, 2012
Matt Hopkinson: Well, Brian, with the judgement day of NIU football looming, what do you feel is going to be the biggest factor for a Huskie victory come Wednesday night? I personally feel that the key factor will be for NIU to maintain possession of...
Quarterback: The season so far has been unkind to junior quarterback Alex Zordich. Zordich has had two games this season where he threw for less than 100 yards. He has just eight touchdowns compared to three interceptions. Four of those touchdowns all...
In the upcoming football game with Buffalo, NIU will have to stop Buffalo’s ground game if it wants to have a shot at winning. The Bulls (1-4, 0-2 MAC) come into this matchup as a run-first offense, as they have totaled 1,127 yards on the ground in...
Behind timely defense and continued excellent output from the quarterback position, NIU football picked up its fifth win of the season in Muncie, Indiana. The Huskies (5-1, 2-0 MAC) defeated the Ball State Cardinals, (3-3, 1-2 MAC) 35-23 as NIU’s defense...
“Looks can be deceiving” is a good way to describe NIU’s first MAC game of the season. While NIU (4-1, 1-0 MAC) trampled over Central Michigan (2-2, 0-1 MAC) at the end of the game, defeating them 55-24, the two teams were separated by six points...
While the offensive statistics and display put forth by NIU against Central Michigan may seem more appealing, what the defense was able to do trumps that. It was able to do something twice in this game that it only managed to do once in the other four...
