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How to keep your paint one color, NIU parking tips

By Aaron Brooks | February 19, 2012

The primal pavements of the parking lots are NIU's ghetto. Commuter students are pinned against one and other to compete for a limited resource: a parking spot. "The man" tells us that there are plenty of parking spots to go around. We must work with...

Campus blotter for 2/20/12

By Northern Star Staff | February 19, 2012

The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety.   Wednesday At 3:35...

Letter is ‘morale-crushing propaganda’

By Letter to the editor | February 15, 2012

Apparently, an angry article about unemployment and student debt is "morale-crushing propaganda."Ms. Howard says that she works "one job that pays for less than a quarter of [her] housing." If this is so, then she is either going to be over $40,000 in...

Campus blotter for 2/16/12

By Northern Star Staff | February 15, 2012

The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. MONDAYAt 6:47 p.m.,...

Columnist questions Black History Month’s value

By Taurean Small | February 14, 2012

"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" asked Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman in a 2008 interview for CBS's 60 Minutes when asked his opinion about Black History Month. Four years later, entertainer Whoopi Goldberg briefly groans...

X has yet to hit his mark

By Brian Belford | February 14, 2012

Xavier Silas always seemed destined for success.If you call success the NBA Developmental League, then he's achieved it.Yes, the Silas of the surplus Twitter followers and never-ending NBA dreams now toils away under the radar on the Philadelphia 76ers'...

Campus blotter for 2/15/12

By Northern Star Staff | February 14, 2012

The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. SUNDAY At 12:29 a.m.,...

Theory of higher education doesn’t match reality

By Linze Griebenow | February 13, 2012

College students are in a perpetual state of motivational fatigue, and with good reason.The current political, economical and social climates serve as the perfect breeding ground for an anomic crisis, a constant state of feeling adrift and unsure. From...

A wreath rests next to the Feb. 14 Memorial Sunday afternoon.
The presentation of the Memorial Wreaths will take place at 3 p.m.
Tuesday outside Cole Hall.

Students: Feb. 14 shooting brought NIU closer together

By Felix Sarver | February 13, 2012

Though many students were not attending NIU on Feb. 14, 2008, those who have joined the community since then are still reminded of the tragedy.That day - when Steven Kazmierczak entered a class in Cole Hall and opened fire, killing five students and injuring...

Editorial: Obama’s promises have small chance of becoming reality

By Northern Star Editorial Board | February 12, 2012

In his 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama promised to make university education more available to Americans.His plan included promises to freeze upcoming rises in federal student loan interest, double the number of work-study jobs available...

Marian Gebo (right), Pamela Brown (middle) and Barbara Fash
(left) look at a collection of Korean masks in the Anthropology
Museum Sunday afternoon during the grand opening of Cole Hall.

Cole Hall anthropology museum holds open house

By Hailey Kurth | February 12, 2012

Over 300 gathered in newly renovated Cole Hall for a first glance at its anthropology museum and to check out the high-tech technology in the classrooms. Interim museum director Sara Pfannkuche said she was very happy with the museum space. The new museum...

Campus blotter for 2/13/12

By Northern Star Staff | February 12, 2012

The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. TUESDAY At 11:23 p.m.,...