DeKALB | NIU Parking Services does more for students than help with their car and issue parking permits and tickets - it offers an environmentally-friendly method of travel.Parking Services offers NIU students, staff and faculty a free program called...
After an off-season filled with fervor and anticipation, NIU women's volleyball is set to host the NIU Invitational to kick off its season. The Huskies have won six straight matches in the invite after sweeping the event last year. NIU's last loss in...
By The first week of classes is over. What advice would you give feshmen on successfully making it through the first year?
| August 25, 2011
Aaron Brooks Columnist Do not give up. If you never have a moment where you want to give up during these next four years, then you are very lucky. For most of you, however, life will bring, at some point, overbearing hardships. Whatever those hardships...
One of the most challenging aspects of college life for students can be living with a roommate. Some students, like freshman business major Kevin Ohren, get along with their roommates without previously knowing them. "It's been fun, and I enjoy being...
The familiar four-bin recycling system is slowly disappearing from NIU.The multicolored recycling bins are a common sight anywhere on the NIU campus. They are slowly being phased out, however, by a newer, single-bin system."We're trying to update NIU's...
In a day where jobs are hard to come by, graduates can use anything on their resumes to set themselves apart from the millions of other job hunters. Area studies in Southeast Asia, Burmese and Latino and Latin America can provide exactly that resume booster....
The Student Association will host a Pep Rally for the football season opener between NIU and the Army Black Knights on Sept. 1 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Central Park.There will be free food, a DJ and free t-shirts. Cheerleaders, Huskies football players and...
Junior Daniel Cruz said when he sees clusters of people around campus, he just runs up to them and starts talking."I just tend to go up and strike up conversation," Cruz, a manufacturing engineering technology major, said. "As long as you don't have any...
By Melissa Burlingame and Program Coordinator of Environmental Studies
| August 24, 2011
Welcome back to the red, black...and green! The year 2011 marks the beginning of new partnerships for NIU in the realm of the environment, sustainability and energy. A new student group hit the ground running in the spring, building services started testing...
It is a new school year which means a fresh new start with new beginnings for everyone, whether you're an incoming freshman or a soon to be graduating senior. To start the school year off on a high note, students should strive for a more positive attitude...
I'm writing in response to the planned Monsanto advertisement on a DeKalb water tower. Here's a little about Monsanto: It's a U.S based agricultural biotechnology company known for creating the herbicide "roundup." Monsanto is also known for its aggressive...
"Beep, beep, beep, ugh!" is how most upperclassman started Monday. Freshmen, however, had that mixture of excitement and nervousness that made them standout from the droned masses. Personally speaking, it is nice to be back in class, but my enthusiasm...
