TOLEDO, OHIO | The year before Ray Gooden became NIU head volleyball coach, the Huskies won the Mid-American Conference Tournament in a 3-0 defeat of Ball State. The year was 2001, in which the Huskies went 24-6, with a 15-3 MAC record. Nine years later,...
Is this the best football team ever at NIU? I pose the question as the Huskies, after a 59-21 dismantling of Ball State, have outscored their last two opponents 124-51. They have won eight straight games, the team’s longest winning streak since 1965,...
There are a lot of things the NIU football team has never done. Before Saturday for example, the Huskies had never paired a MAC West title with an eight-game win streak. One 59-21 triumph over Ball State later and NIU can celebrate its eighth consecutive...
DeKALB | Seven was the lucky number for Courtney Shelton Friday night. With just 1.8 seconds left on the clock the junior guard drained a half-court buzzer beater to lead the NIU women’s basketball team (3-1) over Southern Illinois (0-3), 46-45. Shelton...
By The Northern Star Editorial Board
| November 21, 2010
The disappearance and subsequent investigation of NIU student Antinette “Toni” Keller has prompted questions about the safety of NIU and DeKalb. After all, NIU must be dangerous with such high-profile incidents like the Keller case and the Feb. 14...
Allan Barsema, senior research associate for the Center of Government Studies, was one of 10 nominees who won the Purpose Prize. The award is given to honor making an extraordinary impact on the community in an encore career. There were more than 1,400...
NIU students may soon have lighter backpacks as more professors make the switch to online textbooks. "That's kind of been the going trend in the last few years," said Ryan Licari, assistant textbook manager at the Village Commons Bookstore, 901 Lucinda...
People in the community rallied together in the Walk With Women Against Violence on Sunday in the MLK Commons. Head coordinator Megan Flack, along with coordinators Candace Anderson and Christine Munz, all senior family and child studies majors, said...
NIU's Student Involvement and Leadership Development office hosted its first annual LEAD NIU Summit Friday and Saturday. Speakers came to speak with students about setting goals and building leadership skills. "The LEAD NIU Summit was a huge success,"...
By Rikki Cottrell and Shaun Zinck
| November 18, 2010
The Student Association chief of staff and RHA president resigned Thursday after being arrested and charged Wednesday night with possession of cannabis. Jonathan Kite, 21, was arrested at 10:20 p.m. Wednesday after NIU Police were called to Neptune North...
Company of Thieves almost sealed their fate in a casket marked "another literary band" when they quoted Oscar Wilde's The Duchess of Padua in their 2009 single. Fortunately, Wilde is not to Company of Thieves as Chuck Palahniuk is to Panic! At The Disco,...
Famous jazz musician Wycliffe Gordon will join the NIU Jazz Ensemble tonight at 8 p.m. in the Duke Ellington Ballroom. Gordon has performed on such television channels as BET and PBS, and appeared in the Ken Burn's documentary "Jazz," in addition to performing...
