Family weekend is approaching fast. NIU's annual family weekend is Sept. 10 through Sept. 12.. Christina Bieche, graduate assistant for Huskie Family Connections, said family weekend is a great time to show off the campus. "Fall Family Weekend is not...
By Aaron Brooks, Adam Brown, Phil Case, Jessica Jenks, Portia Kerr-Newman, Kathryn Minniti, Demarcus Robinson, Logan Short, and Taurean Small
| September 9, 2010
This Saturday marks the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans and single-handedly defined a generation. For this week's "In Focus," various Northern Star columnists and editors will weigh in on this question: 9 years...
If you are lucky enough to be finishing up the last year or even semester of your academic career, you are probably being forced to address that question that lingers incessantly in the back of every good collegiate mind: Should I go to grad school or...
Most people nowadays will tell you that it is crucial to go to graduate school immediately after finishing your undergraduate education. Most people will not tell you, however, that it might not be in your best interest. Is it really a good idea to remain...
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. At 9:41 a.m. Tuesday,...
"Strip down and run." Six students laughed around a table on the second floor of the Holmes Student Center Tuesday night. "Come on, it's for a good cause," the group continued as they came up with more alluding advertisement slogans for the Second Annual...
The Student Association held a meeting in the Holmes Student Center Heritage Room at 6 p.m. Tuesday for students interested in running in the upcoming senate elections. “[The meeting] informed students about the application and election process and...
The Northern Star will list the best and the worse, the practical and the impractical, the prettiest and ugliest things about a particular news topic. Partly irreverent, partly serious, all true. This week, we present five people who could step into Mayor...
I was walking across campus to andfrom my car and I could not help but notice the amount of trash allover campus. It has only been little over a week and there are popcans, bags, coffee cups, lids and Northern Stars all scatteredacross the once clean...
AMES, IOWA | When the NIU football team stepped onto the field at Jack Trice Stadium Thursday, head coach Jerry Kill believed that there was something missing. His fear was quickly confirmed as his team showed an inability to play with a sense of urgency...
In Thursday night's season opener, the better part of America got a glimpse at what is a new facet of NIU's football team: names on the back of the jerseys. The names are just one change of the Huskies' new threads they'll sport all season. I don't have...
The current generation of video game consoles has given us gamers a reason to celebrate: downloadable content (DLC).Once reserved for PC games as expansion packs or third-party mods, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 allows Internet-connected gamers to download...
