The MAC baseball season is quite similar to that of a nine-inning baseball game. Throughout the course of the season, the Huskies (16-21, 11-4 MAC) play nine weekend series against MAC opponents. The games are crucial in deciding the Huskies’ place...
After watching the Huskie Bowl, I can’t say I’m 100 percent certain as to how the football team will do this season. The biggest issue I see is that the team is very dependent on senior quarterback Jordan Lynch. Redshirt freshman Drew Hare has found...
Senior Allie Parthie has had a long and successful career for the women’s golf team. Statistically she’s been the team’s best player the past three seasons as she’s tallied the lowest stroke per round average. The Huskies’ No. 1 golfer is actually...
Even though fewer parking tickets have been issued in the past few years, Parking Services still collected more than $545,000 in ticket revenue in Fiscal Year 2012, according to information provided by Parking Services Director Scott Kangas. Parking Services...
According to college-insight.org, the average college student attending a public university in Illinois in 2011 accumulated an average of $26,470 in debt. To help students, NIU’s Financial Literacy Collaborative and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago...
With new class schedules to be made, NIU students are using sites like Ratemyprofessors.com to find reviews of potential fall professors. History professor Stanley Arnold has a total of 123 ratings and rated 4.1 out of five in overall quality. Arnold...
Hot on the heels of four consecutive victories, the softball team is getting ready for a midweek departure from conference play as it hosts Western Illinois at 4 p.m. today at Mary M. Bell Field. Western Illinois (13-19) will come into DeKalb as the winner...
Environmentally friendly movies are coming to a campus near you. NIU’s Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy and the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Information Technologies are hosting the third annual Green Lens...
Food, fashion, crafts and performances were among the festivities at this year’s Southeast Asia Club festival on Saturday. The Southeast Asia club decided to do things differently this year by hosting an annual festival instead of its typical performances,...
Earth Day is April 22, and there are many ways people can keep the environment in mind. Melissa Burlingame, program coordinator for NIU’s Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy, said saving energy is one of the easiest...
Adam Kinzinger, U.S. Representative for the 16th District in Illinois, put himself in the hot seat at a town hall style meeting at the Holmes Student Center Saturday. Kinzinger responded to questions about taxation, gun control and student issues. Kinzinger...
At a point in the season where it really needed to pick up wins at a rapid pace, softball went on the road and swept Kent State and Buffalo. NIU (17-26, 7-7 MAC) traveled to Kent State (21-16-1, 11-5 MAC) on Friday to take on a squad that had only lost...
