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NIU sees low trend in parking ticket fines

By Logan Love | April 22, 2013

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...

NIU offers resources during Money Smart Week

By Guadalupe Lopez | April 22, 2013

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...

Website allows students to review their instructors

By Guadalupe Lopez | April 22, 2013

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...

Freshman Stephanie Wonders swings at bat on April 12 in the game against Central Michigan University.

Softball looks to continue streak at Western Illinois

By Matt Hopkinson | April 22, 2013

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...

NIU to hold annual Green Lens Festival

By Kelly Marshall | April 22, 2013

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...

NIU business professor Ozlem Ozkanli samples Thai food Saturday at the Southeast Asian Festival in rm. 100 of Anderson Hall.

Southeast Asia Club holds annual cultural festival

By Mariah Stubbs-Johnson | April 21, 2013

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,...

Kathryn Olson, senior environmental studies major, shows two-year-old Eleanor Burlingame how to make paper-bag trees on Saturday at the Green Family fun day in Haish Gym.

City offers resources for Earth Week

By Erin Kolb | April 21, 2013

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...

Congressman delivers townhall at NIU

By Ali Combs | April 21, 2013

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...

Softball picks up momentum at Kent State, sweeps Buffalo

By Matt Hopkinson | April 21, 2013

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...

Women’s teenis falls to Ohio and Ball State

By Thomas Hiley III | April 21, 2013

In its last weekend of the season, the women’s tennis team had some highs and lows as it faced the Ball State Cardinals (14-10, 5-3 MAC) and Miami of Ohio RedHawks (11-12, 7-1 MAC). The Huskies lost both matches 5-2 to put them 14-10 on the season and...

Track and field has strong showing at home tournament

By Ed Rietveld | April 21, 2013

Track and field team took full advantage of being at home this weekend as the Huskies came away with nine event titles at the Huskie open, five on the track and four in the field. Megan Gregory, senior sprinter and hurdler, came away with two titles on...

There are other ways to get around campus

By AJ Edwards | April 21, 2013

We all know waiting at the bus stop can be annoying, and finding a parking space can bring about some serious road rage. I’m talking “Fried Green Tomatoes” road rage where some jerk steals that parking spot you would have had if those students crossing...