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A boy skates by a painted wall reading "Paris, I love you" on Nov. 22. As Paris reeled from the worst attacks France has known since the end of World War II, its street artists took to city walls and billboards to paint notes of defiance. 

NIU student tells of experience in Paris after attacks

By Keith Hernandez | December 3, 2015

NIU student Andrew Daw was enjoying the Paris nightlife with friends on Nov. 13 when gunshots rang out a couple streets over.Daw, a senior French business translation major, didn’t hear the commotion from inside a taxi cab on the way to The Labo, a...

Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to members of the press during a visit to campus Oct. 29.

Rauner temporarily suspends accepting Syrian refugees

By Northern Star staff | November 16, 2015

Gov. Bruce Rauner has temporarily suspended accepting Syrian refugees in the wake of the attacks in Paris that have claimed more than 120 lives.“Our nation and our state have a shared history of providing safe haven for those displaced by conflict,...