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Pass/Fail: Diversity class will foster acceptance; MTV star deserved better fan support

By Brooklyn Harper | October 6, 2016

Pass: Diversity class will foster acceptanceOn Sunday, the Student Association Senate approved a resolution which will require students starting their first semester at NIU in fall 2017 and after to take at least one credit in a human diversity course...

Campus counseling demand increases

By Scott Nicol | April 18, 2016

DeKalb | Juan Cibrian, junior psychology and Spanish language and literature major, said a long waitlist at Counseling and Consultation Services prevented him from receiving help for his resurfacing symptoms of anxiety and depression.Cibrian said another...

SA Senate elects first female speaker

By Madison Kacer | April 4, 2016

Student Association Senator Christine Wang was voted as the first female Senate speaker for the upcoming one-year term, which begins after the last session of this term in May.The duties of the speaker include leading the legislative branch allocating...

Student Association to hold Manditory Candidates Meeting

By Northern Star staff | February 25, 2016

All students who wish to run for Student Association Senate or any Executive Branch position must attend a mandatory candidates meeting. Students can either attend a candidate meeting at 6 p.m. March 1 at the Campus Life Building, room 100 or 4 p.m. March...

SA needs to prep new trustee

By Northern Star Editorial Board | February 4, 2016

The Student Association must prepare student trustee candidates as they wait for the Board of Trustees to adapt a policy for filling the student trustee vacancy.Raquel Chavez resigned from her position as student trustee to focus on her role as a law...

Reggie Bates, then Student Association vice presidential candidate, talks to students April 25 in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons. 

Student Association vice president found not guilty for neglect of duty

By Northern Star staff | November 24, 2015

Reggie Bates, Student Association Vice President, will remain in office after a nine-hour impeachment process in which he was found not guilty for neglect of duty.The Student Association Senate charged Bates with neglect of duty based on eight specifications...

Students, SA can increase voter turnout for election

By Northern Star Editorial Board | October 5, 2015

With a voter turnout of 3.24 percent in the Student Association Senate elections, a major change has to be made in the attitude of students and SA election promotion to increase voter turnout.Only 653 students out of 20,130 students enrolled at NIU voted...

SA election turnout fall continues

By Alexander Chettiath and Maggie Koll | October 1, 2015

More than 600 students voted in the first online Student Association Senate elections, said Election Commissioner Kevin Gordon, a decrease from last year’s 720 student turnout.Student turnout for SA Senate elections have been on a decline for the past...

SA Senate begins election campaigning

By Maggie Koll | September 21, 2015

Dillon Domke, Student Association Senate Speaker, said candidates will hand out flyers and attend student organization meetings as campaigning for the SA Senate elections enters its first full week.There are 40 seats available on the SA Senate, with just...

Senate will not act on senator’s domestic battery charge

By Northern Star staff | September 10, 2015

The Student Association Senate will not be taking any action as of Tuesday regarding a senator who is facing charges of domestic battery.SA Senator Leon Kincaid, 32, of DeKalb, was charged with domestic battery Sept. 2. Kincaid serves as a senator to...

SA Senate candidates prepare for elections

By Alexander Chettiath | September 10, 2015

Around 100 people showed up to Tuesday and Wednesday’s mandatory Student Association Senate candidate meetings in anticipation for the Sept. 29 and 30 election.“The meetings are for candidates who want to run in the Student Association Senate elections,”...

SA Senate elections to go online with new features

SA Senate elections to go online with new features

By Dilip Kumar Sripuram | September 8, 2015

Senior communications major Marguerite Mallory votes online for the Student Association executive elections at the Founders Memorial Library polling station on March 24. This fall’s SA Senate elections will also use social media website Huskie Link...