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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...

Student Association Senator Timothy Brandner speaks during the SA Senate meeting Jan. 24.

SA positions require time commitment

By Northern Star Editorial Board | January 25, 2016

With three Student Association official resignations one week into the semester, future and present SA officials should keep in mind the commitment involved with being an elected official.Applications for the SA director of Academic Affairs and director...

SA to hold final voter registration drive of semester

By Northern Star staff | December 2, 2015

The Student Association will hold its last voter registration drive of the semester Wednesday. The SA has registered 96 students during the fall 2015 semester, according to an SA news release. Students who are interested in registering are asked to bring...

SA to add Lucinda Avenue extension to Barsema Express

By Leah Nicolini | November 18, 2015

The Student Association may soon begin test runs of a modified HuskieLine bus route that will add the Lucinda Avenue extension to the Barsema Express.The Lucinda Avenue extension, a project that concludes with a ribbon cutting Wednesday at 2 p.m., extends...

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

SA VP to face impeachment

By Northern Star staff | November 16, 2015

The Student Association Senate held a closed hearing Sunday to discuss the impeachment of SA Vice President Reggie Bates.SA Senate Speaker Dillon Domke confirmed the purpose of the meeting, but declined to say why Bates faces impeachment.Bates was elected...

Students and community members demonstrate Oct. 29 in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons for an end to the Illinois budget impasse between Gov. Bruce Rauner and the General Assembly. The Student Association will begin a letter-writing campaign Friday so students can send their grievances to lawmakers. 

SA to hold letter-writing campaign on impasse

By Maxwell Bisaillon | November 12, 2015

The Student Association will begin a letter-writing campaign Friday to encourage students to write to their representatives about MAP grant funding and the budget impasse.SA Senate Speaker Dillon Domke said the campaign was created to provide students...

Michael Agro (left), Student Association director of Athletics, and Jackie Keith, interim director of Greek Affairs, talks to Shiza Ratakomda, senior mechanical engineering student, about SA events for National Hazing Prevention Week on Monday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons.

Q&A: SA promoting National Hazing Prevention Week awareness

By Alexander Chettiath | September 21, 2015

This week marks National Hazing Prevention Week, and the Student Association is making sure students are aware of it by setting up an information station in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons.Three fraternities — Kappa Alpha Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha and...

SA to correct legislative oversight in emergency meeting

By Northern Star staff | September 16, 2015

The Student Association Senate will meet Thursday to fix an oversight in election policy changes from the spring semester.The SA Senate intended to change the number of Senators who can be elected per district from eight to 10 an April 12 SA Senate meeting....

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,”...

Pass/fail: General education program to change, Super Bowl is why SA will take day off

By Shaz Sheikhali | January 30, 2014

PassThe general education program is finally getting a necessary face lift.The plan is to make gen. eds more relevant to students and their majors. This will make our time and money spent as students worth the while and financial burden.NIU is taking...

SA senate approves new directors at meeting

SA senate approves new directors at meeting

By Erin Kolb | May 5, 2013

The Student Association (SA) Senate held its last meeting for the spring 2013 semester Sunday. The Senate discussed a bill that would create an athletics committee for the SA. This bill has been brought up multiple times throughout the semester and was...

A student boards the 3A Huskie Bus on Tuesday at the Holmes Student Center. The Huskie Bus system will be seeing new route changes next semester.

Huskie bus routes to see major changes

By Mariah Stubbs-Johnson | April 30, 2013

Huskie Transit will save more than $150,000 with its changes to the fall 2013 bus route system, said Seth Peritz, Student Association director of mass transit. Bus route changes have been made for fall 2013 to make the routes more effective and convenient...