By Ethan Ernst, Opinion Columnist
| October 20, 2024
Residence hall security at NIU is extensive; Neptune Hall alone requires students to scan their keycard and use their keys at least twice just to enter their room. But this security can be problematic for careless students.
Just a few weeks ago, I...
By Jack Baudoin, Lifestyle writer
| January 21, 2020
With billions of people using social media, concerns regarding user security should be higher now than ever before. Social media is more popular than it has ever been, with 3.8 billion people using it in 2019, according to a Nov. 6 article by TheNextWeb.TikTok...
Campus security proved its capabilities Sept. 7 with the arrest of Cinque C. Simmons, of Chicago. Simmons was a student at NIU until Sept. 7 when he was arrested at Huskie Stadium and charged with the possession of a firearm without a firearm owner’s...
At a community meeting Wednesday night, DeKalb Police Chief John Petragallo agreed to post a daily breakdown of arrests by race and economic status to the department’s social media, following a demand by a resident.DeKalb community members filled New...
The government shutdown continues into its fourth week, caused by a so-called “crisis” at the border that is neither new nor dire.Border apprehensions have been on a stark downward trend since the early 2000s, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center...
Security in the municipal building has left something to be desired, according to some city officials, since the city police moved out of the municipal building to their station on West Lincoln Highway.Previously, the municipal building, 200 S. Fourth...
Aside from the construction of the new police station, the DeKalb Police Department is continuously making improvements to increase its efficacy in the field. “It seems like everything that’s been in the talks for the last couple of years is actually...
A new facility with around 120 motion-detecting cameras, an intercom system, telephones in each classroom and fire-retardant gates does not come cheap. However, these safety measures - installed in the new DeKalb High School, 501 W. Dresser Road - were...
NIU released the 2011 Clery Act security report last week.The report offers crime statistics for the 2010 calendar year.According to the report, the NIU Police Department saw an increase in burglaries in 2010, with 19 cases. This is compared to 14 cases...
NIU has faced a lot of misfortunes over the past several years: the Feb. 14 shootings, the Antinette "Toni" Keller incident, a shooting outside of Stevenson last year, the football player who was recently shot. Despite all of this, I still believe that...
The greatest season of the year has arrived: baseball season. The best thing to do on a day off is to go down to the city and enjoy a good ol' baseball game, which may or may not involve talking trash to the other team and their fans. I am a born and...
The economy in DeKalb is getting better, but we still have work to do. The unemployment rate in DeKalb dropped to 8.22 percent in December 2010, which is down from a high of 11.65 percent in January 2010, according to the Illinois Department of Employment...
