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The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student Government Association sign hangs on a wall located in the Holmes Student Center ground floor in the OASIS space. SGA held the Fall 2025 State of SGA Address on Monday. (Rachel Cormier | Northern Star)

SGA touts student org growth among successes at address

By Mariestrella Corral, Assistant News Editor | April 28, 2025

DeKALB — NIU’s Student Government Association (SGA) held its State of the SGA event in the Capital Room of the Student Holmes Center on Monday. They reflected on their accomplishments for the 2024-2025 academic year. President Ja’Kobe Jones reflected...

Senators Kevin Klister (left) and Matt Robinson sit and listen at the SGA meeting on Oct. 18, 2024. On Friday, SGA failed to meet quorum and scrapped all remaining legislation as a result.

SGA fails to meet quorum, scraps remaining legislation

By Austin Lamb, News Editor | April 28, 2025

DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) failed to meet the quorum of 11 senators required to conduct a senate meeting and scrapped all remaining legislation for this year’s session. The SGA had 10 of the 11 senators required at Friday’s...

(From left to right) Chairperson Crawford, Senators Chigurupati, Woodson, Ivy, Samuel, Udoh and Boniecki are pictured at the Student Government Association’s Senate meeting on Friday. The Senate approved its annual funding for student organizations. (Austin Lamb | Northern Star)

SGA passes annual funding budget for student organizations

By Austin Lamb, News Editor | April 21, 2025

DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) approved its annual funding budget for  student organizations and passed several other bills and resolutions at Friday’s meeting. RESOLUTION TO APPROVE SGA ANNUAL FUNDING BUDGET FOR ORGANIZATIONS The...

(From left to right) Senators Klister, Lavallias, Chigurupati, Deputy Speaker Gonzalez, Chairperson Monteleone and Senator Obabko are pictured at the Student Government Association’s Senate meeting on Friday. The Senate confirmed Nathan Gonzalez as the Speaker of the Senate for next year. (Austin Lamb | Northern Star)

SGA confirms new speaker of the senate

By Austin Lamb, News Editor | April 13, 2025

DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) confirmed Nathan Gonzalez as Speaker of the Senate for the 57th session at its meeting Friday. RESOLUTION TO CONFIRM SPEAKER OF THE SENATE FOR 57TH SESSION The SGA passed a resolution to confirm...

At a March 7 meeting, Senator Trevor Ivy discusses issues that prevented SGA’s Supreme Court from meeting. The SGA passed a bill Friday that updated responsibilities of the Chief justice. (Austin Lamb | Northern Star)

SGA passes bills to improve transparency with judicial branch

By Austin Lamb, News Editor | March 24, 2025

DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) passed several bills aimed at improving the transparency of the judicial branch and announced election information at Friday’s meeting.   In Illinois, the Open Meetings Act (OMA) requires...

Senator Trevor Ivy discusses issues that prevented SGA’s Supreme Court from meeting. Chief Justice Max Jarmula spoke to the senate about communication and scheduling problems at the SGA’s meeting on March 7. (Austin Lamb | Northern Star)

SGA passes bill to prevent removed senators from running in future sessions

By Austin Lamb, News Editor | March 17, 2025

DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a bill to prevent removed senators from being reappointed in a following session and announced several events at their meeting on March 7. BILL TO PREVENT REMOVED SENATORS FROM BEING APPOINTED...

The Student Government Association sign hangs on a wall in the Holmes Student Center in the OASIS pit in 2022. SGA is hosting a special election on Wednesday for 10 open legislative seats. (Northern Star File Photo)

SGA passed bill to introduce executive orders

By Austin Lamb, News Editor | March 3, 2025

Correction: "SGA passed a bill to introduce executive orders for President Ja’Kobe Jones." was changed to "SGA passed a bill to introduce executive orders for future presidential administrations." on Sunday, March 16. The Student Government Association...

Ashley Johnson, SGA's chief of staff, stands behind a podium and addresses the crowd during the state of the SGA address held at noon Wednesday in the Sandburg Auditorium located in the Holmes Student Center. During the event, Johnson introduced each speaker before they gave their addresses. (Tim Dodge | Northern Star)

SGA holds annual State of the SGA Address

By Kahlil Kambui, Opinion Editor | December 5, 2024

DeKALB – Leaders of the Student Government Association gave an address surrounding the accomplished goals and future plans for the SGA. The State of the SGA Address occurred from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes...

Speaker Manny Corpuz and Clerk Cameron Sawyer sit at a table while Corpuz bangs the gavel on the table during the Student Government Association meeting Friday. Senator Matt Robinson was reinstated as senator at the meeting on Friday. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star)

Matt Robinson reinstated to SGA

By Kahlil Kambui, Opinion Editor | November 28, 2024

DeKALB –  Senator Matt Robinson was reinstated as senator in the SGA meeting Friday after being dismissed from the student government body one week prior for accumulating too many absences.  Robinson’s dismissal was announced in the previous...

A table of the Punk Rock Club sits at the Oasis area on Thursday during the Discover Your Pack event hosted by the Student Government Association. The Discover Your Pack event promotes organizations recently approved from SGA to try and get students involved in their organizations. (Marco Alvarez | Northern Star)

SGA holds first Discover Your Pack event

By Kahlil Kambui, Opinion Editor | November 22, 2024

DeKALB — The Punk Rock Club, Economic Student Association, National Pre-Med Association, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the English Teaching Licensure Club were all in attendance at the Oasis area of the Holmes Student Center. Thursday SGA...

Speaker Manny Corpuz and Clerk Cameron Sawyer sit at a table while Speaker Corpuz bangs the gavel on the table. Senator Matt Robinson was dismissed from the SGA Senate Friday due to accumulating too many absences. (Tim Dodge | Northern Star)

Matt Robinson dismissed from SGA senate

By Kahlil Kambui, Opinion Editor | November 18, 2024

DeKALB – Speaker Manny Corpuz announced that Senator Matt Robinson was dismissed from the SGA Senate due to too many absences at the Student Government Association meeting Friday. “I'd also like to point out that Senator Robinson has been removed...

Senators Kevin Klister and Caitlin Field sit at a table and listen to Speaker Manny Corpuz talk at the SGA meeting Friday. SGA passed resolution SR56014, which confirmed that senators will receive a stipend amount of $250 for the spring semester. (Ethan Rodriguez | Northern Star)

Cooper Vaske dismissed from SGA senate

By Kahlil Kambui, Opinion Editor | November 10, 2024

DeKALB – During a speaker report at the Student Government Association meeting Friday, Speaker Manny Corpuz announced Senator Cooper Vaske was dismissed from SGA. “Over the past week, I've been able to update interview Senate attendance. In correlation...

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