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4 best places to get warm around campus

4 best places to get warm around campus

By Northern Star staff | February 23, 2015

It’s important to bundle up and avoid frostbite by stopping to warm up frequently.Here are the coziest and best places to warm up on campus and around DeKalb.Neptune CentralNeptune Central has fireplaces, relaxing piano music, comfy couches — what...

Fashion comes from within, live up to your own style

By Olivia Rajska | October 14, 2012

While enjoying my coffee at Starbucks, I spotted Heather Baier’s outfit. The junior biology and nursing major seemed to be right on target with her personal approach to style. Baier was wearing a light blue chambray button-up shirt, gray cardigan sweater...

Only living once turning into a popluar fad poor choices

Only living once turning into a popluar fad poor choices

By Troy Doetch | July 1, 2012

Just as a suburban white girl says her iPhone case is “ghetto,” as your dad calls your friends “dawgz,” so did I start using the acronym YOLO, ironically, with the intention of being cute. But things got a little out of hand. YOLO, I guess. As...

Black is on the attack

By Connor Rice | October 5, 2011

DeKALB | Even at a live performance, one doesn't see Lewis Black in concert so much as they hear him. But offstage, the rant-prone comedian is rather laid-back, talking almost at a whisper compared to his famous persona, which will appear at 8 p.m. tonight...

Lacey Olvera-Perez, freshman elementary education major prepares
a drink for a customer at the Coffee Corner Tuesday afternoon.

The buzz on DeKalb’s Bean Scene

By Sarah Renae Contreras | September 27, 2011

As academic life becomes more manic, many of us will be searching for ways to perk up our bodies and minds. The answer to our need is simple: coffee. Devotees of the delicious drink know quite well the warming effect a good cup of coffee can have on the...

Senior psychology major Natalie Herzog prepares a footlong sub
at the Subway located in the Holmes Student Center Monday
evening.

NIU finds ways to provide services, jobs

By Felix Sarver | September 19, 2011

Fast food and coffee shops are usually better provided by the university than by popular restaurants like McDonald's or Starbucks, NIU officials say. NIU worked with McDonald's, Pepsi and Subway in the past, said Eddie Williams, executive vice president...

A guide to eating at NIU

By Troy Doetch | March 22, 2011

DeKALB | There are a few reasons to have lunch on-campus: cafés are within walking distance from your classes, they can be cheaper than the corporate alternative, and you've already shelled out cash for Huskie Bucks which are burning a hole in your pocket....

DeKalb offers wide coffee selection

By Allyson Martin | November 10, 2010

Coffee shops around DeKalb vary in their atmospheres, types of coffee and the amount of events going on in them. The Coffee Corner on campus serves Starbucks coffee at the Holmes Student Center. There is no seating set aside specifically for the coffee...