DeKALB | Helping Hands is holding a “Girls Fight Back” self-defense program next week. Latasha Bennett, president of Helping Hands and coordinator of the program, said it is usually only held in the Stevenson residence halls but is going to be held...
There was a man who was born in an apartment above a bar in Tampico, Ill. He would later become a Hollywood actor, and then the President of the United States. Monday night, the NIU Student Association and the NIU College Republicans celebrated Ronald...
Huskie Bus Line patrons may have noticed several changes to the mass transit system earlier this week. The non-student rider fare increased from 75 cents to $1. Routes 2 and 7 no longer stop at Micro Solutions, Inc., 132 W. Lincoln Highway, and stops...
DeKALB | The Student Association Senate voted unanimously to approve about $15,000 in supplemental funding to the NIU Ice Hockey Club on Sunday night. If the club had not been approved the funds, it would have been suspended as a student organization...
February is Black History Month, so it is fitting to read a letter to the editor regarding the newly appointed president pro tempore of the Senate and a letter she wrote herself many years ago regarding racial tension in her dorm. In her letter, she asked...
Do you know what is in the U.S. Constitution? Do you know all of your rights? Do you know what the government can and cannot do to you? Well, chances are...you don't know. In 2006, the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum released a study showing that more...
I just wanted to state that terms like "mutiny" are not overreaching when addressing the events surrounding the SA Senate meeting on Jan. 30. The actions of the new president pro tempore served as an outlandish example of everything politics is not supposed...
DeKALB | NIU is the only university in Illinois or the Mid-America Conference that offers unlimited free printing, a benefit that students will enjoy for some time to come. The Computing Facilities Advisory Committee was considering implementing a fee...
During the debate on the confirmation of Winnie Okafor, I brought up a letter that she had written to the Northern Star because of its racially charged tone. I was accused of taking things Ms. Okafor had written out of context, but that doesn't dismiss...
DeKALB | The position of president pro tempore was a point of contention among the members of the Student Association Senate during its Sunday night meeting. Ryan Smith was removed from his position by Speaker of the Senate Jeremy Peters on Friday, and...
Looking back on the last semester of student politics, there is no doubt that the SSDP [Students for Sensible Drug Policy] fiasco was the biggest issue that confronted the Student Association. I can only hope that Student Affairs and Enrollment Management's...
What's the point of the Student Association? At the end of last semester, the Student Association Senate denied recognition to the NIU Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP). Over winter break, however, John Jones, Associate Vice President for Student...
