By Austin Lamb, Assistant 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...
By Austin Lamb, Assistant 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...
By Austin Lamb, Assistant News Editor
| February 24, 2025
DeKALB – The Student Government Association (SGA) confirmed two new senators, finalized a stipend for the board of elections and established an ad hoc, or temporary, committee focused on transportation at their meeting Friday.
RESOLUTION TO CONFIRM...
DeKALB – A sitting senator for NIU’s Student Government Association (SGA) was removed from office during the senate’s Friday meeting.
Bino Rosales was removed for what senators say was a repeated lack of communication and several absences during...
By Austin Lamb, Assistant News Editor
| February 11, 2025
This piece was updated as of 2/17 to make a correction.
Correction: The Northern Star previously wrote there was discussion to remove Chairperson Gonzalez. The discussion was to remove Chairperson Rosales.
DeKALB – At Friday’s Student Government...
DeKALB - The Student Government Association elected five new senators and changed requirements to increase student representation at its meeting on Friday.
SGA ELECTS FIVE NEW SENATORS
The Student Government Association came to a resolution to...
DeKALB – NIU’s student body supreme court justices will be summoned by the SGA to explain what the court has been doing.
The SGA passed resolution 56019 which requires the justices to appear before the SGA on Friday.
Some members of SGA were...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| April 29, 2024
DeKALB – During Friday’s SGA senate meeting, Speaker Cole Hensley introduced a petition to terminate current Chief Justice of the SGA Supreme Court Elliot Weiskopf.
In the petition for Weiskopf’s termination, it noted the court failed to convene...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| April 15, 2024
DeKALB – On Friday, the Student Government Association senate continued to discuss constitutional bills. Two of which, SR55049 and SR55050, were read again and will be voted on at the next SGA senate meeting.
BILL TO CLARIFY SELECTION CRITERIA OF SUPREME...
DeKALB – After nearly four years of service, Speaker Dallas Douglass has announced his plans to step down as speaker of the Student Government Association.
Serving as speaker of the senate since March 2021, Douglass announced his departure at Friday's...
Clarification: The public comment by Jacob Berg was submitted as an email and read by Speaker Dallas Douglass.
DeKALB – The usual calm of the Student Government Association senate’s weekly meeting was disrupted by an alum’s public comment,...
DeKALB – Following its recent elections, the Student Government Association has announced its plans to prepare a special election due to a lack of senators elected to the senate.
While the elections did result in 11 senators being elected to the...
