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Student Association seeks ways to help student veterans

Student Association seeks ways to help student veterans

By Keith Hernandez | March 19, 2015

A Student Association senator wants to hear from student veterans about their mental health after the SA Senate demanded NIU fill a vacant counseling position.SA Senator Leon Kincaid began discussing ways to make counseling resources known to student...

Bridges to Employment

Bridges to Employment

By Ryan Ocasio | March 19, 2015

Graduate student Curtis Miller (left) speaks with Gary Jenson, assistant adjutant of the American Legion Department of Illinois, during the Bridges to Employment event Wednesday in Altgeld Hall. Student veterans had the opportunity to listen to a veteran...

Roberto Santiago (left) and Adam Lichtenauer (right) pose for a photo in their uniforms.

Student soldiers adjust to life overseas

By Hailey Kurth | February 26, 2012

They work out, watch TV, play Xbox and conduct escort missions for Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in East Afghanistan. NIU students Corporal (CPL) Adam Lichtenauer, from Stillman Valley, and Specialist (SPC) Roberto Santiago, from Harvard, have...