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Attendees of 'Take Back the Night' gather in the MLK Commons prior to the march to listen to several speakers share their story.

Students advocate for a safer campus community during ‘Take Back the Night’

By Sophia Mullowney | October 18, 2018

Attendees of 'Take Back the Night' gather in the MLK Commons prior to the march to listen to several speakers share their story.

Take Back the Night

Take Back the Night

By Amy Langner | October 8, 2015

Authors, playwrights to read monolouges

By Northern Star Staff | April 16, 2014

Eve Ensler’s “A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer” will be presented by the Women’s Rights Alliance.Participants will present monologues at 7:15 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center.The...

Sorority hosts events to promote domestic violence awareness

By Felix Sarver | October 1, 2012

The Alpha Phi Gamma (APG) sorority held Shout the Facts near Lucinda Avenue and Normal Road Monday. The sorority teamed up with the Women’s Rights Alliance and Gamma Phi Omega to shout out statistics on abuse, rape and physical assault as drivers and...

Vagina Seminars covers diverse range of topics Wednesday

By Hailey Kurth | March 8, 2012

Not many seminars are stocked with condoms and vagina-shaped chocolate, but this one was. The Women’s Rights Alliance and Women’s Studies Program offered “Vagina Seminars” Tuesday and Wednesday night, each with different presentations. Alyssa...

Women’s Studies Program sponsors seventh annual sticker day

By Hailey Kurth | February 29, 2012

Today, feminists walk the sidewalks of NIU - and they’re not afraid who knows it. To kick-off Women’s History Month, the Women’s Studies Program is sponsoring its seventh annual sticker day. Everyone on campus is welcome to stop by their office...

Deyonna Dunigan, S.I.S.T.E.R.S. Organization of NIU, recites
poetry to support awareness of domestic violence at Take Back the
Night on Tuesday night.

NIU ‘makes a statement’ against nighttime violence

By Hailey Kurth | October 5, 2011

DeKalb community members, students and faculty gathered Tuesday night at the MLK Commons to march against sexual and nighttime violence. "We're waking everybody up to let them know there are times that we are going to be out at night, and it's nobody's...