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IN PICTURES: A bird’s eye view of NIU

By Zulfiqar Ahmed, Media Editor | February 10, 2022

TRENDING

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Attendees dance to the live house music hosted by Behind the Beats Pro from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday for DeKalb’s first House Music Fest in the Frank Van Buer Plaza. The fest featured food trucks, drinks from Fatty’s Pub & Grille and live DJs. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

DeKalb welcomes its first ever House Music Festival

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Flowers sit in front of marble headstones in a burial plot. Associate Professor Vera Lind centers her research around the topic of death. (Getty Images)

NIU professor who devoted her life to learning about death

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle is parked outside the Cook County Courthouse. ICE has continued their enforcement in Chicago with agents throughout the city. (REUTERS/Octavio Jones)

ICE presence ramps up in Chicago, forces cancellation of Mexican Independence Day events

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The NIU football team runs onto the field before the Huskies’ matchup against the University of Maryland on Sept. 5 at SECU Stadium in College Park, Maryland. NIU fell to Mississippi State University 38-10 on Saturday. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

Rapid Recap: NIU falls to Mississippi State 38-10

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A Northern Star collection of 1976 newspapers from April 16 to Aug. 12 is open to a headline reading “NIU Erotic Films Festival includes hard core shows.” The Northern Star digitization project, an effort to convert print issues from 1899 to 1997 to a digital format, has been delayed again. (Totus Tuus Keely | Northern Star)

New updates on Northern Star record digitization

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