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New basketball floor
NIU Intercollegiate Athletics is introducing three new basketball mini-plans with options to fit most any schedule. Fans have two ways to see the NIU men’s basketball team for the remainder of the season. For $45, the “Saturday MAC Plan” gives fans the chance to see the Huskies clash with six Mid-American Conference rivals, including Toledo,...
NIU President Doug Baker and First Lady Dana Stover
The President’s Annual Holiday Luncheon will take place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. President Doug Baker and First Lady Dana Stover will host a festive and complimentary lunch for all faculty, staff, students and community members. For more information, call (815)...
As part of Northern Illinois University’s Campus RE: ENVISIONED study aimed at revitalizing the central core campus in conjunction with the university’s Bold Futures initiative, teams of design firms from across the nation will be envisioning potential future state scenarios for the Holmes Student Center and Neptune Residential Complex, as well as the surrounding urban...
Give and Go! Move Out 2014
Each semester since the fall of 2012, Northern Illinois University’s Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy, along with Housing and Dining, has partnered with Goodwill Industries of Northern Illinois to collect usable goods. Since the beginning of the partnership, more than 30,000 pounds of items have been collected and diverted from...
Northern Illinois University alumni Jordan Delegal, Keith Otis and Elliot Echols of Hungry Huskies, Inc. exceeded their goal of $20,000 needed to roll out the first food truck business on campus. Their plan to bring The DogHouse to campus to provide convenient meals while giving students an opportunity to work and learn on the job...
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Improvisational comedy debuts at NIU’s School of Theatre and Dance with its Studio Series presentation of Storytellers Theatre Improv, opening Thursday, Dec. 4. The show replaces the originally scheduled “Many Voices, Many Lands: Storytellers Theatre” and blends the format of the former Storytellers Theatre with the comedic style of improv. Instead of the usual well-rehearsed...
Kelly Smith
Fans of NIU women’s basketball can watch the action Wednesday, Dec. 17, for the price of a canned good and $1. During the 7 p.m. “Hoops for Soups” game versus Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, anyone who brings a canned good to the doors of the Convocation Center can then buy a ticket for a buck....
The sound of choirs, carols, brass and percussion will once again echo through the halls of the Music Building when the NIU Choral Department hosts their 17th annual holiday concert. Featuring the world premiere of “The Lands the See the Sun Arise” by DeKalb composer Tim Blickhan, the concert will be held in the Boutell Memorial...
NIU interactive campus map
Going somewhere? NIU’s new three-dimensional interactive campus map enables online navigation of the NIU campus anytime from virtually anywhere. Deployment of the interactive map this morning is only the latest component of a campus-wide strategy to make navigation of the NIU campus as user-friendly as possible. “The 3-D interactive map, along with the directional signage that was...
An evening of reflection is scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Blackhawk Cafeteria at Holmes Student Center. The purpose of the event is to enable an ongoing dialogue meant to identify key issues of concern in the community in an effort to heal divisions and foster pathways toward unity and...
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Here’s a good way to stop shivering amid the late-autumn freeze: Start thinking spring. Better yet, start thinking ARTigras. ARTigras – rhymes with Mardi Gras – will make Saturday, May 2, a day for creative expression via the largest art festival DeKalb has ever seen. Thousands of energetic people are expected to come together in...
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The NIU Jazz Ensemble, under the tutelage of new director Reggie Thomas, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The concert is free and open to the public. Alongside the Jazz Ensemble will be international jazz trombonists Michael Dease and Tom Garling. Dease has...
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