Category: Students
The Northern Illinois men’s golf team will go back to Normal this weekend at Illinois State’s D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate on Saturday, Oct. 1 and Sunday, Oct. 2. The trip downstate will mark the second consecutive season that the Huskies will be competing in ISU’s annual event. NIU will look to improve on last October’s eighth...
Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish has been named a semifinalist for the 2011 William V. Campbell Trophy and is also a candidate for one of 15 NFF National Scholar-Athlete awards, the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced Thursday. Harnish, a senior from Bluffton, Ind., is one of only 47 Football Bowl Subdivision...
The Huskie cross country team, fresh off a two week break, returns to action Saturday in Chicago for the 39th annual Sean Earl Loyola Lakefront Invitational. The meet is one of the most unique in the nation, as the course is situated between downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan in Montrose Beach. The college portion of...
Student Involvement & Leadership Development (SILD) is in search of project sites for its annual Rake Across DeKalb event. This event sends volunteers from the NIU community (students, faculty and staff) into the community to assist area residents and non-profit organizations with lawn clean-up in preparation for winter. Participation is free for both volunteers and...
Military Student Services (MSS) has two upcoming events for veterans and military students. A discussion on mental fortitude is scheduled from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the MSS Lounge (Room 404 of Adams Hall). This conversation will cover how thoughts, emotions and physical sensations are interrelated and can create a cycle that can...
The Northern Illinois women’s tennis team hits the road for the first time of the season this weekend as they travel to Kalamazoo, Mich., for the Fall MAC Invitational. The Huskies will match up against familiar Mid-American Conference foes Ball State, Bowling Green, Eastern Michigan, Toledo and Western Michigan. The team is coming off a...
NIU’s Center for Access-Ability Resources will host a nationally recognized display of the history of disability from Tuesday, Oct. 11, through Monday, Oct. 17, in the Gallery Lounge in the Holmes Student Center. The display was on campus April 14, 2011, and the feedback from those who viewed the display was so overwhelmingly positive that...
NIU’s Latino Resource Center, the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, the Student Association and the Women’s Resource Center will host author Ana Castillo from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in Room 100 of the Visual Arts Building. This is the featured event of Latino Heritage Month. Castillo will host a lecture...
NIU’s Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities will sponsor a screening of “Tony: Lose All, Gain Everything” by Invisible Children. Invisible Children is a social, political, and global movement that uses the transformative power of story to change lives. The documentary tells a story about the hardships faced by children in the war in northern...
Bisexual activist Robyn Ochs will speak from 8 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, in Room 405 of the Holmes Student Center. The award-winning Ochs will give a dynamic presentation highlighting the often misunderstood “B” in LGBTQ. An advocate for the rights of people of all orientations and genders, her work focuses on raising awareness...
NIU students who receive Monetary Award Program (MAP) grant funding are being warned that reductions are likely for the spring semester. The current situation is reminiscent of the 2010-11 academic year, when limited state funding and high application volume made it necessary to lower second- and third-term awards. More than 6,200 NIU students – more...
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Women’s Resource Center is teaming with the Verizon Wireless HopeLine program, which turns used wireless phones into support for domestic violence survivors. The Women’s Resource Center is collecting no-longer-used wireless phones, batteries and accessories in any condition from any wireless service provider. Stop by any of the...
