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DeKALB – NIU honored the victims of the 2008 shooting at 3:06 p.m. Wednesday with a tolling of five bells to represent each life lost 16 years ago. The event took place outside Cole Hall, the building in which the shooting occurred.  On Feb. 14, 2008, NIU students Gayle Dubowski, 20, Catalina Garcia, 20, Julianna...

Northern Illinois University recently announced its 2023 recipients of the Forward, Together Forward scholarship, a fund created in honor of the five NIU students who were killed in a mass shooting in DeKalb on Feb. 14, 2008.

Its been 15 years since a lone gunman stepped into a Northern Illinois University lecture hall and fatally shot five students, wounding dozens of others and leaving a mark some say wont ever go away.

***Editor’s Note: Letters to the editor are the author’s opinion alone*** On this day of remembrance, I am at once sad for the tragedy of the lives taken, students wounded and deep wound inflicted upon my alma mater, my school; Northern Illinois University. I offer my warmest wishes and prayers for the families who lost...

NIU mourns 15 years after campus massacre

Northern Star DeKALB – Valentine’s Day on the NIU campus will forever be affected by the shooting that killed five students and left 21 injured, eight in critical condition inside of Cole Hall’s auditorium after the gunman entered a class and opened fire.  On Sunday, NIU’s Forward, Together Forward organization will ring bells five times at 3:06 p.m. outside of Cole Hall as a moment of reflection in remembrance of the five who lost their lives on Feb. 14, 2008, according to the NIU ca...

36 Shares Rudi Laermans Anton Jäger argue that a central component of modern European democracy is the split between ‘people’s populism’ and ‘citizen populism’. Both variants of populism, though built on radically different philosophies, share a goal of fostering direct links between citizens and policymakers. Yet without effective intermediaries to help facilitate interest formation processes, it is questionable whether these approaches can meet the challenges of the co...