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What to Know SGA president, director of student affairs and director of academic affairs directly addressed questions and concerns from the student body. The director of student affairs addressed that NIU will no longer accept personal exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine. Campus Activities Board vice president outlined plans to have more events in the Holmes...
DeKALB — The SGA Senate passed a resolution Sunday to officially recognize the Weightlifting Club as a student organization. Clayton Schopfer, chairperson of the Organizational Oversight Committee, said that the committee had been overseeing the Weightlifting Club’s steps to becoming an organization, and outlined the club’s main goals of training students for competitive weightlifting and...
Northern Star DeKALB – Derek Chauvin was recently convicted on three counts and sentenced to up to 40 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, and many Black Americans are feeling relieved and hopeful for the future. “I certainly believe that justice has been served,” said Jaylan Peebles, president of NIU’s Black Student Union. “It is a huge step in the right direction, but this can not be an end-all, be-all. We still have a long way to go.” On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Chauvin and three others arrested Floyd under the pretense of using a counterfeit $...
Northern Star DeKALB – Black History Month is a time when people recognize Black leaders around the world, as well as the NIU student leaders who make the effort to support other students of color. “As a student leader, I try to keep many tabs on the organizations as much as I can,” said Devlin Collins, president of NIU’s chapter of NAACP. Collins and other students have been talking to NIU staff faculty to set up a plan to help students of color. They talked about bringing new resources to the cultural centers on campus and also discussed adding some retouches on cultural topics as w...