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Founded in 1895, the public university is located in DeKalb, Ill., with a student body of approximately 23,000. The school is a comprehensive teaching and research institution with 60 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate- and doctoral- level programs in seven colleges: Business, Education, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Health and Human Sciences, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts. Northern also runs satellite centers in Chicago, Naperville, Rockford, Hoffman Estates and Oregon, Ill. NIU's 16 NCAA Division I athletics teams are known as the Huskies and compete in the Mid-American Conference. On Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2008, five students were shot to d...
Founded in 1895, the public university is located in DeKalb, Ill., with a student body of approximately 23,000. The school is a comprehensive teaching and research institution with 60 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate- and doctoral- level programs in seven colleges: Business, Education, Engineering and Engineering Technology, Health and Human Sciences, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Visual and Performing Arts. Northern also runs satellite centers in Chicago, Naperville, Rockford, Hoffman Estates and Oregon, Ill. NIU's 16 NCAA Division I athletics teams are known as the Huskies and compete in the Mid-American Conference. On Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, 2008, five students were shot to death in a lecture hall by gunman, Steven Kazmierczak, a former student, who then killed himself. Killed were NIU students Gayle Dubowski, 20; Catalina Garcia, 20; Julianna Gehant, 32: Ryanne Mace, 19; and Daniel Parmenter, 20.
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Mass killings often planned, not spontaneous, experts say
The motive behind the Connecticut elementary school rampage is not known, but behavioral specialists with expertise on mass killings note that such events typically do not occur spontaneously, that the perpetrator has harbored both resentments and...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, FBI, Medical Specialization, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin
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Rankings of online college and graduate programs released
L.A. NOWReflecting growing interest in -- or at least curiosity about -- online education, U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday released its first rankings of fully online college and graduate degree programs. The magazine has for decades ranked more traditional..... -
'It's Complicated' is no answer to gun violence, newspaper says
In the wake of the deadly school shootings in Newtown, Conn., a newspaper publisher on the other side of the country — in Idaho of all places, where gun ownership is up there with life and liberty as a solemn human right — found himself with a...
Tags: DeKalb, Mental Health, Politics, Health and Safety at School, Gun Control
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Stress in trauma's wake: Genes play a major role
Ten years after terrorists hijacked four American jetliners and killed nearly 3,000 people, there's growing evidence that people with a previous history of depression, or who have been traumatized before, are far more vulnerable to developing post-...Tags: Social Issues, Arts and Culture, DeKalb, Mental Illness, Medical Specialization
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Study: Facebook profile beats IQ test in predicting job performance
Can a person's Facebook profile reveal what kind of employee he or she might be?
The answer is yes, and with unnerving accuracy, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
And if you are smugly thinking to yourself,...Tags: Social Media, Entertainment, Career and Workplace, Auburn University , Environmental Issues
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The Internet: Americans have gone from loving a good deal to loving a good steal
Opinion L.A.I've been thinking about stealing lately. No, not as in "Hey, let's go rob a bank." Rather, as in "Why are so many people doing it"? Call it the Rise of the Cyberthief: Several Times articles recently have reinforced my...... -
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'Boston Legal' cast member
Justin Mentell, 27, an actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal," was killed Monday in an SUV crash in Wisconsin.
The Iowa County Sheriff's Department said Mentell was killed when his SUV went down an...Tags: Phil Silvers, St. John's Health Center, National Collegiate Athletic Association, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
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James Monroe: A president for his time, not ours
In his Oct. 15 Op-Ed article, "James Monroe, a president for our times?," Harlow Giles Unger offers an enthusiastic portrait of the fifth president's two terms in office from 1817-25, giving him much credit for the New Deal-like programs that helped end...Tags: Politics, Henry Clay, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, National Government
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Bill Nagel joined the Los Angeles Times as Executive Vice President, Business Services in July 2009. In this role, Nagel is responsible for growing...Tags: Marketing, Education, Chicago Tribune, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New Products
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'Prayers' just won't do
It's been a particularly grim and bloody month on one of the world's great killing fields -- the United States of America. On Friday, Los Angeles paused for the largest police funeral in its history when it buried Officer Randal Simmons, a 51-year-old...Tags: Barack Obama, Health and Safety at School, Firearms, Dick Cheney, Murder
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Gun dealer wants weapons on campus
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOnline gun dealer Eric Thompson can't recall exactly what he was doing when he learned that one of his customers had just killed five students in a college geology class. He knows what flashed through his mind, though: Not again. Ten months earlier,...Tags: Gun Control, Firearms, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Geology, Children
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Tragedy, time and again
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLITTLETON, COLO. -- I cried a long time on my hotel bed that night, thinking about their faces. So many children -- 14, 15, 16 years old -- drawn tight with grief and exhaustion. It was Tuesday, April 20, 1999, and two boys had just killed 12...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Gun Control, Firearms, Entertainment, Sprague
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