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Northern Illinois University
City: DeKalb, Illinois
Type: Public
Sports: baseball, basketball, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, track[1]
Colors: cardinal, black
Mascot: Huskies
Website: http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml

Northern Illinois University (or NIU) is a Illinois public university founded in 1895.[2] The school is located in DeKalb, Illinois. It was ranked a fourth-tier school in USNews' 2008 "National Universities: Tier 4" list.[3]

Athletics

NIU's football team has won 2 bowl games (while losing 1).[4]

2008 Shootings

Note: This section documents a current event - and is subject to change quickly.

On February 14, 2008, a "white male armed with a handgun and a shotgun" opened fire in a lecture theatre.[5] The gunman killed five (four females and one male) and injured twelve before taking his life.[6] NIU campus police chief Donald Grady said the gunman was not a student at the school and that police had no apparent motive.[6] It was the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week,[5] and the second time NIU had faced violence in two months (when a student left racial attacks and references to the Virginia Tech shootings on a bathroom wall).[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://niuhuskies.cstv.com/tickets/niu-tickets.html
  2. ↑ http://www.niu.edu/about/fastfacts.shtml
  3. ↑ http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t4natudoc_brief.php
  4. ↑ http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mac/northern_illinois/bowl_history.php
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews
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