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{{University
|name=Northern Illinois University
|image=
|text=rgb(193,7,56)
|background=black
|type=Public
|city=DeKalb, Illinois
|sports=baseball, basketball, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, track<ref>http://niuhuskies.cstv.com/tickets/niu-tickets.html</ref>
|colors=cardinal, black
|mascot=Huskies
|website=http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml
}}
'''Northern Illinois University''' (or NIU) is a [[Illinois]] [[public school|public]] [[university]] founded in 1895.<ref>http://www.niu.edu/about/fastfacts.shtml</ref> The school is located in DeKalb, Illinois. It was ranked a fourth-tier school in USNews' 2008
"National Universities: Tier 4" list.<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t4natudoc_brief.php</ref>
==Athletics==
NIU's football team has won 2 bowl games (while losing 1).<ref>http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mac/northern_illinois/bowl_history.php</ref>
==2008 Shootings==
:<small>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.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm</ref> The gunman killed five (four females and one male) and injured twelve before [[suicide|taking his life]].<ref name="washpost">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews</ref> NIU campus police chief Donald Grady said the gunman was not a student at the school and that police had no apparent motive.<ref name="washpost"/> It was the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week,<ref name="BBC"/> 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).<ref name="washpost"/>
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
{{Nb_US_universities}}
==References==
*http://niuhuskies.cstv.com/ot/niu-visitor-guide.html
==See Also==
*[[Virginia Tech shootings]]
|name=Northern Illinois University
|image=
|text=rgb(193,7,56)
|background=black
|type=Public
|city=DeKalb, Illinois
|sports=baseball, basketball, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, track<ref>http://niuhuskies.cstv.com/tickets/niu-tickets.html</ref>
|colors=cardinal, black
|mascot=Huskies
|website=http://www.niu.edu/index.shtml
}}
'''Northern Illinois University''' (or NIU) is a [[Illinois]] [[public school|public]] [[university]] founded in 1895.<ref>http://www.niu.edu/about/fastfacts.shtml</ref> The school is located in DeKalb, Illinois. It was ranked a fourth-tier school in USNews' 2008
"National Universities: Tier 4" list.<ref>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t4natudoc_brief.php</ref>
==Athletics==
NIU's football team has won 2 bowl games (while losing 1).<ref>http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/mac/northern_illinois/bowl_history.php</ref>
==2008 Shootings==
:<small>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.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm</ref> The gunman killed five (four females and one male) and injured twelve before [[suicide|taking his life]].<ref name="washpost">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews</ref> NIU campus police chief Donald Grady said the gunman was not a student at the school and that police had no apparent motive.<ref name="washpost"/> It was the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week,<ref name="BBC"/> 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).<ref name="washpost"/>
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
{{Nb_US_universities}}
==References==
*http://niuhuskies.cstv.com/ot/niu-visitor-guide.html
==See Also==
*[[Virginia Tech shootings]]