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  • February 2008

    • Students Aren't Signing Up for Text Alert Systems

      Associated Press  |  Feb 28, 08 6:15 PM CST

      Students Aren't Signing Up for Text Alert Systems

      (Newser) - Campus shootings keep making headlines, and schools are increasingly adopting text message alert systems as a response—but students aren't jumping on the bandwagon, the AP reports. Experts chalk up low enrollment rates to students' sense of invincibility, unwillingness to reveal personal information and the cost of receiving texts. "It will take time to earn their trust," said one spokesman. More »

    • Game Nudges NIU Toward Normalcy After Shootings

      Associated Press  |  Feb 27, 08 2:45 AM CST

      Game Nudges NIU Toward Normalcy After Shootings

      (Newser) - Western Michigan needed to beat Northern Illinois last night to keep its hopes alive for the Mid-America Conference championship, but the game itself was much more important for the Huskies and their fans, reports the Associated Press. Western Michigan won the contest 56-49, the first athletic event on the NIU campus since a gunman killed five students and himself on campus earlier this month. More »

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      NCAA basketball  • NCAA  • gunman  • Northern Illinois University  • campus shooting  • Mid-American Conference

    • Questions Linger as NIU Classes Resume

      Chicago Tribune  |  Feb 25, 08 9:15 AM CST

      Questions Linger as NIU Classes Resume

      (Newser) - As Northern Illinois University resumes classes today, the prevailing feeling is uncertainty. One professor will leave it up to her class whether to stick to the syllabus or talk about the Valentine's Day shooting that left five students dead. Others question whether the semester's grading standards should change and wonder what will become of the scene of the tragedy, reports the Chicago Tribune. More »

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      school shooting  • professor  • Northern Illinois University  • Steven Kazmierczak  • campus shooting

    • Police Can't Find Motive in NIU Shooting

      Chicago Tribune  |  Feb 20, 08 8:53 AM CST

      Police Can't Find Motive in NIU Shooting

      (Newser) - The student who killed five at Northern Illinois University last week took pains to stump investigators ahead of time, police say. Steven Kazmierczak pulled his computer’s hard drive and his phone’s SIM card; he also revealed little in a package to his former girlfriend. "The one thing I want to know is motive," NIU Police Chief Donald Grady said today. But he couldn't "even begin to assume a motive yet." More »

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      Northern Illinois University  • Steven Kazmierczak  • campus shooting  • Jessica Baty  • motive

    • Lover Airs NIU Shooter's Letter

      CNN  |  Feb 18, 08 6:48 AM CST

      Lover Airs NIU Shooter's Letter

      (Newser) - The girlfriend of the gunman who murdered five students at Northern Illinois University Thursday talked to him every day last week, including the night before the shooting spree, and detected nothing amiss. "He wasn't erratic. He wasn't delusional. He was Steve; he was normal," Jessica Baty, 28, told CNN. Steven Kazmierczak, who killed himself after the carnage, sent her parting gifts and a love letter that read: "You've done so much for me, and I truly do love you. Don't forget about me!" More »

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