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Thursday, February 18, 2016
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Rapper Wiz Khalifa reacts after reading a mean Tweet about himself on the “Mean Tweets” segment of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Watch Khalifa and other musicians read mean Tweets about themselves at bit.ly/1Q22jO7.
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History of the week
Door alarms were installed in the main entrances of the residence halls for security purposes, but many students seemed to have mixed feelings on them, according to a Feb. 20, 1996, Northern Star article. “The reason the door alarms were installed was for security and safety
in the halls,” said Chika Nnamini, then-executive director of Student Housing Services. When the doors opened, an alarm rang and continued to ring until a staff member reset it. Heather Barry, then- freshman elementary education major, said she
did not care for the alarms. “The door alarms are very inconvenient and it was a lot easier when they weren’t locked all of the time. It would be more practical to lock them after 11 p.m.,” Barry said. Now, all of NIU’s residence halls are also locked as Barry suggested.