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2007-02-28_northerns..
Full circle On Nov. 25, freshman Cody Yelder felt his knee buckle in a game. He thought nothing of it. A month later, he couldn’t get off the floor because of a torn meniscus in that knee. Yelder’s decision to go under the knife was not easy. His road to recovery hasn’t been, either. PAGE 14 Northern Star Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Tuesday’s Market watch Dow Jones industrials -416.02 12,216.24 Nasdaq composite -96.66 2,407.86 Standard & Poor’s 500 -50.33 1,399.04 Open 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 11 a.m. noon 1 p.m. NorthernStar.info ´ NSradio.com 2 p.m. Close 12,600 12,500 Russell 2000 -31.03 792.66 Source: The Associated Press 1:50 p.m.: $12,357.80 1:55 p.m.: $12,349.79 12,400 2 p.m.: 200 point drop 12,300 Stock market suffers worst day since 9/11 attacks The dip comes after the volatile Chinese stock market closed down 9 percent overDeKALB | The stock market took a tumble night. Durable goods orders also saw a maTuesday, experiencing its biggest drop since jor drop. reopening after Sept. 11, 2001. “Durable goods are goods that last at least Around 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Dow Jones in- three years,” said assistant chair of the NIU dustrial average dropped 200 points in one department of economics Carl Campbell. minute. The industrial average fell more Campbell said losses in durable goods and than 500 points before seeing a slight re- the Chinese market combined to trigger the covery and closing down 416 points. drop. Greg Nicksarlian gnicksar@northernstar.info 2007 registration times 12,200 “Slowdown in the Chinese market can lead to slowdown in the US economy,” Campbell said. Associate economics professor Neelam Jain also said China is related. “The markets are so global today,” Jain said. Finance professor Gerry Jensen said a Please see stocks | Page 02 12,100 Low: 12,109.13 Nothing better for his money Registration for Summer and Fall 2007 begins the week of April 2. Registration time assignments are assigned to undergraduate students based on the number of credit hours earned at the completion of the Fall 2006 term. Graduate students and students at large are assigned times alphabetically based on the first letter of the last name. The Summer and Fall 2007 Course Offerings will be online at www.courselistings.niu.edu beginning Monday, March 12. Students can log on to WebConnect at www.reg.niu.edu/connect and choose “TRACS Registration Eligible Times” for the specific day and time they become eligible to register. Weather Today » Rain likely. High: 38º Low: 33º Thursday » Rain with thunder possible. High: 44º Low: 26º Jenni Prell, NIU meteorology student What’s inside Volume 107, Issue 101 Classifieds 11 News 01-05, 08-10 Comics 07 Police beat 04 Crossword 07 Sports 14-16 Flavor 12-13 Sudoku 07 Letters to the editor 06 Perspective 06 Ben Woloszyn | Northern Star Two-year-old Jaden Henderson watches Tuesday night as fifth graders from Gwendolyn Brooks Elementary School in DeKalb perform the song “The Tiger that Wore White Gloves” in the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom. The performance was part of a Black History Month extravaganza by DeKalb School District 428.