Sweeps went all USA Today and polled 100 freshmen to find out why they came to NIU. The answers prove quite illuminating. 22 percent of respondents accidentally read U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges in America” list backwards. 21 percent...

Editor’s Note: From time to time, Sweeps will be introducing you to the vibrant personalities that embody the 60115. These people truly are DeKalb characters ... Brian Hemphill is joining thousands of new freshmen in acclimating to the NIU campus this...

Editors Note: Every Friday before NIU football games, Sweeps will bring you the real match ups that matter, like which team mascot would win in a street fight. This Saturday, SIU will travel up to NIU for a battle on the football field. Sweeps isn’t...

Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history. Roger Biles, a visiting professor of history, said Sept. 11 is one of the few days in modern history that can define a generation. “People of my generation always...

Welcome back to Playback! This week’s CD comes from senior media studies major Laura Houston. Houston is from Belleville and likes to party in St. Louis. Houston interned at a radio station this summer, where she got to meet Jessica and Ashlee Simpson,...

From MTV to NIU, Cribs is in the house... literally. Throughout the semester Sweeps will delve into the dopest domiciles that NIU students inhabit. This week we visited the home of NIU students Adam Stavros, Jason Wheeler, Dave Janczewski and James Grahovac...

Cara’s Big Game Big game for NIU Sept. 11. Bigger game for Cara Zamora, a freshman special education major. The fight between two Illinois slacker schools, NIU and Southern Illinois University, kicks off the Huskies’ home schedule. Three weeks or...

It’s time again for playback. This week’s playback comes courtesy of Chris McBride, a junior music education major from Homewood. McBride, a musician himself, performs at various clubs in Homewood and downtown Chicago, including the Velvet Lounge....

Last week’s photo poll on liberal bias in the media provoked quite a response from readers and polarized the entire campus. In case you missed it, I randomly polled five people to find out if they thought the media was liberally biased. None saw any...

Editor’s Note: From time to time, Sweeps will be introducing you to the vibrant personalities that embody 60115. These people are truly DeKalb characters... Three NIU students blessed with an entrepreneurial spirit parlayed their summer experience into...

Chicago has its own version of the Civil War every baseball season as the south side “good guys in black” and the north side “losers deemed lovable” struggle to make the playoffs and satisfy their rabid fan bases. Editor’s Note: The White Sox...

Beat reporting depends on the relationships and knowledge derived from covering a single topic extensively. As an experiment in journalism, we decided to bring that concept to the residence halls. Instead of government, we will focus on ordinary people...