DeKALB | In a rematch of the 2010 Tugs Championship, the Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Kappa Psi [Sam Psi] team beat the defending champions Phi Sigma Kappa. Phi Sigma Kappa won the first rope while Sam Psi won the match in the last two ropes. “We had so many...
Since fall 2006, NIU has seen a decline in enrollment by about 5.8 percent. Although NIU is not the only four-year Illinois public institution to suffer a dip in enrollment between fall 2006 and fall 2010, other schools have grown over the past four years....
DeKALB | A parents group on campus will be celebrating Mother's Day together. "I hope to relax and spend time with my kids for mother's day," said Sequoia Thomas, sophomore psychology major and member of an organization called College Parents' Group....
DeKALB | The top 10 moneymakers at NIU make collectively over $2.7 million in fiscal year 2011. See the salary breakdown below. 1. Dave Doeren**- NIU football head coach Salary: $371,000 2. John Peters- NIU president Salary: $325,980 3. Mark Montgomery**-...
DeKALB | DeKalb residents will make someone’s trash their treasure this weekend.The Convocation Center will host its third annual Convo Colossal Clean Sweep from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.Three years ago, the Convo...
All Marcos Garcia wanted to do was watch Inception. Instead of renting or purchasing the film, the freshman undecided major decided to download the film illegally onto his computer using a torrent program called uTorrent. Shortly after the film was downloaded,...
This year’s Tugs championship match will be a rematch from last year, featuring the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity against the combined team of the Sigma Alpha Mu and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities. Phi Sigma Kappa won the match last year. Jeremy Sanchez, vice...
Chicago resident Craig Thompson is a junior at Marist High School and has began his college search. He is looking for a college that is semi-close to home and somewhere he can have an enjoyable college experience. Thompson is just one example of the thousands...
DeKALB | Pell Grants for the summer of 2012 will see a decrease in funding levels, said Inali Saghu, associate director of Student Financial Aid. In an email interview, Saghu said only students who are less than full time during the fall semester of 2011...
The Resources, Space and Budget committee statement of budget priorities was approved by the University Council on Wednesday afternoon during its final meeting for the semester. University Council Co-Chair Laurie Elish-Piper presented the budget priorities...
NIU President John Peters has authorized that the university work week over the summer will be four days, according to a press release. The four-day work week will begin June 6 and will be implemented for 10 weeks until Aug. 12. The regular five-day work...
The 35th annual O'Connell Awards for the Department of Communications will be held May 1 in the Holmes Student Center. The award goes to over 50 outstanding achievements of graduate students in scholarship, creativity, research, forensics and leadership....
