The Sky Room at the Holmes Student Center filled with cheers and applause during Sunday night's Student Association meeting as the senate unanimously approved the Northern Black Choir's request for supplemental funding. Along with the 31 out of 37 senators...

Fans of Chicago's boys of summer are being left in the cold by NIU's campus cable. NIU students in the residence halls will miss out on many Cubs and Sox games because they are on Comcast Sports Net. CSN is not included among the 61 channels provided...

The NIU College of Law, already celebrated for its diverse faculty, has named Jennifer Rosato to be its next dean. Rosato becomes one of two Latina law school deans in the country. She is also the second female dean in the law school's brief 35-year history....

Feb. 18 At 2:14 p.m., a victim reported someone took her cell phone from her work area while she was in the computer lab in Neptune North. Case is closed. At 4:19 p.m., University Police returned recovered property from a residential burglary in Douglas...

Video games and art have been brought together in an interactive exhibit. "Play Up! Interaction between Art and Video Game Culture" opened Wednesday in The Jack Olsen Gallery in the art building. There was a panel discussion with the artists from 6 to...

The NIU Alumni Association hosted a career resources and networking event Thursday night in the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. "With 165,000 alumni in the Chicagoland area alone, an event like this is a fantastic chance to network," coordinator Julie...

After receiving an inch of snowfall Wednesday evening, the weekend forecast assures DeKalb has not seen the last of winter. Staff meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste said DeKalb could expect up to 6 inches by Saturday and 8 inches for the surrounding northern...

A piece of code that Information Technology Services (ITS) used could have made 300 students' names and Social Security numbers vulnerable within the MyNIU system. The system was not hacked as popular belief would have it, said James Fatz, director of...

Facebook has listened. After the social networking Web site changed its terms of service two weeks ago, Facebook reverted to its old terms of service late Tuesday night, after receiving negative feedback from users about the terminology changes. Facebook...

Feb. 17 At 8:50 p.m. University Police on duty at the Convocation Center encountered two individuals at the end of a verbal argument. The male individual was visibly drunk and, during the course of the argument, had struck the female individual in the...

In the University Council meeting Wednesday, President John Peters addressed the state of the economy, the stimulus package and what it means for NIU and Illinois. "For all of its complexity and criticisms, the stimulus bill has some things in it that...

A memorial cross that was reported missing on Sunday has been accounted for. Lt. Curtis Young of the University Police said one of the security guards had reported the cross missing. Young, however, said that on Wednesday the UP checked with the family,...