The Northern Illinois University Student Nurses Organization has been recognized by the "Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network." The organization was named a 2008 Lifesaving Partner for "outstanding achievement and teamwork in raising donation...

Students in Watson and Reavis Hall may have noticed an unusual advertisement this week. "Voluptuous women needed... for student photography project (no worries, no nudity)," said an advertisement posted by NIU communication graduate student Kristin Lou...

COLLEGE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES will host "Home Sweet Holmes" from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Ellington's in the Holmes Student Center. For more information, contact Emily Toth 815-756-8755. THE DEKALB AREA WOMEN'S CENTER AND THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM...

Matt Gunderson is spending his Spring Break with the fruit flies from his biology class. "I had a down payment to my travel agent and I had to back out a couple weeks ago," said Gunderson, a senior biology major. Biology 308 Genetics features a lab in...

As the NIU administration, faculty and students meet and debate on a permanent memorial to honor the victims of the Feb. 14 shootings, others have taken the initiative and created their own. One prominent memorial is the message walls in the King Memorial...

Possible student fee hikes will be addressed at today's NIU Board of Trustees committee meetings. The Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee will recommend increases in student fees and room and board rates, starting this fall. Students will face...

After three weeks of memorializing the victims of the Feb. 14 shootings, a decision has been made regarding what is to be done with the makeshift memorials around campus. Founders Memorial Library decided that items from the memorials will be preserved...

President Peters announced Tuesday a "three phase-like" process to determine the fate of Cole Hall and plan for a memorial. The first phase of brainstorming will come from a newly created Memorial Committee to be headed by Mike Malone, vice president...

Faculty Senate passed a resolution encouraging deliberation about the future of Cole Hall Wednesday. The resolution, which is just a statement from FS and not an action item, addresses complications with the between 50,000 and 100,000 archaeological artifacts...

"Winning's not important; being with everyone was." That is what junior Kerri Simons, Spanish language and literature major, said following her victory at the Illinois Intercollegiate Forensics (IIFA) state tournament this past weekend in East Peoria....

CRU hosts Virginia Tech visitors "Hokies for Huskies," an event sponsored by NIU's Campus Crusade for Christ, will take place tonight at 9 p.m. in Wirtz Hall. Some of the 15 students visiting Chicago on their Spring Break from Virginia Tech will make...

» View a photo slideshow of the event Muscles strained and veins popped as NIU students competed in the 20th annual Greek Physique competition. The event was an amateur bodybuilding contest held in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student...