COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES will have a Mardi Gras from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Ellington's in the Holmes Student Center. For more information, contact Emily Toth at 815-756-8755 or [email protected]. THE OUTING CENTRE will have registration in the...

Cole Hall will be demolished and replaced by "Memorial Hall," a new general classroom building, according to an NIU news release. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will be on hand with NIU President John Peters to make the announcement at 1 p.m. today...

Students entering Barsema Hall on Monday morning were welcomed by more than just staff. The College of Business welcomed their students back with the theme of the day "College of Business Alumni Care." Seventy-five to 100 alumni showed up throughout the...

C is for cookie ... and community. Volunteers from the DeKalb and Sycamore communities will be handing out 55,000 cookies throughout campus on Monday and Tuesday as part of the Communiverity's NIU Cookie Drive. "The cookie drive came out of a conversation...

The internship fair scheduled for Wednesday will take place as planned, while the job fair has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 19. The Spring Internship Fair will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Convocation Center. The job fair was originally scheduled...

Geology 104 - Intro to Ocean Science will resume class today with a special meeting at which counselors will be on hand to discuss options for the remainder of the semester. Students were asked to check Blackboard for the location of Tuesday's class....

Today could be a record-setting snowy day in DeKalb, according to one meteorologist. NIU staff meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste said with La Niña in effect, this has been the eighth-snowiest winter thus far. "There's no question we're going up in rank;...

Virginia Tech in DeKalb to help NIU Campus Crusade for Christ will host a night of "hope and healing" for the NIU community Thursday. Members of the Virginia Tech community will be on hand to share their experiences from last year as well as try and help...

NIU will no longer sell memorial T-shirts, or any other items referencing the Feb. 14 shooting. This new policy, according to Michael Malone, vice president of University Advancement and Development, was in response to the number of fundraising and manufacturing...

The Feb. 14 shooting is not expected to affect admissions for the 2008-2009 school year. Director of Admissions Bob Burk said it is too early to determine the effect the shootings will have on admissions, but said by this time, NIU usually receives about...

The Illinois State Police ask anyone with information on the Feb. 14 shooting to speak with investigators today in the Illinois Room at the Holmes Student Center. The interviews will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and could continue throughout the week, said...

Hundreds of people walked in one direction, bringing the once desolate NIU campus back to life. Snow sprinkled the many students, faculty and other mourners as they filled the King Memorial Commons for five minutes of silence to remember the lives of...