DeKALB | When it comes to notifying students of an emergency, some students feel e-mail is not the best way to go. In light of the recent events at Virginia Tech, several students complained about not receiving e-mail notification from NIU administration...

DeKALB | Baseball fans hoping to keep up with their favorite team while living in the residence halls are forced to go elsewhere during the baseball season. If students want to watch the Cubs or White Sox in action, they have to wait until the game is...

DeKALB | Aaron Funfsinn withdrew his nomination for Speaker of the Student Association Senate Monday, citing that "it would be numerically impossible" to be elected to the position. Funfsinn's withdrawal leaves the position with a single candidate, incumbent...

DeKALB | NIU's Building Services workers say they've had enough. University officials, on the other hand, feel their managerial decisions are justified. A 1 p.m. bid meeting Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center's Heritage Room was followed by a march...

DeKALB | Grant South is now the location of a pilot program aimed to make security and hall entry more efficient. Under the new program, to gain access to the residence hall after 11 p.m., students will be required to swipe their OneCard to unlock the...

DeKALB | A number of students were honored for their scholarly achievements Monday night. At the first ever Graduate Student recognition ceremony in the Holmes Student Center's Regency Room, the Division of Research and Graduate Studies recognized the...

NIU continues to pursue greater compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA, introduced in 1992, as well as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, were enacted by Congress to prevent discrimination by employers against people...

DeKALB | Information Technology Services imposed a solution to help students find an open computer in a campus computer lab. "The thought is that it would be easy to make a sensible policy on computer usage, but it would be virtually impossible to enforce,"...

Students taking part in the summer session find major differences between the summer and fall semesters. The summer semester, which runs from June 16 to Aug. 8, allows students the opportunity to earn credit toward graduation or make up classes failed...

AΦA | Alpha Phi Alpha Punished: Oct. 24, 2003 Violation: NIU officials included incident reports of all violations except for ones involving Alpha Phi Alpha. As of press time, the university had not provided reasoning for exempting these records from...

NIU's chief judicial officer described the last two years on Greek Row as some of the worst he had seen in his 25 years at the position. Charges and witness reports that described instances ranging from sexual and physical assault, battery and dangerous...

DeKALB | For a few hours Monday afternoon and evening, NIU was seeing green. University Police and the DeKalb Fire Department were called to the basin near Cole Hall Monday night regarding the water's green tint. Environmental health and safety technicians...