DeKALB | Students who feel they were given an unfair grade have an opportunity to appeal to the department to consider having their grade changed. Students may appeal if they feel a grade was given based on anything other than performance in the class,...

DeKALB | An NIU associate technology professor was released after being arrested Monday on the charge of assaulting a colleague with a metal pipe, according to Darren Mitchell, the acting chief of the University Police. Radha Balamuralikrishna, a 44-year-old...

DeKALB | Finals week is approaching and now is the time when some stressed out, cramming students get lured into cheating. When a student is caught engaging in academic misconduct, the way the situation is handled varies. According to the NIU Student...

DeKALB | There's been about a seven percent increase in journalism majors since 2001, and while the number of students in the department is growing, the number of faculty members is not. Dale Zacher and his wife, Yu-Li Chang-Zacher, two of the journalism...

DeKALB | A recent study has found fewer than a quarter of people age 18 to 29 read a newspaper daily. According to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press's Detailed Demographic Tables, only 24 percent of people age 18 to 29 regularly receive...

DeKALB | The NIU Anthropology Museum was first organized in 1965, and has over 10,000 ethnographic objects and specializes in many cultures. The museum offers many exhibits and collections featuring Southeast Asia, Southwest and Plains Native Americans,...

I cycled to the beat of techno-holiday music last Wednesday at the Spin Core class offered at the Campus Recreation Center. Since this was my first time taking a cycling class, the instructor, Bethany Bohlig, a Recreation Services fitness graduate assistant...

DeKALB | The Student Association created five ad hoc committees last month to investigate student needs in their districts. This is what students told them: District 1 Students in the residence halls said after the snowstorm, their cars were buried under...

DeKALB | The Campus Activities Board is looking for dancers, singers, actors and Greek steppers to be a part of the NIU play called "School Daze." Auditions will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today and Tuesday in the Holmes Student Center, Room 503, and from 6...

DeKALB | Andy Sears, a senior history major, went to print an assignment at a Reavis computer lab before class, only to find all the computers occupied. Instead of using the computers for school work, many students were using the computers to visit Web...

DeKALB | The winds of change are blowing at the University Police department. On Nov. 22, Lt. Darren Mitchell officially replaced Lt. Matthew Kiederlen as the interim police chief of the UP, as Chief Donald Grady has been serving in Iraq since October....

When massage therapist Jude Mayer first got a massage in California in the 1960s, she had no idea this form of relaxation would become popular in the Midwest years later. Like massage therapy, acupressure, or "Shiatsu," is another form of relaxation to...