Rascal Flatts braved below-zero temperatures Friday night to perform a sold-out show at the Convocation Center. Polo resident Ellie Dyer was one of the first people into the stands. Donning a Rascal Flatts t-shirt, she was excited for the show to begin....

Campus Parking Services has changed the permit parking times on South, East and West Stadium Drive. Students, faculty or staff with blue, yellow or brown permits now may park there from 5 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday. Parking is prohibited Monday...

The SA will hold a Town Hall Meeting for districts 1 and 2 on March 2 in the Stevenson Multipurpose Room at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is planned as a place for students and organizations to meet and discuss things they would like to see changed. Ambar Castillo,...

A USA Today analysis of 620 deaths of four-year college and university students since Jan. 1, 2000 found that freshmen are uniquely vulnerable. They account for more than one-third of undergraduate deaths in the study, although they comprise just 24 percent...

Each classroom is filled with students who learn differently. Some are visual learners, others are auditory and still others are kinesthetic. Considering other learning styles "We, in the profession of teaching, believe that there are multiple intelligence...

For the second year in a row, the Northern Star was awarded 2nd Place in the General Excellence category by the Illinois College Press Association. At the Awards for Excellence in Illinois College Newspapers, which awarded achievements for 2005 on Saturday,...

Students woke up to the sounds of thunder and hail on their windows this morning as a string of peculiar weather stormed through the area. Weather 101 What happened: A strong low pressure system passed through the DeKalb area. What else is happening:...

A meeting of minds occurred Thursday at the Jack Olson Gallery, as NIU graduate students from the art department exhibited work in the Graduate Group Exhibition. The Graduate Group Exhibition is an annual event organized by the NIU School of Art and the...

Bonding with one's roommate and floor is a task some students find easy while others struggle to adjust to. "When residents have their doors open, they get along with others better and know more people on their floor," said Heidi Lizyness, a senior family,...

Harper College and NIU appear to be butting heads over a partnership on a four-year nursing program. A press release issued Tuesday said NIU and Harper entered into a partnership to offer a four year nursing program at Harper's campus in Palatine. Emily...

White lies can sometimes get you in trouble ... or on Oprah Winfrey's black list. In recent weeks, there has been a storm of controversy around James Frey's discredited memoir "A Million Little Pieces" after word came out Frey had fabricated significant...

Residence hall surveys hit the halls last week to measure overall student satisfaction with living on campus. "Most of the information we get we use internally to try to gauge how we are doing both in comparison with other schools and with ourselves over...