Planning for several ASA events, including the Culture Festival, a ceremony dedicated to educating the public about the African culture through plays, skits, music and dance. Graduating members were encouraged to request an ASA inscribed Kente cloth to...

More than 40 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. took the country one step closer to equality in America. Thursday evening, a group of about 50 students took a few thousand steps of their own, marching down Lucinda Avenue in remembrance and tribute. March...

With Chicago named recently the fattest city in the United States, students may want to think twice before taking a big bite out of that next hamburger. The British Heart Foundation began a campaign in December to fight obesity in British youth. The campaign...

Some students have entered the realm of academic probation after this past semester. Thankfully, there are programs and resources on campus to help students stay afloat. If you’re a student whose grade point average dropped below 2.0, you’ve been...

Jim Young, the new accountancy department chair, has displayed constant smiles while adjusting to his new duties. This semester, he will replace previous accountancy department chair Greg Carnes, who is taking a position at Lipscomb University as dean...

The College of Law is looking to update the Riley Courtroom in Swen Parson Hall, but it is far from its donation goal of $210,000. Renovations for the courtroom have not yet begun and no date has been assigned for starting construction. "We would hope...

Last week Christine Sorensen, Dean of the College of Education, gave her pre-semester "All College Speech," where she shared stories and news with the faculty and staff of the College of Education. Among the news was the use of Teacher Work Samples, which...

DuJuan Smith was elected Student Association president last spring and this semester his brother Dion Smith will serve alongside him as Campus Activities Board president. However, brotherly love does not conflict with any CAB bylaws. This is not the first...

Long gone are the days of posting flyers to attract the attention of students walking through the Holmes Student Center. These days, NIU thinks bigger. Last fall, NIU installed five 42" plasma screen televisions, costing roughly $12,000 each. Three of...

NIU’s Vermeer Quartet, a faculty-run classical music group, earned its third Grammy nomination. The group was nominated in the Best Chamber Music Performance category. The nomination is for "Bartók: Complete String Quartets." Bartók was a composer...

Junior marketing major Bill Donlon loved to joke around and pull pranks. Donlon lost his leg to cancer and when people in public would stare at his prosthetic leg, Donlon always had a funny story to tell. "There was one time, and I told him this was so...

As many Americans this December debated whether or not to say, "Merry Christmas," versus, "Happy Holidays," the U.S. Congress spent the season debating a deficit-reduction bill. The bill will reduce the number of student loans available and also will...