Nearly 600 students gathered in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium Monday night to meet "Viva La Bam" star Don Vito. The event was hosted by studentcity.com and the Huskies Den. It originally was planned to take place in the Huskies Den but was moved to the...

The NIU technology department is thinking "green" this semester by researching the use of a corn by-product as a biofiller in plastics manufacturing. If its research is successful, it could aid in cutting the costs and dependence on foreign oil, increasing...

The NIU forensics team took three of the top four spots at the Kishwaukee College Corn Classic Nov. 11 and 12. Competing in two-person parliamentary teams were: junior business administration major Adam Gibbons and sophomore electrical engineering major...

Don Vito, a character on the MTV show Viva La Bam, will visit NIU today at 6 p.m. to do ... whatever he wants. "Whatever happens, happens," said Chris Turley, an outside regional sales manager for www.StudentCity.com. "There is no set itinerary, he’ll...

When anthropology graduate student Jenn Howard moved into her apartment in August, she discovered a few unexpected surprises the landlord had not mentioned before signing the lease. "When I first moved in there, there was a bug problem - like a roach...

The Student Association held its final meeting of the semester Sunday night. Sophomore physics major and Senate Speaker Jose Perez was absent, so Adam Novotney, a senior management major and senator from District 3, filled in as Speaker. Andrew Nelms,...

CAB is giving NIU students the chance to find out really went on in the Land of Oz before Dorothy came into the picture. An NIU charter bus will leave at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 6 from the Holmes Student Center for the 7:30 p.m. showing of the hit "Wizard of...

During the 2004 renovations on the DuSable Hall turnaround, service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega became alarmed that NIU seemed to be paving a driveway right over tradition. Since 1960, a wooden red and black structure stood on the patch of land outside...

Flowers, gift certificates and a $250 scholarship were presented to 2005-2006 Miss Asia NIU Julia Choi. Choi, a senior secondary education major, was crowned Thursday night in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium in the Holmes Student Center. This was the second...

An international drilling project, aimed at collecting data from under the Arctic Sea to better understand global warming trends, has added several new team members from NIU. The ANDRILL project, based in Antarctica at the McMurdo Base, is a $30 million...

S.I.S.T.E.R.S. member Taalia Whitehead waited excitedly Thursday evening for the start of the group’s 27th annual Tribute to Black Men. "I am ecstatic, actually," said Whitehead, a senior political science major and SISTERS vice president. "Every year...

A controversial 1988 Supreme Court decision that gives high school administrators and principals the ability to censor student newspapers may soon apply to colleges and universities. The 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, which limited high school...