Roommates: They can make or break a student’s college experience. Some students get lucky and find a best friend, while others cannot wait until the weekend to be away from their roommates. When a student applies for housing after being accepted to...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke about voting rights to a full auditorium in Altgeld Hall Thursday night. Jackson began his lecture with a brief history of slavery and civil rights up to 1965. "The laws changed, but the culture did not," Jackson said. Jackson...

While the American casualty count steadily increases to 2,000 and U.S. troops face another winter in Iraq, roughly 85 percent of American students cannot locate the country on a map, according to a 2002 National Geographic-Roper survey. History professor...

After a long season, the NIU Women’s Rugby Club defended its title as the Chicago-area Conference champs Saturday. Last year, the team went undefeated. This year, the team only lost once and that was when it had a shortage of players during the game....

In conjunction with the nationwide "Make A Difference Day," Newman Catholic Center members Sandi Roznovsky and Brian Yandle organized a lupus walkathon for Saturday in Chicago. The walk, which will take place in the Lincoln Park area at 10 a.m., is a...

Senior meteorology major Statira Petersen may be in a wheelchair, but she has no problem getting around. Petersen recently spent 10 weeks in Seattle as an intern with the National Weather Service branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration....

The Student Association’s open forum Wednesday night regarding the Huskie Bus Line drew 10 attendees. The forum addressed issues such as overcrowding on busses, the possible return of the Huskie "express bus" that takes students living in a residence...

Despite a lively performance by 3 Doors Down, Shinedown and Alter Bridge, attendance to Wednesday night’s concert at the Convocation Center did not meet expectations. "Ticket sales were below expectation," said Convo Center Marketing Director Kevin...

Students trying to decide on a major got a little extra help Wednesday as the "Exploring Majors Fair" took place in the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom. The fair was meant to help students find a major that interested them, as well as...

This year, students living in Stevenson, Lincoln, Douglas and Grant halls had to download and use the Cisco Clean Access security program, along with a pre-configured antivirus program, McAfee VirusScan 8.0i if they run Microsoft Windows and want to use...

Theater professor Christopher Markle hopes to bring an important part of Romanian history to the public. The play he is working on will tell an Eastern European story not often told. The play, "Julia (Juliet): A Dialogue About Love," written in both Hungarian...

EBONY Women has tentatively selected 12 gentlemen of NIU to take part in its 2006 calendar. This is the first year EBONY Women members have taken on this sort of project and are excited about it. "We just want to showcase the distinguished gentlemen of...