Huskie Highlights, along with changing its logo, has reorganized its staff and faced a decrease in student fees for fiscal year 2005. The Student Association distributed the monthly magazine’s first edition for the spring semester Feb. 3. The SA Senate...

The Newman Catholic Student Center hopes a few thousand people will attend church today to celebrate Ash Wednesday. The center, 512 Normal Road, will have five different masses to better accommodate schedules of students, employees and professors, said...

Even though it’s almost two months into 2005, the reminders of 2004’s fashion mistakes and triumphs are still prevalent. Some revivals of the best fashion and onslaughts of the worst hit the runways and the streets in 2004. Things I Loved: Girlish...

Tucked away in Swen Parson Hall is one of NIU’s landmarks - University Information. The office, otherwise known as 753-1000, is a magic number, connecting students and the community to the entire university with just one phone call. The directory is...

Students trying to stay healthy during cold and flu season can take steps as simple as hand washing. Kathy Antunovich, director of the TriCounty Community Health Center in Malta, said practicing good hygiene is essential to staying healthy. "Hand washing...

Only 850 students and alumni attended the Spring 2005 Job Fair Tuesday at the Convocation Center, said Jody Kirchgessner, a student relations specialist at NIU’s Career Services, formerly the Career Planning and Placement Center. About 250 fewer job...

To step closer to equality, blacks must shed the television media’s negative stereotypes. Earl Graves Jr., CEO of Black Enterprise magazine, delivered these and other words of encouragement Tuesday night at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. More than 50...

NIU students are scrambling to find apartments and sign leases as the number of available residences decline. "There are still plenty of apartments out there, it’s going to be a little more limited," said Kathy Laing of Laing Management. Laing Management,...

Although drinking may be a trend on college campuses, said Megan Hechler, a junior English education major and Sigma Kappa member, some NIU greeks agree pushing back recruitment will not solve the issue. The North-American Interfraternity Conference criticized...

For some, it was just another job. For others, it was the experience of a lifetime. Whatever the case, the war in Iraq thrust three NIU students into a conflict that continues to have an impact on their daily lives. Back to civilian life In July 2004,...

NIU officials and community leaders are collaborating to create the Alcohol Education Task Force to look at issues of alcohol use on NIU’s campus. The task force, which was formed this semester, will look at university policies and practices relating...

Earl Graves Jr. will speak at 7 p.m. tonight in the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium as part of Black History Month. Graves, CEO of the magazine Black Enterprise, will address various ways in which blacks are portrayed in the media....