The most difficult part of confronting suicidal people is asking them if they are going to kill themselves. This is what Peter Gutierrez, assistant chair in psychology, who has a speciality in adolescent suicide risk prediction and prevention, tells people...

“You talk, I listen” is Ken Quigley’s motto. Quigley, who has been an independent campus minister since fall 1998, sits in the Holmes Student Center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and listens to students who want to talk. “I just...

Larry the Cable Guy will “Git-R-Done” in DeKalb when he brings his stand-up comedy act to the NIU Convocation Center Friday, Jan. 21. The show will be at 8 p.m. and tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 19 at the Convo box office. Prices for the...

If you’re one of the 19 lucky students, you could catch a few rays and cash in on three credit hours over Winter Break. NIU is offering SOCI 495, a three-credit-hour service-learning course that will take place in both Illinois and Florida. The course,...

The only thing on Bush Acar’s agenda at 9 p.m. every Tuesday night for the last four years has been hall council. Acar, a senior communications major, found the Residence Hall Association’s hall council a great outlet to gain skills for the future,...

More than 2,000 prospective NIU students are expected to attend NIU’s open house from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Attendance varies at the open houses - at NIU’s last open house in the spring, about 2,400 people attended - but attendance is sometimes...

Representatives from 10 student organizations put on their dancing shoes for the African Student Association’s fundraiser “Dance for Africa” Wednesday night. Dance for Africa raised $1,200 to finish an orphanage house in Uganda for children whose...

The NIU Veterans Club will be holding a ceremony to honor all veterans at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Flagpole by the East Lagoon. About 100 people are expected to attend the ceremony, said Jennifer Webster, president of the Veterans Club....

This semester is a first for the Spanish department with a program called “Quia,” which allows students enrolled in Spanish courses to complete their homework assignments online. “Students purchase a code that gives them access to the electronic...

Christmas is coming early to NIU this year. The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will present two one-act monologues entitled “Santaland Diaries and Season’s Greetings,” running Nov. 11 to 14 and again Nov. 17 to 21 in the Stevens Building Players...

An NIU professor who wrote a book about post-World War II Germany will speak at the Nehring Center Gallery, 164 E. Lincoln Highway, Tuesday. Heide Fehrenbach, an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the history department, will begin...

The African Student Association will host a “Dance for Africa” show at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium in the Holmes Student Center. Proceeds will benefit orphans of AIDS victims in Africa. The ASA is raising money to finish building...