NIU will showcase student talent in Reality Bytes, a three-day film event. Reality Bytes will screen student documentaries in three genres - historical, autobiographical/biographical and social issues - at 7 p.m. today. The films in the autobiographical/biographical...

NIU receives nearly 50 cease and desist orders regarding illegal downloading of music and movies each month. Despite the risk of being caught, hundreds of students continue to download movies and music off the Internet. Third-party agents such as NetPD...

NIU President John Peters has yet to decide whether he will run for the University of Tennessee system’s presidential position. Peters is on a list of presidential nominations for the UT position; the list currently shows 71 names. The last day for...

NIU’s department of Finance and Facilities projects almost $12 million in facility costs for next year - a 20 percent increase from this year. Bob Albanese, director of Finance and Facilities, said the department uses a meteorologist to forecast the...

After 23 years, NIU will say farewell to Athletic Director Cary Groth with an open house at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Stratford Inn, 355 W. State St., Sycamore. Groth is leaving the university for a position at the University of Nevada-Reno. All members...

The NIU anthropology museum reopened with an exhibit of modern paintings and traditional artifacts from Africa after a two-year renovation. "African Dialogues" compares modern paintings from the Democratic Republic of Congo with traditional Congolese...

Groups looking to protest on campus need more than an issue and a few hand-painted signs. University policy requires groups or individuals to follow guidelines about time, place and manner, or risk penalties. The guidelines are set so people don’t interrupt...

The University of Tennessee system is looking for a new president, and NIU President John Peters is on the list of presidential nominations. The list includes people who have been nominated for the position but neither have accepted nor declined the nomination....

NIU will receive $1.7 million for building improvements of a possible $30 million Gov. Rod Blagojevich has recommended for the Capital Renewal Program during the next fiscal year. Blagojevich’s plan, which was revealed on March 23, allows the $1.7 million...

The "Vagina Seminar: Re-imaging Women’s Bodies" will answer all the questions you are afraid to ask. The seminar will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at DuSable Hall, Room 204. It is a time for women to receive frank and accurate information about biology...

Scientists may have discovered the solar system’s most distant object, more than three times farther away from the Earth than Pluto. The object, about 8 billion kilometers from Earth, has been given the provisional name of Sedna, after the Inuit goddess...

To most of the population, March represents the beginning of spring and the end of winter. But to the sports community, March signifies the climax of the college basketball season with the NCAA tournament’s Final Four. A key ingredient to enjoying the...