The NIU Campus Child Care Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Located in Gabel Hall, the center’s mission is to provide high-quality child care for the NIU community. For the first 22 years, the center only had enough room for two classrooms....

-Two female cellists in corsets and a drummer in suspenders: hardly the conventional composition of a rock band, but then again, Rasputina hardly could be called normal. Melora Creager provides the guiding force of the band as lead vocalist, cellist and...

Rita Reynolds, NIU Graduate School business manager, is leaving NIU to work with American Indians across the United States. Reynolds has worked at NIU for more than 20 years. She started in the personnel department in 1981 as a civil service classifier....

The Student Association Finance Committee made nearly $230,000 in recommended cuts to more than one-third of the Campus Activities Board budgets on Tuesday. Members reviewed six of CAB’s 17 budgets and will review the rest during today’s committee...

The Unity in Diversity Steering Committee is sponsoring a poster contest open to all NIU faculty, staff and students. The poster will be based on this year’s theme, "Unity in Diversity Through Acceptance, Understanding and Respect." "What we are looking...

Tuesday’s lead article "University takes HIV precautions" contained incorrect information. The Northern Star reported that the DeKalb County Health Department provides a blood-free HIV test that uses cotton swabs in the genital area to obtain a sample...

Five secret agents will film themselves being silly and having a good time with the DeKalb locale today. No, it’s not the Secret Service. It’s Mission IMPROVable, a Chicago-based improvisational group that marked DeKalb as its first stop on a four-show...

Information Technology Services will spend $430,000 to purchase 260 new replacement computers after receiving approval for funding from the NIU Board of Trustees last week. The new computers will be placed in Graham and Reavis halls and the Neptune Hall...

Warm weather and mostly sunny skies graced the DeKalb area Tuesday. The temperature reached as high as 57 degrees, with more warm-weather days expected for the rest of this week and part of next week. "It looks like it might be cloudy, but this is the...

"Rebirth of Black Consciousness" is the theme for the 11th annual African American Leadership Conference, which runs today through Friday. Russell Hanes, coordinator for the event, said the conference will feature education, entertainment and "edutainment."...

Marisa Saldana is out to prove that having a disability doesn’t mean she has to limit herself. The 26-year old NIU graduate student currently is in Oakland, Calif., interning at the Lions Center for the Blind where she helps blind adults. Saldana was...

NIU sophomore basketball player Rome Sanders was charged Friday with domestic battery following a confrontation with a woman at Stevenson Towers. University Police arrested Sanders, 20, of Stevenson Towers, shortly after 9:30 p.m., after the woman contacted...