This Spring Break, 38 NIU students went on three trips offered by the Newman Catholic Student Center and made a difference in people’s lives. Students went to Alabama, Arkansas and West Virginia. The students in Alabama and Arkansas helped build homes...

Students and community members have the opportunity to leave town and look at the stars without the city lights ruining their view. The NIU Outing Centre will hold its first stargazing trip of the semester Saturday. The Outing Centre will use two minivans...

NIU will host its 13th annual law symposium from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Holmes Student Center’s Clara Sperling Skyroom. Presenters from several areas in law will speak to NIU students, faculty and area professionals. "I’m certain there...

Otto J. Gabel, the namesake of NIU’s Gabel Hall, was born in 1891. Gabel, a Shabbona native, attended NIU and served as principal of the McMurry Practice School from 1921 until 1937. After that, Gabel transferred to the elementary education department...

When Gary Gauger found the body of his murdered father face-down in a pool of blood, he had no idea that death almost would lead to his own. "It was like I’d stepped into a dream," said Gauger, an organic farmer who was arrested and convicted for the...

Since the start of the Iraq War, a growing number of people have been attending the Newman Catholic Student Center’s Taize prayer services. Taize is an ecumenical form of prayer that is applicable to all forms of Christianity. It has expanded to other...

As all five planets visible to the naked eye will appear together in the evening sky during the next few weeks, NIU’s Davis Hall Observatory will hold special viewing sessions from 6:30 to 10 p.m. today and March 26. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and...

From Napster to WinMX to Kazaa and back again, NIU students living in Grant Towers will have a new, legal way to download music and movies starting in fall 2004. Ruckus Network and NIU Information Technology Services are working together to make free...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Chicago) made some brief statements about higher education’s budget situation during a surprise visit to the NIU Board of Trustees meeting Thursday. "John Peters has already been out to Washington with his agenda, and I’ll...

-Bearing his flashy, inexhaustibly sweaty smile on a flier, legendary porn star Ron Jeremy is set to sell tickets for the theater department's latest comedy romp. "Children of the Corn: The Rising of the Stalk," previously known as "Children of the Porn"...

Budget cuts, the search for a new athletic director and discussion of the summer workweek were highlights of Wednesday’s University Council meeting. While most state universities will receive a 2 percent decrease to its 2005 budget, NIU will face only...

-Recently, the Weekender sat down with Cory Wills, lead singer and guitarist of Inspector Owl, a poppy electronic/rock hybrid that sounds kind of like an edgier The Postal Service. But don't tell them that. Weekender: Describe Inspector Owl for me. Cory...