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."...

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...

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...

March is National Nutrition Month, and people are encouraged to take a closer look at what they are eating to help maintain a healthy lifestyle. Karen Grush, public health administrator for the DeKalb County Health Department, said an essential element...

NIU’s Women’s Studies Program sponsored a panel to motivate student activism Monday at Reavis Hall. The panel tried to give students incentive to persevere. Extra work, organization, following examples and full involvement were key words used by NIU...

At a meeting on Monday, Illinois Education Association members encouraged students and faculty to participate in Higher Education Lobby Day on Wednesday in Springfield. Organizer Tom Suhrbur emphasized active involvement in lobbying state legislators...

All candidates in the upcoming Campus Activities Board and Student Association executive elections attended an open forum held by the Northern Star on Monday. More than 30 people, including members of CAB, the SA and students-at-large, attended the forum....