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...

Student organizations will have an opportunity to voice their likes and dislikes concerning the Student Association if a new piece of legislation makes its way through the senate. The SA Senate approved the first reading of a resolution to create an annual...

NIU’s Women’s Studies Program is sponsoring a panel about women’s activism. The panel will be held at 3:30 p.m. today at Reavis Hall, Room 211. Each year during Women’s History Month, the program hosts a panel that focuses on the theme for the...

Greek organizations are preparing to complete different parts of the annual accreditation process, including the academic section, which is being enforced fully for the second year. Greek organizations go through accreditation every year, but the process...

The debate about same-sex marriages should be called "Queer Law for the Straight Guy," said Mark Wojcik, professor at the John Marshall Law School, during his lecture Friday afternoon at NIU’s law school. Sponsored by the Law Review and Amnesty International,...

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...