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...

-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...

-Downtown DeKalb remains largely a ghost town when compared to Sycamore Road. The deck is stacked against the businesses downtown. Sycamore Road can offer shoppers a variety of products at low prices, all within a small area. The stores are easy to get...

-Xiu Xiu's "Fabulous Muscles" is either genius or terrible. If you thought nothing good came out of the ‘80s, then this album is not for you. The penchant for the clash of electronics with more traditional instruments rides high on the crashing wave...

"Do I have a scar on my face?" That was just one question heard from a patron at the Lucky Boys Confusion show after members of the bands playing earlier that night jumped into the crowd to surf on the hands and, in some cases, heads of their fans. -Crowd...

As many students began their Spring Break trips March 5, Adolf Shapiro, the world-renowned Russian theater director, was finishing his trip to NIU. Alexander Gelman, director of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance is a respected director, master teacher...