DuSable Hall is the first on-campus facility named after an African-American, according to university archives at the Regional History Center. Originally known as the Reavis West Classroom, DuSable Hall was renamed in 1974 after Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable,...

Students could win free rent through one of the many promotions the Convocation Center is having throughout the basketball season. David Lichtenstein, NIU’s athletic director of marketing, said he hopes offering a variety of promotions will attract...

The Honorable Michael Thawley, Australian ambassador to the United States, will reschedule an address at NIU on Australian-American relations. Thawley originally was scheduled to speak Tuesday as part of the new Presidential Public Policy lecture series,...

+ For making Mars an intergallactic junkyard. + For sending the equivalent of a remote-controlled car onto a forbidden planet, then tipping it over. + For convincing a simpleton leader to send a person to the Red Planet. + For even thinking about sending...

The crystallized flakes falling from the heavens are good for more than traffic delays and cold ankles. Snow can be formed into fairly harmless projectiles for mock-World War I trench warfare. True, most snowball fights fall under the category of hiding...

Fundraising for the new Alumni and Visitors Center is on schedule, said Mike Malone, vice president of University Relations and Development. Alumni Association is looking to move out of the current Alumni House, 231 N. Annie Glidden Road, and into a 36,000...

Even in cold weather, Lorado Taft, NIU’s outdoor retreat center, is kept busy. The environment and conference center, located 37 miles from NIU in Oregon, serves as an educational center for more than 7,000 school children per year, as well as for other...

-You might say that "it's been a while," since Weekender interviewed the lead guitarist of a rock band coming to the Convocation Center in February, but that would be both inaccurate and cliché. Still, Weekender had the opportunity for a scant 10-minute...

-Stevens Building's Room 110 was open just a sliver, and students were inside. I knocked. No answer, just silence. I knocked harder. A tall, ominous male student answered and put a lone finger to his lips to indicate silence, but words weren't there....

Mention Candy Butchers — or Mike Viola — and count how long before someone brings up Tom Hanks' "That Thing You Do!" In this case, it took 11 words. The gravel-throated vocalist co-wrote and sang the film's theme song alongside Fountains Of Wayne's...

-In their hometown, they have to turn people away because bodies already are covering every available inch of floor space. When band members of My Fifth of Paradise came to DeKalb to play, they did not find the crowd to be the surging mass of bodies they...

"He's not just a dog; he's a cop. And he's not just a cop; he's my partner." The '80s spawned numerous memorable action/comedy cop movies from "Lethal Weapon" to "48 Hours." In 1989, the genre took an unusual turn when screen writers heralded the days...