After being out of service for more than 16 months, the escalators in Founders Memorial Library are back in operation. The escalators could not be repaired until recently because of university budget cuts, University Libraries Dean Arthur Young said....

About 200 students attended the NIU marketing department’s “Meet the Firm” job fair Monday at the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom. About 30 marketing- and sales- related companies attended. Rick Ridnour, job fair organizer and...

Despite the impact the state budget crisis has had on public universities, budget recommendations for fiscal year 2005 are at a standstill. Unlike last year, the Illinois Board of Higher Education isn’t recommending budget increases, but they’re not...

The NIU marketing department, with the help of co-ed business fraternity Pi Sigma Epsilon, will host “Meet the Firm” today. Mathew Varghese, vice president of the fraternity and a senior marketing major, said it is a good opportunity for people of...

The mathematical science department had the lowest average undergraduate grade point average for the spring 2003 term at 2.007, according to an NIU Institutional Research Report. The average undergraduate GPA for chemistry students was the second lowest,...

NIU baseball players put down their bats Friday morning to tackle a new challenge: getting the attention of a classroom of kindergartners. The baseball players sat down with the students of Cornerstone Christian Academy, 355 N. Cross St., Sycamore, on...

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...

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,...

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,...

A hot water pipe burst Thursday afternoon at the Art Building, leaving a conference room and two offices soaked with water. “No classrooms were affected, no art or files were damaged and no one was injured,” said Larry Gregory, assistant director...

Classes that start at 8 and 9 a.m. today have been canceled because of low temperatures. Staff meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste said temperatures today will be 10 to 15 degrees below zero with wind chills at 30 degrees below zero. Faculty and staff, however,...

Campus Activities Board presented budget requests for two new committees they hope to form next year, Huskie Pride and Little Huskies, at Wednesday’s Student Association Finance Committee meeting. CAB President Jen Suerth said the idea for Huskie Pride...