The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will host its Masquerade Fall Ball on Saturday at the Holmes Student Center’s Regency Room. LaToya Shine, publicity chair for the NAACP and chair for the Fall Ball, said the ball is a formal...

Students who enjoy the outdoors might find their niche at the Outing Centre. The center, located behind the Student Recreation Center, offers activities such as rock climbing, kayaking, canoeing, spelunking, mountain hiking and backpacking. These activities...

Looking at the many vending machines on NIU’s campus, students should expect to see a lot of Pepsi. NIU has an exclusive license agreement that makes the university a Pepsi-only campus, said Bob Albanese, associate vice president for Finance and Facilities....

Spicy Clamato no longer is just an awful mixture of tabasco, clam and tomato. It's also an improv troupe from the University of Illinois featuring the comedic stylings of seniors Joe Hercih, Laura Nosko and Casey Larenc; junior John Loos; and sophomores...

Wind gusts of up to 54 mph hit DeKalb and surrounding areas Wednesday afternoon. NIU meteorologist Gilbert Sebenste said the heavy winds are normal for this time of the year. “It’s part of the transition from fall to winter, and happens every year,”...

The Northern Illinois University Percussion Ensemble will present its biannual world percussion concert at 8 p.m. today at the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. NIU’s School of Music is known for its world music program and international...

If there were a such thing as the anti-auteur, Richard Donner would be it. Donner, a film director for almost a quarter of a century, seems to jump all over the place thematically. Early in his career, he directed one of the scariest films of all time,...

A year ago, a kid with only a pair of scissors, a glue stick and a handful of change for a copy machine put out the first issue of Clambassador Comics. Now, a year later, the same kid with only a pair of scissors, a glue stick and a handful of change...

Ja Rule's fifth release, "Blood in My Eye," is 45 minutes of pure beef. Ja strays from his proven strategy for success, takes away all Top 40 appeal and cuts Ashanti out of the formula — sending her packin' like Puck on "Real World." -From the first...

The story is this: Five Dublin lads save their money and move to California for the summer. They fall in love with America and return home to work the subsequent nine months just to save enough money for another three-month stint. -While here, the quintet,...

When the Smoking Popes disbanded in 1998, singer/songwriter Josh Caterer took a two-and-a-half year hiatus from making music to devote himself to his newfound Christianity. Forming Duvall in 2001 with a former Popes member, his brother Eli, the band released...

Additional details about the Student Association’s new magazine, Huskie Highlights, were unveiled by SA President Shaun Crisler at Wednesday’s media board meeting. The magazine will have a circulation of 6,000, with at least 3,000 to be distributed...