Altgeld Hall's renovation should be completed by January, said Patricia Perkins, assistant to the vice president of Finance and Facilities. The project, which started in 1999, was expected to be completed by fall 2002, Perkins said. She added that the...

After taking home 10 wins in its first 13 games, NIU's softball team has been in a funk. The Huskies (7-5, 17-17) since have won seven of their last 21 games. In eight of its 13 losses in that stretch, NIU has lost by one run and will look to pick up...

Barb Thomas is sharing years of her photography with visitors at The House. Thomas, a photography instructor at NIU, has a retrospective exhibit at the coffee shop, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. The exhibit runs through Sunday. The photographs show a progression...

Representatives from Lambda Chi Alpha's national office visited NIU on Tuesday to further investigate its chapter on campus. Lambda Chi also still is under investigation by NIU's Judicial Office and University Programming and Activities on the allegations...

Center fielder Jeremy Busch led off Tuesday's game with a home run over the left field fence and the Huskies never looked back in a 17-8 blowout of Division III Lakeland College (10-16). The Huskies (22-13) scored in each of the first three innings and...

DeKalb police received reports of about 20 vehicles with slashed tires on Tuesday. The cars were located at 1037 Spiros Court, 858 Spiros Court and 895 Pappas Drive. They all are located within a student housing area. Sgt. Jim McDougall of the DeKalb...

NIU's $2.25 million plan to renovate the Chick Evans Field House will go on; however, original plans for the project have been altered. In January, John Sweeney, director of the Office of Campus Recreation, told the Northern Star that the renovation would...

An informal and interactive discussion about the needs and concerns of all minority groups at NIU will take place from 12 to 1 p.m. today at the Center for Diversity Resources' Affirmative Action and Diversity Resources office 166/178. Phinette Maszka,...

They enjoyed their time at NIU so much, they said they would stay the night and party at Molly's Eatery and Drinkery. Theo of "Real World: Chicago" and Trishelle of "Real World: Las Vegas" spoke in front of about 750 raucous students at the Carl Sandburg...

Four teenagers have been arrested by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department for a residential burglary that happened in Kirkland last month. The last of the four teenagers turned himself in Monday afternoon to the sheriff's department. Joshua L. Scheen,...

In addition to its hallucination-inducing appearance, the psychedelic carpet at Founders Memorial Library now has spawned a poetry contest. NIU students are eligible to pen a poem about the first level's brown-, orange- and yellow-striped floor covering....

Palm trees, sunshine and the island flavor of the Caribbean made its way to "A Little Taste of the Caribbean," presented by the Residence Hall Association's Believing in Culture committee Monday night. The evening featured the NIU Steel Band on instruments...