If your high school sex-ed class didn't answer your curiosities about the female anatomy, now is the time to get accurate answers. At 7:30 p.m. today at Faraday Hall, Room 143, the Women's Alliance will sponsor the Vagina Seminar: Re-imaging Women's Bodies....

Human rights activist and author Carol Wagner will speak at NIU. For the past 10 years, Wagner has been dedicated to working with humanitarian organizations in Cambodia. Her book that was published in March 2002 is called "Soul Survivors - Stories of...

By a narrow margin of 56 votes, Student Association vice president nominee Andrew Becerra beat SA Senator Laisha Fox in Wednesday's run-off election. The run-off came as a result of last week's election in which both candidates failed to get the required...

Sharlene Hesse-Biber, author of The Cult of Thinness, spoke Wednesday night at Wirtz Hall Auditorium about the commercialization of thinness in the western culture and how it's spreading into other parts of the world. Hesse-Biber calls this trend the...

Replacing seniors Kristan Knake and Kim Boeding will be a tough task for women's basketball coach Carol Hammerle. But a talented incoming recruiting class may help ease the process. Hammerle has signed shooting guard Mary Basic, point guard Stephanie...

As the incoming student representative for NIU's governing body, Kevin Miller might be the ultimate student to know. Come next semester, the junior political science and English double-major will serve as student trustee on the NIU Board of Trustees....

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender organization will kick off its LGBT awareness month today with a presentation by activist and writer Nomy Lamm. Lamm, a Chicago native, will give her multi-media presentation "Body Anarchy: Prescriptions for Personal...

Today is the run-off election for Student Association vice president, which comes one week to the day after the first election. Andrew Becerra and Laisha Fox are competing for the spot in a run-off. In the last election, none of the candidates received...

During non-mayoral elections, voter turnout in DeKalb County tends to be below average, according to City Clerk Donna Johnson. Tonight's election, however, will reflect a greater voter turnout than originally anticipated, she said. She explained the intrigue...

Another NCAA Tournament bracket filled out and another $20 flushed down the toilet. Gambling on collegiate athletics has reached an all-time high with the aid of more than 700 web sites. Internet betting is so bad that Betonsports.com is setting odds...

Nomy Lamm stood in a short black dress, red fishnet stockings and blood red lipstick before an audience of about 50 people and admitted to being fat, "gender queer," a lesbian and Jewish. Lamm was brought to the Holmes Student Center's Room 305 by PRISM...

A pedestrian was struck by a car on the corner of Annie Glidden Road and Lucinda Avenue on Monday evening. Corporal Jon Costliow of the DeKalb Police Department said the victim was walking on Lucinda Avenue toward the Chick Evans Field House when a vehicle...