It takes dedication from students to earn a spot on the Princeton Review's top party school list - a dedication to drinking. Every year, the Princeton Review surveys 65,000 students nationwide. Based on questions relating to alcohol and drug use, the...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a mysterious pneumonia-like illness, is breaking out around the world, but if it shows up at NIU the University Health Service has a plan to handle it. According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control...

It's spring. The flowers are blooming, the weather is nice - on most days - and the ladies are showing off more skin. But there is another reason to look forward to the changing of seasons this year. Not since NIU football coach Joe Novak was rockin'...

Starting this summer, the residence halls on campus will become smoke free. Currently, 58 out of the 141 floors in the residence halls are smoking optional. Students were informed during the sign-up process and hall councils about the smoke-free halls,...

A little less than two months since 16-year NIU soccer coach Willy Roy was fired, the NIU Athletics Department has selected a replacement. Three candidates were interviewed last week, and one was picked as Roy's successor, according to Assistant Athletics...

About 26 percent of NIU's campus is comprised of minorities. Because of campus resources like the Center for Black Studies, University Resources for Latinos and the Asian American Task Force, this percentage will rise. "Minority applications, as well...

The NIU Veterans Club will put on a Support Our Troops Rally at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday evening at the King Memorial Commons. The event will feature speakers and a reading of names of soldiers killed during U.S. military operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi...

If NIU were to accommodate all of the May 2003 graduates' families and faculty members in one ceremony, NIU would need a "20,000 seat arena," said Provost Ivan Legg. "This is probably the biggest [graduating class] ever," Legg said. Because of the large...

ake Shields had one day's notice before he was let go from the Huskie Patrol. Shields, a junior clinical laboratory sciences major, and the rest of Huskie Patrol recently learned that the program was canceled for the remainder of the spring semester....

NIU wrestler Bill Lowney was arraigned on criminal sexual assault charges on Monday morning. Lowney appeared at the DeKalb County Courthouse at 9 a.m. Monday, where he pleaded not guilty to the charges. He is accused of sexually assaulting a female NIU...

Eleven years after an accident took one of his legs, Brett Falkenberg, 33, is back at NIU in his second-to-last semester working toward a second degree in journalism. Falkenberg says the reason for going to school after his accident was "for himself."...

f there's one thing students need more of, it's funds to cover the mounting expenses of attending college: tuition, rent, books and beer money. Even though many students feel they've already exhausted all of their financial aid options, there actually...