A brick of noodles, a pot of boiling water and thou. In high school, ramen was a mysterious food for most of us, strangely foreign, undoubtedly tasty and completely out of our regular meals. Of course, when a person goes to college, suddenly everyone...

NIU's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Awareness resource center will welcome author Alice Y. Hom to help kick off LGBT Awareness Month today. April is celebrated as LGBT Awareness Month each year in honor of the anniversary of NIU's student LGBT and...

One young couple was taken by surprise Sunday when the mood struck and Marianne Boeler and Josh Westington found themselves without a condom. "I never thought this could happen to us," said Boeler, a junior English major. Westington, a junior visual communication...

While hate crimes against Middle Eastern people may have occurred in a few communities in the United States since the war with Iraq, NIU remains a safe environment. "Most of the people around us are educated; students know that you can't blame a group...

"The Boondocks" cartoonist Aaron McGruderwill address racial issues at 10 a.m. today in the Holmes Student Center's Carl Sandburg Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the Center for Black Studies, will mark the end of NIU's 10th annual African-American...

Asa Hillard believes that for African Americans to be strong, they must first learn their history. The professor from Georgia State University spoke about African history and leadership last night in the Holmes Student Center's Duke Ellington Ballroom....

Polka wizards The Karate Hamsters recently announced that NIU's Convocation Center will be a stop on its spring tour. The show will take place at 7 p.m. on April 31. It's the fourth show of its 294-date tour, which is expected to end sometime in 2005....

If you could ask Mike Santoro what his perfect game would be, he'd be hard-pressed to come up with one much better than what he experienced yesterday at the University of Iowa. Santoro, a right fielder, set a school record with three home runs in the...

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...