With the DeKalb City Council taking a new twist because of the April 1 elections, issues like the Greek Row Revitalization Plan will be the responsibility of newly-elected 1st Ward Alderman Karega Harris. But Harris said he has no doubts the Greek Row...

The NIU softball team was not able to overcome an early 3-0 deficit and eventually fell 3-2 to in-state rival UIC on Sunday in Chicago. The loss is the fifth in the last six games for the Huskies who fell to 14-11 while UIC improves to 11-26 overall....

The NIU track and field team battled the weather over the weekend to finish second at the 19-team Chicagoland Championships. The Huskies were victorious in four of the 16 events, totalling 117.5 points. DePaul won the meet with 124 points. "There were...

Ling was a fifth-year medical student in Cambodia at the start of the four-year genocide in Cambodia. Along with her family, Ling was forced to live in war camps, make compost from human feces and witness her husband being taken away. After the genocide,...

Questions ranging from race to the war in Iraq were the topics of discussion Friday at the Teen Summit panel discussion, which was hosted by the the Center for Black Studies. DeKalb, Sycamore and Oak Lawn high school students were in attendance. The event...

Summer school most likely will not be eliminated, as the state's blow to Illinois public universities' budgets won't be as devastating as expected, according to NIU President John Peters. NIU has been dreading a "worst case scenario" since early March...

Nine sororities and two fraternities will take part in a dance competition benefiting a worthy cause. "Do It to the Crowd," a dance contest sponsored by Alpha Sigma Alpha, is an annual event that tries to get the crowd's response by getting it involved...

The 10th-annual African-American Leadership Conference will come to a close today with the presentation of the Fanny Ruth Scholarship Award and a tribute to founder of the NIU Chance Program, McKinley "Deacon" Davis Jr. The tribute will begin today during...

About 20 listeners gathered last night in the Holmes Student Center to take part in a discussion about sexual orientation and race issues. Alice Y. Hom, director of the Intercultural Community Center at Occidental College in California and co-editor of...

"Pomp and Circumstance" may play a little louder this year in comparison to years past. Graduation, which will be held at the Convocation Center this year, will not be much different though the location will be much bigger. Joe Coots, marketing manager...

Being down 7-0 in the third inning against visiting DePaul didn't hurt the NIU softball team. The reason it didn't was because the weather was as bad as the defense of NIU (14-10). The game was called by the home plate umpire in the top of the third inning...

The Showtime at the Apollo talent show, which was slated for Saturday as the last event for Greek Week, has been canceled. A lack of interest and not enough material to fill the required time slots for the show justified the need for the event to be called...