The Student Association Senate began its meeting on time regardless of the clocks in the Skyroom of the Holmes Student Center not being altered to accommodate daylight-saving time. SA President Kevin Miller opened the meeting with his executive report...

The Supreme Court is battling with the issue of affirmative action admission policies in universities. Opponents of affirmative action appeared before the Supreme Court on April 1 to argue their case. The two cases at hand involve the admissions policy...

Sunday at Judson College in Elgin an assortment of top high school seniors competed in the Chicagoland JAM-boree, including NIU basketball signee Mike McKinney of Evanston. McKinney finished with 13 points in a 148-117 loss for his North Team. "I was...

The Convocation Center will host the hit musical "Grease" on Tuesday night. "I encourage all to come and see the show because it appeals not only to the theater-going person, but it appeals to fans of the '50s and anyone who loves the show ‘Grease,'"...

A decade of disaster was revisited Thursday night as the infamous anti-war activist Bernardine Dohrn spoke on behalf of the atrocities that she witnessed during the Vietnam War. Dohrn served as an active participant in the radical anti-Vietnam War movement...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

NIU's School of Music will present the bi-annual World Music Concert showcasing instruments such as a flamenco guitar, a chinese zither, a gong ensemble and many more exotic instruments. "We put this on once every semester, and it's always a wonderful...

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...