The Northern Leadership Institute will hold its third institute on Wednesday at the Holmes Student Center. This year's theme is campus leadership. The institute is open to all students who have registered beforehand, and it is designed to help them improve...

With more than five months to go until the NIU football team kicks off play against Maryland at home on Aug. 28, the football team is preparing now. "We put a sign up here that the football team has made," NIU coach Joe Novak said. "It says, ‘You play...

You know they have to leave, but you hate to see them go. While the gleaming image of a sexy Marine waving goodbye as he departs for his next mission is utterly patriotic, it can be devastating for those who know him as a loved one. As troops get deployed...

The NIU department of communication, along with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will give the NIU community a dose of reality. They will host the first annual Reality Bytes Film Festival. The festival was created by communication professor Laura...

As America enters the forefront of war, the nation braces itself for what will happen next, again. The general sentiments of skepticism, concern and even outrage that people are feeling about the war seems to mirror a similar situation that occurred more...

This season NIU stressed that teamwork, not individuality would win games. Forward Marcus Smallwood and guard Perry Smith shared the honor of team MVP at Monday night's award banquet at the Convocation Center in the upper bowl. "Our season turned around...

Today and Wednesday are Student Association executive candidate elections, marking the culmination of a month-long campaign by candidates. "This has been one of the cleanest elections in past history," said Rick Clark, director of University Programming...

Adios, Barbie. That was the theme speaker Ophira Edut used Monday night while she addressed women's issues - specifically body image. Edut used the Barbie doll as an example, and she spoke about how it has had a heavy impact on the female body image....

The first two rounds are over, and your bracket is half of what it was. It's OK because there still is time to enjoy the NCAA Men's Tournament for the basketball yet to be played. Of NIU's opponents who made the tournament, Central Michigan and Wisconsin,...

A resolution in opposition of sending all tuition paid to public universities to the state and then waiting for it to be sent back was unanimously passed at Sunday's Student Association Senate meeting. "There is no guarantee that all the money paid to...

Elogeme Adolphi Sorority Inc. inducted 12 new members into its organization at the Corner Stone Module ceremony Saturday at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church. The church was packed with students eagerly waiting to see their friends and colleagues become...

Sometimes your best is just not enough. That was the case for the NIU gymnastics team on Sunday in the State of Illinois Classic at the Convocation Center. Despite putting up a school-record score of 195.650, the Huskies came in third as UIC, with a 196.800,...