Student Association President Kevin Miller appointed SA Senator Andrew Nelms the interim elections commissioner, which according to Brooke Robinson, SA director of public affairs, is not a conflict of interest. The elections commissioner is an executive...

Gary Colabuono loves his job more than any sane person has a right to. Colabuono, an NIU alumnus and former Northern Star employee in the ’70s, is in charge of marketing one of the most popular arcade video games in the country. He does so as marketing...

Forecasting fashion is never an easy task. It is time to get swept away by spring's bright, sexy and sophisticated new looks. Light and fun colors like lilac, coral, sky blue and peach are the new trends for spring. -As the weather gets warmer, it will...

The "Dead or Alive" fighting games were first made famous for their bounciness. What do I mean? Let me explain. "Mortal Kombat" had fatalities. "Street Fighter" had a hundred awful spin-offs. "Dead or Alive" had girls with really jiggly breasts. - So...

Abraham Lincoln’s 194th birthday isn’t until Feb. 12, but he is celebrated daily on a university Web site. NIU’s Lincoln/Net Web site (http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/) launched two years ago, but continues to add material thanks to Drew VandeCreek,...

Should I stay or should I go? That is the question 141-pound Ohio native Josh Wooton asked himself over and over again. He had to decide whether to wrestle at an in-state school such as Kent State or an out-of-state school such as Northwestern, Purdue...

Student Association Senator Jeff Meyer filed a motion with the SA Supreme Court on Tuesday asking that it reconsider a recently rejected complaint, which alleges that the SA violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act several times. Meyer’s motion comes...

NIU will get a glimpse of America’s political past tonight when a former Black Panther Party leader visits campus. Bobby Seale will speak at 7 p.m. today at the Holmes Student Center’s Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Seale is the former chairman, surviving-founder...

As the faculty unions at Eastern and Southern Illinois universities threaten to strike, NIU administrators are breathing easy. A strike at NIU would not be possible until 2006 - when the current contract expires and most of the current student body will...

Two DeKalb firefighters were hurt Tuesday afternoon during a training exercise. Firefighter Tom Murphy was knocked off a roof and fell two stories from the ground when a ladder slipped and hit him as he supervised a drill. Murphy suffered a pelvic injury...

"The Vagina Monologues ... Come Again" is the slogan for NIU’s celebration of V-Day. V-Day is a worldwide endeavor to promote awareness of physical and sexual violence against women and girls. For the fifth consecutive year, the annual V-Day college...

Learning an exotic language or accessing the culture, history and economy of an Asian language without ever stepping foot into a classroom may seem highly unlikely. However, all of this and more now is possible with NIU’s impressively expansive Southeastern...