Student Association President Kevin Miller formally asked the SA Supreme Court Thursday if the Illinois Open Meetings Act applies to his organization. The petition was filed by Miller in response to a complaint filed by SA senators R.J. Gravel and Jeff...

The wage gap between the sexes, still a hot topic in much of the United States, seems to have lost its steam with NIU students. In an informal survey of 50 random students, 43 of them did not know what the wage gap is, and out of the seven who did know,...

Studying abroad allows students to educate themselves, and it prepares them to educate others in the future. Anne Seitzinger, assistant director of the Study Abroad Office, said early planning is the key to success when considering to study abroad. NIU...

One just cannot escape Nirvana these days. Lead singer and main songwriter Kurt Cobain's journals recently have been published, a Nirvana compilation CD is in stores, Dave Grohl, the band's drummer, now is fronting the successful Foo Fighters and Courtney...

The American Chemical Society wants under-represented chemistry majors to apply for scholarships. "The society is the single largest scientific organization in the nation, being 126 years old with 164,000 members," said Robert Hughes, manager of the scholarship...

Pinned down with your back to an obstacle and every movable muscle tightly clenched, you hear the splatter of paintballs breaking nearby. "Paintball is very exciting and is one of the fastest growing extreme sports that is team oriented," said Scott Pottinger,...

Shocked. Disappointed. Frozen. NIU forward Marcus Smallwood and guard Todd Peterson layed motionless on the court expressing these feelings after a last-second heave by Smallwood ricocheted hard off the backboard, capping off an emotional 101-100 loss...

After the diploma is in their hands and the cap has been thrown in the air, students may not have to worry about finding a job just because they didn’t have a 4.0 grade point average in college. Jean Callary, assistant director of the Career Planning...

Get ready 1993 gamers! The Atari Jaguar is here! This 64-bit system wipes the floor with Nintendo and Sega's silly little 16-bit systems and boasts graphics that are in full 3-D. There are none of those crisp, clean 2-D sprites; we're talking blocky POLYGONS...

Janet Jackson is an icon. Janet represented everything that a woman could ever want to be: talented and sexy. In May 1993, she released the self-titled album "Janet." This is her fifth album released since the beginning of her career and is very different...

Hail to the king, baby. "Army of Darkness" rules. Meet Ash. Ash recently lost his wife to the "Evil Dead." Ash sucks himself and the Evil Dead into another dimension by reciting passages from the Necronomicon. What? - Don't be confused. "Army of Darkness"...

During the early years of the grunge era, the Smashing Pumpkins released arguably its best album to date, "Siamese Dream." The album produced a number of radio hits, such as the song that made them famous, "Today," as well as "Disarm" and "Rocket." This...