A few days after TRACS opens, some advisers open their office doors to a line of panicked students hoping to be added to closed classes. Arthur Doederlein, director of undergraduate studies and academic adviser for the department of communication, said...

Take a simple pop-punk sound and add some simple melodies, simple chords and simple lyrics, and what do you get? A simple plan for radio and MTV success. Modeled after musical predecessors Green Day, Blink-182 and fellow Canadians Sum-41, Simple Plan...

Arthur Young has been a captain in the U.S. Air Force, but he finds just as much excitement helping someone find a book. Young has dealt with such occurrences for the past 10 years as NIU’s dean of University Libraries. "I still get a real kick out...

Ignore all the hype, and just listen to her voice. Christina Aguilera's sophomore release "Stripped" shows she is all grown up and ready to reveal who she really is. Aguilera leaves behind the bubblegum pop on this album and attacks everything from her...

Hate to spoil the surprise, but Dashboard Confessional always has been acoustic - nasal, whiny, sentimental acoustic. Some call this strange music ‘emo.' Some people like it, too - weird. The point of MTV's Unplugged was to unplug an electric artist...

2002 was a very bizarre year. Many "news" events fell through the cracks of hard news and into the land of obscurity. Listed here are the "dishonorable mention" awards of 2002. Feel no pity for the recipients: • The Hapless Award: Michael Jackson's...

Even though we are two weeks into 2003, the Weekender has decided to rank the things you care about most: Music, TV, movies and video games. (Every other magazine has, so why not the Weekender?) What you are about to read are the top three, as chosen...

The small, simple elements of life make this otherwise insignificant journey worthwhile. The smell of freshly cut grass, the roar of a curling ocean wave, a closed fist crashing violently into the noggin of a fat man named Hippo. - Little Mac was a fighter...

ILR plans trip to Kansas City museums The Northern Illinois University Institute for Learning in Retirement will travel to Kansas City by train on the Feb. 20 weekend. Cost to attend is $329 for a train ticket, a bus ride, as well as dinner and tours....

"25th Hour" is a New York movie, made for New Yorkers, by New Yorkers. But what else can one expect from director Spike Lee, a man who truly is New York? In this film, there is a scene reminiscent of one in Lee's 1989 film "Do The Right Thing," where...

A fter Stevenson Towers was completely renovated in 1999, NIU officials started thinking about the next big residence hall project: Grant Towers. The Stevenson project, which took two-and-a-half years to complete and cost $28 million, was only the first...

The first Faculty Senate meeting of the semester got underway Wednesday with an urge for members to join the First-Year Connections program. "We really want you to see that this is a worthwhile program," said Chris Kubic, assistant director of the Orientation...