DeKalb has the ability to resemble a ghost town whenever the holidays roll around. Professor John Beachy, a longtime DeKalb resident, will spend the holidays visiting relatives in Minnesota. Beachy recommends jetting out of DeKalb and into Chicago. "I...

Aren't the holidays wonderful? The snow is beautiful, families come together and, of course, we exchange presents. -Wait, scratch that. Let's start over. Aren't the holidays stressful? Cars are buried in a foot of snow, families get on each other's nerves...

Students performed songs pretending to be music superstars such as Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule Wednesday night, but some of them claim not to remember it. Master hypnotist Jim Wand visited NIU to provide entertainment for about 500 students in the Carl...

For senior Shane McIntyre, the act of pretending to be a newborn baby, curled up in the fetal position after classmate Kursten Strothman just gave birth to him, was a situation the sports management major never thought he’d see himself in. Similar out-of-the-ordinary...

Two giant musical forces from the '90s have joined forces to form one super group for the new millennium. Unfortunately, there's nothing super about this band. -Audioslave consists of former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and former Rage Against the...

"It's for a good cause," the popular saying goes, and perhaps nowhere else is that saying more applicable in the world of music than the "Red Hot" benefit compilation series. The Red Hot Organization, an international non-profit organization dedicated...

Sharon Howard is entering her 23rd year as director of University Resources for Women. Among the URW’s goals are improving the campus climate for women and helping returning students with re-entry to NIU. Howard, as URW director, has many responsibilities....

Rapper Talib Kweli definitely doesn't beat around the bush naming his latest album "Quality." The album displays the diversity of what has influenced Talib as an artist, and he pulled in a handful of producers to make the album, a few being Jay Dee, DJ...

After the early adjournment of the Student Association Senate meeting almost two weeks ago, SA President Kevin Miller took action on a pending issue without recommendation from the senate. Yesterday, the SA unveiled its new book exchange program and Web...

Have $400 laying around your room somewhere? Are you a big fan of the original episodes of "The Twilight Zone"? If you nodded your head "yes" to both of those questions, then there is a DVD box set coming out that might interest you. -On Dec. 2, a limited...

An empty shell of what it once was, the Anthropology Museum at NIU waits to be reopened. Flooding damaged the museum this summer, but it may open again to the public sometime next semester. Leaks from the heating and cooling system caused mildew problems...

What happened to the standard family sitcom? You know, like "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne," "Step by Step" and so on. They were everywhere when a majority of us students were growing up, and now they have disappeared, making way for an entire new genre...