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...

This is the third in a three-part series examining religion’s role in student life. After fasting for a month during Ramadan, people of Muslim faith will celebrate the end of the month with Eid-ul-Fitr, or "feast of fast-breaking." Ramadan required...

For the fourth game in a row, the NIU women’s basketball team will play on the road. After opening up with a 49-47 last-second win over Wisconsin, the Huskies are 1-2 on their current road trip that concludes tonight at 7 p.m. at Wisconsin-Milwaukee....

Corporate representatives, local residents and concerned students gathered at the Holmes Student Center on Tuesday night to discuss a proposed wind-power facility for DeKalb and Lee counties. The project would put 136 wind turbines on land near the village...

After taking on Wisconsin from the Big Ten and DePaul from Conference USA, the NIU men’s basketball team has the Missouri Valley conference’s Drake Bulldogs next on the schedule. NIU (2-3) will host the Bulldogs (4-2) at 7:05 p.m. tonight at the Convocation...

NIU interns are teaching parents of elementary students to expand a child’s learning from the classroom to the home. The program, Home-School Connection, is intended to expand a child’s learning outside of school, and to ease interns’ nerves about...

The Amish Armada will sail into DeKalb to perform at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Holmes Student Center’s Diversions Lounge. The Chicago band will perform as part of the CAB Concerts Local Music Showcase Series. "We knew we wanted something funny, and after...