Wal-Mart received a letter in the mail saying there was a bomb in the store Monday afternoon. According to police reports, DeKalb Police responded to a call at 1:45 p.m. about an anonymous letter, which had residue on it, sent to the store, located at...

An unusually cold end of October has had students searching their wardrobes for scarves and caps two months before winter officially begins. "We are running about 10 degrees below average for this time of the year," said associate geography professor...

It’s now mid-October, the heart of the fall season. Days are shorter and darker, and unfortunately this means some people’s moods will get darker too. If you’ve ever noticed that you get gloomy as the days get shorter, psychologists say the reasons...

Members of the NIU community shared messages for confronting and dealing with hate during the Stop The Hate Candlelight Vigil Monday night. "We are not only here to say no to hate, but to the violence that comes with it," said the Rev. Wendy Witt, director...

A man allegedly struck three police officers during an altercation Saturday, according to DeKalb police reports. Scott Williams, 38, of 906 Kimberly Drive, No. 9, was arrested and charged with four counts of battery, resisting arrest and trespass to a...

A slew of posters advocating that students think more critically about Iraq has popped up on campus, but are students listening? Posted on various message boards, the posters encourage students to ask themselves questions such as "What if you were an...

NIU English professor Robert Self explores the films of Robert Altman in his new book. The book, titled "Robert Altman’s Subliminal Reality," is an academic analysis of the inner workings of Altman’s films. Altman’s directing credits include the...

NIU students use various programs for any number of reasons. One that students use is Educational Services and Programs. Educational Services and Programs is made up of four programs: The Upward Bound Program, Student Support Services, CHANCE and ACCESS....

Six NIU faculty members will give presentations on multi-cultural issues related to their courses this week, following last week’s nine presentations. The series of lectures, held at the Holmes Student Center’s Blackhawk Cafe, is the second part of...

DeKalb has 317 new voters, and the process was anything but easy. Eric Johnson, the Student Association’s director of governmental affairs, led a month-long coalition to register new voters, mostly students, in the city of DeKalb. Anyone that wanted...

The Student Association Senate recently approved its committee appointments. There are five different committees that senators can be appointed to. Senate Speaker Frank Woodin was in charge of appointing senators to committees. "I tried to put leadership...

For NIU graduate students Karine Richardson and Abagail Stalcup, AIDS was a daily part of life this summer. Richardson and Stalcup, along with nursing professor Judith Popovich, were part of a select group of nursing students who spent nine weeks in Swaziland,...