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...

Candidates for the DeKalb County Board’s Seventh District were present at Douglas Hall’s Big Blue Room Monday to speak with political science majors and any others who wished to attend. The forum was sponsored by NIU’s political science department....

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,...

The Women’s Studies Program at NIU invites students to submit designs, photography or artwork for a poster that would be used to celebrate Women’s History Month, which occurs every March. According to the National Women’s History Project, the purpose...

The third-annual Stop The Hate vigil begins at 7 p.m. today at the King Memorial Commons. If the weather does not cooperate, the location will be at the Center for United Campus Ministries. Campus Ministries organized the event. Extra Resources E-mail...

Several organizations came up for recognition and allocation at the Student Association Senate meeting Sunday. The SA Finance Committee met last Thursday and sent three bills back to the senate. "[The meeting] was dedicated mainly to training and to me...

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...