f your family is looking for something different to do this Halloween, one option is the 10th annual Halloween concert presented by NIU’s School of Music. The concerts will be held at 6 and 8 p.m. today at the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert...

Imagine that you are a parent who wants the best for your child. You would drive from county to county because each service that your child needs is located in a different area. Many parents in DeKalb and its surrounding counties have been doing just...

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...

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....

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...