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...

On Nov. 5, citizens of DeKalb and surrounding communities will vote on a 10-year, $39.8 million referendum plan that will ease local schools of overcrowding. The $55 million referendum voted on last March was rejected, however, the defeat of the previous...

NIU’s Black Choir will perform in front of students and residents at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Life Temple Church in Rockford. Choir President Taija Cockrell said this is the third year the choir will perform at the church’s request. "This is a time for...

Not every graduate can say he or she got to smash car windows and put out fires as part of the class requirements. But that’s exactly what the graduating class of the third annual Citizens Fire Academy got to do. In a Thursday night ceremony, the DeKalb...

Thursday was a fine day for a beheading. In one of the six remaining Egyptian-style theaters in the United States, Candlewood International and Mainstage Artist Management presented "The Scarlet Pimpernal" at the Egyptian Theatre, 135 N. Second St. "The...

Students shared their experiences of living with a gay roommate and being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered at NIU during a panel discussion Thursday night. As part of LGBT Awareness Month, the Residence Hall Association’s sub-committee and Believing...