There’s a place to go on campus for students who need help sorting out their thoughts. NIU’s Counseling and Student Development Center, at the Campus Life Building, Suite 200, encourages students to stop in. The center, which most students seem unaware...

A firefighter was the only person injured during a fire Sunday morning at Grant Towers. The fire occurred at 8:05 a.m. Sunday on the 13th floor of Grant Towers C, according to the DeKalb Fire Department. The firefighter suffered a minor back strain while...

NIU is considering a new system that could make doing laundry easier than ever. IBM and USA Technologies recently announced a plan to Web-enable about 9,000 washing machines and dryers on college campus nationwide. The system - called e-Suds - is aimed...

All eyes were on the stage as the Duke Ellington Ballroom slowly filled up for a night of jazz on Friday. The audience, mainly retired folk and families with a smattering of students, enjoyed the refreshments of orange juice, water and coffee as it waited...

Butt. Stomach. Thighs. The pounds are piling on many freshman as they gain the dreaded "freshman 15." Many students gain the extra pounds simply because they fall into bad habits. "Between the extra food and the drinking, that’s more and more calories,"...

Members of the DeKalb and Sycamore police departments took the stand Thursday during the trial of former NIU student Todd Allgood. Allgood, 34, of Sycamore, is charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting another former NIU student on April 25, 2001....

Campus Activities Board’s Fine Arts Committee wants to make plans with you tonight. Jazz pianist Loston Harris will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom. "We’re really excited to have him," said Mary...

Why: Requested and sponsored by the Provost’s OfficeProfessor to hold seminar on world musicn Unorthodox methods teach culture through instruments Kuo-Huang Han wants to expose the student body to the world of music. The Presidential Teaching Award...

A standing-room-only audience packed the Holmes Student Center’s Lincoln Room Thursday night for a lecture from Jon Alterman. Alterman, a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff, spoke for about an hour to the roughly 75-person audience...

University Police officers searched unattended bags, under seats and the roof of the Convocation Center during the arena’s Sept. 11 memorial Wednesday night. "We had a citizen come up saying he saw something suspicious," University Police Lt. Matthew...

As students approached Central Park last night, they could hear the beats of music and unity. The "Cultures Welcome Night" featured performances by hip-hop artists Boo-Ray and Gemini, NIU’s Black Choir and the Rhythm Nation dance troupe. "This is very...

NIU has officially experienced its largest year-to-year enrollment increase in 25 years. The annual "10th-day count" shows 1,166 more students on campus this year - a 4.9 percent increase from this time last year. NIU’s enrollment now stands at 24,948....