Four concerts will keep the Music Building busy today through Monday. The School of Music will present the NIU Philharmonic tonight, the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with Gregory Barrett on Friday, the NIU Wind Symphony and University Band on Sunday and...

Students may see a newly remodeled Stevens Building in 2004. The Stevens Building, southeast of Watson Hall, houses the School of Theatre and Dance as well as the anthropology department. It recently was added to NIU’s list of capital improvement requests,...

Setting up the legs and twisting knobs of the drumset looked like a puzzle, but Chris Smith, a junior jazz studies major, quickly and smoothly set up the instrument he’s played since third grade. Behind the closed stage curtain, members of the Jazz...

Hispanic Heritage month is celebrated through Oct. 15, and various activities already have taken place to recognize Latinos and Latin Americans. Michael Gonzales, director of Latino and Latin-American Studies at NIU, said the celebratory month began Sept....

The Illinois Board of Higher Education met at Kishwaukee Community College Tuesday morning for its October conference. It was the first time the IBHE has met at Kishwaukee. The agenda consisted of presentations from faculty and students representing four...

With a new group of senators elected, the Student Association held its first meeting Sunday night. Before the meeting, the new senators attended an orientation session to learn about their responsibilities for the academic year. "They have a lot to learn...

Boon Aik Tan, Joel Brock and Aldas Gubaras are three NIU graduate students with a proud accomplishment under their belts. The team took first place in a nationwide industrial engineering graduate competition. "None of us could believe that we had just...

Sometimes change is for the better. That’s LanSirs on Lincoln owner Lance Hansen’s view. Hansen’s business, after 25 years in downtown DeKalb, is closing its doors for the last time. "It’s just time for a change," Hansen said. He added in a letter...

NIU is hoping to start two projects that would benefit students and visitors who drive or walk around campus. Roadway repair One project, which would begin in summer 2003 if state funds are approved, is the Campus Roadway Repair and Reconfiguration project....

Business students have Barsema Hall, art students have Jack Arends Hall and now computer science majors may have their own building as well. Though no definite plans have been made yet, the Board of Trustees approved an idea to create a building on campus...

Experience stood behind Michael Martin as he took the position of director for the University Honors Program. Martin, who has been at NIU for 19 years, previously taught family and child studies classes in the School of Family, Consumer and Nutrition...

Campus food service has many obstacles to dodge, and a lack of student workers is one of the biggest. Starting last semester, the large absence of these student workers caused dining areas in the halls not to function as they should. When fall semester...