The DeKalb Community School Board ad-hoc committee met for its last time and approved a $39,846,602 referendum Tuesday. The referendum will appear on November ballots. The approved plan, which was proposed by Burnidge Cassell Associates of Elgin, will...

For rock music fans, NIU has scheduled a concert featuring mainstream rock bands Counting Crows and Dishwalla. The bands are slated to perform at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Convocation Center. Sophomore OMIS major Ryan Flynn was ecstatic when he heard...

Choosing to help fight a fatal disease without having to donate time or money was an easy choice for members of the Triangle Fraternity. Several members of the engineering, architecture and science-based Triangle Fraternity have been volunteering through...

The Convocation Center hosts its first musical act tonight at its "Welcome Back Concert." Mike and Joe, an alternative-rock group from Indiana, performs at 7:45 p.m. The band, popular for its high-energy covers of well-known artists, has attracted a loyal...

The Campus Activities Board’s Speaker Committee hopes to attract large crowds to two upcoming free events. The year’s events begin at 11 a.m. Sept. 10 at the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom with guest speaker Richard Picciotto. Picciotto,...

A few cops will join students in the residence halls this semester. Community Safety Centers are stations for NIU police officers to better protect students who live in the residence halls. The centers are located on the second floor of Grant B Tower,...

An Internet connection for each student, CNN broadcasts in atrium and an in-house Starbucks. Those are just some of the features Barsema Hall offered students and faculty during the first day of classes on Monday. Graduate OMIS major Kamal Roz was impressed...

If you get busted while partying in the residence halls, your parents might get a phone call about it. NIU Judicial Director Larry Bolles said a letter will be sent to the parents of underage students when a situation arises where a student poses a danger...

NIU students new and old were greeted with a bash on their first day back at campus. The fifth-annual Huskie Bash kicked off the academic year Thursday. While traditionally held at Huskie Stadium, this year’s bash was held at the new $35.8 million Convocation...

When Dennis and Stacey Barsema walked through the doors of the new building bearing their name several weeks ago, writing a $20-million check to NIU didn’t seem like such a bad thing. "I was floored, to put it mildly," Dennis Barsema said. "I was really...

Bill Cosby made quite an impression on the first-ever concert audience at NIU’s Convocation Center Friday night. The internationally famous comedian coaxed laughter from the 6,500-person audience about twice each minute during his two-hour performance,...