Northern Today, the newsletter for faculty and staff at NIU, now is completely electronic. In an effort to cut costs, all recipients will receive the newsletter by e-mail starting Monday. In addition to making the newsletter more readily available, a...

As the second Faculty Senate meeting of the year began on Wednesday, Senate President Sue Willis held up a copy of Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune. "As you can see," she said, "things are not getting better." Willis was referring to the front-page headline...

For years, the Irish have shown the world that they give birth to some of the greatest filmmakers around. From Neil Jordan's "The Crying Game" to Jim Sherridan's "In the Name of the Father," Irish films have gotten critical acclaim both domestically and...

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...

Want to be cast in a movie? A "Dragonball Z" film is going to be made on campus. Tryouts will be held today at 7 p.m. at the Stevens Building, Room 224, and all are welcome to audition. "Me and my friends had been playing with the idea of a ‘Dragonball...

"In Absentia," Porcupine Tree's latest and first U. S. release, looks funny, but it's not. The English quartet consists of Steve Wilson on guitar and vocals, Richard Barbieri on keyboards, Colin Edwin on bass and Gavin Harrison on drums. "In Absentia"...

What happened to the album? Sure, you hear modern groups and artists talking about how they released their new albums and that everyone should pick them up. I ask them a simple question: Why? I have many reasons to defend my hatred toward the modern album....

Optimus Prime was my superhero. Then he died. Prime's death, heralded by "Transformers: The Movie," shocked many Transformer fans into disbelief. "Transformers: The Movie" opens with Planet Unicron devouring Planet Lithone like a fat kid at an Old Country...

There are plenty of elevators on NIU’s campus that are in line for replacement, according to the Board of Trustees. Zulauf, Davis, Faraday, Graham, Montgomery and Swen Parsons halls, as well as University Health Services, all may have new elevators....

The problem with "Live From Bonnaroo" is that there isn't enough space on the two-disc set to adequately sum up the three-day festival that took place last June in Tennessee. In fact, for a compilation of jam bands, there isn't a lot of jamming going...

The words "minimum advertised pricing" may sound like a bargain to the untrained ear, but those in the music industry know better. According to Reuters, record labels Vivendi Universal's Universal Music group, Sony Corp, Sony Music, Bertelsmann AG, BMG...

At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra will open its 25th concert season at the Egyptian Theatre with "A Salute to America and its Music." Guest conductor and NIU alumnus Kirk Lundbeck will lead the KSO in patriotic favorites by...