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...

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...

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...