"The Good Girl" (R) is a film about choices. Choices that are made to hide lies, choices that are made to escape from stagnant situations and choices that are thought to have been made for the right reason -- the "good" reason -- but end up wrong in the...

The end of summer is a time of change for students. A semester has ended, a new one is in the near future and during that in-between period, many people find themselves having to relocate to a new residence hall or apartment. Toward the beginning of August,...

NIU is experiencing its largest year-to-year enrollment in the past 25 years. "There’s a buzz about NIU. It’s a neat place to go," NIU president John Peters said. Melanie Magara, assistant vice president of Public Affairs said incoming freshmen numbers...

When one thinks of a Jamaican, music by artists such as Bob Marley used to come to mind. That was then. Today, big record labels are pushing to have that Jamaican accent attributed to pop stars like Shaggy, and now, Beenie Man. -Just who is Beenie Man?...

While many students were spending their summer lounging by a TV or pool, Kathryn Carroll was chasing storms across Oklahoma. Carroll, a senior meteorology major, was one of a handful of students picked nationwide to participate in IHOP - the International...

I have no problem with the huge amount of war movies that have been made over the last few years, but since the release of "Saving Private Ryan," most films have failed to contribute something new to the war movie genre. There are exceptions, such as...

A table full of food, bottles of wine, walls packed with art and handfuls of people ... mix all these things together and what do you get? A good gallery show; and that is exactly what happened last Friday night at the DeKalb Gallery, 161 E. Lincoln Highway....

The saying is, when the economy goes south, admissions for professional schools goes north, said Judith Malen, director of admissions and financial aid at NIU’s College of Law. This certainly may be the case for the college as the number of students...

After starting the season off with an impressive 2-1 victory Friday over host Wright State, the NIU women’s soccer team struggled Monday, leaving them 1-1 after the opening weekend. The Huskie freshmen made an impact right from the start as Christie...

The corner of First Street and Hillcrest Drive has turned into a vacant lot with a sign and sweet corn vendor. The corn stand has been at the site for four or five weeks each year with the permission of the site’s owner, John Griffin, president of the...

Students who plan on living in a special-interest house next year in the residence halls now have another option. The Lincoln Hall C-wing will become a teach house starting next fall. The teach house is an expansion of the current teach floors that currently...

OK, hot shot - explain what NIU’s ombudsman does. Five-four-three-two-one. Too late. Many NIU students probably have seen brochures advertising the Office of the Ombudsman and probably have heard that title tossed around a few times, but does anyone...