This past summer, I met an Emmy award winner and had my face (see below) splashed across millions of television sets across the country. Really. My claim to fame? I was an audience member on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." O.K., so I exaggerated a little, but...

"Those Two Lenas" are coming to NIU. Dan and Marie Lena, critically acclaimed rape counselors, self-defense experts and founders of "People Against Rape," will present a follow up of their successful "Hands Off I'm Special" program at 9 p.m. Monday in...

An NIU art history professor recently spent a week in Rome, studying the Jewish catacombs not open to the public. Judith Testa, an associate professor in the School of Art, visited two catacomb sites now accessible with special permission from the Italian...

The number of reported cases of lyme disease is on the rise in Illinois, but no cases have been reported in DeKalb County in the last two years. Rosemary Lane, Director of the University Health Service, said the last case of lyme disease treated at the...

About six million women become pregnant each year in the United States. Of those, 54 percent or 3.3 million pregnancies are unplanned, and 25 percent or over 1.5 million women have abortions, according to a January 1989 report on the health affects of...

NIU's Small Business Development Center and Small Business Institute are working together to provide students with valuable first-hand experience in the business world as well as free business consultation services. The SBDC and the SBI are funded through...

NIU students are responding to the community's need for Big Brothers and Sisters for DeKalb County children. Susan Petersen, Big Brother/Big Sister program director, said there are more than 40 local children on waiting lists for a Big Brother or Big...

The Student Association can begin working on this year's goals, as representatives have brought back pertinent information from the Illinois Student Association Summit in Springfield last weekend. "I learned a lot from what the people had to say," said...

Ken Russell's "Lair of the White Worm"is a delightfully perverse film that successfully combines humor with horror. Russell has built his whole reputation by walking a thin line between high art and crass sensationalism. Like his other films (including...

"Sarcophagus"-To Latin teachers across the world, it means flesh-eating stone. To dance enthusiasts across the U.S., and soon Paris, it entails a 7 and 1/2-minute artistic journey. It takes five movie projectors, six slide projectors, two soundtracks...

We all have expenses. We have to pay rent. We have to buy food. We have bills. Sometimes, though, we must shirk our financial responsibilities, risking starvation and/or eviction to fulfill a momentary whim. What am I talking about? Take a trip to one...

We are coming to the end of a week. No joke, right, but this was no ordinary week...or shouldn't have been. People laid out some big plans and big ideas to make sure this week would be special. This week of Unity in Diversity. Now, I have nothing against...