Classes at the Creative Arts Center and Photography Lab provide students with an opportunity to learn a craft or skill they might otherwise not get a chance to learn. "No class credit is given for these classes; they are purely for fun and enjoyment,"...

A 25-year-old graduate chemistry student who had planned to graduate from NIU in December died after being mauled by two pit-bull dogs Thursday night. The Kane County Sheriff's Department said Kevin Cull, 25, 120 Gurler St., DeKalb, was visiting friends...

An advisory committee to NIU President John LaTourette decided Friday to postpone a tentative decision about whether to recommend an increase in the Student Association Mass Transit Board busing fee. The President's Fee Study Committee began reviewing...

While working at the Egyptian Theatre Saturday night, NIU journalism professor Irvan Kummerfeldt, 55, suffered a massive heart attack and was taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital where he died at about midnight. "Irv was the unsung hero of the Egyptian,"...

Student Association Senate Speaker Joe Annunzio tried to remove "dead weight" from the senate by motioning for a roll-call vote during the SA meeting Sunday night. Annunzio said the purpose of his motion was to take a roll-call vote so those senators...

Third Ward Coalition members plan to ask for funding to demolish condemned buildings and to improve building exteriors at the Nov. 28 meeting of the DeKalb City Council. Both Tax Increment Financing and rehabilitation loan funding provide possible sources...

An 18-year-old Paw Paw woman was killed east of Paw Paw when the car she was driving crashed into a bridge and caught on fire. Amy B. Moran was pronounced dead at the scene of the one-car accident by DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller at 12:30 p.m. Friday....

Student Association members Sunday night heard a letter from one University Council member stating there probably will be changes in the handling of illegal class registration cases—changes the council member said she is not in favor of. In a letter...

NIU's Albert Resis received new information on a historical mystery while in Russia last month at a 10-day international symposium. The information came regarding the 12-day "disappearance" of Joseph Stalin when Hitler invaded Russia in 1941. Nikita Khrushchev...

The DeKalb City Council will discuss forming a search committee at its meeting at 8 p.m. tonight to help the city manager select a replacement for Police Chief Joe Maciejewski, who will retire Feb. 18. Maciejewski discussed his retirement plans with DeKalb...

Well Now Throughout the United States, the incidence of incurable sexually transmittable diseases (STDs), such as herpes, AIDS, and condyloma, is on the rise. One of these diseases, condyloma or venereal warts, appears to be linked to the growth of a...

Although it bears the Alpha Sigma Alpha letters, a building in the Greek Row area near Blackhawk Road and Ridge Drive is not the sorority's new house—it is a shed storing equipment for the construction of a new apartment complex on the site. The complex...