"Glory" is a magnificent film based upon real historical events. It concerns the first black fighting regiment that the North utilized during the Civil War. The film stars Matthew Broderick as Robert Gould Shaw, a young white Bostonian who takes command...

How would you like to increase your grade point average and test scores, improve your memorization abilities, while cutting your studying time in half? "Super Memory-Super Student", the new book by memory expert Harry Lorayne, focuses on how to raise...

Two funding agencies that gave NIU $3.1 million in 1988 ordered the university to establish research misconduct policies. The National Science Foundation and the Public Health Service asked NIU to make the research policies by Jan. 1, 1990, in a nationwide...

Edison Wells is a busy guy. Between taking classes and working at NIU's Access to Courses and Careers through Educational Support Services program, Wells' days are action-packed. He is graduating this spring with a degree in human and family resources...

Ilene Tokarz Junior Journalism and Communications "I don't think so. Most of the time they decide to raise student fees and tuition and don't give us any clear-cut reasons as to why. They just keep taking our money and we don't see any direct results...

The next time you're wandering aimlessly through the aisles of your neighborhood video store, consider renting one of Stanley Kubrick's films. All of his films are a cut above the typical mindless Hollywood fare. His early films are hard to locate in...

Mother Nature does funny things to people. I've been at a loss to explain what happened last Thursday. No, I am not blind to the fact that the snow god chose to dump inches upon inches of the white stuff on us as we blindly stumbled and tripped our way...

The DeKalb city engineering department is in the second phase of installing 23 synchronizing devices into stoplight controllers. The project focuses on setting new controllers to shorten red light period depending on traffic condition, said City Traffic...

Route 5 of the Huskie Bus Line might run up to five minutes behind schedule due to road construction on West Lincoln Highway. Construction is being done on Lincoln Highway for one mile west of Annie Glidden Road, said DeKalb Civil Engineer Joel Muarer,...

Amnesia, DeKalb's newest night spot, has been in business exactly one week today, yet has enjoyed the full force of success from the very moment it opened its doors to the public. One theory for Amnesia's rapid rise to the top can be attributed to the...

Some students used the wrong ballot and were not checked for identification during the Student Association senate elections. The second day of last week's election was postponed because of more than seven inches of snow. Today is the last day to vote,...

An anti-racism rally Tuesday found speakers urging people to fight racism while some comments termed Louis Farrakhan as being racist. The noon rally, sponsored by the Hillel Student Organization—an NIU Jewish group—came eight hours before black Muslim...