Who is Victor E. Huskie, and why? The dog, the myth, the legend. He's gone from loveable and huggable and everybody's furry little friend to a Jekyll and Hyde sort of mascot. A split personality. One minute, he's the family pet. The next, he's Wolfen....

Student Association Sen. Amanda Rutter has proposed showing one to two-minute movie clips of SA activities before the weekend movies shown in Sandburg Auditorium. These clips would "let students know, what the SA is doing" and encourage people to get...

A number of DeKalb school children will trick- or-treat and play games in Neptune residence halls at 6:30 p.m. today as part of Neptune's Halloween Fun Fest. The Halloween Fun Fest committee sent 1,500 fliers to kindergarten through fourth grade DeKalb...

The city-petitioned receivership for the DeKalb Center, 1100 W. Lincoln Hwy., has been dismissed on request by the city, student legal services and center owners. DeKalb city officials, NIU Students' Legal Assistance and the owners of the center, Tony...

The NIU Business Systems Analysis department has changed its name to Operations Management and Information Systems. "The change was made because BSA was not felt to be descriptive enough to thoroughly describe the major entailed," Martin Green BSA student...

NIU will name a permanent Student Affairs vice president by July 1, and the 13-member search committee will begin with placing advertisements in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Nov. 1 and Nov. 8. Barbara Henley was named acting vice president for...

Michael Gordon will present "Black Greeks at Historically White Campuses," the first lecture of the Greek Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Gordon has been the dean of students at Indiana University...

The InterFraternity Council's Judicial Board heard cases concerning Delta Chi, Phi Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Mu fraternities Sunday for violations of IFC policies. Justices Dave Calzaretta, Jeff Cutler, Mark Kocol, Gregg Mylin and Chief Justice Tim...

NIU officials are investigating every possible angle surrounding the racially derogatory materials sent to NIU students this week, but have little information to go on. NIU Legal Counsel George Shur said an undetermined number of students received the...

Spring back, fall ahead, right? No? Well, whatever. We all know that sometime this weekend (2 a.m. Sunday) we should set—or forget to set—our clocks back one hour (must be fall back). Do any of us know why we do this? First things first, you do not...

Chilling winds will blow through NIU this weekend, and spooky phantoms are planning to drift onto campus. One residence hall will be a sure target for the little DeKalb apparitions. Boy, scary stuff! Marketing fraternity Pi Sigma Epsilon will sponsor...

This Saturday, about 580 people will be listening to speakers and collaborating ideas in order to get a little closer to a solution that could bring all races together on college campuses and beyond. Student leaders and their faculty advisers from all...