The Holmes Student Center reconstruction will be completed by Dec. 11 as contractors finish installing outside panels and prepare to install the pyramid-shaped copper roof. NIU Project Manager Conrad Miller said panel installation on the student center...

No decision was made in a Student Association Supreme Court hearing Thursday night to determine the constitutionality of limiting SA advisers' terms. Former SA Community Affairs Adviser Brian Subatich petitioned the court to deem his June 3 approval constitutional...

Thursday night, the Holmes Student Center hosted the NIU Journalism Department's New Student Fair. On hand were representatives from the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi,The Northern Star, the Public Relations Student Society of America...

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...

"Fire Tales," a commemorative booklet celebrating 120 years of fire service in DeKalb, is being sold throughout the city to raise money for the paramedic department. Mary K. Long, chairperson of the 120th anniversary committee, said the 50-page booklet...

Boo! Are you scared? After all, Halloween is right around the corner, and it's probably the creepiest season of the year. To many of you, Halloween most likely brings back memories of trick-or-treating in Star Wars costumes. Today it might mean packing...

I began reading Bob Greene's column ten years ago, as a scrawny, inquisitive little fifth grader. I'd pick up the Chicago Tribune's Tempo section every morning, eager to see what anecdote or piece of advice he shared that day. Through the years, my interest...

When NIU graduate David Lasky first joined Bresler's Industries sixteen years ago, he never imagined he would own the company. "At the time (he joined the company), I never thought the family would be in a position to sell the business." But when an opportunity...

It's Halloween weekend, and chills, thrills and spookiness are in the air. If you're tired of the slash-‘em-and-trash-‘em horror movies, go rent a truly frightening film by Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock is a master at suspense and endings with a surprise...