DeKalb-area children will be treated to Halloween games and candy at the DeKalb County Youth Service Bureau's annual Halloween costume party Friday night from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. YSB youth counselor Marie Kaemmerlen said the party is open to children from...

"The university system has no intention of rolling back tuition in the spring with or without a tax increase. We need to do it for them," Illinois Student Association President David Starrett said to NIU Student Association senators Sunday. Starrett visited...

DeKalb Police are looking for two males in connection with an armed robbery Thursday night on the 800 block of Edgebrook Drive. Police said two suspects struck a pizza delivery man with a jack handle and took the pizzas the man was delivering to an apartment...

Education. It used to be one of the top priorities of both national and state government. The nation's leaders believed a well-educated populace brought higher per capita incomes, higher gross national product figures, a generally healthier economy, a...

The NIU School of Music kicked off its semester of fundraising events Oct. 17 with the performance of Ron Modell's "Sentimental Journey" band. About 100 people attended the performance of 40s music, which raised $1,373 dollars, NIU Jazz Ensemble Conductor...

Artist Pat Oleszko will create "War ‘N Piece: Where Fools Russian" at the Egyptian Theatre for her audience Wednesday at 8 p.m. The 50-minute mixed-media performance using live costume- sculpture presents a political satire confronting nuclear armamentation...

When I was a child, I couldn't understand why the white girls had the pretty blonde curls, and I had to have my hair pressed to make it straight. I couldn't relate to why I was so much darker than everyone I attended school with, and I was ashamed to...

A "Truth About Rock" seminar will be sponsored by the Salvation Army Thursday to present the controversial subject of rock musician's lyrics and lifestyles. The seminar, at 7 p.m. at the Egyptian Theater, will be conducted by Dan and Steven Peters, authors...

Director Antonio Garcia will present the NIU Jazz Lab Ensemble Oct. 26 at the Music Building's Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, in a concert featuring a variety of jazz music from Count Basie to Herbie Hancock. Garcia, in his first year of teaching at NIU,...

An important match is coming up for the NIU volleyball team when it takes on the Eastern Michigan Hurons at Chick Evans Field House Saturday at 4 p.m. The Huskies are going to have to prove themselves after a poor showing against the Iowa Hawkeyes Wednesday...

Soccer coach Willy Roy might forget the bus and have his Huskies pull him by dogsled to Wisconsin this weekend. NIU travels to Madison Friday and Green Bay Sunday where several inches of white stuff fell Thursday. But Roy said he would not mind playing...

Besides fighting against 11th-ranked Northwestern, the NIU field hockey team had to battle a strong wind which continually blew one of the scoring cages over in yesterday's match. The Wildcats prevailed 4-1 over the Huskies. "I thought the wind would...