Students who need tax assistance can receive free consultation from 4 to 8 p.m. every Wednesday in the Founders Library student lounge. Goodwill’s 2013 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers help to students who make under $57,000 a year...

Today, I would like to share with you some tips on how to be good at the massively multiplayer online game, League of Legends.League of Legends (LoL or League for short) is a very complex game. It seems it is becoming more popular every day. Anyone who...

Who says family members can’t have four legs? TAILS Humane Society, 2250 Barber Greene Road, is dedicated to finding a home for all animals. TAILS is a no kill shelter that specializes in rescuing, fostering and caring for abandoned, lost or injured...

Seeing a celebrity fall on live TV will send me straight to YouTube.com to watch it over and over again. Over the years, I have made a list of my favorite celebrity falls on live TV. 1. Jennifer Lawrence fell as she was walking up the stairs to accept...

Student Social Media Consultants (SSMC) met to touch base and discuss upcoming projects at NIU by consulting with the Division of University Relations to enrich NIU’s social media efforts. At the meeting Monday, members met and discussed the group’s...

Funding for Huskie Stadium upgrades and the campus alert system were among the topics discussed at the committee meetings prior to the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday. The Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee reviewed almost 30 university...

NIU professors and students, high school teachers and community members volunteered to judge students’ projects at the 51st annual Regional History Fair. The fair featured projects, performances and documentaries created by students from more than 25...

The Own It! Embrace Your Beauty fashion show brought students together for a night of entertainment and information sharing. More than 400 people attended the second annual Own It! Embrace Your Beauty fashion show, which was hosted by the Women’s Resource...

Students were disappointed with the news that a planned Olive Garden will no longer be built in DeKalb. “Darden [Restaurants] has told us that their 2013 plans for 36 new stores have been cut to 15 stores,” City Manager Mark Biernacki said in a news...

Two of DeKalb’s four mayoral candidates spoke to the Student Association (SA) Senate Sunday about the importance of voting in the upcoming election. Candidates Mike Verbic and David Jacobson were the first two of a four-speaker series to visit the SA...

The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Thursday At...

Broken watches and skateboards—broken or not— took on new lives as pieces of artwork at Small Town (SMLTWN) Skate Shop, 229 E. Lincoln Highway. SMLTWN hosted its sixth annual skateboard-inspired art show on Thursday. The show featured more than 40...