Horror video games are part of a genre that has been disappearing over time. As Resident Evil became more and more action-oriented and Silent Hill’s quality began to reduce, it seemed a good horror game would be hard to find. That is, until the first...
NIU police issued an advisory Sunday morning for an off-campus report of a home invasion and robbery. According to the advisory, DeKalb police are investigating the report and believe the act was not random and the suspects may have known the occupants...
People tend to take their laptop when they travel in order to keep in touch using free Internet over Wi-Fi. Great, right? It depends. Convenience is nice but you should start getting a little paranoid about your computer’s security. Using unsecured...
The College of Law Moot Court Society’s 31st installment of the Prize Moot Court Competition allows teams of two to gain as close to real-world appellate court experience as possible. The competition completed the preliminary round of oral arguments...
For many country music fans in DeKalb, Valentine’s Day was special. On Thursday night, opener Thomas Rhett and award-winning artists Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert hit the Convocation Center stage and excited many loyal fans with their sold-out...
A fire at 339 Chauncey St. in Sycamore on Saturday night caused about $200,000 in damage, according to a Sunday news release from the Sycamore Fire Department. The department arrived on scene at 11:58 p.m. and had the fire under control within 45 minutes,...
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...
The Sam Hight Sextet will play 8 p.m. Mondays at the Holmes Student Center Diversions room. The sextet had a recent lineup change. The members of the Sam Hight Sextet are Bobby Cooper on trumpet, Andy Czarnecki on guitar, Sam Hight on alto saxophone,...
A Russian infantryman stands beneath a shelled-out building in war-torn Germany. The man begins to light a cigarette. There’s a muzzle flash, and in the blink of an eye a 7.92x57mm Mauser round fired from a Karabiner 98 German-engineered scoped rifle...
“If music be the food of love, play on.” - Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I Music and love, love and music. How can I separate the two? If I’m being honest, I can’t and I do not ever want to. To me, they are one and the same. Throughout the years,...
In 2008, I was still in high school and was not yet a student at NIU. I did, however, live in Sycamore, and I had always loved NIU and Dekalb. On Feb. 14, I was on my way to the music building for a guitar lesson when I got a frantic call from my teacher...
A collection of items placed at the Cole Hall Memorial Garden in remembrance of the victims of the February 2008 shooting are now being stored in the Regional History Archives in the basement of Founders Memorial Library. The Regional History Center routinely collects items placed at the memorial to preserve them.
