I turned 25 last week. This means I’ve spent days on end wrapped up in an intense amount of introspection and nostalgia. Am I anywhere close to where I thought I’d be at this age? Have I grown? It’s hard to reconcile my new “officially adult”...
While hanging out at my friend’s place, my buddy’s roommate (who is a hop, skip and a jump away from graduation) brought up this idea: When life gets you down in DeKalb, just imagine squirrel hunting as a sport. No, no—it’s not a conventional...
Have a belief and want to be heard? Here is your opportunity! Write your own “This I Believe” essay and read it at an Open Mic on Wednesday, November 28 at Noon in the HSC, Carl Sandburg Auditorium! The guidelines for the essays can be found at www.orientation.niu.edu...
Season five of Parks and Recreation just keeps getting better and better. For those who are not caught up, SPOILER ALERT: Ben (Adam Scott) proposes to Leslie (Amy Poehler). With no fear of losing my man card, I can confidently say that Ben and Leslie...
This weird transitional weather has me down. It’s gray, it’s drizzly and it gets dark at 5 p.m. I’m a big fan of breaking out my scarves and hats, but I need a little sun to counter the frost. We’ve been handed some considerably dark and dreary...
It was too big to fit in letter to the editor, and cut off most of the paper. Sorry about submitting it through this. I am a senor at NIU , I am 21 years old and I felt like this needed to be heard. I write this as the elections have come to a close;...
Today, I’m gonna go political on your butt. I’m sure Facebook is reminding you well enough that today’s Election Day—the day in which the fate of our country as we know it will be decided by the American people and the Electoral College. No pressure...
Are you sad that 30 Rock is ending and want to fill the comedic void in your heart? Happy Endings just started its third season and the show is definitely getting funnier. The first season was...OK. It was an average comedy at best. However, season two...
If we look into the dictionary, we find out that nudism is: "a movement of nudity promotion and its practicing". The word has its origin in the Latin "nudo", that means "naked". But evermore there is in this connection a more modern term used, and that...
Graduate student Christie Maturo practices her role as Estragon in a dressed rehearsal of the production Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. The play will run in the Corner Theatre Wednesday through Friday at 7:30pm with two performances on Saturday...
Vive La Taylor! Yesterday I was cleaning my room, speakers a-blasting, loudly singing “WE ARE NEVER EVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER!” when I heard a noise coming from the other room. “No. No. NO! Are you listening to Taylor Swift?” My roommate...
Friday November 9th, 2012 - 7pm - The House Cafe 263 east lincoln highway Dekalb 60115 Performers include: MathGames www.mathgamesmusic.com/ The Great Influence Machine www.TheGreatInfluenceMachine.com Bonzo Terks www.bonzoterks.bandcamp.com Bowling Night...
