The NIU Pre-Law Society will host a Law School Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in Altgeld Hall Room 125, The event will include information on admissions, financial aid and receiving scholarships for law schools. Those in attendance will also have...
The Graduate Arts Association (GAA) will hold an auction Tuesday through Friday, according to a press release. The auction will include works of art by NIU graduate student members of the GAA. Anyone can go to the auction, which will take place across...
Tuesday Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) are holding a forum with former police officers and Cook County’s former State’s Attorney to speak out against drug prohibition. The former officials...
At a Monday status hearing, a pre-trial motion to dismiss the indictment for the Sycamore woman charged in the February 2011 accident that killed an NIU student and her boyfriend, was deferred to a later date. An indictment is a formal charge or accusation...
No one was reported injured in a structure fire that occurred on Sunday morning in the 300 block of West Hillcrest Drive. According to a DeKalb Fire Department press release, the fire started in the garage of a residence and spread to the kitchen of the...
Almost 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, women are still making on average 81 percent of a man’s median weekly earnings, according to the U.S. Department of Labor and Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inadequate legislation, patriarchal...
History professor Heide Fehrenbach, chemistry professor Chhiu-Tsu “C.T.” Lin and environmental studies professor Reed Scherer were named 2012 Board of Trustees professors. The award recognizes international prominence in research and excellence in...
The Criminal Law Society will host an Innocence Panel at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Francis X. Riley Courtroom in Swen Parson Hall. Those in attendance will discuss the case of Juan Rivera. Rivera was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old...
As senior English major Chris Rowe walked across the bridge near Cole Hall, he heard a faint squawking noise behind him that suddenly grew louder. Rowe turned around and was startled to see a goose flapping its wings at him. The two looked at each other...
“I think the squirrels of DeKalb are genetically mutated into super-squirrels,” said Blake Box, senior family individual development major. Box said when she approaches squirrels on campus, most stand their ground. She is forced to move out of their...
The DeKalb police and fire departments have begun using Facebook as a way to reach the public, said Tracy Smith, fire department administrative sergeant. The city of DeKalb has created three different Facebook pages: the fire department, the police department...
The following was taken directly from area police and fire department records, or from DeKalb County court records. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Sunday At 1:07 a.m., a DeKalb police officer on patrol in...
