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...
The following was taken from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety. Friday At 3:21 a.m.,...
Imagine that you are sitting at a family dinner and you discover your great-great grandfather was a serial killer. That was the case for Jeff Mudgett, the great-great grandson of Herman Webster Mudgett – also known as H.H. Holmes – and author of Bloodstains:...
Student organizations will now be able to restrict membership, though they will lose Student Association funding if they choose to do so. The SA Senate passed a bill Sunday allowing student organizations to maintain their status as an SA-recognized organization...
Mega Millions, mega hopes, mega letdowns and even mega indifference: The recent record-breaking jackpot of the Mega Millions lottery caused a national uproar last week as the prize money exceeded $600 million. Tenita Williams, full-time Road Ranger employee,...
Astronaut Story Musgrave shares his life experience with those who came to see him speak at the Capitol Room in the Holmes Student Center Saturday evening. The former astronaut served in the Korean War as a mechanic and has flown on six space shuttle...
