Top 10 Stories of 2002 -- The Offbeat

1) DOE! Deer makes surprise entrance at NIU Northern Illinois University employees coming to work in Williston Hall the morning of May 29 were welcomed by boarded-up windows and bloodstains on the carpet. According to NIU police, a deer crashed through a window of the building shortly after 7:30 a.m. Williston Hall serves as the Office of Admissions and is located on Normal Road across from the Holmes Student Center in DeKalb. Secretary Ginger Allen said only a janitor was in the building when the doe came through a window in the office of Brian Pumilia, assistant director of admissions. Pumilia's office is in the rear of the building. After that, the deer ran through the halls before breaking through another window about four doors down fr