NIU now has more faculty than it had students 19 years ago, reported Francis Geigle, executive vice president and provost. The 801 current faculty members total 220 more than the 1945 total enrollment of 581.

Enrollment at Northern, which achieved university status in 1957, has climbed steadily—and sometimes phenomenally—ever since. This autumn, it totals 12,672…

The late, late Christmas holiday for Northern students may mean the merry jingle of cash in DeKalb.

For the first time in recent years, students will earn spending money in part-time jobs in DeKalb. They also will be here to spend their cash on Christmas shopping…

The rich imagination of Charles Dickens was reborn Monday evening by Welsh actor and playwright Emlyn Williams in the University Center Ballroom.

Appearing in a solo performance as Charles Dickens, Williams presented nine separate scenes from novels and stories of the great 19th century novelist…

Northern’s Hockey Club, a member of the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Conference, won its first league game Monday evening by annihilating Lewis College 10-4. In the 1962-63 season, the team played only four games but managed three victories…

Northern closed its 1964 football season on a happy note with a 14-9 win over State College of Iowa, and at least two Huskies wrote their names in the record book.

NIU finished with a 7-2 season mark and a 3-1 Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference total, giving the Huskies a share of the league title with Western Illinois…

One year ago Sunday, on Nov. 22, 1963, NIU students were celebrating the weekly event called “TGIF” when the news that the president of the United States had been wounded was shouted over the air. Less than an hour later, an official announcement told the nation John F. Kennedy was dead…

About 50 householders now boarding students will not be given licenses for the spring semester unless they comply with fire and safety regulations, said DeKalb City Manager Ralph Precious.

Presently, city licenses for these houses are being held by the DeKalb Fire Department for violations ranging from improper placement of fire extinguishers to major offenses such as no alarm system, a lack of fire doors and improper fire exits…

Holiday vacation will begin at noon Wednesday, Dec. 23, according to a letter from NIU President Leslie Holmes late Friday.

Concern over the unusually late start for vacation prompted student meetings, petitions, letters to the NIU president and The Northern Star and a trip to Springfield last week…

Fates have conspired to bring to a grinding halt Hal Shadwell’s uphill battle against dirty dishes, tables, floors and students in the University Center’s Pow Wow Room.

Shadwell, Pow Wow Room manager, began his fight with plain signs asking, “Please bus your dishes to the trayveyer.” He next tried fractured foreign language signs…

More than half of the entering college freshmen involved in a recent study said they regard social life as their prime reason for attending college…

While Christmas is on most students’ minds, a small group at Northern is worrying about the weather in February.

This is the committee planning NIU’s traditional Winter Carnival which will be held Feb. 22-27. Although many Carnival activities are indoors, the annual snow sculpture contest often has been the victim of an unseasonably warm winter week…

Northern Star Editorial: The injustice of it all struck home in a conversation about the Selective Service the other night. Look at it this way: Women have a vote. Women in ever-increasing numbers are moving into fields traditionally reserved for men—medicine, law, taverns.

Women’s rights to jobs are protected in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A woman even ran for a presidential nomination this year. So the days of womens’ campaigns for equality are ending.

Now it’s time for men to start screaming. We’d like equality, too, and a fine place to start might be the draft…