How would you like to increase your grade point average and test scores, improve your memorization abilities, while cutting your studying time in half? "Super Memory-Super Student", the new book by memory expert Harry Lorayne, focuses on how to raise...

Two funding agencies that gave NIU $3.1 million in 1988 ordered the university to establish research misconduct policies. The National Science Foundation and the Public Health Service asked NIU to make the research policies by Jan. 1, 1990, in a nationwide...

Edison Wells is a busy guy. Between taking classes and working at NIU's Access to Courses and Careers through Educational Support Services program, Wells' days are action-packed. He is graduating this spring with a degree in human and family resources...

Ilene Tokarz Junior Journalism and Communications "I don't think so. Most of the time they decide to raise student fees and tuition and don't give us any clear-cut reasons as to why. They just keep taking our money and we don't see any direct results...

Affirmative action, student retention and leadership are three focuses of the third candidate for NIU vice president for student affairs. The candidate, Narbeth Emmanuel, spoke Tuesday at an open forum of about 15 people in the Holmes Student Center....

Louis Farrakhan spoke at NIU because people want, and have the right, to hear him speak, Black Student Union officials said Tuesday. BSU members held a small news conference after the Hillel Student Organization's anti-racism rally in the King Memorial...

Students renting from some off-campus housing agencies will experience increasing rent rates when signing a 1990-91 lease. "In addition to the normal 5 percent cost of living increase, rents in Greek Row had to be raised more because of the new assessment,"...

In selecting apartments for the next semester, students consider cost, location, size, cleanliness and a few individual whims, before making their decision. The distance of an apartment from campus is one of the primary concerns for students. NIU student,...

An anti-racism rally Tuesday found speakers urging people to fight racism while some comments termed Louis Farrakhan as being racist. The noon rally, sponsored by the Hillel Student Organization—an NIU Jewish group—came eight hours before black Muslim...

The NIU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will hold a meeting Wednesday at 8:45 p.m. in the Cole Hall basement. Meetings are held every other Wednesday at the same location and time. SPJ members can hear guest speakers and make contacts....

Two NIU students can live as inexpensively as one at University Apartments, 501 Annie Glidden Road, if they are married or have children. The apartments for married students, married students with children and single parents with children are referred...

The long-awaited speech by controversial black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan ended without violence. Farrakhan's intensely guarded lecture Tuesday at the Chick Evans Field House lasted about two hours, and included topics from anti-Semitism to female...