Each NIU greek organization must have a faculty adviser to be recognized by the Student Association, but the role of faculty adviser is more than a ceremonial position. Greek Affairs Adviser Mary Ronan said the advisers assist in scholastic endeavors,...

Although unseasonably warm weather has helped push the Holmes Student Center reconstruction closer to completion, the project has fallen a month behind schedule. NIU Project Manager Conrad Miller said above-freezing temperatures and calm conditions over...

Some greek organizations are learning about issues like alcohol abuse, sexual assault and racism the hard way. The Sigma Chi fraternity was put on one year of probation after five members performed a allegedly racist skit at a Delta Phi Epsilon fundraiser...

Despite increased incidents of hazing across the nation, NIU greek organizations have few proven reports of hazing. Organizations need to understand what constitutes hazing, the effect of hazing on pledges and the penalties of hazing practices, according...

"Thank God it's Friday" will mean more than excess partying to NIU fraternities and sororities this spring. Terry Appolonia, former president of the Association of Fraternity Advisers, said TGIF, The Greek Intervention Framework, is a peer counseling...

The combination of two routes serving the Sycamore Road area will go into effect today. Student Association Mass Transit Board voted 9-1 last semester to combine Routes 7 and 9, saving the board $8,500. SAMTB Adviser David Pack, said although the board...

NIU Greek Week, which runs from Feb. 18 through Feb. 24, will have the theme of "Hip For Hollywood" and feature events including daily dinner exchanges between fraternity and sorority houses, hospital gurney races and a greek social "Night at the Oscars"...

Education majors are now the only NIU students that must pass the Constitution test in order to graduate. At the last University Council meeting of the ‘80s, the body decided not to interfere with the Undergraduate Coordinating Council's recommendation...

Men interested in joining a fraternity can participate in an all-fraternity Rush on Jan. 24, 25, 30 and 31 at several NIU fraternities. Fraternities sponsor Spring Rush because both students and fraternities are interested in the greek system. "There...

The term "house mom" is not used as much in NIU sororities as in previous years, but the idea is still similar. The traditional "house mother" checked up on the women, but that is "not my function," said Lorraine Low, Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority housing...

Twenty-one NIU students returned to their Greek Row townhouses Sunday after a Dec. 14 fire damaged two of the building's five units. The fire began in townhouse B at 808 W. Hillcrest Drive and spread to townhouse A. The blaze began when a heat gun, a...

Psychologists in NIU's Counseling and Student Development Center are supporting students this semester with the continuation of group workshops. A group setting allows psychologists to serve more individuals and address many areas. Sometimes, "five heads...