NIU fraternity and sorority pledges indicated that educational programs are beneficial, but still need improvement, in a survey about their views regarding alcohol and male/female relationships. Mike Williams, graduate assistant for Greek affairs conducted...

The Founders Memorial Library might have to reduce seating in the first-floor periodical section next academic year to expand shelving for the growing section. Library Director Steve Marquardt said problems with the retention and mutilation of journals...

NIU can start looking for branch sites in Rockford after the Illinois House of Representatives passed a $500,000 site study bill Thursday. Gov. James Thompson vetoed the bill earlier, but it was overridden at the fall veto session of the General Assembly...

Today the NIU Marketing Honor Society will present the Award for Excellence in Corporate Achievement to the partners of Arthur Andersen and Company, an accounting company based in Chicago. NIU President John La Tourette will present the award to company...

The Illinois Senate Thursday confirmed Gov. James Thompson's two reappointments and one new appointment to the Board of Regents. Newly appointed is 60-year-old Dave Murphy, past president of the Illinois Community College Trustees Association and present...

NIU's lack of foresight in providing equipment and space for televising athletic events cost the university $2,300. SportsChannel Chicago charged NIU $2,300 above the basic costs of renting transmission equipment for televising the Oct. 7 and Oct. 21...

To be in an apartment or not to be: that is a question many NIU students face. Yet making the correct decision about where to live and why does not always come easy. Mary Clark, a tenant at West Ridge Apartments, 400 E. Hillcrest Drive, said DeKalb apartment...

The Student Association will discuss plans to evaluate the System of Systems, which governs all Illinois public universities, at their 6 p.m. meeting Sunday in Grant North cafeteria. The Board of Regents, which governs NIU, Illinois State University in...

Well, well, well look who's in Japan. Former western star Ronald Reagan, oh yeah and his most famous role, former president of the United States. Why is it he is still the star of the media? Could it be his charming personality? BLEET, try again. His...

Students seeking to rent an apartment in DeKalb have many alternatives to consider, including rent, tenant life and relations with management. Peter Renick, manager of Bob's Friendly Apartments, 810 Kimberly Drive, said he gets along well with student...

Prisoners of conscience, deprived of their basic human rights and tortured needlessly, will be heard through poems they have written Friday at Amnesty International-NIU's reading. About 50 poems, representing such countries as El Salvador, Hungary, the...

The disclosure of an internal memo from NIU's public administration division might be discussed Friday at a regular meeting of NIU's political science department staff. The memo, sent anonymously to The Northern Star, details a proposed personnel evaluation...