An NIU journalism alumnus will visit from Costa Mesa, Cal. Thursday to speak about "Marketing Services Begin with Yourself." The American Marketing Association and the Public Relations Student Society of America are "sharing responsibilities" in promoting...

WASHINGTON (AP) _President Bush Thursday extended most-favored-nation trade privileges to Hungary and made it the first country to be freed from a 1974 law denying U.S. trade credits to most communist nations. Three days after Hungary declared itself...

Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jim Edgar hopes to win over Illinois democrats by highlighting the importance of keeping one party from controlling the General Assembly and the governor's position. Edgar, at a campaign fundraiser at the...

The Holmes Student Center reconstruction will be completed by Dec. 11 as contractors finish installing outside panels and prepare to install the pyramid-shaped copper roof. NIU Project Manager Conrad Miller said panel installation on the student center...

No decision was made in a Student Association Supreme Court hearing Thursday night to determine the constitutionality of limiting SA advisers' terms. Former SA Community Affairs Adviser Brian Subatich petitioned the court to deem his June 3 approval constitutional...

Thursday night, the Holmes Student Center hosted the NIU Journalism Department's New Student Fair. On hand were representatives from the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi,The Northern Star, the Public Relations Student Society of America...

The NIU Business Systems Analysis department has changed its name to Operations Management and Information Systems. "The change was made because BSA was not felt to be descriptive enough to thoroughly describe the major entailed," Martin Green BSA student...

Racial tensions intensified Wednesday as an undetermined number of NIU students received a racially derogatory invitation to join a white supremacist group denouncing blacks, Jews and homosexuals. Flyers from the Marietta, Ga._based Crusade Against Corruption...

Student representatives will hold a forum with DeKalb officials Friday to increase communication and iron out recent problems between the two factions. Representatives from the Student Association, the Residence Hall Association and the InterFraternity...

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has attacked recent allegations of police brutality from the wrong direction by appointing replacements for two-thirds of the nine-member Chicago Police Board. Daley painstakingly handpicked replacements for six board members...

Although many Student Association senators feel it is a "power grab," the Internal Affairs Committee's proposal that will change the SA bylaws would only improve the quality of resolutions submitted. If passed, the IAC's proposal will allow them to accept...

In an effort intended to be a mass assembly, four campus groups met Tuesday to plan a larger meeting next week to discuss recent campus violence. Jim Fabris of Freedom Now, said an extra week will allow time for the coalition of Freedom Now, the Black...