NIU sophomore Lannette Van Hamme recently won a $5,000 scholarship from the Coors Veterans' Memorial Scholarship Fund. Coors Brewing Company, in affiliation with B.B. Distributors, awards the scholarship monies to students who are 22-years old or younger,...

Live music, arts and crafts, food, a used book sale and student discounts will be presented Sunday at the Ellwood House Fall Festival. The festival will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Gerald Brauer, museum director, expects 500-600 people to come to this...

The torn-out sidewalks between Reavis and Watson Halls should be replaced before winter after problems arose with a cooling system replacement project initiated last spring. The sidewalks were first removed last April during the installation of a new...

DeKalb County Clerk Terry Desmond will not join Neil Hartigan, Illinois Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, as Lieutenant Governor on the Democratic ticket. Hartigan chose U.S. Attorney Prosecutor Jim Burns, who is known for his work in drug...

Plans for restoring the DeKalb Center apartment complex to standard living conditions differ between the building's owner and the city of DeKalb, the possible property managers. The complex, 1100 W. Lincoln Hwy., has been the center of controversy this...

The Citizen's Utility Board urged state regulators on Wednesday to order Commonwealth Edison to return more than $158 million to consumers because of 1988 overcharges. The overcharges were to residential customers billed from June to December 1988. The...

Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Chi and Sigma Pi fraternities are working to lift disciplinary action imposed on them by NIU and the InterFraternity Council. Gregg Mylin, IFC vice president of administration, said NIU issued the sanctions to Lambda Chi and Sigma...

The Washington Post The "education summit" of President Bush and the nation's governors signals an important national commitment to the task of overhauling America's schools. But no one should underestimate the difficulty of the challenge. It is one thing...

Residents of the DeKalb Center high-rise apartment complex might be caught in the middle of a legal battle between the city of DeKalb and the owner of their building. The city decided to follow through with plans to intervene in the Center's management...

Ah! Children. Those were the days. Times when you could blame everthing on your innocence and your adorability would let you get away with everything. What were some of the "adults" of today like as children? First we need some scenery. One block of any...

The Student Association will voice its opinion Sunday on Mayor Greg Sparrow's 7th Ward aldermanic appointment. The SA interviewed five people for the position at Sparrow's request, and ranked the top three. Sparrow came out with his own list of recommendations...

The Board of Regents has sent NIU and the University Police into contract mediation after informal negotiations for this year's wage reopener have come to a halt. The UPs are members of the Fraternal Order of Police Union. The UPs are scheduled to be...