As a member of the College Placement Council, NIU's Career Planning and Placement Center uses statistical information from college graduates to provide dollar amounts and percentages for entry-level salary averages and yearly fluctuations. The CPC has...

The West Lagoon might soon have a new name. The Operating Staff Council, which names campus buildings, recommended to NIU President John La Tourette that the lagoon be newly christened the "Lorusso Lagoon" after retired Campus Planner Anthony Lorusso....

Full-time NIU professors are paid an average salary of $46,800, slightly below the median of comparable public universities, the Illinois Board of Higher Education reported Tuesday. However, the board also reported NIU pays the highest salaries for full-time...

Another alleged sighting of former NIU student Richard Church, charged with two counts of murder for the deaths of his former girlfriend's parents, was reported Sunday in McHenry County. Church is accused of the Aug. 21, 1988 slayings of Woodstock residents...

Lowering the number of Huskie buses on Greek Row and residence hall routes from four to three has caused the buses to pass up some stops due to overcrowding. Dave Pack, president of the Student Association Mass Transit Board, said the cut from four buses...

A committee formed to discuss Board of Regents policy changes will "formulate specific wording changes in the proposed amendments" this week. In a statement released Thursday, Regents Chairwoman Carol Burns said corrections will be "circulated to the...

Alpha Phi Omega will open its Coed Rush to any student interested at 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center Heritage Room. The fraternity also will sponsor a campus recycling drive Saturday. Journalism society meeting Are you interested...

The Micro-fridge is looking to be the next invention to revolutionize the art of furnishing a college apartment or dormitory room. Robert Bennett is the brainchild behind the four-foot tall refrigerator, freezer and microwave oven. The unit has three...

Unity in Diversity Week did not effectively promote unity because of a lack of communication, said members of NIU's Black Student Union. BSU Vice President Demetricus Carlvin said communication could have been improved by publicizing activities through...

A woman who beat a man over the head with a bottle at the East Lagoon Sunday will be extradited to Florida for violating her probation on an alleged cocaine possession, NIU University Police said. Sandra E. Nehrling, 24, struck an unidentified male with...

NIU mascot Victor E. Huskie has a new $1,200 coat. The Victor E. Huskie Mange Fund, set up by the NIU Operating Staff, has collected $469 for the costume over the past three years. The NIU foundation added $750.00 to the fund to help finance the new outfit....

Within the past two years, every prosecuted illegal sale of alcohol in DeKalb has involved college students, said DeKalb City Attorney Ron Matekaitis. "Anybody going to school should have sense enough to know that selling beer is against the law," said...