The Last Patrol is dedicated to keeping the POW/MIA issue alive and making it difficult for America's military personnel to ever become "unaccounted for" again, the program's coordinator said. "The longer we wait, more are dying in prisons," said Sandi...

NIU faculty, staff and graduate assistants are ready to roll back onto the lanes for their 30th year in bowling league competition. Bowling league members will play at 9 p.m. each Thursday at Four Seasons Sports in Sycamore. League play began Sept. 7,...

NIU is searching for an assessment coordinator to interpret reports on student achievement that will provide university officials with a better understanding of what students are learning. After several surveys are made of students' attitudes and achievements,...

Student health insurance is available to any fee-paying student and dependents, and operates separately from the University Health Service. Full-time students are automatically covered under Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois when they pay their student...

NIU topped the two other Board of Regents schools in the number of tuition waivers awarded to graduate assistants during fiscal year 1988. About 1,100 NIU graduate assistants had their tuition waived in FY88 compared to about 820 at Illinois State University...

Faculty and student efforts for a separate governing board might be strengthened if the Board of Regents pass proposed policy changes, two NIU campus sources say. No action has been planned by the University Council, Faculty Assembly or the Joint University...

NIU issues about 3,000 to 3,500 student paychecks each pay period, and those students who are not on the university payroll still have opportunities to find work on the NIU campus. A variety of on-campus jobs are available to students enrolled at NIU...

Beginning this semester, NIU's Hispanic students can take advantage of a variety of services offered by the Office of University Resources for Latinos. "We just want people to know that we care," said George Gutierrez, the center's director. Gutierrez...

NIU is one step closer in getting a campus extension in Rockford. Under a bill signed last Friday by Gov. James Thompson, NIU is authorized to study sites for a branch campus in Rockford upon the completion of a study of Rockford's educational needs....

A room full of NIU students listened to past, present and future goals of the Young Democrats of DeKalb discussed at Wednesday's informational meeting. "I'm scared. I'm very afraid of some people, things and ideas," said Tom Elkins, Young Democrats chairman....

The Illinois State University Academic Senate passed a resolution Wednesday night formally opposing proposed changes in Board of Regents policy. NIU's University Council passed a similar resolution earlier in the day. The council also asked that the Regents...

The Chinese government said it never happened, but the thousands of Chinese students who saw the corpses and spread the word will not let the Tiananmen Square massacre die. In remembrance of the Chinese students who were killed this summer, an NIU student...