Obtaining more information is the first step NIU is taking toward improving the level of undergraduate education at this campus. At June 21 and 22 Board of Regents meeting, the Regents discussed recommendations for improvement of undergraduate education...

SPRINGFIELD—Rep. Lynn Martin, Rockford, only one week into her campaign to unseat Sen. Paul Simon, is ducking brickbats from Southern Illinois for referring to residents there as "rednecks." Former official pleads guilty SPRINGFIELD—A former official...

(AP)-More National Guardsmen joined the effort Tuesday to remove globs of congealed oil from the Delaware River before rising temperatures liquefy the oil, and hearings opened into two other oil spills in Texas and Rhode Island. A harbor pilot testified...

After investigating the possibilities of a DeKalb city emergency 911 service, the city council decided it would favor a countywide service instead because it would provide wider coverage. Rowever, the council moved cautiously to this conclusion because...

I, like you, am crazy enough to go to summer school. But please, don't for one iota think that anywhere would be better than DeKalb. Instead of being in DeKalb and grieving at NIU, I am suffering in the valley of Hickville while sweating it out at ICC....

The NIU Faculty Assembly recently has elected its new chairman, Professor J. Carroll Moody who has served on the assembly as well as the University Council for the past year. He is also a member of the Joint University Advisory Committee. As Faculty Assembly...

Jon Dalton, vice president for student affairs at NIU, has accepted a similar position at Florida State University in Tallahassee, effective Aug. 15. Dalton will leave NIU for the 26,000-student FSU campus where he will administer a $17 million budget...

William Raspberry The Washington Post Anyone who has worked with a large organization has seen the types. One woman will play her gender stereotype to perfection: deferring to male co-workers, taking little offense in their offhanded sexism, and trying...

In order to curb the increasing number of pedestrian accidents along Normal Road, city officials are planning to remove parking spaces and construct barriers designed to keep students from crossing outside of crosswalks. Ralph Tompkins, assistant director...

The recent demonstrations in China's Tiananman Square and the bloodshed resulting from a crackdown by the Chinese government have left many people wondering what will happen next in a country where democracy seems far from possible. Following the actions...

A possibility exists that DeKalb County will receive state funds to build a civic center after discussing the prospect of such a building since the 1970's. Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, introduced an appropriations bill to the Illinois Senate calling for...

The recladding of the Holmes Student Center tower, which began last March, is progressing "right on schedule" according to Conrad Miller, physical plant project manager. The recladding is being done to replace crumbling surface brick that 20 years of...