A Holmes Student Center space study committee assigned the student center director to review available space after Student Association members presented a resolution against an addition without a "professional evaluation" of the building. The Student...

A shortage of state funding has made it increasingly difficult for NIU students to graduate in four years, and most students are forced to take summer classes or attend school for an extra semester or year. NIU President John LaTourette said the shortage...

About the same percentage of students graduate from NIU as graduate from other Illinois universities. Statewide funding problems as well as other factors have caused students at other Illinois universities to have similar problems in terms of graduation...

Six John Lennon Society members joined the Student Political Education and Action Committee March 7 to plan a mass meeting for a possible Day of Action III. JLS member Ed Bluma said the previous Days of Action received a lot of attention even though the...

Several unanswered questions have prompted three Student Association advisers to request a study of the Illinois Student Association this semester. SA Welfare Adviser Lisa Gunn said student fees are spent by the ISA, and students should know how their...

Wearing a button proclaiming "Write Women Back Into History," Valerie Quinney described Women's History Month as "a month of consciousness-raising and education." After a five-year delay, Congress declared in 1987 that each March will be National Women's...

The Sexual Assault Task Force has proposed a program that would train NIU students to be "sexual assault advocates" in residence halls, fraternities and sororities. Task force member Blanch McHugh said two fraternity members met with the committee to...

Most basketball coaches look at a conference tournament as a second season, and NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright believes in that "March Madness" philosophy. When the Huskies kickoff the inaugural North Star Conference Tournament against Cleveland...

Education benefits for about 750,000 Vietnam veterans—including about 100 NIU students—will end Dec. 31 with the end of the Vietnam Era GI Bill. The Veterans Administration will stop sending GI Bill payments to veterans attending school or in training...

Unsure future awaits fired coach Three days ago the NIU men's basketball team wrapped up its season with a 68-63 win over Chicago State. Then, just before noon Wednesday, the inevitable happened. After three seasons as the head coach of the Huskie roundball...

Spring Fake ‘89 is here. You've spent weeks preparing for this annual pilgrimage to Southern ports of call. You've done the workouts to tighten your gluteus maximus, you've made the trips to the carcinogen spas and you shopped until you dropped at the...

College Students Against Drunk Driving discussed Tuesday their objectives of educating students, reducing drunk driving and promoting NIU alcohol awareness programs. CSADD, a 40-member group formed last semester, discussed a contract stating that members...