Gov. James Thompson's appearance at a DeKalb Republican party fundraiser Thursday night was only one stop in his ten-hour sweep through Northern Illinois. Thompson stopped in at least five rural towns Thursday, including Sycamore, Oregon, and Dixon, said...

"I'm on your side," Gov. James Thompson told about 20 students protesting the lack of funding for higher education Thursday evening at a Republican party fundraiser. Students from the Student Political Education and Action Committee, the Young Democrats,...

NIU will receive $113 million if vote passes The Illinois Board of Higher Education will vote Tuesday to approve Gov. James Thompson's fiscal year 1990 higher education budget. The governor's allocations fall 60 percent below the board's recommendations...

NIU students were treated Feb. 20 to the jazzy sounds of Jiggs Whigham, an internationally acclaimed trombonist. Besides performing with the NIU Faculty Jazz Quintet, Whigham also hosted an improvisation clinic and lectured music students. Although he...

We're standing inside the tiny popcorn stand at the corner of Second Street and Lincoln Highway. Barely an arm's span wide, the stand is lined on one side with a display shelf, sink, freezer, counter space and shelves for napkins, plastic cups and forks....

The University Police Department is searching for a male suspected in two indecent exposure incidents on campus. UP Sgt. Ralph Taylor said preliminary reports indicate that the two Feb. 16 incidents in Cole and DuSable Halls occurred "pretty close together."...

"Life is a cabaret, old chum, come to the Cabaret!" These words were sung by Liza Minelli in the classic musical "Cabaret"—first on Broadway, then on the big screen. Now, the musical returns to the stage; this time, in Rockford. Thanks to a group known...

"To this day, I still wake up with nightmares and relive the whole experience," says Karen (not her real name), a 21-year-old NIU senior who was assaulted by a friend in October 1987. The physical scars of sexual assault heal, but the emotional damage...

The Student Political Education and Action Committee has decided to protest Gov. James Thompson before he attends a republican fundraiser tonight. At Tuesday's SPEAC meeting, the committee organized a protest of Thompson before he enters Matthew Boone's...

You've been waiting for this a long time, surviving on Wheat Thins, Diet Anything and wilting lettuce for two months. It was worth it, however, as you lost that nagging 10 pounds. Once your plane landed and you slid on your SPF 8, you thought you were...

The attack: Over 2,000 flyers and posters throughout campus, radio spots on all local stations as well as Chicago's WXRT-FM, ads on nearly every chalkboard, a window and billboard display in the student center and most of all, word of mouth. This was...

About 40 NIU students volunteered this February to help teach elementary school children about hearing impairments. Barb Peterson, student education coordinator for the award-winning Learning About Handicaps Program, said the classroom sessions had effected...