Once again a new semester is upon us, when NIU students spend every free moment of the first few weeks, picking up and dropping classes and braving the lines of NIU's bookstores. However, when students get placed in the classes they request, there is...

Five candidates, including incumbent Greg Sparrow, are running on the mayoral ticket in April's elections, and most promise they will not run mudslinging campaigns. Mayoral candidates include Sparrow, 7th Ward Alderman Mark Powell, Adolph Miller, Nick...

I really didn't think my New Year's celebration would leave me sober. Instead, I imagined the itchy teeth, twisting intestines and red-hot pipes that so commonly accompany my bouts with post-consumption blues. I wasn't hung over for the first time in...

Two DeKalb County road improvement projects, holding a total price tag of about $550,000, are scheduled to receive bids Feb. 3, said Rep. John Countryman (R_DeKalb). The first project proposed by the Illinois Department of Transportation involves the...

A change in Student Association senate voting districts, administrative decisions involving student groups and group funding are some major issues the SA senate will discuss this semester. SA Vice President Gregg Bliss said redistricting will be debated...

A proposed security phone system designed to link the NIU campus with University Police is awaiting a referendum vote by students before it can proceed into its final stages. Jon Dalton, vice president for student affairs, said he favors the phone system....

Parents feel that reciting the pledge of allegiance in school might be a good idea, but when asked if the policy should be mandatory, the same people voiced staunch opposition to thoughts of required patriotism. A statewide Illinois Policy Survey conducted...

Police officers patrol stadium, neighborhoods MIAMI (AP)—Police set up checkpoints at Joe Robbie Stadium and patrolled black neighborhoods on Super Bowl Sunday, which dawned quiet and rainy after days of rioting. Some 300 police officers assigned to...

At least Bob Huggins won't have to be around all the long faces in Ohio as that state mourns over the Cincinnati Bengals' heartbreaking Super Bowl loss. The Akron men's basketball coach and his squad have been in DeKalb since Saturday night preparing...

NIU President John LaTourette approved funds this month to correct inadequate lighting problems that campus administrators and student leaders identified during a walking tour of the campus last semester. Intended to identify dimly-lit campus areas requiring...

Qualified members of minority groups have opportunities to earn $10,000 for graduate school through fellowships from the Illinois Censortium for Educational Opportunity Program. The program provides for annual financial awards of $10,000 for full-time...