After a national search that included thousands of applicants, NIU has a new associate director of University Programming and Activities. Flecia Thomas, a graduate of Illinois State University in Normal, began her job as associate director of UP&A...

Consumers of Commonwealth Edison Co. are due to receive refunds of summer rate overcharges that could amount to up to 20 percent of their total electric bill for the last seven months, according to an analysis conducted by the Citizens Utility Board....

NIU President LaTourette's Fee Study Committee will meet Monday to begin discussion on a proposed student fee increase to provide revenue for the Northern Star for the fiscal year 1989. The meeting wll begin at 7:45 p.m. in the Lowden Hall Conference...

The December balances in the State of Illinois General Funds are up to $71 million from the previous year. However, available funds for higher education remain about the same, despite a cash flow problem experienced last year. igher education funding...

NIU senior Sandra Kaufmann was honored last week at the American College Dance Festival at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa by being chosen as one of the finalist to perform a choreographic work at the festival's gala performance. Alan Bernstein, a...

I've always learned that you can't put a price tag on concepts like friendship, kindness, and gentleness. I seem to have been wrong. Today's the day. This is the beginning of a kinder, gentler nation. Only it's costing about $25 million, give or take...

The Parking Committee discussed a letter at their meeting Thursday from a student concerned about the number of parking spaces available to Neptune Hall residents. Written by Neptune Steven Sanders, the letter stated that parking lot D, located directly...

Seventeen students filed petitions by Thursday's 4:30 p.m. deadline to fill the seven vacant Student Association Senate seats. Ten students filed petitions for five openings of the 32 off-campus senate seats. There are two vacancies in the 16 on-campus...

After protests by Sycamore merchants, a proposal to sell county farm land for the development of a shopping mall was defeated by the DeKalb County Board at its meeting Wednesday, but the dispute could resurface in several months. The motion to sell 113...

A convicted murderer, whose attempted escape routed him through parts of DeKalb County and ended in Sycamore Sept. 26, received an additional 30 years to his prison sentence Thursday after abductiong a Kendall County farmer during his flight. During a...

Bryan Sims knew something was a little fishy when his boss told him to move some helicopter equipment one day in 1986. His superiors at the Corpus Christi, Texas Naval Air Station were asking him to transfer parts from a Huey helicopter to a search-and-rescue...

General funds of $40,000 have been released to the Sycamore Armory for renovation purposes, Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, said. "The Sycamore Armory has been under a renovation process for the last two or three years," Countryman said. "The money released...