An arson fire early Sunday morning in the lower level of the Holmes Student Center caused an estimated $25,000 worth of damage. The fire is under investigation by the DeKalb Fire Department and the University Police Department. University Union Night...

Controversy exists over the legitimacy of the Student Association Supreme Court decision to disband the SA Senate after the court ruled Thursday that the 1986 SA senate voting redistricting plan is unconstitutional. Since the supreme court ruled the senate...

A build-up of garbage, left over the winter break, has caused an eye sore at the Student Association's Recycling Center since a lack of workers caused an overflow of milk jugs, cans and newspapers to accumulate. Jane Oehler, assistant director of the...

This winter season has brought yet another flu epidemic to NIU and the DeKalb area. Changing weather conditions have forced students to spend more time indoors. Rosemary Lane, University Health Service director, said a flu epidemic occurs every year because...

Eighty-nine percent of Illinois adults would favor a tax increase if the money was used to improve education, according to a survey conducted by the NIU Center for Governmental Studies. Of a random sample of 805 Illinois residents, 65 percent favor an...

The fate of Wirtz House, located in the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons, has "not yet been decided," said Eddie Williams, vice president for finance and planning. The renovations of the commons, scheduled to begin in the summer of 1990, originally...

SPRINGFIELD - NIU students will be asked to pay a $1 refundable fee beginning in the 1989 fall semester in an effort to help stengthen the Illinois Student Association. The Board of Regents approved the fee without discussion at their meeting in Springfield...

The newly-formed Greater DeKalb Partnership is in the midst of a month-long membership drive. Partnership Vice President Karen Remen said the organization "works with area business to help insure a favorable business community for DeKalb." Remen added...

The Comprehensive Health Insurance Program, a state-funded plan to secure insurance for Illinois residents having difficulty obtaining coverage, is now accepting applications, said John Countryman (R-DeKalb), Wednesday. Countryman estimated that around...

There's a brand new coming, and it's on Rockhill; Slammin‘ and Jammin' and Shooting the Pill. So goes the rap song "The New Coming" by Missouri-Kansas City forward and amateur rapper Baxter Russell, who reportedly writes a new rap after every Kangaroo...

An overall lack of employees in the physical plant at NIU has caused an overload of work orders, and some describe the problem as getting serious. Keith Strutz, superintendent of building services, has lost ten janitorial positions in the last three years...

Several issues concerning the Student Association that have emerged during the first two weeks of the semester will be discussed at the first SA meeting Sunday. SA Treasurer Diana Turowski said the redistricting of senate distrits will be one subject...