The DeKalb City Council said Monday it would encourage development of a local shopping mall and expressed disapproval that DeKalb County Board members voted against selling land to Wilmorite, Inc. for an enclosed shopping center. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow...

NIU President John LaTourette's Fee Study Committee met Monday evening to review a proposal presented by the Northern Star Publication Board that would increase student fees for fiscal year 1989. The proposal to charge full-time students $1.80 per semester...

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...

An Illinois Board of Higher Education official said "it would be very unfortunate" if NIU does not change its college entrance requirements to meet the requirements recommended by the board. NIU Admissions Director Dan Oborn said Wednesday that NIU probably...

NIU's Parking Division put its security phone system on hold until the votes on a Student Association referendum for a security phone system are counted. Public Safety Director Jim Elliott said the parking division had begun a process to install three...

Elections to fill seven Student Association senate seat vacancies created by resignations last semester, and a referendum concerning a security phone system will take place this week. Senate elections will be held today and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6...

NIU's physical therapy program recently has acquired laboratory space and will graduate 21 students this semester, despite being in danger of elimination last April when facility space and a lack of funding posed major problems for the program. Mary Jane...

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...