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...

A proposal by the Illinois Board of Higher Education to make tougher college entrance requirements optional, rather than mandatory, will not directly affect admissions to NIU. Admissions Director Dan Oborn said if the new requirements, expected to take...

The local United Way chapter is calling on about 1,500 residents to complete questionnaires sent out Wednesday assessing the socail service program in DeKalb. Jack Felver, DeKalb United Way charirman, said the DeKalb Human Needs Survey is the third stage...

The Illinois Joint University Advisory Committee is voicing its concern that the three Illinois universities are competing with their governing board, the Board of Regents, for program improvement expansion (PIE) dollars. NIU, Illinois State University...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board has initiated a DeKalb-Sycamore route that will allow Sycamore resients to use the Huskie Bus Line. SAMTB Chairman Dave Emerick said, "Student fees will not be increase because of the new route. In fact, in the...

"(Jim Rodger's) death has stopped us all dead in our tracks ... and made us evaluate how we want to live our lives ...." These were the words of Father Stephen Potter as he spoke at a memorial service for the 21-year-old NIU senior who was shot and killed...

Students interested in running for one of seven Student Association senator vacancies have until 4:30 p.m. today to submit their completed petitions. Fourteen petitions for five off-campus seats and eight petitions for two on-campus seats had been picked...