An NIU administrator has decided to ban fraternities' little sister programs based on a sexual assault complaint filed last semester, one of several complaints the administration has received about little sister programs. Jon Dalton, NIU vice president...

James Rodger was not afraid to die. The 21-year-old NIU senior said that to his father, almost prophetically, shortly before a semester-break reunion with college friends ended in tragedy on the Chicago city streets. Rodger, a member of Phi Kappa Sigma...

An advisory committee to NIU President John LaTourette met Dec. 9 to begin the review of an increase in student fees for fiscal year 1989 requested by the University Health Service of about $4.32 for 12 credit hours. Dana Mills, associate director for...

Marilyn Skinner, chairman of the NIU Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, protested the possible demolition of the Wirtz House at the Dec. 14 University Council meeting. In the Master Plan, a schedule for campus development, Wirtz House will...

My roommate was bent over into the toilet, imitating a government OSHA inspector. His communion with the Tidy Bowl man was punctuated by the wretching sounds that customarily accompany overindulgence in spirits. It was the first time this naive boy from...

Lines ran long and tempers ran short last week when more than 7,500 NIU students attempted to obtain a class schedule they "could live with," as one student put it, through schedule completition and late registration. Theresa Viskocil, a junior majoring...

With Paul Avon's last final examination behind him on Dec. 17, he anticipated his May graduation from NIU and believed nothing could stand in his way. Paul relaxed as most college students do when four years of college are almost completed. He went downtown...

Calling his proposal "the first phase of a long-term process," NIU Provost Kendall Baker outlined a possible system of awarding faculty with promotional salary increases at last Wednesday's Faculty Assembly meeting. Baker's proposal to the Board of Regents...

A proposal for an enclosed shopping center drew criticism from Sycamore merchants and support from DeKalb city officials at a DeKalb County Board meeting Jan. 11. epresentatives from Wilmorite Inc., a New York-based development firm, presented tentative...

Once again, NIU students might have to dig deeper into their pockets, bank accounts or parents' sympathies in search for enough money to cover higher tuition costs. A $125 tuition surcharge has raised tuition costs for full-time NIU students from $732...

Engineering and technology students at NIU hope to give a lift to some of the nation's senior citizens through "geroengineering," to use the term coined by an NIU sociologist. Mechancial engineering students, in a joint project with NIU's gerontology...

Although her employment at NIU ended last month, fired CHANCE program counselor Martha Palmer said the fight to regain her job is not yet over, and she also wants $2.2 million from the university to compensate for her "humiliation and injustice." Although...