Dissatisfied with NIU's formal appeals process, Students for the Freedom of Martha Palmer have decided to try to raise about $2,500 through contributions to help Palmer receive legal assistance outside of the university. CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer...

A recent statewide law, called the Minority and Female Business Enterprise Act, will require NIU to make at least 10 percent of all its purchases from minority and female-owned businesses. Although the law was first enacted in Illinois in November 1987,...

Surgery for an NIU student injured in a fall last weekend "went well" said a spokeswoman for Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Dale Spencer, 20, 916 Greenbrier Drive, was being transferred out of intensive care Wednesday to another room on the...

The recent U.S. Department of Energy decision to construct the proposed $4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, coupled with inadequate state funding for higher education, could negatively affect the multi-university at the College of DuPage....

A campus-wide food drive has been initiated by two Student Association members, in hopes of helping the needy in DeKalb. Tana Titre, SA public relations advisor, and SA senator Mike Kipp organized the food drive and plan to make it an annual event at...

Radon levels in DeKalb County are consistent with those of counties in the remainder of the state of Illinois, the Department of Nuclear Safety reports. Radon, a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas is a naturally occurring indoor pollutant. The gas,...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education approved a tuition guidelines policy for Illinois public colleges and universities by a narrow margin Tuesday. NIU President John LaTourette said the policy passed 8 to 6, including an opposing student vote which...

Students can get a head start on Christmas shopping at the school of art's 13th annual "deflation sale." The sale will be held Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Visual Art Building's Gallery 200. "The...

State legislators crucial to the passage of State Sen. Patrick Welch's bill to create a separate governing board for NIU were targeted during Tuesday's Student Association Student Political Education and Action Committee meeting. Young Democrat President...

The Faculty Assembly will hold its last meeting of the semester today at 3 p.m. in room 505 of the Holmes Student Center. An announcement is scheduled to be made concerning a visit by Board of Regents' Chancellor Roderick Groves next semester, according...

State funding for higher education in Illinois is the lowest in the country due to a lack of state support, NIU President John LaTourette said at a speech he gave Tuesday night, sponsored by the Economics Club. LaTourette said NIU is budgeted with $170...

TIPS, a Training course for Intervention Procedures by Servers of alcohol, will be offered at Otto's, 118 E. Lincoln Hwy. on Dec. 10. TIPS is part of Euclid Beverage, a Miller-project which educates bartenders, bouncers, waitresses and other bar employees...