The only thing anti-climactic about this weekend's 6th Annual Fastbreak Fest was the post-tournament awards ceremony. While the NIU women's basketball team didn't clinch the tournament title until the final six seconds of Sunday's championship game, Huskie...

An NIU junior who fell from a railroad tressel early Saturday morning faces about ten hours of surgery Tuesday for a broken lower vertebra. Dale Spencer, 20, of 916 Greenbrier Drive, was listed in fair condition Sunday in the intensive care unit at Northwestern...

Members of the Black Student Union rallied in the King Memorial Commons Friday to urge black students to band together and fight incidents of what they called institutional racism at NIU. Pam Bozeman, former BSU president, told the black students who...

An advisory committee to NIU President John LaTourette tentatively approved a budget Friday of about $1,145,000 for the Student Association Mass Transit Board. The President's Fee Study Committee approved a student fee increase for the SAMTB from $2.33...

About 185 calls were received by the Fox Broadcasting Company in response to a Nov. 27 "America's Most Wanted" episode profiling former NIU student Richard Church. Church is charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend's parents and has been missing since...

The Black Theater Workshop will present its last play of the semester, titled "Sign of the Times" on Dec. 3 in the Music Building's Concert Hall at 8 p.m. Tony Carter, president of the Black Theater Workshop, said that all acts and dances of the play...

The Board of Regents approved a proposal for the development of an academic promotion policy which would set an equal rate for pay increments to faculty at NIU and Illinois State University. The proposal passed by the Regents allows the Regents chancellor...

Holidays, holidays, holidays. It's that time of year again...first it's Thanksgiving, then it's Christmas. What's next, I ask you? There's something about this time of year that seems to evoke the sentimental in most of us—and the opportunistic in others....

NIU's Huskie Marching Band, under the direction of Frank Bibb, will perform its last concert of the year in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building Friday at 8 p.m. The concert will include music the band has performed at half-time shows...

Joe Annunzio, Student Association senate speaker, accepted the resignation of another SA senator Wednesday and expects between three and five more resignations before Sunday's SA meeting. Annunzio will present off-campus Sen. Michele Gerritson's resignation...

NIU's Department of Development and University Relations updated its map of the Interstate-88 Illinois Research and Development Corridor. The map, titled "55 Miles of Opportunity," identifies more than 40 business firms from Oak Brook to DeKalb which...

One Student Association senator is saying she will make a motion at the SA meeting Sunday to remove SA recognition from the Sigma Chi fraternity. Five members of Sigma Chi performed a skit Nov. 20 which was considered by some audience members as racially...