The Public Address System, a progressive alternative newspaper run by NIU students, will be distributed for the first time this academic year after Thanksgiving break. The newspaper, which was published only once last year under the name Mush!, is liberal...

Department of Energy Secretary John Herrington's tentative decision was announced Thursday that the $4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider will be constructed in Texas, and officials from competing states have voiced their strong opposition. The...

One University Police officer says there is "no justification" to install a campus security phone system that might be on NIU's campus by the 1989 fall semester. The proposed system would link about 50 security phones with the University Police Department,...

Professors in major universities across the country live by those words, knowing their careers may depend on being published. Doctoral degrees might get professors in the door at a university, but being published will keep them there, possibly with tenure....

The First National Bank of DeKalb has made its services more accessible to physically disabled persons since the completion of several renovation projects. Recent construction includes a ramp at the main bank's entrance, 141 W. Lincoln Hwy. The ramp provides...

Two Chicago-area legislators said Thursday night that NIU President John LaTourette would "feel the wrath of the (Illinois) legislature" for the controversial dismissal of CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer, which they said was prompted by institutional racism....

NIU wrestling coach Ed Vatch has been "rubbing elbows" this week with the women's volleyball team. "They've been hot lately," Vatch said. "I'm hoping some of it will wear off on us." The wrestlers travel to Stevens Point, Wis., for the Wisconsin-Stevens...

Every four years, national elections draw much attention and scrutiny to the United States government, the Constitution and what they mean to Americans. Many U.S. citzens, however, are ignorant of the document that establishes the laws and affirms the...

DeKalb 3rd Ward residents will discuss obtaining low-interest loans at a home improvements meeting at 7 p.m. on Nov. 13 at the Plummers and Pipefitters Local No. 612, 637 N. 11th St. Bill Nicklas, director of building and community services, will present...

A "totally mystified" Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves responded to a letter by the NIU Faculty Assembly stating its displeasure with Groves' comments at its Sept. 28 meeting with a letter of his own. Groves, in his reply, said he did not understand...

At a meeting of black faculty organizations yesterday, members discussed the lack of black faculty at NIU and began generating ideas to develop the best way to increase the number of minority faculty. Admasu Zike, director of the Center for Black Studies,...

If preliminary statistics from surveys of universities across the country hold true, one in every 300 college students has the AIDS virus, said Gayle Lloyd, public affairs specialist at the national Centers for Disease Control. A cooperative study by...