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...

Having no power to affect significant change within NIU prompted the chairman of the Admissions Policy Academic Standards Committee to resign his position at Thursday's Undergraduate Coordinating Council meeting. APASC Chairman Herbert Rubin said in regards...

Foreign language department administrators plan to keep the Foreign Language Learning Center open an additional night per week next semester, despite a recent decline in use of current night hour usage. The center, located in the Watson Hall basement,...

Two student Regents agree that the proposal to separate NIU from the Board of Regents is not likely to pass as a bill in the state legislature. NIU Student Regent Nick Valadez said he can see merits in the proposal made by Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru,...

Some former members of the now-defunct Coalition of Students for All Students said the coalition was created to ensure that members were elected to the Student Association senate. The coalition was successful in that regard; of 30 coalition members, 29...

A recent issue of the alternative newpaper, The Vigilante, has a candidate in the state's attorney race crying foul over remarks that he had "no ethical bounds." Jerry Shapiro, Democratic candidate for state's attorney, said Thursday he is "deeply saddened"...

Two NIU physics professors, Dan Kaplan and David Hedin, share the distinction of having worked with Nobel Prize winners on projects during their graduate studies. Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger won a Nobel Prize for an experiment...

A fraternity party regulation that would restrict the serving of alcohol past 3:30 a.m. on weekends was discussed at Tuesday's Interfraternity Council meeting. One Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity representative said at the meeting that several members of...

A resident of Grant Towers North was arrested by University Police Tuesday and charged with simple battery after his resident assistant reported being pushed and struck in the head. A UP report said Ronaldo Ortiz, 20, 475 Grant Towers North, beat on his...

The reign of NIU's 1988 Homecoming king and queen will involve a lot more than "just wearing the crown for a day." Willie Fowler, a junior political science major, and Marthony Longo, a junior special education major, were elected last weekend to reign...

Professors and researchers from across the globe are at NIU today for the 10th annual conference meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. The academic conference, which started Wednesday and will continue through...

In an effort to meet the NIU community, several Republican candidates passed out campaign literature at the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons Wednesday afternoon. DeKalb County coroner candidate Faye Allen said, "We (candidates) are here trying to meet...