The Interfraternity Council will discuss and possibly vote tonight on implementing a risk-management policy to reduce NIU fraternities' liability for alcohol-related accidents. Two members from each fraternity chapter sit on the IFC and will attend the...

Last Friday's voter awareness rally at the east lagoon centered on the lack of voting by college students and served as a political forum for students and politicians. Though the lack of interest of students to vote is not as big a problem as the total...

Although validation sticker distribution has been delayed, students should be receiving stickers for their university identification cards later this week. NIU Bursar Richard Cochrane said distribution of the validation stickers is about one month behind...

Methods of crime prevention for local citizens will be the subject of a training session to be held tonight. Sponsored by Citizens Against Crime, the session will take place at 7 p.m. at the DeKalb County Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main St., Sycamore....

More people registered to vote Oct. 11, the final day to register, than DeKalb County has ever seen in a single day, said DeKalb County Clerk Terry Desmond. Desmond said his office registered more than 1,000 people in one day. He said, "It was the biggest...

The occasional "chaos" found in the Student Association is no longer a concern for SA Vice President and acting president pro tempore Gregg Bliss since the senate selected a permenant pro tempore. Sunday night the SA approved the Internal Affairs committee's...

It seems that wherever NIU goes, its parking problems follow. Not only is parking a problem in the center of campus, but parking also is becoming difficult to find at NIU's School of Engineering in Sycamore. The engineering school has been located in...

Several Sycamore residents on North Cross Street have issued complaints about NIU engineering students who are parking on the street instead of using the school's designated parking lot. Sycamore Mayor Redd Johnson said that on Mondays through Fridays...

Student Association Sen. Joe Annunzio was elected senate speaker by a majority vote of the senate Sunday night. Annunzio, serving his second term on the senate, beat out senators Regina Hudson and Michael Stumpf for the position, which was held by Tom...

In about two years, every NIU fraternity will be under its national chapter's risk-management policy to reduce liability related to alcohol. Interfraternity Council President Tom Zur said the IFC has a risk-reduction committee working on a risk-reduction...

Every evening during the winter, DeKalb's emergency refuge, Public Action to Deliver Shelter, opens its doors to the homeless. Starting at 7 p.m., people drift into the sparsely furnished parsonage at the First United Methodist Church, 311 N. Fourth St.,...

NIU will be joining with other universities around the country to participate in National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, which runs today through Friday. "We want to raise the awareness of alcohol abuse and encourage students to participate in BACCHUS,"...