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...

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,"...

An FBI report about sexual assault states that one out of every five women will be sexually assaulted within her lifetime. In an attempt to understand why sexual assault is such a large problem on campus, the NIU Sexual Assault Task Force turned to students...

The Student Association senate accepted the resignation Sunday of Mike Goldstein, Student Committee on Political Action co-chairman, and approved more funding for WKDI's pursuit of an FM frequency. Goldstein, who has left NIU because of undisclosed personal...

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...

Universities from around the country will send their debate teams to test their forensic skills at the NIU debate tournament this weekend. Ann Chaney, graduate assistant coach of the NIU debate team, said there are about 50 teams from 14 different schools...

Kevin McKeough, NIU associate professor of political science, will assess the 1988 pre-election political scene at the Faculty Club's Oct. 25 meeting. McKeough said, "Basically, (the speech) is going to be a review and an analysis of the campaign at that...

Students studying meteorology in Davis Hall felt the building shake just before their classroom window was smashed by an antenna during its removal Thursday. Physical Plant Director John Harrod said that construction was being done to replace the hall...