The Student Association Finance Committee Tuesday discussed a proposal to raise the student activity fee to $12.12 for graduate students with 12 credit hours per semester. Graduate students were charged $6.72 for the fee this semester, which is $5.40...

Complaints about people frightening business customers by drinking and loafing in front of downtown stores prompted the DeKalb City Council to ask for revision of the ordinance pertaining to vagrants. At its Oct. 10 meeting, the council asked DeKalb City...

Would you cosign a loan if you knew there was a good chance the person you were signing for would default on the loan, making you responsible for the debt? Of course not. But that is exactly what is happening to the federally backed guaranteed student...

Proposed renovations to restore and manage stormwater of the Watson Creek that links the East Lagoon with Eco-Park will be presented to the state legislature for approval of funding from the state budget. Eddie Williams, NIU vice president for finance...

The Master of Arts in Public Administration program, which is accredited with training over one-fourth of the city managers in Illinois is celebrating its 25th anniversary at NIU. The program was started in 1962 by Daniel Wit, dean of international and...

NIU football player Brett Tucker is facing charges for an Oct. 1 fistfight at McCabe's bar. The plea hearing will be Oct. 21. Thomas Lee, Arizona, is pressing charges for "reimbursement of medical bills" resulting from the fight. Lee, who allegedly suffered...

NIU and the University of Costa Rica are working together on strategic planning and cooperative interaction among nations in an effort to develop higher education. Edgar Smith, field coordinator for the Costa Rican study program, said an objective of...

NIU students can do their part to help save lives by donating blood at one of the 17 blood drives this semester at NIU. Heartland, a blood bank, depends on NIU blood drives for five percent of its blood supply. Heartland supplies blood to 26 hospitals...

The two candidates running for DeKalb County state's attorney have faced each other only once in a court of law defending opposite sides—in a sexual abuse case last summer. Republican nominee Mike Coghlan, first assistant state's attorney, opposed Democratic...

People speaking in favor of constructing the proposed Superconducting Super Collider in Illinois faced strong, and sometimes hostile, verbal opposition on the second day of the Environmental Impact Statement hearing at Waubonsie Valley High School in...

NIU students who have received merit scholarships will be recognized at the Presidential Awards Convocation today in the Holmes Student Center's Regency Room at 4 p.m. Marion Miller, director of the University Honors Program, originated the convocation...

NIU's first annual fall Sexual Assault Awareness week, which runs today through Friday, will involve communicating information to students about sexual assaults, which have a "high risk" period in autumn. Jeff Cufaude, NIU activities adviser for University...