The NIU Faculty Grievance Procedure now might handle the complaints of an NIU professor concerning administrative grade changes issued to students who illegally registered for spring 1988 classes using a fraudulent "REG" stamp. The University Professionals...

Election fever is in the air, but the issues do not seem to be fogging students' minds about whom they support for the next president of the United States. More NIU students interviewed Monday, the day after the first presidential debates of 1988, supported...

A new NIU Student Association policy is aimed at improving poor attendance records of student representatives on university committees. SA President Paula Radtke said alternate representatives will be assigned to certain committees this year. She said...

A DeKalb City Council member called for the resignation of an alderman in a press conference Tuesday attended by several city officials, local media and six of the seven aldermen. Fifth Ward Alderman Bessie Chronopoulos, who called the press conference,...

Although the primary issue on the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting was the preparations for a political awareness festival, the item of debate that refused to die was weather or not SCOPA's actions represent those...

The Illinois Sheriff's Association is accepting applications for associate members throughout the end of this month said Roger Scott, DeKalb County sheriff. For a $25 fee, associate members receive a membership card, bumper sticker, window decal, quarterly...

The DeKalb County circuit clerk's failure to renew four certificates of deposit for a loss of less than $1,000 was the main topic of discussion at Democratic nominee Linda Finn's town meeting Tuesday night. Finn told a crowd of about 20 that $40,000 worth...

Illinois taxpayers might receive state income tax refunds more quickly as a result of legislation signed into law earlier this month by Gov. James Thompson. "The issue originally came about as a result of the slow payment of refunds in 1987," said Jennifer...

Jon Dalton, NIU vice president for student affairs, and two student leaders relied on wheelchairs instead of their feet yesterday, but two disabled students point out simulations alone will not bring about changes. Sue Haas, a physically disabled student...

Convicted murderer Jessie Donald Sumner, 51, who escaped from the Pontiac Correctional Center and was captured Monday night north of Sycamore, was returned to Kendall County late last night. Sumner's last of four hostages, department of correction employee...

The recently released Campus Master Plan recommends renovations of the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons and construction of pedestrian walkways to improve the safety and beauty of NIU's campus. Eddie Williams, NIU vice president for finance and planning,...

Robert Morley, the man accused of harassing NIU Judicial Office Director Larry Bolles by telephone last spring, was found guilty and was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum penalty of six months conditional discharge and 40 hours of community service. Morley,...