The Student Association Senate Sunday allocated almost $18,000 to seven club sports. The hockey club received $8,314.30. The team's record was 22-1-3 this year. SA Treasurer Todd Lipscomb said the team charges its supporters a small amount for attendance...

DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow suggested imposing university sanctions as serious as expulsion against Day of Action II protestors who blocked Lincoln Highway April 13. Sparrow said he plans to meet with NIU President John LaTourette to discuss the sanctions...

NIU Provost Kendall Baker addressed questions about the proposed cooperative admissions policy with Rockford College at Wednesday's University Council meeting, and council members voted to allow a final vote on the proposal at their May 4 meeting. Alan...

Fall and spring service dates for some Huskie bus routes will begin one week before school to accommodate students who arrive on campus early and have no other means of transportation. The Student Association Mass Transit Board made the decision at a...

Two Chicago Sun-Times reporters told a group of about 50 students and faculty that experience is needed to land a job with a large paper. Mark Brown and Tom McNamee agreed at Thursday's lecture in the Capitol room of the Holmes Student Center that working...

SA President Jim Fischer plans to report on the Day of Action II and further discuss the illegal use of the rubber "REG" stamp issue at the Student Association Senate meeting Sunday. Fischer said at last Sunday's meeting, the sanctions on those students...

A proposed sum of $750,000 will be spent towards maintaining or reconstructing DeKalb streets this summer, Mayor Greg Sparrow said. The City Council will vote on how to use the money at a special meeting Monday in the Conference Room of the Municipal...

The admission of transfer students to NIU this fall might be based more on the student's academic records than the current policy, which is based on how soon the application is received. A policy proposed to the University Council Wednesday states it...

A group of women administrators have been meeting to discuss salary and professional progress in comparison with men administrators. Peggy Sullivan, professional studies dean, said that about one year ago she organized an informal group of women administrators...

Local legislators have different views about Gov. James Thompson's strategy for asking Illinois citizens to support a tax increase for human services, such as higher education, instead of directly proposing one. "If we do increase the state income tax,...

As is our yearly tradition, we here at The Northern Star are pleased and excited to give you, the public, our staff prognostications for the NCAA Final Four. These predictions come straight from the writers' pens, so to speak. Read them, debate them and...

Poor weather halted construction of a new playground at the NIU School of Nursing last semester and last week but work will be completed by summer, DeKalb Park District Director David Emanuelson said. Heavy rains and cold weather stopped park district...