Winter months are especially rough on an Irishman. First, there's the fair Irish skin. It sits hidden for months beneath winter sweatpants and emerges to an angry sun sometime in April, ready to turn from Miracle Whip to Pink Cadillac to Cincinnati Red...

NIU students will have to pay more for their apartments this year than they did last year. Those living in NIU's Married Students' Apartments, 501 Annie Glidden Road, and Amber Manor Apartments, 807 to 833 Ridge Drive, will have to pay $10 more this year...

Voting. In some countries, people attempting to do this are shot at. In others, people battle in the streets just to obtain the right to cast their vote. In the U.S., voting is taken for granted—often with disastrous results. One group that should realize...

The Story County Attorney's Office in Nevada, Iowa, will not appeal an Iowa judge's dismissal of the case against NIU men's basketball player John Culbertson. Culbertson's active warrant and terrorism charge were removed Jan. 26 when Judge Steven Van...

NIU visitors might no longer be allowed to accumulate exempt parking fines if the Campus Parking Committee takes action on a proposal to limit the number of parking fines visitors can have cleared. Campus Parking Manager Lynn Fraser said campus visitors...

Holmes Student Center Bookstore student employees said the incident on Jan. 21 in which four black students were accused of shoplifting was not about racism. A letter prepared by several student bookstore employees stated they felt it was in the best...

The NIU Council on Instruction postponed action Thursday on the university bylaws revisions and changed course review periods. Jim Banovetz, representative from the Presidential Task Force on Constitutional Revision, proposed the new university bylaws...

Hundreds of participants met to discuss causes of racism on American campuses Thursday as part of an all-day conference entitled "Racial Discrimination on Campus." Issues ranging from minority retention in colleges to educating people on the issue of...

Editor's note: This is the last part of a three-part series on higher education funding. This part deals with Illinois politicians' role in the funding process. Taxpayers who are concerned about higher education funding need to convince Illinois legislators...

The committment to address campus racism must become an internal priority of institutions, said Henry Johnson, vice president of student services at the University of Michigan Thursday. Johnson, speaking at the "Racial Discrimination on Campus" conference,...

Possible solutions to the causes of racism discussed at an NIU conference Thursday include classroom curricula changes and faculty instruction. NIU Provost Kendall Baker said at one of the conference's seminars that colleges need to provide the same kind...

The Faculty Assembly Wednesday received a report concerning a possible status of The Northern Star, which would require an additional $75,000 in student fees. Jon Dalton, vice president for student affairs, told the assembly he supported a new student...