The Student Association Senate Sunday approved to take away SA recognition from Phi Beta Sigma fraternity for four weeks because the fraternity posted an objectionable flier with a forged University Programming & Activities stamp. The fraternity posted...

CHICAGO (AP)—A "mom-and-pop" team who ran drugs from Florida is in custody after selling $3 million worth of cocaine to authorities in the largest local bust in memory from a "hand-to-hand" cocaine buy, authorities said Sunday. "If you had to paint...

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...

NIU's University Food Service might implement a student discount rate plan for the Pow Wow Room, Pheasant Room, Blackhawk Cafeteria and the catering service for the fall semester. University Food Service Director Robert Frederickson said the plan is "very...

A City of DeKalb private towing company, charged with six counts of towing ordinance violations, filed a civil suit against the city Tuesday, claiming the ordinance is unconstitutional. Michael Fitzgerald, owner of Northern Illinois Towing, 2615 Sycamore...

Unlike the Oklahoma land rush of 1889, the annual "Great DeKalb Apartment Hunt" for next year's apartments does not begin with the blare of bugles and the spring of horse-drawn wagons from a starting line. Old hands, however, have been known to liken...

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...