Illinois is still in the running for the Superconducting Super Collider as meetings were held this week to inform the public of residential areas which would be affected by the project. Illinois is one of the seven candidates for the site of the SSC....

Last semester's request to remove The Thunderbolt, a racially derogatory newspaper, from Founders Memorial Library's shelves was denied. Carroll Varner, assistant director for Technical Services at Founders, said the newspaper will remian on library shelves....

A representative from the environmental group Greenpeace will lead a discussion Monday about issues dealing with environmental and animal cruelty. The Student Committee for Animal Welfare invited Greenpeace representative Joe Kintigh to discuss and familiarize...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)—Seymour Simon says he will leave the Illinois Supreme Court with one major regret: that the long legal debate over the death penalty in Illinois remains unresolved. Through his seven-year tenure on the high court, Simon's persistent...

LONDON (AP)—U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said Thursday he wanted to screen every student of a major American university this spring to help determine the incidence of AIDS among young adults. Koop also proposed similar mass AIDS screening at...

A bill requiring businesses to obtain permits from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for on-site storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste was introduced to the Illinois Senate Jan. 25. Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, who sponsored the...

Several construction projects to improve NIU's campus soon might be started if the Illinois Board of Higher Education capital budget recommendations of about $25 million are approved by the state. NIU President John LaTourette said four proposed major...

Eighty DeKalb County non-professional employees are petitioning to become unionized because they believe they do not have enough input in their working policies. After the last county board meeting, Steve Trossman, spokesman for the American Federation...

The number of students using the University Health Service increased 3.1 percent by the end of November as compared to the same time last year, Health Service Director Dr. Rosemary Lane said. Lane estimates 29,641 students came to the health center for...

CHICAGO (AP)—A 7-month-old baby found abandoned in an unheated apartment in a wet snowsuit with no shoes, socks or gloves will not need surgery to save her limbs, doctors said Wednesday. "Medically, she's fine," a spokeswoman at Mount Sinai Medical...

Instructors and coaches who use Gabel Hall's pool are breathing a sigh of relief this semester, now that repairs to the roof and pool there are completed. The pool was renovated after it was closed in December 1985 because of damage caused by a leaking...

Four black NIU students accused of shoplifting at the Holmes Student Center Bookstore on Jan. 21 are considering filing formal harassment complaints against bookstore employees. The students are offended by the way the bookstore's employees handled the...