The NIU men's tennis team will try to keep its undefeated record intact when it travels to Nielson Tennis Stadium in Madison, Wis., Saturday. The Huskies, who have a 5-0 dual-meet record, have overcome the injuries from last weekend, and will enter the...

Huskie Stadium will be the arena for the NIU High School Band Championship Saturday to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. NIU Marching Band Director Frank Bibb said area high schools from classes AA through D will be in the competition. The eight judges will...

The NIU women's field hockey team will travel to SIU-Carbondale today to encounter its first match in a four-game weekend. "Although Southern is 0-9, they are not the kind of team to overlook," coach Laurie Bell said. "We're used to a much faster game...

Student Association President Jim Fischer and Jon Dalton, vice president for student affairs, played the roles of handicapped individuals yesterday to raise awareness as a part of Unity Through Diversity Week. Equipped in a wheelchair, Fischer traveled...

Calling it "one of the best drunk driving packages we've ever come up with," Representative John Countryman, R-DeKalb, Thursday praised legislation recently signed by Gov. James Thompson. The legislation, which increases penalties for repeat drunk drivers,...

Phi Kappa Phi, the highest honorary society at NIU, has named famed NIU students as Jack Villmow Scholars for 1987-88. The scholarship program, in its sixth year, honors seniors from among those inducted into the PKP society their junior year. "NIU juniors...

Andy Golletz, a senior economics major, won the Sixth Annual National Collegiate Driving Championship Friday and will compete in a national competition in Daytona, Fla. next year. The competition, which was sponsored by Dodge, was held Thursday and Friday...

NIU President John LaTourette said Wednesday the $150 tuition increase for the spring semester will cover only about $2.5 million of the recent budget cuts. LaTourette answered questions from Operating Staff Council President Diana Strink at an OSC open...

Mayor Greg Sparrow announced early this week the completion of a quality of life brochure designed to promote the DeKalb area. The city plans to use the "Distinctive DeKalb" brochure to send out community and economic development information to all interested...

Inspiration from support systems contributes to the intellectual well-being of students and motivates their learning, said Jaqueline Fleming, author of "Blacks in College," at Unity Through Diversity Week's keynote address last night. owever, Fleming,...

The voluntary manslaughter charge against legally blind NIU student Peter Gogola was dropped Wednesday at the request of First State's Attorney Michael Coghlan. Gogola's bench trial for illegal possession of a firearm without firearm owner's identification,...

Recent vandalism of College Republican fliers shows the lack of success of Unity Through Diversity Week and that discrimination of groups other than minorities exists, CR President Gary Yambor said. Yambor said some fliers he posted in DuSable Hall Tuesday...