An NIU illustration major recently won first place in a contest sponsored by The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine by creating a poster and slogan for the city. Kris Pearson, a 21-year-old junior, competed against about 2,300 contestants who took up the...

Graduating college seniors and graduate students finally have the advantage of a simplified deal when buying or leasing a car through the 1987 College Graduate Finance Plan. General Motors Acceptance Corporation Financial Services is ensuring financing...

NIU faculty and administrators have expressed support for Gov. James Thompson's proposed tax increase, calling the proposal a necessity if faculty and staff members expect a pay raise next year. Richard Beard, president of the NIU chapter of the University...

NIU's annual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week will feature films on gay relationships, gay and lesbian comedians performing in the Student Center and Jeans Day. Awareness week gives the straight population of NIU a chance to see gays and lesbians' side...

A new policy endorsed by the Faculty Assembly Wednesday to patent inventions by members of the NIU community will give the inventor first rights in the use of the invention. Larry Sill, a member of the president's commission to develop a patent and copyright...

Students might be a few steps closer to their banking needs next semester if the Student Association is successful in obtaining a charter for an on-campus credit union. The SA randomly surveyed 260 students by telephone in March on whether they would...

After much discussion, members of the University Council decided to revise a proposal which would give faculty members a majority vote on the council. Jim Giles, executive secretary to the council, said constitutional changes would give faculty more voting...

One of the five remaining candidates for the position of NIU provost revoked her application yesterday. Norma Rees, acting chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, has accepted a different position elsewhere, said Provost Search Committee...

An AIDS lecture at NIU Tuesday turned into a debate between a Chicago health clinic representative and several members of the audience at Montgomery Hall Auditorium. About 75 people attended the lecture led by Sally Mason from the Harold Brown Memorial...

An NIU husband and wife faculty team developed a new approach for speech pathology which is receiving national attention for the treatment of speech and language disorders. NIU's Department of Communicative Disorders Chairman Jim Andrews and his wife...

An NIU anthropology professor directed a team of students and scientists who uncovered spectacular 1,200-year-old jade and flint artifacts in an ancient Mayan city. William Fash led 12 students to the discovery in Copan, a Mayan city in western Honduras....

NIU will host the annual spring meeting of the Northern Illinois Newspaper Association for the second consecutive year on April 9. "The meeting will be held at NIU again for convenience. More and more NIU students are starting to work in the (journalism)...