Some people will be going to jail in May in an effort to kick some bad habits and raise money for the American Heart Association. The DeKalb County Heart Unit is sponsoring a new fund-raising event for the American Heart Association called "Cardiac Arrest,"...

NIU acting Vice President and Provost Daniel Wit withdrew his application for the position of provost yesterday and has been replaced by an alternate candidate. James Lankford, co-chairman of the Provost Search Committee, said Wit removed his name from...

General education requirements and teacher evaluations were among the issues addressed by two provost candidates at open forums held recently at NIU. Members of the university community questioned Mark Auburn of the University of Arkansas last Tuesday...

John Callaway, WTTW-TV's senior correspondent, will receive the NIU journalism department's award for 1987 Illinois Journalist of the Year at the 39th annual journalism banquet Friday. "He (Callaway) is a great interviewer. You could use him as a text...

For the second year in a row, NIU graduate student Jeff Cufaude has placed in the National Association for Campus Activities' Prize Papers Competition. Cufaude won second place and $150 for his paper based on the the book, A Passion for Excellence, and...

Some discrepancy regarding the vote count of the Seventh Ward write-in candidacy will not be proven until ballots can be recounted in 60 days, said DeKalb County Clerk Terry Desmond. Mark Powell won the aldermanic race in the Seventh Ward with 90 votes...

Students working toward a math or science teaching certificate might be able to receive funding through the Illinois State Board of Education's 1987-88 Traineeship Program Award. Shirley A. Harris, Instructional Improvement program specialist, said the...

Through a $5,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources, the NIU Student Association Recycling Station will be able to recycle non-biodegradable plastic milk cartons. Because of the problem with overflowing landfills, the state...

Two NIU students arrested for a fire which broke out last week in Stevenson Towers South are banned temporarily from the residence halls while awaiting their hearing at the NIU Judicial Office. John Belch, 20, 504 Stevenson Towers South, and David Pedersen,...

Whether or not smoking should be banned in the lower lounge of NIU's Memorial Library will be the basis of a student survey conducted by the Student Association Academic Affairs Committee. David Baum, SA Academic Affairs adviser, said the survey is an...

Housing has become a focus for viewing some of the major tensions and struggles in contemporary America, said Kathy McCourt, chairman of the sociology department at Loyola University of Chicago. McCourt spoke Wednesday to NIU students on the problems...

Faculty members and Student Association representatives of NIU's Athletic Board have given mixed reactions toward a recommendation from a board committee to reduce the two groups' membership by 57 percent. The proposal from the Ad Hoc Committee on Policy...