First impressions are very important. How many times have you heard this? Now you can learn how to make that vital first impression everyone has been warning you about. June Taylor, president of Pretiquette, Inc., will be on campus tomorrow to let students...

Are you desperate for a dinner date? Worry no more. For the second year in a row, Sigma Lambda Sigma sorority in association with the Starlight Foundation of Chicago is holding a study break auction at 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium....

NIU department officials have said, in the words of poet Dylan Thomas, that they will not "go gentle into that good night," in response to the Illinois Board of Higher Education and its recommended program cuts. Susan Vogel, chair of the department of...

You are alone with your sweetheart on a romantic walk in the fields surrounding the campus when suddenly you get this squishy feeling under your toes. You look down to see small, dark, somewhat oblong, offensive-looking pellets—but don't worry, it's...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PAT MILTON MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP)—The saga that began in a Long Island auto body shop ended Monday in a courtroom where a handcuffed, smirking Joey Buttafuoco was led away to the same fate that befell his former lover, Amy Fisher—jail...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MICHAEL GOUGIS CHICAGO (AP)—The proliferation of handguns and semi-automatic weapons has created a crisis of violence in the nation's cities, and federal legislators should crack down on the availability of firearms, the U.S....

AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT TERENCE HUNT WASHINGTON (AP)—Struggling for votes with time running out, President Clinton leaned on Democrats opposing a trade agreement with Mexico Monday and tried to hold Republican supporters. The White House attempted...

Circle K, an NIU volunteer organization is doing what it can to enhance the lives of the less fortunate in DeKalb. Their main concern for the next two years is children, according to Aileen McGarahan, Lieutenant Governor for the NIU Circle K. "The children...

The construction of the new parking garage will become a temporary inconvenience to Normal Road traffic. Normal Road will be closed to all traffic until 6 p.m. today from Route 38 to Locust Street in connection with the parking garage construction. The...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RUTH SINAI WASHINGTON (AP)—Senior aides to President Clinton recommended Monday that the United States give up an annual military exercise in return for North Korean permission for immediate inspections of its nuclear facilities....

Presidents of organizations, it's that time again. The third and final president's meeting of the semester will be at 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Holmes Student Center Capitol Room. The meeting will address topics such as the multiculturalism requirement, including...

Although many people agree the student delegation to the University Council is running much smoother than in years past, several problems still are being looked at. UC Executive Secretary Curtiss Behrens said one of the perennial problems with the student...