Evil-doers beware, the DeKalb County Crime Stoppers program is alive and well. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow signed a proclamation declaring this week "Crime Stoppers Week in DeKalb." To celebrate, every McDonald's restaurant in DeKalb County agreed to use...

The Organization of Black Business Students (OBBS) and the Student Association Minority Relations Committee have given NIU minority students an extra boost by producing a book filled with their resumes. The book was distributed to company representatives...

Don't believe the naysayers that portray racial problems as irreconcilable, according to a video conference sponsored by the NIU office of affirmative action. From noon to 2 p.m. today in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center, students and community...

Do you remember the kid who was always picked last in gym class? That kid might have been picked on because of conditions he could not control. Some of those conditions will be addressed in a seminar next week geared toward physical education teachers....

The Illinois Board of Higher Education is now saying that it will not institute a program "moratorium" next year. The threat of a moratorium was made at a hearing last month at NIU. At that time, IBHE Executive Director Richard Wagner said the IBHE was...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER CHRISTOPHER WILLS SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)—Gov. Jim Edgar answered a key question about his re-election campaign even before it officially began: He won't take another no-new-taxes pledge. Although Edgar says he will not promise...

Are you 18 years old and looking forward to voting in the spring DeKalb primaries? Due to poor scheduling by the state of Illinois, you might not be able to this year. Primary elections are scheduled while NIU students will be on Spring Break. Student...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ANNE GEARAN MANASSAS, Va. (AP)—A woman who cut off her husband's penis sobbed on the witness stand Monday as she told the jury he pinned her to the bed and raped her. After he fell asleep, she said, ‘‘I lifted the sheets...

Concerns expressed by faculty members and students over a decision by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to allow a professor to begin teaching her originally assigned classes more than halfway through the semester have fallen on deaf ears. Despite...

CHICAGO—The Committee to Study Affordability laid groundwork and fashioned a perspective to study Illinois' public higher education's financial environment Monday. The committee is following an Illinois Board of Higher Education mandate to study tuition...

DeKalb residents and city officials seem to agree on one thing—teen clubs and juice bars in DeKalb need to be regulated with laws and restrictions. At a public hearing held at the regular DeKalb City Council meeting Monday night, possible regulation...

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series concerning the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities at NIU. Does the NIU Office of Services for Students with Disabilities induce student dependency on the office by providing too many...