A grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will help DeKalb's poor and homeless population, but there still is a long way to go before the city receives an estimated $519,000 in aid. "The purpose of the Community Development...

SKOKIE—The first chapter of the Illinois Board of Higher Education's Priorities, Quality and Productivity initiative began to close at Thursday's IBHE meeting. "We have been waiting two years toward this day," said IBHE Chair Arthur Quern as he opened...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ED WHITE A fisherman cuts his knotty line and leaves the mess on shore. A cocky water skier zips past leisurely boaters. An empty wine bottle rests under a tree in a park. Hey, what happened to ethics? The state Conservation Department...

NIU students and faculty members voiced their concerns about the mounting parking dilemma to members of the Campus Parking Committee during Thursday's meeting. Richard Collins, a floor representative from Grant Towers South, spoke on behalf of students....

Luis Rodriguez, a critically acclaimed novelist and poet, spoke about his life and work Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center. His new work, "La Vida Loca" translated to "The Crazy Life," depicts the life he lead as a former...

Men: Jack Pheanis is one of those coaches who believes in playing the best in order to become the best. That's why the NIU men's golf team is taking part in this weekend's Big Ten-hosted Northern Intercollegiate in Ann Arbor, Mi. The University of Michigan...

The College of Education's department of Leadership and Education Policy Studies will be cosponsoring an event this weekend with the Thresholds in Education Foundation. Jeanette Heinisch, director of non-credit programming for the College of Education,...

If you have seen teeter-totters in the King Memorial Commons this week, your eyes have not been deceiving you. Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, in association with the March of Dimes, will be teeter-tottering in the commons until Friday at noon. By the time...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER JOHN DIAMOND WASHINGTON (AP)—Capitol Police arrested 68 singing, chanting anti-abortion demonstrators Wednesday for blocking access to Sen. Edward Kennedy's Washington office. The demonstrators oppose a Kennedy-sponsored bill...

It began as a humanitarian mission and now it's a head hunt. We are supposed to be the good guys and now the people we are there to help drag our tied up soliders around in the dirt. Something has gone arwy and maybe we should bring our soldiers home....

Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) will be the topic of a discussion facilitated by Mary Fisher, a cardiology nurse at Rockford's Swedish American Hospital, Oct. 10 at 3 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Hillcrest Covenant Church on the corner of North First...

Study now, pay later, but you will pay. At least that's how the Stafford Loan Program operates on paper. But how close is that ideal to reality, especially at a recession-plagued campus like NIU? Student loan default rates are unacceptably high nationwide....