Today is the last day for organizations to register for this years' Student Association Organizational Expo. Organizations interested in participating must sign up by 4:30 p.m. at the Student Association Office in the Holmes Student Center, south entrance...

Students in the residence halls were charged $5 for their cable needs, even though this policy contradicts NIU's 1993-94 Residence Hall Student Handbook, the "Guide Post." "There are hookups in each student room for connecting a television set and/or...

NIU's administrative shuffle board game continues. NIU will have a new physical plant director as a permanent replacement to the late director Conrad Miller. NIU Controller Bob Albanese will replace Miller and temporarily retain his present position....

Three $1,000 awards will be handed out to members of NIU's supportive professional staff as part of a program to encourage staff participation in research. The Supportive Professional Staff awards are to be available to staff through the faculty development...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MIKE GLOVER DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)—Officials from nine flood-battered states on Thursday got a down payment of $125 million in aid and were told they probably won't be asked to pay much of the massive cleanup costs. Housing Secretary...

A new president of the NIU Faculty Senate and executive secretary of the University Council has stepped in to fill the shoes of a resigned administrator. Curtiss Behrens, associate professor of management, is taking a year off from teaching to fill in...

In his State of the University address, NIU President John La Tourette said that NIU students were "just as satisfied with the education they receive here as students at other Illinois universities." In response to the president's remarks, we at the Star...

AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES (AP)—Testifying for the first time at his beating trial, Reginald Denny said he couldn't remember the attack at the flashpoint of the Los Angeles riots. During a break, he left the witness stand and...

Regent Sylvia Nichols has had her seat pulled out from under her by Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar and that could mean a table full of trouble for the Board of Regents. Nichols' term on the Regents ends this year and in order to stay on the board, she must be...

A plan to expand NIU's Office of Campus Recreation is garnering strong support from the Student Association. The plan would expand the OCR by adding two all-purpose gymnasiums and adding weight room space. According to Rico de Lara, assistant director...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER A.V. GALLAGHER CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP)—A judge Wednesday upheld a law restricting Medicaid payments for abortions, ordering the state to halt funding for the procedure for poor women, except in limited cases. Circuit Judge John...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SNJEZANA VUKIC MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)—U.N. trucks piled high with food and medicine entered embattled Mostar Wednesday, negotiating past enraged Croat women who sat in the road singing hymns to keep the aid from...