NIU is losing yet another administrator. The director who revamped and reconstructed NIU's once struggling Small Business Development Center is resigning his position next week to return to his own consulting firm. Lawrence Rouse, a four-year director...

It is construction season in DeKalb again, and students are learning to live with the dust. Between the construction of five buildings on campus and the repair work being done on Lucinda Avenue, students might be wondering whether DeKalb is a university...

AP MEDICAL WRITER Brenda Coleman CHICAGO (AP)—A blood test commonly used to detect new malignancies after surgery for colon cancer—the second leading U.S. cancer killer—is virtually worthless, researchers found in a large new study. About 500,000...

SAN DIEGO—Back on the other edge of the continent, in Washington, the National Endowment for the Arts, responding to yet another debacle, is saying, as usual: The peculiar goings-on (this time in San Diego) are aberrations; NEA approval of the grant...

She's probably one of the busiest students on campus. April McLaughlin is currently juggling work at the Center for Black Studies, the Vice Presidency of the Black Student Union (BSU), writing for Lifeline, working in Douglas Food Service and attending...

Closing in on their 25th anniversary next semester, the Black Choir is proud of its past and excited about its future. When the choir was founded in 1968 by Kenneth Lennon, the choir sang not only gospel music, but also sang secular, or popular music....

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ROBERT BURNS WASHINGTON (AP)—An elite force of 400 Army soldiers trained to strike sensitive targets with unconventional means will head for Somalia this week. But the Pentagon said the Rangers' mission is not to nab warlord...

The Newman Catholic Student Center, 512 Normal Road, Dekalb, will be sponsoring the "Ben and Jerry's Traveling Circus" for two showings at 4 and 7p.m. today as part of the center's get acquainted night. "It'll be a wonderful time for a lot of folks,"...

Many freshman have mixed feelings about their first year at NIU. Many worry about being away from home for the first time, or fear they will not make it academically. However, there is also the excitement of starting fresh and being able to establish...

DeKalb police are investigating the second robbery in two days at the White Hen Pantry, 802 S. Fourth St. The robbery occurred at 12:54 a.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after the convenience store was robbed by a person fitting the same description. As...

With more than 10 construction sites on campus, getting around on foot is hard enough, but now with all the construction workers, parking space has also become a problem. Construction workers were able to purchase blue parking permits this summer, which...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RICHARD KEIL WASHINGTON (AP)—The government unlocked 30 years of secrets Monday in John F. Kennedy's assassination—from CIA theories of Soviet involvement to a second-hand report that Lee Harvey Oswald boasted to a Russian...