NIU's Judicial Office had not filed charges by Monday for an inflammatory sign placed in a residence hall window last week. However, the computer-printed sign—reading "kill a faggot" and displayed in a fourth floor window of Neptune Hall East—has...

University and college administrators nationwide are walking a fine line. Like a piano wire tightrope, the line is barely visible and always moving. On one side is higher education's goal of diversity and a potential mine field of racial tension. On the...

NIU cannot use a large amount of idle money to offset a probable tuition increase because it would violate state legislation. Eddie Williams, vice president of Finance and Planning, said according to legislation, NIU can use the nearly $5.9 million in...

DeKalb is a safer place since the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency paid a visit last Saturday. The IEPA collected enough household hazardous waste products from 447 participants to fill 97 drums in a waste project sponsored by the DeKalb County...

If NIU students had to do it all over again, most said they would enroll at NIU, a recent survey stated. The survey also said NIU students like the quality of their education and NIU's nonacademic services. These results come from research done in February...

Eighteen teams of NIU law students had to struggle with an argument during the March, 1991 Moot Court competition. How far can high-school teenagers take the right of free expression and do they have the right to be free from illegal search and seizure...

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation helped make National Hispanic Month a reality by giving a grant of nearly $13,600 to the National Hispanic Month Committee. Yolando Trevino, student programming coordinator for University Resources for Latinos, received a grant...

Students congregating around an owl nest near Faraday and Davis halls could be causing more problems than they realize. "It's nice to go and look at the owls," said Ken Bowden, assistant geography professor, "but don't hang around. You might cause the...

It is as wrong to generalize about the media as it is wrong to generalize about people, said an assistant editor of the Chicago Tribune Monday. Manuel Galvan, speaking as a part of National Hispanic Month, addressed "Stereotypes—How the Media Views...

The mass transit board changed its mind for the third time in two weeks Monday about who they want as the Late Nite Ride Service director. With a 5-3 vote, the Student Association Mass Transit Board picked Dave Forster over current LNRS Director Sharat...

A pool party, variety show and picnic will highlight this year's Greek Week '91, sponsored by the Black Greek Council. The event runs this week through Saturday. "The purpose of Greek Week is to get NIU students involved with the activities, which are...

The amount of material recycled in DeKalb could double in the next year if city council members act on findings from their environmental committee, the committee chairman said Monday. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow said the ad hoc environmental committee's...