A month-long Hispanic Awareness celebration will kick off April 1st at noon with a rally in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons. NIU's University Resources for Latinos has organized a month-long program called "Compartamos Nuestra Cultura: Sharing Our...

A new steam tunnel and general improvements throughout campus totalling almost $6 million is recommended in the governor's budget. Gov. Jim Edgar's highest education recommendation was a new steam tunnel servicing Faraday Hall, the proposed Faraday II,...

DeKalb city officials don't want you to get upset about the radium level in the water. DeKalb was notified on Dec. 27 last year of a radium content violation by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The city has been doing mailings to notify the...

Women's History Month will celebrate its grand finale with the presentation of Just Say Know, a stand-up routine by comedianne Jane Curry. Curry will perform March 28 at 8:30 p.m. in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium for the public free of charge. Her appearance...

As state agencies must cut back because of a tight economy, a group of NIU students, faculty and administrators struggled to determine the fee portion of student bills next year. Anne Kaplan, chairman of NIU President John La Tourette's Fee Study Committee,...

Election date changes and bad communications are messing up the Student Association executive elections scheduled sometime next week, SA officials said. "I think that what is going on is a gross example of incompetence," said Sen. Kelly Marie McDonald,...

A pregnant NIU student will have one less thing to worry about at the end of her term. Karen Stoffel, an NIU senior, successfully obtained a temporary parking permit allowing her to park in blue lots and have a shorter walk to class. Stoffel was called...

Student Association Presidential candidates are making plans to confront student perceptions of the senate next year. The two candidates took opposite sides in the first real conflict in views in this race so far. Senate Speaker Preston Came said if he...

The Board of Regents approved Hoffman Estates' land donation for NIU's campus expansion Thursday. The Regents voted unanimously to let NIU accept 3.9 acres of land donated by Hoffman Estates at their meeting in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center....

NIU students will fight for students' rights today when a proposal they strongly oppose will be disputed at a University Council committee meeting. The proposal would give UC the power to approve and amend the Student Judicial Code rather than the Student...

"Mom, the day I become crooked is the day I get out of office." That's what Jordan Kagan said to his mom when she found out he was running for the alderman seat in the predominantly student 7th ward. "My mom was not super-positive about me getting into...

Tuition must go up or services will be cut, say NIU officials, but students say they want more out of existing dollars and charge NIU is wasting money. "There will be an increase or there will be a reduction of services," NIU President John La Tourette...