NIU students who keep pets during the semester but let them go during vacations don't add significantly to the problem of strays in DeKalb county. Strays are picked up by the DeKalb County Animal Control. Control also is responsible for issuing the rabies...

Enough students support having a vote whether or not to keep NIU in the Illinois Student Association, a Student Association adviser said. After months of SA bickering and cnfusion, Tom Ellett, political education and action committee adviser, collcted...

Valentine's Day: Flowers, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, cupid greeting cards, someone bitching about his/her boy/girlfriend, and unattached people enveloped in a swirling eddy of despair, occasionally brightened by false hopes only to have reality...

Thursday, NIU will undoubtedly be submerged in Valentine activities galore, and the residence halls will definitely be joining the fun and excitement. Students who can't afford the flowers, candy and other gifts that are required on Valentine's Day can...

The push to extend tavern hours to 2 a.m. on Friday mornings passed the first hurdle at Monday's DeKalb City Council meeting, with Mayor Greg Sparrow casting the deciding vote. "I don't see it as a big problem," Sparrow said. "It's not going to produce...

If you're sick of spending too much money on candy, flowers, and dinner for your sweetie-pie, try something that cuts to the heart of the matter this Valentine's Day. You can make your loved one a proud "parent" without having to worry about changing...

The challenge of the 1990s for black people is economic justice, said Rev. Tyrone Crider to about 60 people Friday night. Crider, executive director of Chicago-based Operation PUSH, spoke for about 30 minutes in the Holmes Student Center's Duke Ellington...

Black Heritage Month will continue at NIU with a speech by Atallah Shabazz, the eldest daughter of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X. Shabazz founded a national touring company of educational theatre designed to motivate today's youth. Her visit is...

You offer someone an inch and they take a mile. At least that's what University Council member Eleanor Godfrey is trying to do. University Judicial Director Larry Bolles requested an extra seven faculty members to serve on the Judicial Hearing Committee...

NIU students living in DeKalb contributed more than $1 million to the city's coffers in 1990 through state revenues distributed by population figures. The final census figures for DeKalb are in, showing that the population has grown by 1,768 residents...

On a gray and cold Tuesday morning in Vilnius, Lithuania, a group of about 20 men in black business suits and fedoras entered a former broadcast station. They were escorted in by twice that number of soldiers. Inside, the bullet-scarred walls had not...

The cost of redecorating the Holmes Student Center Skyroom will fall in the range of $36,000 to $38,000 and will be completed in time for the March Board of Regents meeting to be held at NIU. Student center Director Judd Baker said he expects the total...