This year's Student Association senate expects to finish their student budgets almost a month before last year's senate started, said the SA's treasurer. By this time last year, no budget requests from student organizations had been considered by the...

A student who threatened to kill a University Police officer with a knife in Stevenson Towers North early Sunday morning was given a medical withdrawal from NIU. According to UP reports, the student was "violent and intoxicated" and had barricaded himself...

If you loved Speed Racer as a kid, you'll probably like Japanese animations of today...in fact, a group of NIU students is betting on it. Most people don't know Speed Racer is Japanese. Japanese cartoons are shown at the NIU Art Building... The Northern...

NIU's Lorado Taft Field Campus offers a winter weekend event—Feb. 15 at 4 p.m. through Feb. 17 at 2 p.m. Graduate assistants in outdoor teacher education at Taft will conduct activities ranging from birding, inspirational poetry, annimal signs, and...

NIU students let their funny sides show in Diversions Monday night. Eight students fought it out in the comedy arena in order to win the Certs College Comedy Competition at NIU. The event, which was sponsored by CAB, Certs and US Concepts INC, drew a...

DeKalb residents will be able to tell the city what they want changed and how they should do it. City Manager Mark Stevens said DeKalb will be creating focus groups "to provide additional public input during the (financial) planning process." The focus...

After about 90 minutes of debate, the Faculty Senate made a motion that conveyed "strong reservations" against a statement to reflect goals for the next century. Many faculty members were of the opinion that the "vision" statement created by a select...

Students having trouble filling out 1991-92 financial aid forms have one more chance to get answers to their questions. Tonight is the last night NIU students can attend the presentation of basic financial aid form information at 7:30 p.m. in Room 506...

The right to free speech belongs to everyone in this country. No matter how ludicrous one might think another's opinions are, each person has the right to express himself as long as he does not impose upon the rights of others. The Northern Star printed...

Students will be made more aware of campus crimes beginning this month through a joint effort between the Student Association and the University Police. A one-page monthly newsbrief known as the Campus Crime Bulletin will be distributed in residence hall...

Minority students at NIU experience culture shock when they arrive. That was the conclusion of a recent teaching seminar featuring a panel of minority students and faculty members who were concerned with some statistics found by an NIU minority interests...

Unnamed DeKalb baseball card dealers have ripped off local and out-of-state card fans of about $5,000 in cash and cards, DeKalb Police said Tuesday. The hobbyists have complained to the DeKalb Police that they turned their baseball card collection over...