A brand new fleet of buses over the next five years would best serve the students despite higher student fees, the Student Association Mass Transit Board decided at an emergency meeting during finals week. However, the meeting was unofficial because only...

NIU President John La Tourette told fellow faculty members Wednesday that students called to duty in the Persian Gulf won't be penalized academically. La Tourette said that an addition to the university's codes was introduced in September to refund housing...

NIU scholars of world political relations disagree on the validity of the U.S. attack on Iraq, but say Americans have to face the reality that the line in the sand has been crossed. Robert Albritton, an associate professor of political science, said the...

If Saddam Hussein had any doubts as to the United States and its allies' intentions of going to war, they were smashed Wednesday evening over Baghdad. Anticipation for the war has ended and all people can do at this point is wait, listen and hope for...

The number of African-Americans among troops deployed in the Persian Gulf is alleged to be excessively large. Congressional representative Eleanor Holmes Norton was quoted in USA Today as saying she is offended by the "extraordinary disproportion of blacks"...

The combat in the Persian Gulf has triggered mixed emotions among veterans who recall painful memories of what war was like for them. Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2287 gathered around the television Thursday, watching and waiting for further...

The Kishwaukee River bank and bed is getting a make-over. "This project will benefit the community overall," said Roger Chilton, assistant director of Public Works in DeKalb. "In the long-run, everyone will benefit from this project," he said. Rockford...

Students should beware that they cannot purchase health insurance in the summer if they cancel their spring insurance policy. Health insurance policymakers are extending spring coverage through summer semester; therefore they cannot purchase summer insurance...

The DeKalb County Farm Bureau will have help for families who need to transfer their farm land after the head farmers die. The seminar will be conducted by Rick Morgan, a Country Companies attorney. The seminar will be held at the bureau building, 315...

An effort by DeKalb residents to add the Black Entertainment Television station to local cable programming is still on the drawing board. The hold-up is riding on the renewal of DeKalb's cable company contract. If Warner Cable is renewed in DeKalb, they...

Removing the asbestos in the Health Services Building has not yet begun. "I don't know when the project will start," said Conrad Miller, project manager. Miller said Beling Engineering Consultants were called into the Health Center to assess the situation....