With accusations of misusing university funds aimed at NIU's sister schools, university governing officials need to reconsider raising tuition, according to NIU's student regent. At the September Board of Regents meeting, a resolution was passed endorsing...

Two delivery people from a local pizza restaurant were mugged at NIU and the store's safe was stolen during the weekend, police said Monday. The first victim, a delivery person from Pizza Villa, 824 W. Lincoln Hwy., was dropping off an order of beer nuggets...

Racism charges are popping up at the Student Association meetings again—this time embedded in the questioning of student groups during the budget process. Some senators were offended Sunday when Minority Relations Adviser Belinda Tijerina was upset...

The Board of Regents will examine various projects at its last meeting of the semester. One will be NIU's compliance with minorities and women in business, said Cheryl Peck, assistant to Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves. The Minority and Female Business...

Those anticipating a white Christmas this year might be in luck. NIU meteorologist Allen Staver predicts a 65 percent chance of a white Christmas this year, with lower than normal temperatures for the end of the month, in spite of the spring-like warmth...

The NIU student regent supported opening to the public the advisory board meetings which will decide how much control the Student Association will have over student money. Jim Mertes, a board member, said even though the law allows the meetings to be...

Gov. James Thompson made an appointment to fill an NIU alumnus seat on the Board of Regents Friday, nearly three months after the position was created. Thompson named former DeKalb mayor and legislator Joe Ebbesen to the new position, subject to confirmation...

Solid defense was needed for the NIU men's basketball team to topple Minnesota in Saturday night's road battle. That potent NIU defense came through, but what Huskies' head coach Jim Molinari wasn't expecting was a dismal offensive performance by his...

The lifeboat problem involves five passengers (a pregnant woman, a confessed murderer, a navigator, an eminent scientist and a man just released after serving 20 years for a crime he didn't commit) and the need is to jettison 200 pounds of humanity in...

Gary Wiggins announced his candidacy for third ward alderman Friday, four days after being denied the post by the DeKalb City Council. "I am now announcing that I would like to return some of my experience, my time and my services to the residents in...

Jobs for communicative disorders majors can emphasize either deafness rehabilitation or a combination of speech pathology and audiology. At the graduate level, they must pick one of those three. Earl Sever, the chair of the communicative disorders department,...

This Saturday marks the ten-year anniversary of one of the most heart-rending assassinations in our times. John Lennon was only forty years old when he died, but it was not only his youth and fame but also the circumstances of his life that make his murder...