NIU administration will be squaring off with other college and university administrators who are opposed to the building of the Hoffman Estates center at the Illinois Board of Higher Education meeting Dec. 4. "People will speak on behalf of the project...

All 15 NIU Interfraternity Council chapters have voluntarily signed a "statement of affirmation" pledging they will ban hazing, will combat racist attitudes, and refrain from abusing drugs and alcohol. Barbara Henley, Vice President for Student Affairs,...

Two state senators are trying to block NIU's bid for a Hoffman Estates center. State Sens. Howard Carroll, D-Chicago, and Virginia Macdonald, R-Arlington Heights, introduced a resolution Wednesday that was spurred by administrators at Roosevelt University...

Changing technology and rising costs are both significant reasons for a move to off campus course consolidation, said NIU President John La Tourette. At Wednesday's Faculty Senate meeting, La Tourette spoke to senate members about the reasons for NIU's...

Corina: Our pick for home rental this week was "Bright Lights, Big City," a 1988 movie release about life in New York City's fast lane of nightclubs and cocaine addiction. Sean: "Bright Lights, Big City" was an interesting, entertaining movie. It was...

NIU's fraternities will be striving toward good communication next spring. Steve Sliga, newly-elected Interfraternity Council president, listed various kinds of communication as the goals for his term. Sliga ia a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. "I want...

Ive been really stressed out lately. I'm sure a lot of you know how I feel. Exams are looming around the corner, tuition bills need to be paid, add/drop lines, work, love life or lack thereof, etc., etc.,..Calgon take me away!!! It's easy for all of us...

The spring-like downpour Tuesday caused a few old problems to spout open in the recently renovated student center tower. Although NIU officials believe the situation is relatively minor, windows installed in the Holmes Student Center as part of the tower...

"Predator 2" is one of the most disappointing and discontenting movies of the year. It follows up a great action movie with a meaningless and disgusting exercise in violence and gore. The movie has no beginning - the opening scenes are akin to beginning...

Haring's dog came home. Keith Haring relief of a dog worth more than $8,000 was returned without damage while the University Police's investigation focused on polygraph tests in May. The piece was stolen around spring break. Word that the painting was...

Students interested in the cold war have a chance to see a video tape of a U.S. Institute of Peace seminar which featured American and Soviet diplomats. The seminar, held last August in Washington D.C., was a landmark in U.S.-Soviet relations, said Martin...

NIU President John La Tourette is showing he's serious about demonstration of ethnic and cultural diversity at NIU, and people are taking notice. Z. Ahmad, program director of University Program and Activities said he "firmly believes so" that La Tourette...