Mayor Greg Sparrow cast the deciding vote Tuesday night in the DeKalb city council's controversial decision to consider residential development near the undeveloped Contel and 3M properties. ealtors, city employees and council members debated whether...

A false alarm signaled by Davis Hall's fire alarm system Wednesday resulted in the evacuation of all students and personnel in the building. At approximately 12:57 p.m., fire trucks and officials were summoned to the scene where about 50 students and...

Maureen Dempsey had a fish fetish. She feels that her fetish, like all fetishes, is one thing that makes her unique. It also provided the name for her show of photographs opening in the Holmes Student Center art gallery-"Special Fish." "Fetishes are born...

The film "Sibling Rivalry" held as much appeal for me as a very slow paddle boat ride on a gray and rainy afternoon—minus any rain gear. As in the case of the boat ride, the potential for entertainment exists. However, the overabundance of water (i.e....

One of the Student Association senators who called for the resignation of SA Vice President Tanya Smith is not taking his name off the petition. Sen. Paul Fabrizius, the only one of five senators to stick with the impeachment drive, said he still believes...

The DeKalb County Homeless Shelter is urging people to donate warm winter hats and gloves instead of larger items of clothing, a shelter spokesperson said Wednesday. More people will be moving into the shelter because of the cold winter weather moving...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP)-Is there a movement under way to keep Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame? Some members of a special committee which recently formed to review eligibility guidelines to the Hall certainly think so. One committee member called the...

A union representing DeKalb County employees will ask for State's Attorney Michael Coghlan's resignation at 11:30 a.m. today. Coghlan is calling the news conference "propaganda" spurred by the union's worries "about talk of decertification." The resignation...

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. declared "these are days of ‘rent-a-superpower'" to a nearly full Carl Sandburg auditorium Wednesday night. "Is the United States to be the only guarantor of the international order?" Schlesinger asked. World problems cannot always...

Sheila Tobias, a visiting lecturer from University of Arizona at Tucson, will discuss topics centered around education at 4 p.m. today in the Holmes Student Center's Clara Spelling Skyroom. Tobias' lecture is based on a four-year research project in which...

Barring a catastrophic event, the NIU football team should attract a large enough crowd Saturday to meet the required Division I-A attendance quota. In order for a football program to maintain its Division I-A Standing, it must generate an average of...

Two NIU students were excited and hopeful when they were chosen to be tested for possible participation in the upcoming College Jeopardy Tournament. One of those students, Amy Davis, said, "Well, I watch Jeopardy as much as I can and one day they showed...