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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The DeKalb City Council adopted a three-year streetlighting plan Tuesday night. The plan would replace a large portion of the present mercury vapor lights with sodium vapor bulbs on major DeKalb roads, the Muller/Rolfe/Park and Greek row neighborhoods...

So what does integrity have to do with swapping baseball cards and bubble gum? Not much, if you side with Brian Wrzesinski, the 12-year-old Addison boy who bought a $1,200 1968 Nolan Ryan baseball card for 12 bucks. The story that hit the front page of...

Despite the fact that Gang of Four first uttered these words over 10 years ago, the lyric remains as applicable to today's society as it did back in 1979. As a matter of fact, in the brief period the band was around, Gang of Four was consistently ahead...

SPRINGFIELD—Sangamon State University union officials are accusing the SSU administration of mishandling money for their own personal use. But administrators say the SSU constitution allows them to use school money for out-of-town business. At a meeting...