A Douglas Hall door guard was battered during the weekend in the latest in a string of incidents that police say are caused by non-students attending NIU black Greek dances. The guard was checking a Douglas Hall A-wing crash door when two men started...

Student Association executives chose to remain neutral on the proposal to impeach Vice President Tanya Smith. The executive board and staff stressed in a memo Friday that the SA Constitution does not imply a need for them to take a position on the possible...

Tuesday is the final public hearing on tuition in Springfield, and NIU students plan to be there. The Joint Committee on College Tuition has held two hearings in attempts to get input from students, faculty and others before the General Assembly makes...

Now that the dust has settled on this eventful election year, the first annual Star Election Awards can be given to their deserving recipients. Here, then, are the lucky winners... The Honest Injun Trophy: This goes to a Welch campaign worker, who truly,...

An NIU student was injured early Friday afternoon when he tried to ride the Douglas Hall cafeteria conveyor belt through to the dish washing room as a joke. Michael Acuna's stomach got caught between the end of one belt and the beginning of another, said...

Sangamon State University faculty and staff will delay a decision on a possible strike until Tuesday, when they can find out if money needed to boost their salaries is there. Mitch Vogel, president of University Professionals of Illinois, the union which...

"Students are going to have to pay because the state of Illinois won't." These words spoken by Arthur Doederlein, director of Undergraduate Communications, seem to be continuously popping up at NIU. Thanks to inadequate state funding, professors in the...

Time is running out! The 1990 Fall Job Fair is the last chance for December graduates to get massive exposure to employers at NIU. "For December graduates, this is the last big chance to meet company representatives this easily," said Jennifer Brooks,...

The U.S. Congress should reconvene to debate the Persian Gulf situation rather than letting President Bush decide to go to war. That was the call from about 100 people gathered at Saturday's 1960s-style anti-war rally at Huntley Park, located between...

Editor's note: This is the first part of a three part series on homosexual students at NIU. In this installment a gay woman talks about becoming aware of her sexual orientation. They are a silent but populous minority. They, like the majority of NIU students,...

NIU's American Marketing Association's second annual walk-a-thon ended up to be a real success, according to the AMA public relations director. "We had over 95 people walk this year and raised approximately $6,500," said Mary Price, public relations director....

Students have an additional two weeks to learn about the Illinois Student Association before casting their votes. NIU officials allowed a two-week extension for a referendum to decide whether to continue a $22,000 membership in ISA. The referendum will...