The search for someone to replace outgoing SSU President Durward Long should have made some ground by now, but the committee assigned to find candidates hasn't been formed yet. Board of Regents Chairman Brewster Parker asked for a list of between three...

Bob Dylan rocked a crowd of 2,500 in NIU's Chick Evans Field House Tuesday night. Despite the low attendance, the show was a success musically, with Dylan delivering a 75-minute set of tight rock-and-roll. Dylan was backed by an impressive band which...

The Student Association Recycling Center learned Tuesday it will receive a grant of $5,371 from the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. Out of 116 applications for grants, 27 were granted and NIU got one, said SA Recycling Center Adviser David...

Republican Sharon Holmes won her bid for the DeKalb County Clerk position Tuesday night. The voters chose Holmes with a total of 11,518 votes, while casting 8,638 for Democrat opponent Susan Johnson. "I'm real appreciative of all the people who helped...

The Washington Post David Broder Twenty years ago this week, Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, then a U.S. Senator, made one of the remarkable speeches of this era—a speech as pertinent to the campaign just ending as to the 1970 contest in which it was given....

An NIU physical educator believes high school students can prevent serious cholesterol problems in later years through diet and exercise. Because of a special interest in cholesterol, Associate Professor Jim Rimmer is beginning a research project involving...

The department of physical education will soon have a new master's program in sport management if it gains higher approval, a physical education professor said. The Graduate Council approved the plan for the new specialization at the council meeting Monday,...

Rewarding Democratic voters with two-liter bottles of soda could result in voter fraud charges if allegations prove valid. And State Sen. Patrick Welch might have some answering to do if alleged fraud participants were directly involved in his campaign....

The federal government, Pentagon, taxpayers and anyone receiving or being denied a ROTC scholarship should sue the pants off Stephanie Atkinson. And Atkinson, 23, should be rotting in some God-forsaken dungeon serving as a poor excuse for a prison cell...

Students face a referendum next Monday over an issue they and Student Association senators know little about, SA officials said. The referendum will decide if NIU will stay in the Illinois Student Association, a student lobbying group. Each student pays...

Too many Student Association senators are not attending their meetings and an SA senate committee is trying to do something about it. The Internal Affairs Committee proposed rules Sunday that would force senators to appeal to the committee and face possible...

Internal politics is keeping the Student Association from getting where its president wants it to be. SA President Robert McCormack said while the group has made ground, many senators still are getting used to the group. "When you come into the Student...