Traci Bauer wants to know why her fellow students get arrested. So the Southwest Missouri State University student and editor of the school's newspaper, The Standard, is suing 12 university officials to get access to crime file reports. "This had been...

Students living in some NIU residence halls may be curious as to why no sanitary soap dispensers are provided in floor bathrooms. Neptune East resident Michael Guglielmo is one such inquiring mind. Guglielmo, former president of floor four odd east, said...

Colleges and universities will not have to report crime statistics until 1992 even though a right-to-know act might be made a law by Friday. President George Bush could sign the Student Right to Know Act 1990 this week, but the act is conditional upon...

Lt. Col. Terry Fielden was appointed chair of NIU's military science department in the College of Professional Studies. James Lankford, acting dean of the College of Professional Studies, said the position serves a dual role in having obligations to both...

Efforts to fill the requirements of a bill adding alumni to the Board of Regents are in the works, but officials disagree on who will choose the members. The governor appoints all voting board members. With Governor-elect Jim Edgar taking office Jan....

Kishwaukee College received a huge shot in the arm Tuesday when DeKalb County residents voted to pass a referendum authorizing the sale of nearly $10 million in bonds to pay for overdue construction. Referendum passage was essential for the construction...

Ah, married life. Ah, the working world. Combine the two and what's it like? Being married and sharing a common employer doesn't always mean constant contact or romantic rendezvous. Ralph Benbow, associate professor of physics at NIU, took a faculty position...

More than half of the Student Association's members are fed up and blaming Vice President Tanya Smith for the way things are running. Sen. Mike Ruderman, who said there is a communication breakdown with Smith, said Smith does several things on her own...

When and how did it all begin? Here are the stories of how these couples came to be. The Benbows How they met: Ralph went to work in a laboratory in Washington D.C. where Mary was a secretary. Her first impression:On the day they met, she became ill and...

Student Association Vice President Tanya Smith's position as NIU representative for the Illinois Student Association will be taken over by SA President Robert McCormack. The representative position is one which is usually held by the Student Association...

Three issues still remain unresolved in the College of Continuing Education and faculty senate members have no good reason to feel especially hopeful, senate member Sherman Stanage said at the Wednesday meeting. Provost Kendall Baker has yet to make it...

Overall, DeKalb County's election day went "smoothly," said the county clerk. County Clerk Terry Desmond said other than an incident of alleged ‘vote buying' outside Stevenson Towers, there were few problems Tuesday. "We had complaints of a large number...