Efforts to add the Black Entertainment Television station to local cable programming could become a reality if a $2.6 million upgrade plan goes through, representatives from Warner Cable say. DeKalb's franchise agreement with Warner Cable expires in May,...

How appropriate the political spirits came out for Halloween. So what if they started their Halloween hijinx 18 months ago. Halloween is a time of costumes, masks, tricks and treats. Bob Tisch came as a clown dressed as a candidate for the legislature....

Minority graduate students will have the chance to see how far their studies can take them at NIU's Black Graduate Student Association Reception. Worth H. Thomas, who currently works as the personnel director and political policy adviser to the Mississippi...

The Washington Post David Broder Five months ago, John H. Silber was engaged in an uphill fight even to get 15 percent of the votes at the Massachusetts Democratic convention, the minimum requirement for a place on the September primary ballot. Today,...

DeKalb Police expect Halloween night to be filled with the usual assortment of annoying but harmless pranks. "We don't experience things like Detroit does with hundreds of fires in abandoned buildings," said DeKalb Police Lt. Dick Moudy. Moudy said police...

Halloween pranks began early Saturday when an unknown vandal smashed windows in five NIU buildings and stole a stuffed moose head from Montgomery Hall, police said. The vandal tipped over cement cigarette urns outside DuSable, Watson, Stevens, Cole and...

Everybody grabs the paper on their way to class, forms a blockade around the news bins and then checks it out instead of listening to their professors. The police beat seems to be one of the best sources of amusement. It's especially entertaining when...

Former DeKalb Superintendent Jack Deere isn't out of hot water yet. Deere was implicated in a civil suit filed Monday alleging sexual harassment of a present school district employee and a former employee. The suit was filed in DeKalb County Circuit Court....

The mass transit board will have to poll people with disabilities to determine what they want from public transportation, Student Association Mass Transit Board officials announced Monday. Federal administrators suggested surveying the disabled to Board...

State Sen. Patrick Welch said Monday he will propose the creation of a government child advocate office this fall. The agency would be called CHAMP—"CHildren Are our Main Priority"—and would coordinate state and federal programs affecting children....

Halloween night marks a special occasion for the Lincoln Hall food service, which is sponsoring a series of festive dinnertime events under the direction of graduate intern Jane Thacker. Thacker, currently working on her master's degree in nutrition,...

Not too many ghosts, goblins or witches spent their time haunting—or partying—at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale last weekend. That's because SIU shut down completely for this year's pre-Halloween weekend. "It was awfully quiet," said Dorothy...