Students hoping for some extra money to help pay for next year's college education have five months to beat the deadline. The deadline to turn in financial aid forms for the 1991-1992 academic year is March 1, said Cheryl Schaeffer, assistant director...

NIU's American Marketing Association chapter will hold its second annual walk-a-thon next month to raise money for the Starlight Foundation, an organization which supports chronically, critically and terminally ill children. The five mile walk-a-thon...

Animal welfare activists are asking consumers to dump their Gillette products Wednesday and Thursday to protest the company's treatment of animals. Protestors feel the Gillette Company conducts unnecessary safety tests harmful to animals, said Laura Martin...

Jessica Cherng got her first taste of the United States and NIU yesterday thanks to the only international business organization on campus. AIESEC is the French acronym for the International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce. It is designed...

A student who tried to get Coors advertisements off the Huskie buses ran into a wall from Coors and bus officials after an hour of speeches Monday night. In an effort to have the Student Association Mass Transit Board remove Coors advertising from NIU...

Students not abiding by rules set up by the U.S. Postal Service might find their letters lost in the shuffle or taking longer to reach family and friends. Every customer of the DeKalb Post Office should receive a booklet this week which will guide them...

Student Association President Robert McCormack on Sunday delayed nominating two SA Supreme Court justices until next week. Currently, the SA Supreme Court has three out of five justices, including Chief Justice Thomas Gary. "We're not punching a time...

It was a sold-out crowd that greeted comedienne Elayne Boosler Friday night in the Holmes Student Center's Carl Sandburg Auditorium. And Boosler, whose credits include five cable TV specials and countless guest appearances on TV series and specials, certainly...

Editor's Note: This is the first of a three-part series examining the way university faculty view their jobs. Today's story examines the ways instructors spend their time. NIU faculty spend almost as much time researching as they do preparing to teach....

Robert Tisch, Democratic candidate for state representative, will be touring DeKalb county for breakfast stops in the weeks leading up to Election Day. "We're doing this in order to meet some more voters and talk a little about some of the issues they...

Recycling fever is here and Greek Row is catching it. Sororities and fraternities are showing an interest in donating their garbage for the environment after past "indifference" toward recycling, said Dave Broustis, Student Association recycling adviser....

James Lankford leads a busy life. In addition to his position as a professor of communicative disorders, Lankford has been named to a one-year term as acting dean of NIU's College of Professional Studies. Peggy Sullivan, Lankford's predecessor, was recently...