Students, faculty members or NIU visitors who toss their parking tickets on the ground or let their tickets pile up might find the university taking drastic measures to get their money. Students and faculty with even a $2 parking ticket might get bills...

Coors pleaded guilty to criminal and civil water pollution charges Monday, but SAMTB members remained steadfast in their views to keep Coors advertising on the buses for now. The brewing company, which came under fire during the last Student Association...

No-show white panelists say a lack of adequate prior notice and other commitments prevented them from attending a BROTHERS-sponsored discussion. But their absence is pushing some of NIU's black community to feel like they were blown-off—again. Student...

Students who fell behind in high school or community college can rest easy—higher education has the responsibility of offering remedial courses, according to a study by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. A recent IBHE Report on Undergraduate Education...

Once again, there's trouble brewing at Custer Battlefield. Fans of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer are up in arms to defend their deceased hero against Barbara Booher, the superintendent of the National Park Service's Custer Battlefield Monument in Montana....

The Democratic candidate for state legislature rallied support and voiced opinions about the common belief of "a woman's right to choose" abortion. Robert Tisch, the candidate for the state representative for the 76th district, stood beneath a banner...

After being out of commission for about eight months, the Campus Message Board is working again. Sandy Simon, University Programming and Activities office manager, said the sign malfunctioned during a January snowstorm. She said the repair delay occurred...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board made its first connection with DeKalb this year in an effort to get a Metra passenger train into town, but many obstacles need to be resolved before service can be realized. Board member Kate Donovan contacted...

Glasnost has arrived at NIU. A research agreement between NIU's biology department and a group of Soviet research institutes has culminated in one Soviet scientist's arrival, with many more expected. Bio-physicist Sergei Gavrilits, a specialist in theoretical...

Minority students will have the chance to put a tear in the eye and a framed essay in the hand of their special parent. For the first time at NIU, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the Black Interphi Council are sponsoring a "Minority Parent of the Year"...

The State Senate candidates seated side by side in debate Tuesday evening at the DeKalb Farm Bureau shot words at each other like bullets as members of the League of Women Voters looked on. Republican candidate Nancy Beasley's stand to "just say no" to...

There are three times as many male teachers than there are female teachers at NIU. The UCLA Higher Education Research institute's survey found that 26 percent of NIU's teachers are women and 74 percent are men. This resembles the proportion of tenure-tract...