A group of DeKalb residents who also are NIU employees want the Black Entertainment Television network added to their cable offerings. The group, which includes Affirmative Action Director Marilyn Monteiro, wants BET as part of their basic package of...

DeKalb residents have not been apathetic in registering to vote in the 1990 general elections. "Registration is going extremely well, considering it's not even a presidential election year," said recruiter Jordan Kagan. Kagan said he is signing up voters...

Student Association Rob McCormack's campaign promise to distribute a campus safety mannual will be followed through Wednesday. The campus safety mannual titled "Safety and You at NIU" will be distributed Wednesday at the residence halls, fraternities...

The University Council wants ROTC off campus, but the Faculty Senate might allow the group equal representation while they are here. NIU's Department of Military Service wants a seat on the newly-formed Faculty Senate, although the department does not...

NIU senior John Long sits in his office, his desk covered with papers - products of thousands of hours planning this year's Homecoming. He relates how a friend told him the countdown to the weekend had begun, "Ten more days, he told me. Ten more days...

NIU had a $15.5-million banner year for grants and contracts, said President John La Tourette at last week's Board of Regents metting. Amoung the $15.5-million, the Student Financial Aid Office will receive a supplemental $166,851, bringing the total...

Enrollment is up, especially for minorities, at NIU and two other Illinois colleges. At the Board of Regents meeting in Normal last week, statistics for this semester's enrollment were announced by the presidents of the three regency schools. All three...

A photograph in Holmes Student Center was ripped off the wall and stolen Tuesday after students and a professor complained it was offensive, officials say. The Elfie Wilkins-Nacht photograph titled Ave/Eva depicted two half naked-women with one wearing...

NIU's fraternities and sororities might not be working together this year to create floats for the Homecoming parade. While the Panhellenic Council voted Wednesday night to produce three floats with three sororities working on each float, the members...

Need information about a campus organization? NIU's Leadership Resource Center provides an information booth for students and advisers interested in learning about "everything you need to know in running an organization," said Z. Ahmad, University Programming...

NORMAL—NIU President John La Tourette defended NIU's veiled secrecy in branching out to Hoffman Estates Thursday, while university officials and the village of Hoffman Estates aren't sure which approached the other on the venture. "It was their (Sears...

It hasn't been a good week for NIU. It was just seven days ago that a suburban newspaper leaked the news that NIU was planning to expand and build a "regional education center" in Hoffman Estates. No one from NIU was quoted in the story; the paper attributed...