Smokers living in the University Plaza will have to curtail their habit next fall when the private residence hall bans smoking everywhere except two lounges. The ban will start in the fall 1991 semester—the Plaza's 25th birthday—mirroring residents'...

NORMAL_ Some NIU students are still fighting for a seat on the committee advising the universities governing board while students from ISU and SSU already hold positions on the committee. The Joint University Advisory Committee reports its opinions on...

NIU's University Police are merely inconvenienced by the torn-up Wirtz Quadrangle, although the force's usual parking lot is impassable to cars and students. "It's a minor inconvenience, but we'll live through it," said University Police Chief James Elliott....

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...

Residents will have a chance to voice their opinions on a possible rezoning of the College-John Street-Augusta area from a student-populated district to a single or two-family dwelling district. A neighborhood meeting is scheduled today at 7:30 p.m. at...

To the mosquitos, We have more influence over your children than you do, but we love your children. Most of you love them too, very much. You want whats best for them. Consider them when planning the future. Liner notes for Ritual de lo Habitual This...

The recent renovation of King Memorial Commons did not begin without heartfelt efforts to find a new location for the Wirtz House. Formerly the home to NIU's foreign studies and resources for women programs, the Wirtz House was considered a central landmark...

Dina Marie Lucia wants to make you feel like a child again. Lucia, a senior art student at NIU, will have an exhibit of drawings opening on Sept. 23 in the Holmes Student Center Art Gallery called "At Play" which features "games you enjoyed as a child,"...

Life before convenience stores and shopping malls may be a dismal and bleak picture to most individuals. But it is a far from dismal picture as painted by NIU English Professor Sean Shesgreen. Shesgreen has edited "The Criers and Hawkers of London," an...

While NIU was visited by its share of major label acts last semester, many were disheartened by the lack of opportunities to see smaller bands play in a more intimate setting. This was primarily due to two things. First, the closing of the Eagle's Club...

NIU's Panhellenic Council will be operating under a revised constitution this year. Despite some controversy, the PHC constitution was accepted unanimously Wednesday at the group's second meeting. "Although no major changes were made, the revisions make...