The summer's below-normal temperatures are being revenged by an early September heat wave which sent temperatures soaring to 95 degrees Thursday while the humidity climbed as high as 50 percent. The high temperature and humidity produced a heat index...

Free legal guidance is available to students who are unable to move into their unfinished Stadium View II apartments. An informational meeting for anyone who signed a lease for the Stadium View Apartments II will be held today at 10 a.m. in the Holmes...

After the summer break, some NIU students might find getting into the swing of things a bit difficult, especially when it comes to academics. Going from no credit hours to 15 or 18 is a task not all students can master easily. However, with the proper...

Students and faculty members at the NIU Art Department feel hard hit by the 1989 Helms amendment which bars the National Endowment for the Arts from funding "obscene" works. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., was angered by the fact that $45,000 of taxpayer money...

Engineering students will go to class on campus in a few years instead of trekking to Sycamore. The $22 million engineering building will be built on Garden Road, 300 feet north of Anderson Hall and across from the intersection of Garden Road and Northern...

The Student Association suspended the election petition deadline Wednesday for more time to recruit candidates, but has not announced when elections will be held. SA President Rob McCormack said he wants more time to personally contact different groups,...

DECATUR - The Illinois Board of Higher Education unanimously voted in two seconds to allocate $1,450,700 toward improvements for NIU at Wednesday's meeting. The improvements include upgrading the Holmes Student Center fire system, said Patricia Hewitt,...

The new adviser for greek affairs at NIU is looking forward to the challenge of her first professional position. Dawn Sturma said she officially started at NIU Aug. 16. after former adviser Mary Ronan left NIU for a job in Omaha, Nebraska. Sturma said...

Both Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and President George Bush need to be stopped in their tracks before the Middle East standoff erupts into full-scale war, according to a speaker for the NIU Marxist-Humanist Forum. The speaker, Cyrus Noveen, spoke on...

The NIU administrator who reinstated $850 for art show refreshments after the Student Association axed it from its budget believes too much is being made of too little money. "I'm somewhat amazed this has become an issue," said Barbara Henley, vice prasident...

After five years of trying, DeKalb homeboys Tar have finally put out their first full-length LP. And let me tell you, in one of the most disgusting years for new music in recent history, Tar's new record "Roundhouse" is like a cool spring breeze on a...

Between surrogate mothers renting womb space and custody battles for frozen embryos, the warp-speed rocket of biomedical ethics is headed for lunar soil. Six-month-old Marissa Eve Ayala is along for the latest rocky ride. Is it right to conceive a child...