Three fraternity members charged with abusing NIU credit cards to buy alcohol and other items were bounced between NIU officials for four months while officials passed the disciplinary buck. The NIU Judicial Office is investigating a case that suggests...

DeKalb legislators, led by an NIU student alderman, voted Monday to create a temporary city environmental committee. Seventh Ward Alderman Jeff Monroe proposed an Ad Hoc Citizen's Environmental Committee, consisting of 12 DeKalb citizens, to make recommendations...

The face of the NIU greek system is changing with reforms legislated by national chapters and carried out by the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils. "The greek system is moving away from the social extreme toward the educational extreme," Martin...

Minority students are more likely to be successful in a white-majority college than a college oriented toward minority students, according to a Chicago researcher. However, some NIU minority resources directors disagree with the study, released last week...

Students need to become more aware of and more involved in politics, according to a group of state and local Democrats running for office. Speakers at last week's forum sponsored by NIU's Young Democrats included NIU law student Robert Tisch, State Sen....

Humiliation. Degradation. Rape. A rape victim's sense of shame makes sexual assault cases harder for the police to solve. Rape victims, unlike victims of other crimes, suffer emotional and psychological damage, University Police and SART member John Lovell...

Volunteer orientation meetings for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of DeKalb County are scheduled this fall for persons interested in volunteering. There will be 17 meetings between Sept. 17 and Dec. 6 at 3:30 and 7 p.m. Volunteers are encouraged to attend one...

Fitness-minded students in Grant Towers now have more room to flex their muscles with a bigger weightroom in the basement of Grant Towers South. The facility, dubbed the Tower of Power, was expanded about 1000 square feet to accomodate 100 new members....

The $3.8 million asbestos removal project has scattered the University Health Service over eight locations, making it harder, but not impossible, to continue serving students. The building was vacated in May for clean-up work expected to begin later this...

NIU could be forced to recycle seven times more of its dumping waste if a bill requiring universities to recycle 40 percent of their waste is passed. The pending bill is sponsored by Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, said Student Association Recycling Adviser...

NIU's Phi Sigma Kappa twisted its normal rush procedures this year to further guard against hazing potential fraternity members. The Grand Council of Phi Sigma Kappa voted last month to ban the pledging system in order to eliminate hazing, the rites of...

Ask almost any Kane County homeowner about their biggest concern for the future and they will complain about the national waste disposal site that is being built there. No one questions the need for a dump site, just its location. Of course, no community...