For the first time, the Golden Image Awards will recognize someone outside NIU for its highest honor. Father George Clements, of the Holy Angels Elementary School in Chicago, will receive the Golden Sphinx award, said Roland Perez, Alpha Phi Alpha public...

NIU students are no different than their other Illinois college counterparts when it comes to defaulting on loans. Loan default rates at NIU have remained at a "good low rate" of 4.3 percent for a while, said Jerry Augsburger, Student Financial Aid Office...

DeKalb will finally be known for something other than its corn fields. Out of 219 small Illinois towns, DeKalb was listed in the top 25 percent of all "micropolitan" areas. "Micropolitan" is a term coined by author G. Thomas Scott in his book, "The Rating...

Judicial advocates work to teach students about NIU's judicial system, and present cases at judicial hearings. Although judicial advocates are not lawyers, not going to one is probably the worst thing students can do when they have a case pending with...

Achieving unity through diversity is a year-long effort. Assistant Director of Housing Willard Draper said Unity in Diversity will return next semester and remain a celebration throughout the school year. Draper said the program is expanding from a week...

J. Carroll Moody had a unusual problem when he first started his job as executive secretary of the University Council: distractions. Moody said he had a hard time adjusting to the view of the entrance of Altgeld Hall from his new office in Lowden Hall....

Unmarried NIU students and DeKalb residents wanting to live together in apartments next fall might not be able to because of an Elgin ruling. A panel of appellate court judges ruled Thursday that landlords do not have to rent to unmarried couples wanting...

The driver of an anhydrous ammonia tanker truck was injured Friday afternoon when the truck he was driving collided with a station wagon in Cortland. Michael E. Nelson, 37, Elburn, was treated and released from St. Anthony's Medical Center in Rockford....

A former student goverment president at Illinois State University stole from his fraternity house to support his cocaine habit. Dan Schramm, Hickory Hills, Ill., pleaded guilty to burglarizing his fraternity house in May 1989. Schramm told police that...

The Department of Defense would be "disappointed" if ROTC left NIU, but the program's policy of banning homosexuals from becoming officers will not change. J. Carroll Moody, executive secretary of the Univerity Council, got a letter Friday supporting...

The scene: the first day of classes your first semester at NIU. The mood: total chaos and mayhem. I'll bet none of us will ever forget our first week of school—wandering around aimlessly, trying to find what buildings our classes were in and how in...

NIU students who are still psyched after Earth Day can help clean the campus and recycle trash Sunday. The 1 p.m. campus cleanup, sponsored by the Student Association Campus Welfare Committee, is the school year's second, Committee Adviser Morenike Cheatom...