The city of DeKalb is taking steps to open doors and help unfortunate citizens. The city recently purchased property on the 200 block of South First Street which could eventually become transitional housing, said 6th Ward Alderman Jamie Pennington. The...

Community college students transfering to NIU in 1993 should get ready for tougher general education requirements. NIU Associate Provost Lou Jean Moyer said some transfer students do not have as many math, science, or humanity requirements as NIU requires....

The Student Association's $70,000 budget surplus will be used to fund the future growth of student organizations. The surplus is the result of NIU miscalculations about the number of student credit hours, said SA President Huda Scheidelman. Scheidelman...

Nobody bought the county farm. The deadline for bids from mall developers on the 75-acre cornfield came and went Wednesday morning. "No bids were received, so we took no action today" at the County Board rules committee meeting, said committee chairman...

Professor Heinz Osterle will discuss his paper entitled "Martin Walser ‘Talking about Germany' (1988): Some Essays of a West German Novelist" Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Zulauf 1015. For more information call Jack Weiner at 753-6462. Speaker on Descartes The...

LISLE, Ill.—Debate about degree offerings and equal participation among colleges to be involved with the DuPage multi-university occurred at a local business presentation Wednesday. The multi-university will allow NIU to expand in the western suburbs...

Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, which was one of NIU's first sororities in the 1950s, is coming back to reinstate its chapter here. NIU's Panhellenic Council voted April 3 for expansion of the Greek system. "Everybody is in favor of expansion," said PHC President...

Hispanic students are trying to start two NIU fraternities and a sorority, said a member of the University Resources for Latinos. Yolanda Trevino said an all-male fraternity, Sigma Lambda Beta, and a co-ed fraternity, Alpha Psi Lambda, were formed last...

As the 1990 census counts people, the future of education might need to count on the census. Reapportionment and redistricting within the House of Representatives because of the census could have a direct impact on education funding, according to an article...

Beginning this summer, NIU's Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education will offer a course dealing with drug legalization. The course will research the various aspects of drug legalization from the political, economic, legal...

NIU students set a record voter turnout at the Student Association executive elections Thursday. About 3,800 votes, 15 percent of NIU's student population, were cast for next semester's president, vice president and treasurer. A total of about 2,700 students,...

Robert McCormack won the Student Association presidential election with 60 percent of the vote. Fifteen percent of the students, 3,783, voted in the two-day election. "It was a good campaign, but now the hard work begins," McCormack said. McCormack received...