Women need to take the lead in sexual harassment cases in the workplace, said an NIU official Wednesday. Sharon Howard, University Resources for Women director, told a group of 10 women that 90 percent of all sexual harassment in today's workplace is...

Students should be aware of summer sicknesses, they can ruin that long awaited summer vacation. Rosemary Lane, University Health Services director, said one of the summer's most common sickness is Lyme disease. This disease is common in rural areas and...

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...

A DeKalb man was charged Tuesday with kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old Genoa girl. Stephen R. Meyers, 29, 807 Ridge Road, DeKalb, is being held on $500,000 bond in the DeKalb County Jail. DeKalb County Police charged Meyers with aggravated criminal...