Despite a 2.6 percent decrease in applications, NIU will get enough students for the fall semester to meet the expected enrollment. Robert Burk, NIU admissions associate director said the university will be able to meet its goal of 3,200 new freshmen...

Screens partially blocking a controversial student art show in the Holmes Student Center were spray-painted by an unidentified person Friday. Student center staff discovered at about 3:30 p.m. "DON'T SCREEN ME!" painted across the screens, said Lisa Petersen,...

The night manager of a local fast food restaurant was arrested by DeKalb police early Monday morning after fighting with a customer. Michael G. Bonds, 20, Evanston, Ill., was arrested and charged with battery, police said. Bonds allegedly confronted a...

A large percentage of faculty members are dissatisfied with their last salary increase and with relations among faculty and administration, according to a recent survey. The American Association of University Professors conducted the survey and results...

DeKalb City council members promised at least $4.73 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds to the DeKalb school district Monday night. The figure includes $742,300 to pay for school crossing guards over a 17-year period, DeKalb City Manager Mark...

NIU's student candidate for 76th District state representative is making an effort to get things organized. Bob Tisch, a first year graduate law student and student representative on the Board of Regents, is the only Democrat running for state representative...

A DuPage County site for the proposed University of Illinois multi-university, which will include jobs for NIU professors, will be chosen in June. The center will offer graduate courses taught by professors from U of I at Champaign-Urbana and Chicago,...

Anyone born 1945 to the present might not be able to collect social security benefits. Diane Rzeszewski, NIU political science instructor, said "baby boomers," a generation of babies born within five years after World War II, will affect future social...

Four companies bid to replace the Huskie Stadium turf Monday, bringing NIU one step closer to a better playing field. SafePlay Surfaces, of Richardson, Tex., submitted the lowest of four bids Monday to replace the playing surface. At the January Board...

Accidents occur and people who know first aid are needed everywhere. NIU physical education instructor Orville Kersten said the university offers six American Red Cross certification first-aid classes and six non-certification classes. The classes teach...

A U.S. Surgeon General report claims abortion is not any more negative than positive to a woman's health. In July of 1987, the U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop conducted a report on the health affects of abortion. Koop said when the report was requested...

NIU and Bradley University have something in common—problems with white supremacist groups. A group, called the American White Supremacist Party, distributed fliers last week which caused demonstrations by minority and other students from Bradley University,...