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,...

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...

A ban on homosexuals in the military is forcing NIU and other universities to question potentially discriminatory policies. The U.S. Department of Defense policy states, "Homosexuals' presence in the military would seriously impair discipline, good order,...

There is a way to help the hunger. NIU students did not have to go anywhere or do anything but sign their name and skip a meal once a month to help feed needy people. Skip-A-Meal is a volunteer campaign to help feed the homeless by skipping dinner on...

NIU is planning its Rockford educational center, but cannot take action until $500,000 in funding is released. Gov. James Thompson will release the money, approved by legislators last fall, when higher priority projects are funded. Anne Kaplan, executive...

NIU's cheerleaders and pompon squad members fumed at a University of Illinois report that pompon squads promote sexism. A U of I task force recommends banning the Illinette pompon squad because it "projects women as sexual objects." The Illinettes, an...

The NIU Society of Professional Journalists will meet Tuesday at 8:45 p.m. in the Cole Hall basement. Officers for the spring semester will be elected and journalism Professor Richard Digby-Junger will speak on journalism law and ethics. SPJ initiation...

American society is causing people to turn to Satanism for unanswered questions which might be causing a modern day Salem witch hunt, according to some NIU professors. Four panelists, including three NIU faculty members, spoke Friday at the last day of...

The Student Association has about a month to propose a voting district which is better than the current five-district system. District 1 Sen. Phill Buoscio postponed his petition which questioned the fairness of the current voting districts. Buoscio claims...

An NIU alumnus is raising a fuss over National Inventors Day. "If Groundhog Day can raise so much fuss, so should National Inventors Day," said Reece Franklin, a 1972 political science graduate and author of the book "Inventors Marketing Handbook." Franklin...

NIU students continued to pour into the Carl Sandburg Auditorium Thursday as the grand finale for Marketing Week began. More than 900 students went to hear Robert Kerrigan speak on "Power, Purpose and Promotion: The Dynamics of Achievement." American...