NIU student and political activist Name: Julia Droste Stege Birthplace: Pennsylvania. I grew up in Connecticut. Birthdate: March 6, ? Current NIU organizational involvement: Feminist Front, and the Forum for Marxist-Humanist Thought. Years in current...

NIU President John La Tourette left Monday afternoon for a trip to Australia. "It's a personal trip he's taking with his wife. No university funds are involved at all," said Kenneth Beasley, assistant to the president. Beasley said he knows of no plans...

Drugs are cause for arrest, not judgment, according to some NIU students and faculty. Robert A. Shorty, 19 and Terry D. Stephens, 18, 445 Stevenson Towers South, were arrested this weekend by the DeKalb North Central Narcotics Task Force in connection...

"Tango and Cash" is a hopelessly inept action film that is filled with mind numbing violence. The film is not quite bad enough to laugh at, but it's not good enough to be worthwhile. "Tango and Cash" a is police buddy film in the tradition of "Lethal...

Illinois' higher education system must recover from more than a decade of inadequete funding, making it difficult for the Board of Regents to endorse a proposed tuition freeze. "All public universities, especially the regency system, were confronted with...

Illiteracy. Congratulations—you've passed the first test. By reading the previous two phrases, you've already distinguished yourself in American society and its work force. Frightening as it sounds, over 2 million adults in Illinois alone cannot read,...

Screens obstructing public view of a controversial student art display were set up in the Holmes Student Center Tuesday. NIU art student Jonathon Adkins' series of self-portraits, including male nudes, are on display in the center's public lounge until...

The Regency universities are debating a possible tuition freeze for the 1990-91 school year. Brian Hopkins, student Regent for Sangamon State University at Springfield, introduced a proposal at the December Board of Regents meeting calling for a tuition...

Getting an abortion is as traumatic as getting a divorce, although some believe abortion equals death. That was only part of the thought-provoking discussion that hit NIU Wednesday when two nationally known women debated the abortion issue in front of...

The best-paying jobs for recent NIU graduates have come from the electrical engineering field. Yes, that's right, electrical engineering. NIU electrical engineering majors who graduated 1988-89 report they earn a median salary of $32,000 a year, representing...

NIU will raise the hourly minimum wage five cents to $3.80 for students when the federal minimum wage increases in April, 1990. "Traditionally, NIU has always followed the minimum wage laws," even though the government does not require it from state agencies,...

Prepaid rents and security deposits protect student tenants and landlords, according to DeKalb apartment managers. Sixth Ward Alderman Jamie Pennington proposed a landlord and tenant ordinance limiting the amount of prepaid rent to a month and a half....