NIU's Student Association Mass Transit Board, faced with a nearly $50,000 deficit and rising costs, wants a 56 cents per-credit hour busing fee increase. Michelle Emmett, University Programming and Activities director, said the increase, from $58.08 to...

Two of the most prominent women in politics will face-off Wednesday on abortion. Phyllis Schlafly led the opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and Sarah Weddington defended Jane Roe in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision "Roe vs. Wade," legalizing...

The Student Association allowed the Campus Activities Board to continue their five-year guardianship of the incomplete SA art collection. The senate passed a Community Affairs Committee recommendation Sunday to allow CAB to keep the art collection, but...

The Illlinois Board of Higher Education denied NIU's $645,000 request for handicapped accessibility improvements. Sue Reinhardt, coordinator of NIU's Services for the Handicapped, said many campus improvements need to be made, but NIU continues to neglect...

If you feel that living in DeKalb is like living in a radio void, perhaps you should tune in WKDI. WKDI is the student-run, Student Association-funded radio station on campus. Its call number is 93.5 and it is broadcast on FM cable throughout the greater...

The debate about lighting conditions on campus continues, although lighting problems will be taken care of as quickly as possible. Richard Eike, NIU Physical Plant electrical foreman, said any work orders given to them involving the lights on campus will...

Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan's NIU lecture generated more than $8,000 in ticket sales. Farrakhan spoke for more than two hours Tuesday at Chick Evans Field House on topics including anti-Semitism and female degradation for an audience of about...

The new Romanian government could become just as cruel and repressive as the old one if human rights violations are not monitored, warns a Romanian-born NIU student. Eva Incze, an 18-year-old NIU freshman, comes from a Hungarian minority family and was...

Students needing assistance filling out income tax forms can receive free help from two NIU student accounting organizations. The NIU Student Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi, the national accounting fraternity, are co-sponsoring the free service...

An NIU freshman was killed by an east-bound train Thursday night. Jay W. Mears, 22, 272 Lincoln Hall, was found Friday morning near the Chicago & Northwestern train tracks behind Days Inn, 1212 W. Lincoln Hwy., according to the DeKalb County Sheriff's...

Student Association President Huda Scheidelman accepted a petition Friday for her impeachment. SA Sen. Galvin Kennedy and newly-elected Sen. James Mertes started the petition on Jan. 28 and collected senate signatures from Dave Ivers and Jody Jancaric....

NIU's Physical Plant might have to purge as much as one-third of its $1.5 million inventory because of office expansions and remodeling. Physical Plant Director John Harrod said the planned $756,000 remodeling has resulted in a 30 percent reduction in...