NIU students are opposed to paying an extra $2 in student fees next year for a Martin Luther King statue. A Student Association referendum Wednesday asked if students would support a one-year $1 per semester fee for the statue, which would be placed in...

NORMAL_ A recent state law is mandating NIU and other Regency universities to raise admission requirements, despite criticism that the state should not be involved. The law states that effective in the fall of 1992, all students seeking to attend an Illinois...

Students patronizing local taverns might need to check their available cash before drinking because of a proposal passed by the DeKalb City Council Monday. DeKalb City Manager Ron Matekaitis suggested increased fines for alcohol violations. The current...

Cine club is featuring a very unique double bill in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium tonight at 8:45. They will be showing "Freaks"(1932) and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"(1920), a pair of cult classics. Both films contain horrific elements yet neither one...

The College of Business has received a $20,000 grant from Motorola, Inc., Communications Sector to establish a sales skills learning laboratory. The lab, complete with a video camera and recording equipment, will be used for marketing, advertising, marketing...

More NIU students want their health insurance refund. In fiscal year 1988, there were more than 7,000 refunds given out while about 32,000 students and dependents received the insurance, costing $41.86 each semester. Insurance cost more than $65 in FY89,...

NIU's student health fee might jump by nearly 18 percent, from $3.48 to $4.23 per credit hour, to provide for salary increases and dwindling cash reserves. Dana Mills, associate director for University Health Services, said health service officials are...

Black Heritage Month is a campus-wide event to honor black leaders of the past, present and future in scheduled programs throughout February. Van Anthony Amos, coordinator of Student Cultural Programming, said, "The purpose of this month is to present...

It is a bad day when you find out your landlord is keeping your security deposit, your roommate left and expects you to foot the bill and then, to top it off, you get stopped for driving with a suspended license. What do you do? How about contacting NIU's...

The Office of Affirmative Action has hired a new assistant director more than nine months and 30 applications after a former assistant director was fired for forgery. The Affirmative Action office appointed Frederick Dearborn of Geneva Jan. 16. "I'm looking...

NIU's InterFraternity, PanHellenic and Black Greek Councils are developing an All Greek Committee to better understand each others' organizations. The committee consists of representatives from IFC, PHC, BGC and Sigma Lambda Beta and Alpha Psi Lambda,...

A six-week discussion series about myths, focused on the Public Broadcast System's series, "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth," begins at 7:30 tonight at United Campus Ministries, 415 Normal Road. The group, open to faculty, staff and students, will...