The Illinois Telephone Association will offer telephone connection service at a reduced cost to eligible needy persons, including students, next month. The "Link Up Illinois" program is part of a nationwide effort called "Link Up America". It was mandated...

OK, you teach at NIU and know a wonderful student and a mere pat on the back will not suffice to tell him what a great person he is. What do you do? Nominate him for the Student Leader of the Month Award. The University Programming and Activities office...

A change in federally-backed Series EE savings bonds now makes buying them tax-free if redeemed by parents for an offspring's college tuition. In the past, a purchaser had to pay a federal tax on any bond redeemed, including Series EE. However, starting...

Growing up in a Hickville neighborhood where a girl was about as common as the bubonic plague, baseball was king. We had our own version of the minor leagues and classifications of rookies and veteran players. And, of course, we each assumed actual players'...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board developed a plan Monday to save $8,500 by combining two bus routes, but failed to pass the proposal. The proposal to combine routes 7 and 9 failed to muster the two-thirds vote necessary because four of the 12...

Now that the weather is getting cold, DeKalb must face a problem which was once confined to the big cities—homelessness. The PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) organization, has accepted the challenge of caring for the homeless of the DeKalb area...

An improved community program to provide emergency assistance to area children will add organization to the several other programs also present in DeKalb. The statewide Community Block Home Project, a result of 1986 Child Safety Hearings findings, was...

NIU President John La Tourette has designated this week NIU Care Week to help raise money to aid the American Red Cross Relief Fund. Z Ahmad, program coordinator for University Programming and Activities said "care week is an effort to get students, student...

NIU's Swen Parson computing lab will be freed from the constant threat of brownouts and power fluctuations after the completion of a $265,000 project to upgrade the electrical supply to the facility. The 12-year-old computer facility needs electrical...

I was deeply moved by a movie I saw on TV recently and felt obligated to write about it. My housemates and I watched the television special "When It's Not A Stranger" concerning acquaintance rape. Let me tell you, not one of us could go longer than 10...

Friendly competition between fraternities is typical on college campuses, but NIU officials say when it leads to violence, competition has gone too far. Three Delta Sigma Phi fraternity members reported an attack between 20 to 30 Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity...

There is a lot of excitement coming out of Eastern Europe. With Marxism on the decline, and nearing death, many are heralding democratic governments as the way to go. It seems representative government is really in vogue. The best example of this comes...