Allegations of racism and ineffective action were many, but suggestions of a solution were few. In an open forum between students and DeKalb city officials, almost 50 people crammed into a small DuSable Hall classroom, but as the two-and-one-half hour...

An NIU journalism alumnus will visit from Costa Mesa, Cal. Thursday to speak about "Marketing Services Begin with Yourself." The American Marketing Association and the Public Relations Student Society of America are "sharing responsibilities" in promoting...

WASHINGTON (AP) _President Bush Thursday extended most-favored-nation trade privileges to Hungary and made it the first country to be freed from a 1974 law denying U.S. trade credits to most communist nations. Three days after Hungary declared itself...

Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Jim Edgar hopes to win over Illinois democrats by highlighting the importance of keeping one party from controlling the General Assembly and the governor's position. Edgar, at a campaign fundraiser at the...

The Holmes Student Center reconstruction will be completed by Dec. 11 as contractors finish installing outside panels and prepare to install the pyramid-shaped copper roof. NIU Project Manager Conrad Miller said panel installation on the student center...

No decision was made in a Student Association Supreme Court hearing Thursday night to determine the constitutionality of limiting SA advisers' terms. Former SA Community Affairs Adviser Brian Subatich petitioned the court to deem his June 3 approval constitutional...

Thursday night, the Holmes Student Center hosted the NIU Journalism Department's New Student Fair. On hand were representatives from the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi,The Northern Star, the Public Relations Student Society of America...

The NIU Business Systems Analysis department has changed its name to Operations Management and Information Systems. "The change was made because BSA was not felt to be descriptive enough to thoroughly describe the major entailed," Martin Green BSA student...

NIU will name a permanent Student Affairs vice president by July 1, and the 13-member search committee will begin with placing advertisements in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Nov. 1 and Nov. 8. Barbara Henley was named acting vice president for...

Michael Gordon will present "Black Greeks at Historically White Campuses," the first lecture of the Greek Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Gordon has been the dean of students at Indiana University...

The InterFraternity Council's Judicial Board heard cases concerning Delta Chi, Phi Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Mu fraternities Sunday for violations of IFC policies. Justices Dave Calzaretta, Jeff Cutler, Mark Kocol, Gregg Mylin and Chief Justice Tim...

NIU officials are investigating every possible angle surrounding the racially derogatory materials sent to NIU students this week, but have little information to go on. NIU Legal Counsel George Shur said an undetermined number of students received the...