Through humor, role-playing and personal interaction with the audience, a husband-and-wife team of karate black belts informed an enthusiastic crowd of the seriousness of sexual assault at the "Hands Off ... I'm Special" presentation Monday night. Dan...

Student Association members voiced their displeasure at one of Mayor Greg Sparrow's recommendations for 7th Ward aldermanic candidates at Sunday night's meeting. The senators spoke hesitantly about candidate Jeff Monroe and twice tried to go into closed...

The University Council Executive Secretary will nominate two NIU faculty members to serve on the Vice President for Student Affairs search committee at Wednesday's Faculty Assembly meeting. The meeting will be held in the Holmes Student Center at 3 p.m....

As a member of the College Placement Council, NIU's Career Planning and Placement Center uses statistical information from college graduates to provide dollar amounts and percentages for entry-level salary averages and yearly fluctuations. The CPC has...

The West Lagoon might soon have a new name. The Operating Staff Council, which names campus buildings, recommended to NIU President John La Tourette that the lagoon be newly christened the "Lorusso Lagoon" after retired Campus Planner Anthony Lorusso....

Full-time NIU professors are paid an average salary of $46,800, slightly below the median of comparable public universities, the Illinois Board of Higher Education reported Tuesday. However, the board also reported NIU pays the highest salaries for full-time...

Another alleged sighting of former NIU student Richard Church, charged with two counts of murder for the deaths of his former girlfriend's parents, was reported Sunday in McHenry County. Church is accused of the Aug. 21, 1988 slayings of Woodstock residents...

Lowering the number of Huskie buses on Greek Row and residence hall routes from four to three has caused the buses to pass up some stops due to overcrowding. Dave Pack, president of the Student Association Mass Transit Board, said the cut from four buses...

A committee formed to discuss Board of Regents policy changes will "formulate specific wording changes in the proposed amendments" this week. In a statement released Thursday, Regents Chairwoman Carol Burns said corrections will be "circulated to the...

Alpha Phi Omega will open its Coed Rush to any student interested at 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center Heritage Room. The fraternity also will sponsor a campus recycling drive Saturday. Journalism society meeting Are you interested...

The Micro-fridge is looking to be the next invention to revolutionize the art of furnishing a college apartment or dormitory room. Robert Bennett is the brainchild behind the four-foot tall refrigerator, freezer and microwave oven. The unit has three...

Unity in Diversity Week did not effectively promote unity because of a lack of communication, said members of NIU's Black Student Union. BSU Vice President Demetricus Carlvin said communication could have been improved by publicizing activities through...