Well, Unity in Diversity Week is over. Did you miss it? Don't feel bad. I didn't know it was going on until Wednesday, and I work at a newspaper. Some of you aren't too heartbroken about missing all the bands, activities and discussion groups. Unfortunately,...

Six sororities in NIU's Panhellenic Council will participate in the float/decorated car division of Saturday's Homecoming parade, although the IFC fraternities voted Sept. 17 not to participate in this aspect of the parade. PHC President Leslie Wegworth...

Students passing through the Wirtz Quadrangle will find the area a safer, more desirable place after the approval and completion of scheduled renovations. Although the main thrust of the proposed $300,000 project is the beautification of the quadrangle,...

Final renovation plans for the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons do not include the Wirtz House, but the structure's fate remains unclear. The renovation plans were passed by the King Commons Renovation Committee at their May 24 meeting and are now...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board will not know until later this month if the system faces a $16,000 deficit. The mass transit budget is based upon student fees charged per credit hour. Because the number of chargeable credit hours varies when...

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...