Several unanswered questions have prompted three Student Association advisers to request a study of the Illinois Student Association this semester. SA Welfare Adviser Lisa Gunn said student fees are spent by the ISA, and students should know how their...

Wearing a button proclaiming "Write Women Back Into History," Valerie Quinney described Women's History Month as "a month of consciousness-raising and education." After a five-year delay, Congress declared in 1987 that each March will be National Women's...

The Sexual Assault Task Force has proposed a program that would train NIU students to be "sexual assault advocates" in residence halls, fraternities and sororities. Task force member Blanch McHugh said two fraternity members met with the committee to...

Most basketball coaches look at a conference tournament as a second season, and NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright believes in that "March Madness" philosophy. When the Huskies kickoff the inaugural North Star Conference Tournament against Cleveland...

Education benefits for about 750,000 Vietnam veterans—including about 100 NIU students—will end Dec. 31 with the end of the Vietnam Era GI Bill. The Veterans Administration will stop sending GI Bill payments to veterans attending school or in training...

Unsure future awaits fired coach Three days ago the NIU men's basketball team wrapped up its season with a 68-63 win over Chicago State. Then, just before noon Wednesday, the inevitable happened. After three seasons as the head coach of the Huskie roundball...

Spring Fake ‘89 is here. You've spent weeks preparing for this annual pilgrimage to Southern ports of call. You've done the workouts to tighten your gluteus maximus, you've made the trips to the carcinogen spas and you shopped until you dropped at the...

College Students Against Drunk Driving discussed Tuesday their objectives of educating students, reducing drunk driving and promoting NIU alcohol awareness programs. CSADD, a 40-member group formed last semester, discussed a contract stating that members...

NIU's increased efforts in alcohol education over the last four years have resulted in a 50 percent decrease in alcohol-related injuries recorded by the University Health Service. Alcohol-related injuries decreased by 25 percent in 1986-87, followed by...

A proposal for a gay rights ordinance in DeKalb was endorsed by members of the city's human relations commission Tuesday, but action on the effort will wait until after city elections in April. It took almost an hour for the commission to obtain the number...

An NIU associate director of admissions said mandatory entrance requirements that the Illinois Board of Higher Education approved Tuesday will have little effect on NIU. Associate Director of Admission Robert Burk said, "It won't make a big change." Effective...

U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett said the federal government will contribute $15.2 billion to student financial assistance this year, despite Congress' continuous battle with the "default issue." Default is the failure to repay a student loan...