A member of NIU's governing board believes that the schools' sexual harassment policies need revision. At the March Board of Regents meeting, Regent Sylvia Nichols suggested that NIU, Illinois State University in Normal and Sangamon State University in...

An NIU student was struck by a car on Normal Road near Founders Memorial Library Wednesday. Susan Livingston, 20, of 803 N. Ninth St., DeKalb, was struck at about 1:50 p.m. and taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital, Capt. Warren Lubbers, DeKalb Fire...

Increased interest in NIU's chapter of Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS) last fall has encouraged the organization to continue its efforts to educate NIU about responsible drinking. The program was started...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinios Commerce Commission cleared the way Wednesday for a final decision on a 6.9 percent, $60.5 million rate boost for Illinois Power Co. after dismissing last-minute questions that threatened to swell the increase to...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The leader of Moslems in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg and his aide were shot and killed Wednesday, five weeks after the imam distanced himself from Iran's death sentence for author Salman Rushdie. Imam Abdullah Al Ahdal,...

The Boston Globe BOSTON—Not long ago, in a London hotel room, I heard one of those very British television interviews with a "royal." This time it was Princess Anne talking about her role as president of the Save the Children charity. In the middle...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday scrutinized an icon of American law it created 23 years ago - the famous Miranda warnings police are required to give to criminal suspects. To be decided by July is the validity of a warning used by Hammond,...

On a July evening seven years ago, I was a few hundred feet in the air headed south from Rockford in a small, four-seater plane. It was a trip I had been anticipating for months, arranged by a neighbor of mine whose friend owned the little plane. Knowing...

In keeping with a national trend, NIU's Department of Journalism will pare down its course requirements and eliminate the department's major emphases effective this fall. The four emphases in the department—news/editorial, photojournalism, broadcasting...

Skeptism concerning Student Association executive powers emerged after the SA decided to hold an "initiative" to discover if students would pay a $2.40 annual fee supporting The Northern Star. NIU Student Regent Nick Valadez said he will ask the SA Senate...

The installation of traffic signals at Route 23 and Edgebrook Lane in Sycamore will cost taxpayers about $23,000 less than was expected. When the Illinois General Assembly voted to go ahead with the project in February, the estimate for the project was...

NIU Associate English Professor Jenefer M. Giannasi, described as "a superlative person," died of a heart attack Monday at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. Associate English Professor William Johnson said Giannasi, 54, was "an extraordinarily competent...