What would you say to a Friday-night event that stirs your creative juices, makes you think in an unaccustomed vein and provides cultural enrichment to boot? This Friday is one of the rare occasions when such an event will occur in DeKalb. The Campus...

Gay rights activists are calling for a sexual orientation provision to DeKalb's human relations ordinance that would outline protection from discrimination. The NIU Gay/Lesbian Union, the DeKalb Gay/Lesbian Community Foundation and the Student Association...

In recent years, NIU students in need of financial aid have taken out loans rather than participating in NIU's work-study program, said Melody Amundsen, coordinator of NIU student employment. Amundsen said that this year "only 30 percent of students are...

A new assistant director for NIU's Affirmative Action Office will start at an annual salary of $33,996. Affirmative Action secretary Jeanette Ezra said that Eddie Williams, vice president of finance and planning, approved money in July 1988 for the new...

Nationally renowned journalist Vernon Jarrett spoke at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium Monday about the triumphs of the ordinary black person. Jarrett's presentation focused on the ordinary human being. He referred to the period when blacks were slaves,...

NIU's labor shortage has meant a lack of drivers and interrupted service for a newly implemented handicapped bus service. Bill Finucane, transportation supervisor, told members of the Student Association Mass Transit Board that he has attempted to cover...

(AP)_European Common Market governments decided Monday to withdraw their top diplomats from Iran to protest Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's renewed order for Moslems to kill novelist Salman Rushdie. Britain went even further by pulling out its entire embassy...

NIU's student government might investigate the possible disaffiliation of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from the Illinois Student Association. Phill Buoscio, interim senate speaker, said Sunday he and SA President Paula Radtke will attend...

Exercise might be the last thing on your mind right now. After all, it's winter - the shorts and bathing suit season seem years away. "Exercise is a life-long process that you need to start now," said Fabian DeRozario, coordinator for the Office of Campus...

The day after high school graduation I was riding my bike near the park in my town when I happened to see my mother in her car. It wasn't just happenstance—she was looking for me. "Get up to the doctor's office," she said. "Your father is having a heart...

The clock is winding down. The time of that dreaded transition from a relatively care-free student to a real, society-serving citizen is almost nigh. It's coming despite the resistance of being sucked into the money-hungry mentality of the nation's bread-winning...

MOSCOW (AP)- The Dec. 7 earthquake that struck Armenia caused $16.2 billion in damage and destroyed 58 villages and towns, the Tass news agency said Monday. The earthquake killed 25,000 people and injured 19,000, the Armenian Committee on Statistics said...