An eight-hour dance-a-thon will be held at McCabes Saturday to raise money for the Jennifer Ettema Scholarship Fund. Jennifer Ettema, an NIU senior communications major, died from Marfans Disease one week before the fall semester started this year. Although...

Russell Dandurand, a junior art education major, found himself in a "crisis" situation when he received a letter Monday saying he would be evicted from Neptune Residence Hall and would have his meal privileges revoked if he didn't pay the remainder of...

A coach's work is never done. This could be the new motto of NIU women's basketball coach Jane Albright who recently signed Young High School's Christy Connor and Chicago Lindbloom's Soyini Chism to a National Letter of Intent. With the 1988-89 basketball...

NIU employee paychecks, paid out of the Illinois general funds account, amounted to $56,750,000 in fiscal year 1987, said Rick Davis, press secretary for the state of Illinois. A total of 2,931 employees from NIU were paid $6,474,426 out of the general...

Sangamon State University President Durward Long denied allegations that he fondled a female student at an SSU party and said he has not committed any sexual harassment "in the broadest sense" of the meaning. Long's response reported Tuesday by the SSU...

As Thanksgiving kicks off the pre-Christmas shopping craze, millions of gift-givers, nationwide will crowd the stores, abuse their credit cards and try to find "perfect" gifts for loved ones. In DeKalb, the task might be made easier for Christmas shoppers...

NIU civil service employees might find that completing or continuing their education is easier and more affordable than they thought. The university is offering tuition waivers for the spring 1989 semester to all university full- and part-time civil service...

The construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, in accordance with the tentative decision of John Herrington, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, could have a negative effect on NIU's present advantages. The SSC is a 53-mile underground...

WASHINGTON—The reason so many inner-city youngsters are tempted into the high-risk, high-profit drug racket, a Washington police official ventured the other day, is that they are fundamentally fatalists, neither demanding nor expecting more from life...

On Sunday, about 450 runners will line up to compete in NIU's 10th Thanksgiving Classic races. Both a 5-kilometer (3.1 miles) and a 15-kilometer (9.3 miles) walk/run are scheduled to start north of the Recreation Center on Lincoln Drive. The rec center...

Next semester's Panhellenic Council's executive board and subcommittee members were chosen Tuesday night at the council's regular meeting. Debbie Mitchel, Panhellenic public relations chairman, said the next council president will be Leslie Wegworth of...

A college bookstore consultant told the Holmes Student Center Bookstore Committee the bookstore already has the resources to provide anything a private vendor could offer. William Minney, President of College Bookstore Management Consulting, Inc., told...