The number 80 has significant meaning for the NIU men's basketball team. A meaning it would just as soon forget. During the last two year's of head coach Jim Rosborough's reign, the Huskies have lost nearly every game when their opponent has reached the...

The committee deciding the fate of NIU's bookstore has not yet decided if the store will be leased to an outside vendor, but one student member wants the bookstore to stay in university hands and to see students given credit cards to be used in the store....

The number of NIU students caught cheating has increased four times from previous semesters. The University Judicial Office has handled 20 cases of cheating this semester. "This early in the semester there are usually five to six (cheating) cases," said...

Vincent Nall, president of Ideal Industries in Sycamore, was awarded NIU's first Executive Award for Excellence in Corporate Achievement. The award is sponsored by the Marketing Honors Society and is given in recognition of corporate executives, with...

Recent work by Chicago painter Susan Bloch will continue to be on display this weekend through Nov. 12 in the X/S Space at the NIU Art Gallary, 212 W. Superior St., in Chicago. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Bloch's...

It is not NIU's job to prevent credit card companies from advertising in unauthorized areas said University Legal Counsel George Shur. "There are certain places on campus where we allow commercial activities to occur," Shur said. Unauthorized posters...

Two Greek Row streets will be closed Saturday for a homecoming block party. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow said the city "worked out the particulars" to close Greenbrier Road between Russell Road and Hillcrest Drive for the party. The road, from the Pi Kappa...

Two NIU special education faculty members have received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help prepare educators of the hearing-impaired to work in rural areas. John Luckner, assistant professor in the Department of Educational...

There are conflicting views about whether the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Fermilab Director Leon Lederman will improve Illinois' chance of getting the proposed Superconducting Super Collider. Susan Mogerman, assistant press secretary for...

The DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice is coordinating local emergency relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Joan. The hurricane struck the east coast of Nicaragua Saturday with 120-mile-per-hour winds and moved inward through Uganda,...

Margariete Montague Wheeler, 49, NIU associate professor of mathematics, died Saturday in Chicago of heart failure. Wheeler was born Dec. 10, 1938, in Oakland, Calif. She attended Mills College in Oakland and graduated with a bachelor's degree in teaching...

It wasn't pretty. And NIU head volleyball coach Pete Waite will be the first to admit it wasn't very much fun. But the women's volleyball team managed to come away from Valparaiso, Ind., with a five-game North Star Conference victory last night despite...