Sangamon State University President Durward Long will continue as university president in spite of a sexual harassment charge filed against him and the Board of Regents Tuesday by seven SSU professors. NIU Student Regent Nick Valadez said, "It appears...

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...

State Rep. William Shaw said Thursday that, despite NIU President John LaTourette's opinion that it is inappropriate for the state legislature to interfere in personnel processes such as the dismissal of CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer, the "legislature...

Old, new and upcoming Huskie cagers were the topics of speech at the weekly coaches luncheon, as NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough took the reins from former master of ceremonies, NIU football boss Jerry Pettibone. Jane Albright, NIU women's basketball...

Sometimes it doesn't hurt to have a guardian angel around. And in the case of the Chicago Transit Authority, it isn't such a bad idea. The CTA is at the point where action must be taken and enlisting the help of the Guardian Angels, a self-styled, anti-crime...

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...