No, I'm not paying up on a favor I owe, and I'm not trying to schmooze anyone. But I really have to give three cheers to the Student Association Mass Transit Board and the Huskie Bus Line. On a cold and rainy day like Monday, I rode the early a.m. number...

GLEN ELLYN—About 5,000 campaign supporters for George Bush, vice president and republican presidential nominee, waited impatiently for about an hour for Bush to appear at a rally held at the College of DuPage Monday. Supporters sporadically shouted,...

Improving communications between NIU students and the DeKalb Police Department is the goal of a new liaison program between university groups and DeKalb Police Detective Bill Feithen. The NIU Community Relations Program is set to start this week and involves...

The Board of Regents will meet Wednesday at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal to discuss salary increases for university administrators and further action on the rehabilitation of the Holmes Student Center tower's exterior walls. NIU Student...

The Interfraternity Council will discuss and possibly vote tonight on implementing a risk-management policy to reduce NIU fraternities' liability for alcohol-related accidents. Two members from each fraternity chapter sit on the IFC and will attend the...

Last Friday's voter awareness rally at the east lagoon centered on the lack of voting by college students and served as a political forum for students and politicians. Though the lack of interest of students to vote is not as big a problem as the total...

NIU will be joining with other universities around the country to participate in National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, which runs today through Friday. "We want to raise the awareness of alcohol abuse and encourage students to participate in BACCHUS,"...

An FBI report about sexual assault states that one out of every five women will be sexually assaulted within her lifetime. In an attempt to understand why sexual assault is such a large problem on campus, the NIU Sexual Assault Task Force turned to students...

The Student Association senate accepted the resignation Sunday of Mike Goldstein, Student Committee on Political Action co-chairman, and approved more funding for WKDI's pursuit of an FM frequency. Goldstein, who has left NIU because of undisclosed personal...

It seems that wherever NIU goes, its parking problems follow. Not only is parking a problem in the center of campus, but parking also is becoming difficult to find at NIU's School of Engineering in Sycamore. The engineering school has been located in...

Several Sycamore residents on North Cross Street have issued complaints about NIU engineering students who are parking on the street instead of using the school's designated parking lot. Sycamore Mayor Redd Johnson said that on Mondays through Fridays...

Student Association Sen. Joe Annunzio was elected senate speaker by a majority vote of the senate Sunday night. Annunzio, serving his second term on the senate, beat out senators Regina Hudson and Michael Stumpf for the position, which was held by Tom...