Some former members of the now-defunct Coalition of Students for All Students said the coalition was created to ensure that members were elected to the Student Association senate. The coalition was successful in that regard; of 30 coalition members, 29...

A recent issue of the alternative newpaper, The Vigilante, has a candidate in the state's attorney race crying foul over remarks that he had "no ethical bounds." Jerry Shapiro, Democratic candidate for state's attorney, said Thursday he is "deeply saddened"...

Two NIU physics professors, Dan Kaplan and David Hedin, share the distinction of having worked with Nobel Prize winners on projects during their graduate studies. Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger won a Nobel Prize for an experiment...

Producing an optimistic image toward Huskie athletics, Jane Albright, the NIU women's basketball coach, and Huskie football boss Jerry Pettibone spoke to a large gathering at the weekly coaches luncheon Thursday. Albright enthusiastically announced her...

At a meeting of black faculty organizations yesterday, members discussed the lack of black faculty at NIU and began generating ideas to develop the best way to increase the number of minority faculty. Admasu Zike, director of the Center for Black Studies,...

A "totally mystified" Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves responded to a letter by the NIU Faculty Assembly stating its displeasure with Groves' comments at its Sept. 28 meeting with a letter of his own. Groves, in his reply, said he did not understand...

If preliminary statistics from surveys of universities across the country hold true, one in every 300 college students has the AIDS virus, said Gayle Lloyd, public affairs specialist at the national Centers for Disease Control. A cooperative study by...

Having no power to affect significant change within NIU prompted the chairman of the Admissions Policy Academic Standards Committee to resign his position at Thursday's Undergraduate Coordinating Council meeting. APASC Chairman Herbert Rubin said in regards...

The Board of Regents recently was contacted by "a prominent Springfield attorney" saying that a Sangamon State University student might file a sexual harassment complaint against that university's president, said SSU Student Regent Brian Hopkins. He said...

The NIU Parking Committee will discuss necessary repairs for the College of Engineering's parking lot at the committee's regular meeting today at 2 p.m. in room 105 of the Art Building. The committee discussed at its Oct. 20 meeting whether the college's...

A separate governing board for NIU, to replace the Board of Regents, is being advocated by the NIU American Association of University Professors and NIU faculty, an AAUP newsletter states. The newsletter states, "It almost seems that the Regents are intent...

A third-party candidate running for State Representative of the 76th District and DeKalb County Board District Three withdrew his candidacy too late to remove himself from the latter office. In a letter Illinois Solidarity candidate Robert Lee sent to...