An 18-year-old Paw Paw woman was killed east of Paw Paw when the car she was driving crashed into a bridge and caught on fire. Amy B. Moran was pronounced dead at the scene of the one-car accident by DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller at 12:30 p.m. Friday....

Student Association members Sunday night heard a letter from one University Council member stating there probably will be changes in the handling of illegal class registration cases—changes the council member said she is not in favor of. In a letter...

NIU's Albert Resis received new information on a historical mystery while in Russia last month at a 10-day international symposium. The information came regarding the 12-day "disappearance" of Joseph Stalin when Hitler invaded Russia in 1941. Nikita Khrushchev...

How many of you out there in the Big Blue Marble are just about sick of the 1988 Presidential Election news and are ready to get on to the more important facets of life like Bears football and happy hour? Well, before we dismiss this issue altogether,...

The John Lennon Society plans to demonstrate at noon today to protest the DeKalb City Council's amendment of an ordinance pertaining to people disturbing downtown merchants. The protesters will gather at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commons and...

Illinois fell victim to politics in the battle for the Superconducting Super Collider which was given to Texas. Sen. Alan Dixon made a valid point when he charged "the Department of Energy made a decision based on politics rather than one on merit and...

Repairs on the escalators in Founders Memorial Library could begin as early as mid-December and continue into the spring. Lola Straffer, personnel assistant for the library, said three companies made bids on repair costs of the escalators. "The bids were...

Although it bears the Alpha Sigma Alpha letters, a building in the Greek Row area near Blackhawk Road and Ridge Drive is not the sorority's new house—it is a shed storing equipment for the construction of a new apartment complex on the site. The complex...

Durward Long, president of Sangamon State University, resumed his presidential duties Monday in the midst of rumors of "numerous incidents" of sexual harassment. Long's return followed a 60-day leave of absence during which he was treated for alcohol...

The Public Address System, a progressive alternative newspaper run by NIU students, will be distributed for the first time this academic year after Thanksgiving break. The newspaper, which was published only once last year under the name Mush!, is liberal...

Department of Energy Secretary John Herrington's tentative decision was announced Thursday that the $4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider will be constructed in Texas, and officials from competing states have voiced their strong opposition. The...

One University Police officer says there is "no justification" to install a campus security phone system that might be on NIU's campus by the 1989 fall semester. The proposed system would link about 50 security phones with the University Police Department,...