Although the primary issue on the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting was the preparations for a political awareness festival, the item of debate that refused to die was weather or not SCOPA's actions represent those...

The Illinois Sheriff's Association is accepting applications for associate members throughout the end of this month said Roger Scott, DeKalb County sheriff. For a $25 fee, associate members receive a membership card, bumper sticker, window decal, quarterly...

The DeKalb County circuit clerk's failure to renew four certificates of deposit for a loss of less than $1,000 was the main topic of discussion at Democratic nominee Linda Finn's town meeting Tuesday night. Finn told a crowd of about 20 that $40,000 worth...

Illinois taxpayers might receive state income tax refunds more quickly as a result of legislation signed into law earlier this month by Gov. James Thompson. "The issue originally came about as a result of the slow payment of refunds in 1987," said Jennifer...

Jon Dalton, NIU vice president for student affairs, and two student leaders relied on wheelchairs instead of their feet yesterday, but two disabled students point out simulations alone will not bring about changes. Sue Haas, a physically disabled student...

Convicted murderer Jessie Donald Sumner, 51, who escaped from the Pontiac Correctional Center and was captured Monday night north of Sycamore, was returned to Kendall County late last night. Sumner's last of four hostages, department of correction employee...

NIU might be asked to pay more for fire protection next year, and the university already is crying to the city about the lack of funding from the state. NIU has paid the same rate for the last three years. Yet technology has been upgraded and services...

University Programming and Activities is investigating a fight between two fraternities at a mixer in the Holmes Student Center Diversions Saturday shortly after midnight. Van Amos, program coordinator for the Center of Black Studies and a chaperone at...

DeKalb firefighters and police evacuated all five floors of DeKalb Plaza Apartment building B, 1325 Lincoln Hwy., Monday evening after a fire causing $4,000 worth of damage broke out on the top floor. DeKalb Fire Chief Jeff Long said DeKalb police responded...

The University Planning Commission has released a master plan of the recommended renovations to take place at NIU through the year 2000 and beyond. The Campus Master Plan was prepared by the Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Mass., who established an...

NIU students walking past the Holmes Student Center on their way to afternoon classes today will see the beginning of a 24-hour marathon. No, the Olympics have not been moved to DeKalb for the day. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow will help begin a charity teeter-tottering...

Many "Unity in Diversity" week activities for today will center around the theme of physical awareness. The activities include a handicapped simulation, in which campus personalities will experience how life appears to a handicapped individual for one...