Marchers from across the Midwest will carry their drums and bugles to NIU's Huskie Stadium for the 11th Annual Drum Corps Midwest Championship Saturday. The all-day affair consists of 29 corps competing for points. Veteran DMC Executive Director Roman...

"It's unfair"... a "travesty," and "hypocritical." More than 40 NIU students, staff and faculty members expressed those sentiments July 7 as they met to discuss the dismissal of CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer. Palmer, a counselor for four years, was notified...

Charlie Jones, a former Huskie football player injured during a 1985 practice, filed a second lawsuit in his home state of Michigan against former NIU men's athletic director Robert Brigham and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Jones,...

Travel funds for DeKalb City Council aldermen and the mayor must be approved in advance unless specified in the budget, as the result of a 7-0 vote by the council at its meeting July 11. The council discussed the following items July 11: .The council...

Destination: Soviet Union. Moscow, Lenningrad, Kiev, Yalta, Talinn. Purpose: To study the various cultures of Russian, Ukranian, Latvian and Estonian people. One year from today an airplane carrying about 18 students—many of them NIU students—and...

Complaints about pornographic materials found in area businesses prompted an investigation by the State's Attorney's office that will focus on sexually explicit materials depicting children. "Any borderline materials, I will not challenge," said Philip...

Four NIU students have applied for the position of DeKalb's 6th ward alderman, said Mayor Greg Sparrow. Interviews for the position are planned for next week, Sparrow said. After discussing the applicants with incumbent 6th Ward Alderman Steven Brody...

"One of the toughest hurdles you'll ever overcome is landing your first job." Thus Lee Iacocca summed up the trials and tribulations of what most NIU graduates will have to experience sooner or later; leaving this safe cocoon-like world we call school...

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP)—At least two other mix-ups with civilian planes by U.S. warships occurred in the Persian Gulf, one of the world's busiest air corridors, before the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner, American sources said Tuesday. All...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP)—Twenty-one players, ranging from 1987 College Player of the Year David Robinson to high school standout Alonzo Mourning, were invited Tuesday to begin training later this month for berths on the U.S. men's Olympic basketball...

A newly-installed electronic security system is in experimental use as part of security changes under implementation at the Holmes Student Center Bookstore. Margie Marshall, a bookstore secretary and member of the bookstore's security task force, said...