Commencement has arrived once again for many NIU students, as 1,238 graduate and undergraduate students will graduate this Saturday. Lea Houdek, NIU assistant director of Registration and Records, said August commencement is different than spring commencement,...

The Illinois Attorney General's Office is questioning the ethics of a Board of Regents decision to grant NIU Professor Clyde Wingfield a year off with pay, while a local legislator is suggesting the decision be investigated. The deal, which will allow...

Chicago(AP) - Vice President George Bush, sketching the outlines of a foreign policy for the 1990s, said Tuesday he would deploy a space-based missile defense system "as soon as feasible" and would support freedom fighters around the globe. "It is not...

Student Association President Paula Radtke condemned the Board of Regents Sunday for their secret arrangement to give former NIU President Clyde Wingfield a year off with pay. "I would like to see the senate pass a resolution condemning the Regents' actions,"...

Architects for the Holmes Student Center tower renovations are trying to reduce project costs by exploring alternatives for securing stone to the tower's exterior wall. Gerry Orr, an architect for Ware and Associates, the firm which originally designed...

Kubinka Air Force Base, U.S.S.R. (AP) - U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci boarded the Kremlin's new secret bomber and watched war games on tours Tuesday of two bases that had been off-limits to Westerners. The visits to Kubinka including the bomber...

The purchase of a new computer system for the Student Association approved by the summer finance committee was suggested "to avoid embarassing situations" like those which have occurred in the past, but before this situation is over the SA may find itself...

The NIU colony of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was disaffiliated by the national chapter's grand council Aug. 1. Mark Fite, general manager for Tau Kappa Epsilon's national chapter, said the Tekes were unable to meet a set of 16 requirements required...

A spontaneously-formed Student Association committee voted Sunday to allocate itself $8,500 in summer student fees for the purchase of a new computer system. The system was among almost $14,000 allocated for supplemental funding for student organizations....

You know who you are. You're the ones who get up at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings to watch him cavort with his inanimate friends. You amaze your acquaintances with your seemingly unending impersonations of him. You hang pictures of his bow-tie clad frame...

It's a good thing the four members of the Indigos decided to take up music in Chicago instead of politics - their honesty surely would have cut their political careers short by now. Union Station, the debut album by this two-and-a-half year old band,...

NIU student Mike Neylon, who was appointed Sixth Ward alderman July 29, brings a broad background and knowledge of the area to the position, DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow said. "Neylon is a well-rounded person. He will be able to deal with those decisions...