DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow proclaimed the week of Feb. 15 through 19 as Marketing Week in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday night in the Wirtz auditorium. Sparrow read a proclamation from his office and presented the document to Patrick Kagan. Kagan is...

NIU this fall will enforce its "core specific admission requirements" which will affect freshmen enrolling for the 1988-89 school year. NIU has changed its admission standards to include successful completion of a sequence of high school courses in addition...

If anything positive possibly could come out of the whole bookstore/shoplifting farce, it could be a security system that will prevent similar episodes from happening again. The incident, during which a group of black students were followed as they walked...

Letters announcing a meeting concerning a second Unity Through Diversity Week were sent to student organizations. The informational meeting will be held Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. in Holmes Student Center Room 305. Gary Henderson, graduate assistant at the student...

At Tuesday's Huskie Club Luncheon, NIU men's basketball coach Jim Rosborough reacted to Monday night's heartbreak loss to Illinois-Chicago. "Our kids played hard, battled and scrapped, but just didn't end up on top," said Rosborough, who added he felt...

Gena Stubbs has every reason to be psyched for this game. When the NIU women's basketball team walks onto the floor of 2-20 Detroit's gymnasium Wednesday, the junior forward will carry out her 997 career points in hopes of breaking the 1,000-point milestone....

Confusion about a policy banning freshman CHANCE students from participating in greek activities is on the part of students not the program, Special Projects Director Tendaji Ganges said. The policy includes little sister programs and sweetheart courts,...

Trends of physical violence and harrassment at NIU are on the upswing with stress and alcohol as leading factors, NIU Judicial Office Director Larry Bolles said. "Students are under stress all day at classes so they go out and get drunk to relieve their...

No charges were filed Monday in connection with the death of a Malta resident after an NIU student, losing control of her car, hit his vehicle and forced him off the road. Scott D. Hudson, 33, of Malta, was pronounced dead at the scene 8 a.m. Monday....

NIU might withdraw from the State Chamber of Commerce because the chamber failed to support a state tax increase. An increase is needed desperately to save the future of public higher education in Illinois. The chamber has, in effect, turned its back...

The NIU Press has issued two new reference volumes. The first, "Political Atlas of Illinois", is a first-time publication which will be used mainly by editors, legislators, political columnists and reference librarians. Steve Franklin, of the Office of...

The Downtown DeKalb Council will meet Thursday to discuss their 1988-89 plans to revitalize downtown DeKalb. DeKalb Council President Lance Hansen said, "The organization began through the Economic Development Group and the city to revitalize downtown...