Several construction projects to improve NIU's campus soon might be started if the Illinois Board of Higher Education capital budget recommendations of about $25 million are approved by the state. NIU President John LaTourette said four proposed major...

Eighty DeKalb County non-professional employees are petitioning to become unionized because they believe they do not have enough input in their working policies. After the last county board meeting, Steve Trossman, spokesman for the American Federation...

The number of students using the University Health Service increased 3.1 percent by the end of November as compared to the same time last year, Health Service Director Dr. Rosemary Lane said. Lane estimates 29,641 students came to the health center for...

CHICAGO (AP)—A 7-month-old baby found abandoned in an unheated apartment in a wet snowsuit with no shoes, socks or gloves will not need surgery to save her limbs, doctors said Wednesday. "Medically, she's fine," a spokeswoman at Mount Sinai Medical...

Instructors and coaches who use Gabel Hall's pool are breathing a sigh of relief this semester, now that repairs to the roof and pool there are completed. The pool was renovated after it was closed in December 1985 because of damage caused by a leaking...

A 19-year-old girl died and three others were severely injured after their car collided with a semi tractor-trailer on Route 38 and Malta Road Thursday morning. Dina C. Parish, 19, 5231 W. Adams, Chicago, was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. by the DeKalb County...

An NIU political science professor said he is teaching the "economy version" of a course to protest the Illinois state legislature's failure to provide university faculty with pay increases this year. In the syllabus of his Political Science 385 class,...

Both sides involved in a dispute over firemen's wage increases said the matter is unlikely to be resolved quickly. The City of DeKalb and The International Association of Firefighters Local 1236 are in arbitration concerning a retroactive wage increase...

CHICAGO (AP)—A circuit judge found a 50-year-old transient mentally unfit Wednesday to stand trial in the slaying of a Roman Catholic nun. Cook County Judge Robert J. Collins ordered Karl Caldwell, charged with murder in the Oct. 14 beating death of...

Illinois is still in the running for the Superconducting Super Collider as meetings were held this week to inform the public of residential areas which would be affected by the project. Illinois is one of the seven candidates for the site of the SSC....

Last semester's request to remove The Thunderbolt, a racially derogatory newspaper, from Founders Memorial Library's shelves was denied. Carroll Varner, assistant director for Technical Services at Founders, said the newspaper will remian on library shelves....

A representative from the environmental group Greenpeace will lead a discussion Monday about issues dealing with environmental and animal cruelty. The Student Committee for Animal Welfare invited Greenpeace representative Joe Kintigh to discuss and familiarize...