WASHINGTON (AP)—The Reagan administration's top nuclear arms negotiator says it would be "highly unfortunate" if the Senate amends the U.S.-Soviet treaty eliminating atomic-tipped missiles from Europe. "I don't think a condition is in the best interests...

Sexual Assault Awareness Week and "hitting" target populations are two main goals of NIU's Sexual Assault Task Force for the spring semester. Martha Ruel, assistant university judicial officer, said the task force has set goals that will educate students,...

Four black NIU students accused of shoplifting at the Holmes Student Center Bookstore on Jan. 21 are considering filing formal harassment complaints against bookstore employees. The students are offended by the way the bookstore's employees handled the...

The University Council task force for the possible formation of a faculty senate plans to establish a spring semester agenda at its first meeting Feb. 5. UC Executive Secretary Judith Bischoff said she has received affirmative replies from 10 of the 12...

A new committee will evaluate and select designs and solutions for the repair of the Holmes Student Center tower. The formation of a new committee was announced at Wednesday's Student Center Advisory Committee meeting. Physical plant project manager Conrad...

A man by the name of Professor Allan Bloom, currently teaching at the University of Chicago, wrote a book called The Closing of the American Mind, and Santa Claus put it in my stocking. The book was on the best seller list for quite sometime, primarily...

During a two-hour speech Wednesday, Playboy Adviser columnist James Petersen covered topics such as AIDS, birth control and sex in the ‘80s. When speaking about AIDS, Petersen said, "Before there was herpes, and now there is AIDS. The only difference...

The completion of a Martin Luther King Jr. statue, which will stand in the Holmes Student Center, is pending approval by NIU's Martin Luther King Jr. Statue Committee. Eddie Williams, vice president of finance and planning, said art Professor Dave Bowers...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP)—A judge jailed a 9-year-old boy for five days after his repeated scrapes with the law, releasing him after an attempt to teach him "there are consequences for his actions," authorities said Tuesday. Attorneys involved in the case...

The proposed smoking policy created by the Interior Facilities Environments Committee will go into effect June 1 if it is approved by NIU President John LaTourette. A survey conducted by the committee in November indicated a majority favored a smoking...

Through a "clerical" error, 55 students found their political science 100 class cancelled after add/drop lines had closed. J. Dixon Essecks, political science assistant director, said POLS 100 section 3 was supposed to be cancelled Dec. 3 along with sections...

An Iowa judge granted the motion to dismiss the case against NIU men's basketball player John Culbertson. Judge Steven Van Marel ruled in Culbertson's favor because "the state of Iowa didn't file trial information within the statute of limitations (three...