A senior staff writer and columnist for Playboy magazine will be on campus tonight to present a lecture and discussion on love, sex and relationships. James Petersen, author of "The Playboy Advisor" column for nearly 15 years, will lecture about his experiences...

NIU service organization Circle K will be introducing new members to the club as well as entertaining the elderly by holding a "puppy day" at the Pine Acres Retirement Center Saturday. Circle K is a not-for-profit organization interested in raising money...

The Student Association Finance Committee will meet tonight to begin budgeting for Fiscal Year 1988-89. Committee Chairman Todd Lipscomb, also the SA treasurer, said budgets from the SA Recycling Center, the Gay/Lesbian Union, BROTHERS and the Northern...

Tuesday's meeting to discuss alcohol policy guidelines implemented by Greek Row was canceled due to one member's illness. InterFraternity Council President Tom Zur suffered from illness and the IFC Executive Board meeting, scheduled to discuss which guidelines...

A student fee increase of $1.20 was approved by the President's Fee Study Committee Monday for NIU's field house and stadium budgets for next year. The committee's approval will be sent to NIU President John LaTourette. If he approves, the increase will...

Will someone please tell me why some people are so easily offended, or am I in danger of being fired for even posing the question? Last April, just prior to the 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, then-Los Angeles Dodger...

Members of the Campus Parking Committee said Monday they are exploring options to increase campus parking, including the expansion of Lot S located behind Gabel Hall. Committee Chairman Bill Parker said Sasaski and Associates, a group doing campus-wide...

No disciplinary action will be made against a Huskie bus driver who left the bus she was driving Dec. 19 to call her supervisor after some students boarding the bus refused to show their IDs, the Student Association Mass Transit Board decided Monday....

Four black students are considering filing formal complaints against the Holmes Student Center Bookstore for harassment by employees after being accused of shoplifting Jan. 21. NIU student Todd Ellis said he and three female students were watched and...

As NIU's oldest building, Altgeld Hall has a history as varied as its architecture. Completed in the fall of 1899, the building comprised the entire campus and was referred to as the Northern Illinois State Normal School and as "the castle on the hill."...

While NIU announced that the contract of women's head volleyball coach Herb Summers will not be renewed by mutual agreement, there are some unanswered questions. "I don't know what they mean by mutual agreement," Summers said. "I can honestly say I had...

State Comptroller Roland Burris spoke Monday against racism at NIU during the university's annual memorial for the late Martin Luther King, Jr. "This college campus is not a place for racism. Racism is ignorance in action. This is considered an intellectual...