The Campus Security Advisory Board needs a leadership overhaul. Meetings are either not scheduled, scheduled and then cancelled at the last minute, or announced only to a few members, but not enough for a quorum. Student members of the board and faculty...

An attorney representing 20-year-old Demetrius Glenn asked Monday that Glenn be considered for a drug rehabilitation program instead of being sentenced to a prison term of up to five years. Glenn is charged with reckless homicide in connection with the...

Fire hazards which threatened the removal of art studios in Altgeld Hall have been "solved" this semester, but the art department chairman remains concerned about the future status of the studios. Art Department Chairman Robert Even said the department...

United States Reps. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, and Fred Grandy, R-Iowa, told DeKalb residents agricultural conditions are improving in the country. Hastert said the focus of Monday's town meeting at the Dekalb County Farm Bureau was one issue—agriculture....

A strategy to use DeKalb's $300,000 in Venture Capital Funds in a series of projects was proposed by City Manager Mark Stevens to the City Council Monday night. Stevens said the city 18 months ago reserved $300,000 for a project, and he wanted to know...

Practically everyone connected with higher education can remember those summer and fall days in 1987 as some of the most painful days. The funding status of the system followed almost as rocky a course as the stock market did in the fall. With the state...

The Student Association gave support for spending an additional $100,000 if necessary for repairs to the Holmes Student Center tower, although no formal vote was taken on the recommendation. Sen. Dave Stern recommended the SA favor NIU spending an additional...

NIU pledged $41,804 of their $50,000 United Way goal despite the lack of pledging from students this year. "We recieved almost no money from the students", said student fund raiser Michelle Roberts, "but we have a couple of months left to get more pledges."...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board today will discuss the fate of a Huskie bus driver who left her bus last semester because of rider complaints. Board Chairman Phil Kessler said a driver "inexperienced with the weekend bus route" left her bus...

Police seized an undisclosed amount of cocaine and paraphernalia from a DeKalb residence Thursday. Police arrested John E. Wilkinson, 31, 133 Gurler St., and charged him with unlawful possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and unlawful...

The Illinois State Comptroller Roland Burris will be the key speaker at the annual NIU memorial service for Martin Luther King Jr. at 8:45 tonight in the Music Building's Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The Student Association Minority Relations Committee...

Student Association President Jim Fischer told the SA senate Sunday NIU students could help defeat future tuition increases by passing the Illinois Student Association referendum on Jan. 28. "The referendum would provide $1 to the ISA from (each student's)...