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...

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."...

With the 10,000 people who contact NIU's Student Legal Assistance each year, Legal Assistance Director Don Henderson said the majority of cases concern landlord/tenant disputes. Of those 10,000 contacts, about 2,500 cases are processed annually, Henderson...

Well here it is, the first real Monday of the new semester. By now everyone should be finished with the drudgery of add/drop, book buying and schedule completion. Now it's time to buckle down and get going on some serious academics. Before we get on to...

DeKalb City Council members will discuss an offer to purchase Wurlitzer Subdivision Phase I property at $3,900 per acre at the council's regular meeting tonight at 8:00 p.m. DeKalb is asking $6,500 per acre for the Wurlitzer property but Cardinal Glass...