SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP)—Federal officials on Wednesday began their investigation of the crash of a commuter plane that killed a flight instructor from Illinois and two recently hired pilots. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board...

Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils will sponsor their first workshop for new greek members Saturday in the Holmes Student Center. Campus and national speakers who will be in attendance include Elliott Lessen, faculty adviser of Lambda Chi Alpha...

Let's say I've been a writer all my life, which is not true. I was once a high school football player, but the analogy works better this way. As a youngster, I ran home every day from school to sit at my typewriter. I dreamed of someday writing for a...

An NIU professor of music will perform his own jazz compositions tonight with the help of 25 music students. Antonio Garcia, assistant professor and coordinator of jazz studies, will perform at 8:00 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the School of Music. The...

Winter ... the mere thought of it sends shivers up and down my spine. Not from the cold, but from the pure delight of the thought. With glee, each year I drag out the big box packed with winter-time treasures—big wool sweaters, down comforters and long...

Students might be prompted to use Money Network automatic teller machines in the Holmes Student Center instead of the student center's check cashing service. The ATMs in the student center have been connected to the nationwide Cirrus network. Marlin Tenboer,...

Students can receive credit for winter activity classes which will be held at NIU's field campus the weekend of Feb. 19-21. The weekend, entitled "Season of Serendipity," is at the Lorado Taft Field Campus in Oregon, Ill., about 35 miles west of DeKalb....

A change in laws regarding students' independent status for receiving financial aid has caused a decline in the number of students who received aid in 1987-88. Financial Aid Director Jerry Augsburger said under the new laws about 5 percent of NIU students...

WHEATON (AP)—The stretch of Interstate 88 west of Chicago may be Illinois' industrial Disneyland, but it's also turning into a battlefield for the state's universities. The business boom spawned by the area's high-tech industries has led local governments...

A former Student Association Senator last week called for the resignation of SA Minority Relations Adviser Larry Robertson. "(Gary Stittgen) said I was a militant, paranoid black and I should be more concerned with the university's image," Robertson told...

The apartheid system in South Africa has placed a ban or restriction on everything from peaceful gatherings to free speech. And what's more, P.W. Botha has even exiled musicians from the racially segregated country. Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black...

NIU has had off-campus courses for a while, but how NIU responds to the academic needs of the "high technology corridor" near the East-West Tollway in the western suburbs might determine its future. Bill Young, dean of the College of Continuing Education,...