The NIU spirit club, OPRA, will sponsor a raffle in an effort to recruit more members at the last game of the men's basketball season. OPRA, formally known as the Incredible All-Voluntary Fire Brigade, is known to most students as the rowdy group of spectators...

A DeKalb County circuit judge will decide at 1:30 this afternoon whether the case of Demetrius Glenn, 20, is ready for trial. DeKalb Police charged Glenn with reckless homicide in connection with the Oct. 4 death of NIU student Christine Billmyer, 21....

Last Thursday the NIU President's Fee Study Committee recommended a $1 per student annual refundable fee to help fund the Illinois Student Association. The fee must be approved through a student referendum this semester. Both the Champaign and Chicago...

NIU's major research projects all are not performed on campus. NIU's Social Science Research Institute, located on 3rd and Locust streets in DeKalb, has conducted several research projects since it was founded in 1980, said Paul Kleppner, director of...

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)...

Executive board members representing greek organizations will be discussing which of the newly established greek alcohol policy guidelines should be mandatory. The guidelines were created to "reduce the risk of people getting hurt" and to help prevent...

Three new renovation projects in Montgomery Hall are filling the hole left by the Nursing School. Conrad Miller, project manager for the physical plant, said the three projects include building three new laboratories, remodeling three existing labs, creating...