Instructors and coaches who use Gabel Hall's pool are breathing a sigh of relief this semester, now that repairs to the roof and pool there are completed. The pool was renovated after it was closed in December 1985 because of damage caused by a leaking...

A 19-year-old girl died and three others were severely injured after their car collided with a semi tractor-trailer on Route 38 and Malta Road Thursday morning. Dina C. Parish, 19, 5231 W. Adams, Chicago, was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. by the DeKalb County...

An NIU political science professor said he is teaching the "economy version" of a course to protest the Illinois state legislature's failure to provide university faculty with pay increases this year. In the syllabus of his Political Science 385 class,...

Both sides involved in a dispute over firemen's wage increases said the matter is unlikely to be resolved quickly. The City of DeKalb and The International Association of Firefighters Local 1236 are in arbitration concerning a retroactive wage increase...

CHICAGO (AP)—A circuit judge found a 50-year-old transient mentally unfit Wednesday to stand trial in the slaying of a Roman Catholic nun. Cook County Judge Robert J. Collins ordered Karl Caldwell, charged with murder in the Oct. 14 beating death of...

Illinois is still in the running for the Superconducting Super Collider as meetings were held this week to inform the public of residential areas which would be affected by the project. Illinois is one of the seven candidates for the site of the SSC....

Last semester's request to remove The Thunderbolt, a racially derogatory newspaper, from Founders Memorial Library's shelves was denied. Carroll Varner, assistant director for Technical Services at Founders, said the newspaper will remian on library shelves....

A representative from the environmental group Greenpeace will lead a discussion Monday about issues dealing with environmental and animal cruelty. The Student Committee for Animal Welfare invited Greenpeace representative Joe Kintigh to discuss and familiarize...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP)—Seymour Simon says he will leave the Illinois Supreme Court with one major regret: that the long legal debate over the death penalty in Illinois remains unresolved. Through his seven-year tenure on the high court, Simon's persistent...

LONDON (AP)—U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop said Thursday he wanted to screen every student of a major American university this spring to help determine the incidence of AIDS among young adults. Koop also proposed similar mass AIDS screening at...

A bill requiring businesses to obtain permits from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for on-site storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste was introduced to the Illinois Senate Jan. 25. Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, who sponsored the...

Although sections of the roof at McMurry Hall have been repaired, other parts still leak, causing water damage to certain areas of the building. "The roof is leaking in some parts, but not in the area we replaced. When the roof leaks in one area, water...