A $21,000 bronze statue of Martin Luther King Jr., in its second year of planning and development stages, might stand in NIU's King Memorial Commons as early as May. The bronze statue will stand 6 feet tall on a 3-foot pedestal near the center of the...

Featuring two graduate conductors as well as two award-winning student soloists, the NIU Philharmonic will perform its final concert of the fall semester Nov. 10. The performance in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall at the Music Building will begin with a...

Editor's note: This is the last of a four-part series about alcohol-related problems in the Greek Row area. Part four focuses on sexual assault at NIU. While NIU cannot prosecute cases of sexual assault, the judicial board can take action against persons...

SPRINGFIELD—The Illinois House of Representatives did not discuss Senate Bill 1520 Thursday, leaving the university's ability to spend tuition money as it is received uncertain for today. ep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, said he saw more than 50 amendments...

Assistant City Manager Gary Boden said there are as many complaints from students against other students as any other type of complaints. "Regardless of who it is (making a complaint), they are just residents of the city of DeKalb," he said. DeKalb County...

When discussing NIU's proposed constitution Tuesday, the University Council expressed concerns about some of the changes and offered additional recommendations to the constitutional task force. The Presidential Task Force on Constitutional Revision will...

NIU will have to do without a physics doctorate program because Provost Kendall Baker withdrew the $2 million prosposal from the Illinois Board of Higher Education. At the Faculty Assembly meeting Wednesday, Baker spoke on his reasons for withdrawing...

The NIU Law School received a $5,000 grant from the Illinois Bar Foundation in Springfield to finance the publication of a special issue of the Law Review. The Law Review is a student-edited publication run by the law school. Editor in Chief Steven Brody...

The Student Committee On Political Action discussed plans Wednesday to check into the methods NIU's Graduate Council uses to determine who will be required to take the Test of Spoken English, a fluency test given to foreign individuals seeking positions...

The Panhellenic Council Tuesday elected a new external public relations chairwoman but had to postpone other executive officer elections. Debbie Mitchel was elected to the public relations post. Most offices were not up for election Tuesday since several...

Realizing how little they know about other cultures is a rude awakening many nurses face overseas, said Nancy Savage at NIU's annual Roseanne Krcek-Frank lecture Savage has worked as a staff nurse, instructor and consultant for Project Hope in countries...

The eerie feeling of Halloween lingered in the aisles of Sandburg Auditorium as more than 1000 NIU students and faculty gathered to hear "True Ghost Stories of Chicagoland" Wednesday night. Richard T. Crowe, who believes he might be the only full-time...