"The university system has no intention of rolling back tuition in the spring with or without a tax increase. We need to do it for them," Illinois Student Association President David Starrett said to NIU Student Association senators Sunday. Starrett visited...

DeKalb Police are looking for two males in connection with an armed robbery Thursday night on the 800 block of Edgebrook Drive. Police said two suspects struck a pizza delivery man with a jack handle and took the pizzas the man was delivering to an apartment...

Education. It used to be one of the top priorities of both national and state government. The nation's leaders believed a well-educated populace brought higher per capita incomes, higher gross national product figures, a generally healthier economy, a...

Even if you are in your fourth year here at NIU, you were still just a high school senior the last time the Huskies met California State-Fullerton. It has been nearly four full years since the Huskies beat the Titans 20-13 in California Bowl III. With...

The Rockford Lightning of the Continental Basketball Association is looking to repeat as Western Division Champions this season. The Lightning and new head coach Charley Rosen open their season at the Rockford MetroCentre Nov. 20 against Rochester. Free...

Director Antonio Garcia will present the NIU Jazz Lab Ensemble Oct. 26 at the Music Building's Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, in a concert featuring a variety of jazz music from Count Basie to Herbie Hancock. Garcia, in his first year of teaching at NIU,...

An important match is coming up for the NIU volleyball team when it takes on the Eastern Michigan Hurons at Chick Evans Field House Saturday at 4 p.m. The Huskies are going to have to prove themselves after a poor showing against the Iowa Hawkeyes Wednesday...

Soccer coach Willy Roy might forget the bus and have his Huskies pull him by dogsled to Wisconsin this weekend. NIU travels to Madison Friday and Green Bay Sunday where several inches of white stuff fell Thursday. But Roy said he would not mind playing...

Besides fighting against 11th-ranked Northwestern, the NIU field hockey team had to battle a strong wind which continually blew one of the scoring cages over in yesterday's match. The Wildcats prevailed 4-1 over the Huskies. "I thought the wind would...

SPRINGFIELD—A bill that would give the Illinois State Scholarship Commission supplemental funding to offset the effect of the $150 tuition increase was held in committee yesterday and did not appear before the Illinois Senate. A spokesman for the senate...

About 100 NIU students blocked traffic on Lincoln Hwy. and one student was slightly injured Wednesday during a statewide Day of Action protest against budget cuts to higher education. Along with the blocking of Lincoln Hwy., students marched through several...

Demonstrations protesting the $150 tuition increase were not limited to Springfield, Chicago and DeKalb Wednesday. Students from about 15 state universities participated in the Day of Action, a lobbying effort during the General Assembly veto session....