"Continued U.S. Involvement in Central America would be Undesirable" is the topic for a 40-team intercollegiate tournament to be held here this weekend. Competitors from each school will be debating this topic at the same time in various rooms in DuSable...

This week only in The Northern Star Journal of Medicine: Dan on Health. It all started many, many years ago, before the dawn of the Seattle Seahawks, back in the days when my mother was just a nurse and not a skiing/world-traveling/amateur pilot/nurse....

Contel workers installing phone lines on the fourth floor of the NIU Health Center Oct. 7 removed ceiling panels that allegedly contained asbestos, dropping fragments and dust from the panels onto the floor. Health Enhancement Services Coordinator Michael...

NORMAL—In an attempt to increase voter participation among NIU students, student Regent Nick Valadez said he would like to have a voter registration table in the Holmes Student Center Ballroom during class registration. Valadez said he also would like...

In an effort to increase revenue and to keep fee increases at a minimum, the Student Association Mass Transit Board has made a commitment to promote its service to the community. "Anything we can do to increase revenues will offset the increase of (student)...

NIU marketing Professor David Richard Rink entered a plea of not guilty at the pretrial for the charges of two counts of forgery. William Brady, Rink's defense attorney, also asked for a trial date to test the validity of the warrant used in acquiring...

A gathering of experts and concerned persons will take part in a panel discussion tomorrow in an effort to increase awareness about the problems of hunger and poverty. The third annual World Food Day Teleconference will be held at the Holmes Student Center...

Huskie fight song lyricist and former NIU men's swimming coach Francis Stroup recently was inducted into the North Texas State University Hall of Fame. At NTSU's Homecoming football game Saturday, Stroup was one of five members inducted into the hall,...

NIU student Lisa Taranto will vie for the Miss America Petite title in December after being crowned Miss Illinois Petite in September. The pageant, which was sponsored by the Casablanca Modeling Agency, consisted of 96 contestants. The contest has the...

More than 200 NIU students and DeKalb residents will participate in a 10K walk across campus on Sunday at 2 p.m. The annual Crop Walk, sponsored by Church World Services, is a nationwide effort to aid in the fight against hunger and poverty. The Crop...

Although DeKalb Fire Department paramedic Tim Hughes tried finding true love on "The Love Connection," his date turned out to be an "airhead," Hughes said. Hughes, 24, was featured on the daytime TV dating game Monday and Tuesday where he picked Kat,...

The NIU personnel office will be sponsoring a variety of workshops on Unity through Diversity, supervisory skills, personnel operations and personal development. Dates and locations of the workshops can be obtained from the personnel office. Personnel...