As part of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity will sponsor a breathalizer test demonstration at 6:30 p.m. today in Swen Parson Rm. 170. Delta Theta Phi co-dean K. Patrick Yarbrough, said "two fraternity members...

More than $5 million the Illinois State Scholarship Commission collected from defaulted student loans cannot be used to help students pay the $150 tuition increase. Through a joint effort between the ISSC and the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the...

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....

CHICAGO—As part of the statewide Day of Action, representatives from Illinois and Wisconsin schools marched and rallied against Illinois tuition increases here Wednesday. After a pre-rally at the University of Illinois-Chicago campus, protesters marched...

The Company Dancers of NIU will step their way into the spotlight Thursday, Friday and Saturday in a production called "Lights, Camera ...Dance!" The show is choreographed by students who make up their own dance steps or find them in other classes, faculty...

Sycamore's 26th annual Pumpkin Fest kicks off the Halloween season today with entries for the pumpkin contest. "The Pumpkin Fest actually began 26 years ago when Wally Thurow put pumpkins on his lawn for the kids," Fest Committee President Mary Emmer...

An NIU alumnus is the playwright of "Bridgehouse," a romantic comedy mystery which premiered Friday at the Egyptian Theater showing the conflict of an engaged couple marrying for looks and not for love. Albert Reynolds, who earned his doctorate in education...

In a effort to encourage NIU alumni to contribute to the university, one couple has offered a $20,000 challenge donation for the annual fund program. James and Linda Mason, Geneva residents and NIU alumni, will match all new gifts, up to $20,000, from...

Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week will take on legal dimensions tonight at 6:30 p.m. when NIU Health Services and the Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity present a mock trial in Swen Parson, Rm. 170. Delta Theta Phi co-Dean K. Patrick Yarbrough said the...

NIU President John LaTourette will be a guest on WLBK's call-in show, "Party line", on Friday. WLBK News Director Mike McPhillips said the show's host will ask LaTourette questions for the first 25 to 30 minutes of the show and the remaining minutes are...