Free performances by local bands, singers, poets and speakers will highlight the second annual Peace in the Park festival scheduled for Saturday, April 25, from noon to 6 p.m. in DeKalb's Hopkins Park. The NIU/DeKalb County Freeze Campaign will be hosting...

Proposals from the Missouri State Legislature and Columbia University in New York will be introduced Wednesday at a Senate-mandated task force meeting for pre-paid college tuition. The proposals differ from the plans currently introduced in the Illinois...

A 19-year-old man was injured in a collision between a semi-truck and a car Tuesday at about 5:15 p.m. at the intersection of Annie Glidden Road and Illinios Route 63. The car, driven by Robert Kretzschmar of McHenry was northbound on Glidden Road when...

The Georgia Satellites, the southern rockabilly band from Atlanta, is set on course for the Duke Ellington Ballroom tonight. Only two of the original Georgia Satellites—Dan Baird and Rick Richards—still are with the band, which formed in 1980. The...

Although May 1 is the deadline for summer Guaranteed Student Loans, two other loan programs with higher interest rates are available after this date. Students who apply for a GSL before the May 1 deadline have a good chance of having the forms processed...

Contrary to what former Student Association vice president Michele Begovich said Monday, action taken at Sunday's SA meeting is not in question, said Cam Davis, SA Public Relations adviser. Begovich said Monday the meeting could be considered illegitimate...

AIDS patients have been dubbed the new "lepers" of society, but aggressive education can dispel myths about the disease and reduce society's fear of the epidemic, according to one AIDS specialist. Dr. Renslow Sherer, an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome...

During the past six years, many NIU students might have wondered why the $2 million crosswalk between Founders Memorial Library and Swen Parson's law library is closed. The crosswalk was built by the same structural engineering firm that built the skywalks...

The State Universities Civil Service Merit Board's 5-1 vote last week to eliminate service bonus points caused a stir among university union employees and Illinois legislators. Actions have been taken in an attempt to restore the service bonus point system,...

At an open forum Tuesday, provost candidate Kendall Baker of Bowling Green University in Ohio said he wants the "very best relationship with students as possible." "Students really are the life of the university. The provost should be in contact with...

Residents of High Meadows Apartments had to go without water Tuesday morning, after the building's management failed to pay the water bill. Despite numerous notices by the DeKalb Municipal Office billing department, the managers of these apartments did...

A majority of Northern Illinois residents favor locating the proposed superconducting supercollider in Illinois and support a state financial incentive to bring it here, according to a survey by the NIU Center for Governmental Studies and the NIU Public...