NIU students and faculty can return to prehistoric times and wander inside a paleolithic cave exhibit in the Anthropology Museum. Milton Deemer, anthropology instructor, built "The Oldest Masters," a cave depicting the Paleozoic era from 10,000 to 30,000...

A contested State Representative election, decided by only four votes, is being reviewed by the House Committee on Elections, which includes newly appointed member John Countryman, R-DeKalb. There seems to have been a problem with the "conduct of the...

Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles on the "high technology corridor" which will be published in the Star periodically throughout the semester. NIU might join four other Illinois universities to provide graduate level engineering...

NIU tae kwon do instructor Mike Park might be a competitor in the 1988 Olympics—if the sport is accepted. Coincidentally, tae kwon do originated in Korea, as did Park, a 20-year-old business major and instructor of the NIU Ji-Do-Kwan-Tae Kwon Do Club....

The Marriott Corporation last week asked NIU to consider discussing the terms of their contract, which might include the closing of Roy Rogers, said William Herrmann, director of Bond Revenue Services. "The volume of people and the commission they must...

Freshman Congressman Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, will be overseeing federal activities and monitoring their efficiency as a newly appointed member of the House Government Operations Committee. Bob Welling, Hastert's press secretary, said the committee...

Awards of up to $10,000 annually can provide financial assistance to qualified minority students of NIU's graduate school. The Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program (ICEOP) provides the awards to Illinois students from a $1 million fund...

Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, said NIU is "advancing very well" in the areas of education and development during a campus visit Friday. Madigan, a 15-year veteran of the Illinois General Assembly, spent...

A unique course, focusing on aging from infancy to death, is being offered for the first time this semester by NIU Professor John Stolte. "Social Structure and the Life Course," part of NIU's gerontology program, deals with all the stages encountered...

A plan which could bring long-term savings for DeKalb property taxpayers will be discussed at tonight's meeting of the DeKalb City Council. First Ward Alderman Ron Matekaitis said Illinois requires city governments to make an "actuarial analysis" of city...

The Student Association Finance Committee approved four budget requests Tuesday night, totaling more than $3,200. The Minority Graduate Student Association's request for $1,384.55, which includes a variety of different items, was approved with a vote...

NIU will cut its energy costs in 1987 by significantly reducing its expenditure for natural gas. The savings for the university, however, will lead to a loss in revenue for the City of DeKalb. A federal law known as Rider 25 governing the direct sale...