Two of the most influential legislators in Illinois got a lot of ink last week for two bouts of excuse making and buck passing. Gov. Jim Thompson, addressing the Illinois Board of Higher Education last Thursday, lamented Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's...

An NIU building services foreman, regarded by his co-workers and friends as a hard worker and a man who was conscious about health problems, died Feb. 14 doing what made him happiest—working. Herbert P. Plapp, 71, NIU ‘s building services foreman...

The Career Advisory Board is sponsoring orientation nights for pre-business majors tonight at 9 p.m. in Grant Towers North lounge and Wednesday at 9 p.m. in Douglas Hall cafeteria. Undergraduate business advisers, the dean of undergraduate studies and...

The College of Engineering and Engineering Technology offers a class called "disaster preparedness" to engineering majors and other NIU students when there is sufficient demand. Technology Professor Frank Gruber said the class is usually offered every...

NIU's 1989 Greek Week kicked off Sunday afternoon with an torch run through Greek Row and Greek Sing, a three hour variety show held in the Holmes Student Center Duke Ellington Ballroom. Rob Perry, Interfraternity Council chairman for Greek Week, said...

It has been said that November's elections, in which George Bush was elected president, were nothing more than an endorsement of the status quo. Bush's proposed budget to Congress for fiscal year 1990 seems to confirm the status quo theory. The budget...

The Iran-Contra scandal was the greatest threat to our Constitution since the Civil War, and we as a nation chose to ignore it. When a few people are able to run our government without the knowledge of Congress and its elected members, is there any justification...

"For every argument against the shopping mall there is a much better argument in favor..." Unfortunately most of these other arguments are based on faulty figures or on utopian and politically motivated dreams. The estimated market of more than 100,000...

This is a new semester here at Northern, and I am looking forward to a wonderful semester. We did not have a very pretty semester last year, and we all felt the tension and the unrest that came about because of the "racial" incidents on campus. I put...

Webster's ninth collegiate dictionary defines audacity as "a bold or arrogant disregard of normal resraints." I looked this up because I wanted to know for certain that it was properly used to describe a group of Sigma Chi little sisters coming together...

It seems a few individuals are upset about the $25 million spent on behalf of President Bush during his inauguration. It wasn't made clear where this 25 mil came from, but it is clear that they don't believe it appropriate for these resources to have...

It seems the funding problems of NIU get worse every day. Contrary to what some might think, these problems do not go away. In fact, they seem to get worse and worse. Now, the classroom is not the only place suffering from a lack of state funding. The...