A status review hearing for about 75 NIU students involved in the April 13, Day of Action II protests is scheduled for Friday at 1:30 p.m. The students were charged with obstructing a highway, which is a traffic offense, for their participation in the...

I would like to know more about the "‘publish or parish' syndrom" (sic) that Miss McGinnis spoke of in her column of 11/30. I'm not sure what is the exact nature of a "syndrom," but in light of its modifier "publish or parish," I would guess that we...

The DeKalb County Board will vote on whether to sell county farm land to developers for an enclosed shopping center at tonight's meeting at 7:30 p.m. Officials from Wilmorite Inc. have offered to purchase 119 acres for $1.9 million to build a 300,000-square-foot...

When the going gets tough, the tough normally get going. Except in the case of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. One year before new academic standards for state university admission set by the IBHE were slated to have gone into effect, the IBHE...

President-elect George Bush, who will be inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States this Friday, seems to have the potential to be an effective leader in at least two repects. First of all, Bush's cabinet choices point to sensible decision...

Findings from a one-and-a-half year study conducted by the University Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Teacher Evaluation will be presented at the council's meeting Wednesday. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Clara Sperling Skyroom of the Holmes Student...

The airports are closed, the mail isn't coming, the corporations are disfunctional. Go ahead. Scream it again. Scream "racism" and our whole country shuts down. Is it a game to see who can get the most attention? Well, I think we have a winner: Martha...

It is amazing that we are all required to pass a test on the U.S. Constitution and yet many of us seem not to know what it truly means. I am referring to the incident regarding Sigma Chi's suspension. It seems to me that the key issue here is freedom...

Two pit bull terriers that fatally mauled 25-year-old Kevin Cull in a rural Geneva home Nov. 10 were put to sleep by lethal injection Jan. 5. Cull, a NIU chemistry graduate student, was attacked by the dogs while visiting 29-year-old Thomas Kennedy. Kennedy...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream that changed the nation—a dream of equal rights that now has the power of law. And on Monday, Illinois joined the nation in honoring his legacy. "Yes, Martin, you're gone, but your dream is still a reality,"...

The recent university decision to end all NIU fraternity little sister programs by the end of this semester has brought the issue of sexual assault to the front pages of the newspaper once again. The university's action, initiated by Jon Dalton, vice...

I feel moved to make a few comments about the anti-racism rally of Friday, Dec. 2. As Franklin Roosevelt once said, the speakers who were present "are a credit to their race; the human race." They presented intelligent, articulate criticisms of white...