St. Mary's School of Sycamore is holding its twelfth annual fall festival and auction, featuring the sale of celebrity memorabilia, on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Among the items to be auctioned are a bow tie from Sen. Paul Simon, autographed pictures of former...

It's kind of ironic that last year, a group of students ran for the Student Association Senate claiming they were "students for all students." But these "students for ‘all' students," in fact, represented only about 10 percent of the student population....

Once upon a time a little white boy stood on the corner of Michigan and Congress. This was quite a big deal since it was the boy's first trip to the big city. Tall buildings, busy streets, fancy cars and, most of all, black people. Big, ugly, scary black...

When Republican presidential candidate George Bush announced last month that his running mate would be Indiana Senator James Danforth Quayle, a funny thing happened in the press. Somersaults. Somersaults on the part of print and broadcast journalists...

A damaged pipe located in the Holmes Student Center will cause the Pow Wow Room, located on the first floor, to be closed for part of the day. The pipe, which transports kitchen sewage away from the Pow Wow Room, caused an undetermined amount of damage...

It has been an interseting past few months in the Educational Services and Programs office (yes, where the CHANCE program is located.) With unfounded and ludicrous accusations flying, I feel there is a need for a voice to be heard other than that of Martha...

Opponents in the controversy regarding new requirements for prison instructors to take urine tests for drug use detection cannot agree on the accuracy of the tests. While research done by an independent prison watchdog group indicates a five percent minimum...

As I read Gretchyn Lenger's Sept. 2 Column, "Listen up freshmen...this column's for you," I couldn't stop thinking about those freshmen who paused over a cup of coffee to hastily read the column, addressed to them, before rushing off to their two jobs,...

Once again criticisms surrounding the assignment of available parking permits have been brought to the attention of university parking committee members for debate. Even with the creation of 1,091 additional parking spots by the ad hoc parking committee,...

NIU Legal Counsel George Shur said Thursday that CHANCE program officials are under no obligation by university policy to disclose reasons behind the firing of Martha Palmer. "The university has a general policy of confidentiality for personnel transactions...

DeKalb County Hospice will offer a Bereavement Care Orientation class starting Sept. 22. The program will be held on 6 consecutive Thursday evenings, beginning Thursday, Sept. 22 through Oct. 27, 6:30_9:30 p.m. at the Sandwich Community Hospital, 11 E....

This summer, I involuntarily became part of a very brief social survey of the American educational system that was, to put it mildly, a humbling experience. I was sitting in an English pub, sipping my cider, minding my own business when an Englishman—an...