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NIU raises acceptance standards

By Gerold Shelton | February 24, 2004

Transfer student applications hit a 10-year high last fall, prompting changes in the acceptable grade point average for transfers entering without an associate’s degree. All transfer students without an associate’s degree or 60 or more credits must...

Bill prohibits pro-drug ads on buses

By Nicholas Alajakis | February 24, 2004

A new bill that would increase funding for anti-drug advertising, while no longer allowing for pro-drug advertisement on public transportation, is drawing skepticism from drug alliance groups. Earlier this month, a provision approved by the U.S. House...

MTV campus invasion comes to niu

By Mike Morig | February 24, 2004

The music television station is bringing its Campus Invasion Tour to the Convocation Center on April 22. Hoobastank will headline the tour, and Lostprophets and IMA Robot will join the show. Hoobastank, the most well-known of the three bands, formed in...

CAB brings metal show to Diversions Lounge today

By Laurel Marselle | February 24, 2004

NIU’s Campus Activities Board kicks off the spring semester with a high-caliber hardcore metal show at 7 p.m. today at the Holmes Student Center’s Diversions Lounge. The show will feature a diverse range of local rock bands. Headlining act Over and...

Former worker takes Cintas to court

By Kristin Cavarretta | February 24, 2004

Miguel Campos, 21, of Chicago, was fired from his job at Cintas more than a year ago, and now he is taking the largest uniform provider in North America to court to prove he was fired for trying to join a union. Cintas, which employs about 27,000 people...

All majors pushed to attend job fair

By Fernie Grace Tiflis | February 23, 2004

Although the job market is better for students associated with certain majors and areas of study, all students are encouraged to attend the job fair held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Convocation Center, said Jean Callary, assistant director of...

Miss Black NIU 2004 crowned

By LaShaunna Watkins | February 23, 2004

Tia Stafford was crowned Miss Black NIU Queen Mother 2004 on Sunday evening at the S.I.S.T.E.R.S. organization’s 19th annual Miss Black NIU Afrikan Cultural Pageant. Contestants showed off talent and educated the audience about African culture. The...

Toxic leak forces building to close

By Casey Toner | February 23, 2004

Two graduate students and a professor were accidentally exposed to fluorine gas after a leak at about 11 a.m. Friday at Faraday West, Room 311. The leak resulted in the building and Normal Road being shut down for about two hours. One student suffered...

Wanted: Full-time employees

By Nicholas Alajakis | February 23, 2004

Students who plan to attend Tuesday’s job fair, held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Convocation Center, don’t have to be too nervous. The event is not much different from any type of career fair, including internship fairs, said Ron Short, director...

Wrestlers sweep duals, clinch 2nd in MAC

By Jason Watt | February 23, 2004

With wins over Eastern Michigan and Buffalo this weekend, the NIU wrestling team secured second place in the MAC. The Huskies beat EMU 34-7 and Buffalo 25-9 at a Buffalo triangular. All of NIU’s ranked wrestlers were victorious over the weekend. Sam...

Star wins awards at convention

By Mark Bieganski | February 23, 2004

Several Northern Star staff members attended the 22nd annual Illinois College Press Association convention in Chicago on Saturday where the Star was honored with 27 awards for Excellence in Illinois College Newspapers. The convention, sponsored by ICPA...

Group aims to right the writing

By Laurel Marselle | February 23, 2004

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau’s first publication.

Since 1999, NIU alumni and graduate students have dedicated time to restoring Thoreau’s writings. The project is located at Founders Memorial Library and is headed by Editor in Chief Elizabeth Witherall.

The project, the only one in the United States, started in 1966 at the State University of New York at Geneseo. After several location transfers, it eventually was moved from the University of California-Santa Barbara to NIU.

It became clear over the years as English departments began to study American literature that it needed editing because of the constant reprinting of the works, Witherall said.

“There was an understanding that the texts were not reliable and that people needed to read what the author wrote instead of mistakes,” she said.

The goal of the project is to return to sources as close to Thoreau’s authority as possible - to make the edit the most accurate, Witherall said.

“Since the Center for Thoreau’s Writings is a research institution and not a library, we don’t own any manuscript material because that is too valuable,” Witherall said. “We produce new and carefully edited writings.”

There are 30 volumes of journals and correspondence. Of the 30, 14 already have been published, and 16 are Thoreau’s journals.

All of the texts differ from their predecessors, either because they contain previously unpublished manuscript material or because they correct texts already in the Thoreau canon, Witherall said.

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