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NIU wins 1 of 3

By Jason Watt | April 20, 2003

The NIU softball team managed one victory over the top team in the MAC, Marshall, this weekend at Mary Bell Field. The Huskies (17-17, 7-5 MAC) won the first game of the double header on Friday with a final of 3-1. They lost the nightcap 5-3 and Saturday...

Greeks prepare for annual evaluation

By Jeff Goluszka | April 20, 2003

Each of NIU's 37 Greek chapters has until either today or Tuesday to submit the mandatory accreditation application to the Office of Greek Affairs. As of press time, the activities adviser for Greek Affairs, Chris Juhl, had not decided which day the applications...

Summer classes moved

By Jessica King | April 20, 2003

NIU will close DuSable Hall for the summer in an effort to save money. The Office of Registration and Records already has changed class locations on TRACS. More than 100 classes had to be relocated. For example, History 171, which was to be held in DuSable...

NFL alumni return to Huskie Stadium

By Mark Pickrel | April 20, 2003

While many of the big names were missing from Huskie Stadium for Thursday's Spring Game, two of the biggest names at the game will be suiting up on a slightly bigger stage this fall. Former NIU standouts and current NFL players Ryan Diem (Indianapolis...

The Illinois Open Meetings Act

April 20, 2003

The Illinois Open Meetings Act, enacted in 1957, and amended in January 1995, states, "that public bodies exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and that the people have a right to be informed as to the conduct of their business." Therefore it "is the intent of this Act to ensure that the actions of public bodies be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly."

The Act is a governing order that promotes public participation in local government. It requires public bodies to hold open meetings, to provide the public with notice of meeting times so that the citizens may freely attend, and to keep records of public meetings.

What is a public body?

Public bodies include all "legislative, executive, administrative or advisory bodies of the state" also agencies, committees, boards, municipalities, city councils, village boards, and school districts, including any subsidiary committee supported by or expending tax revenue.

Although citizens do not have the right to speak at the meetings, MOST public bodies hold a public comment session during their meetings.

What does it mean to be open?

Public bodies are required to give notice of their regularly scheduled meetings by making a schedule public with the dates, times and location of meetings.

The public body must also post an agenda at least 48 hours prior to each regular meeting.

Written minutes

All public bodies must keep written minutes of their meetings, whether open or closed meeting. Minutes are open to the public within 7 days of the public body's approval of the minutes. Public bodies must also review minutes from closed meetings at least every six months to make a determination in open session of whether those minutes still require that confidentiality.

Closed meetings

Public bodies may hold closed meetings provided that they state in an open session the reasons for holding a closed session.

Closed meetings may be held for :

1. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body, including hearing tesitimony on a complaint against an employee.

2. Collective negotiating matters between the public body and its employees or their representatives.

3. The selection of a person to fill a public office, including a vacancy in a public office, or the discipline, performance or removal of the occupant of a public office when the public body has the power to remove such occupant under law or ordinance.

4. Land Investment Deals

5. Security Matters

6. Student Records

7. Litigation-Legal Claims

and other exceptions as stated by the Act. The Public Body must state in open session why it has closed the meetings and must take all final actions in open session.

Source: Illinois Attorney General office

UP arrest 3 in car burglaries

By Rachel Helfrich | April 20, 2003

University Police arrested three suspects after a spree of car burglaries early Thursday morning in the parking lots of NIU's west campus. UP apprehended the suspects just before 3 a.m. Thursday and the suspects were taken to the DeKalb County Jail. Anthony...

Administrative Professionals Week honors contributions

By Sarah Rejnert | April 17, 2003

Today the celebration begins to mark this week as Administrative Professionals Week. The previous title of this celebration was Professional Secretaries Week, but it still is a tradition that celebrates the contributions in the workplace that all of these...

Marconi, NIU invites Falcons into town

By Brian Kelley | April 17, 2003

The NIU baseball team welcomes MAC rival Bowling Green for a four-game series starting 3 p.m. today at Ralph McKinzie Field. Junior third baseman Rob Marconi, who leads the team in home runs with eight and RBIs with 18, hopes to lead the Huskies (18-12,...

Football prepares for 2004

By Chris Jurmann | April 17, 2003

There aren't many games where the final score means absolutely nothing. On Thursday night at Huskie Stadium, that rule applied as the NIU No. 1 starters beat the No. 2 squad 34-0 in the Spring Intra-squad Football Game. NIU's No. 1 squad managed 389 yards...

Alumni create version of DeKalb

By Greg Feltes | April 17, 2003

Three NIU graduates have turned a Chicago-based business development firm into their own version of DeKalb. Alumni Vinay Mullick, David Spoeher and David O'Connor are the driving forces behind Monroestar, a business development firm that specializes in...

Lambda Chi’s receive temporary suspension from UP&A

By Aacia Hussain | April 17, 2003

University Programming and Activities served Lambda Chi Alpha President Bryan Hanson with temporary papers of suspension Thursday, pending an investigation of the fraternity, said Michelle Emmett, associate vice president of Student Affairs. NIU, UP&A,...

No.1 MU faces NIU

By Sean Connor | April 17, 2003

The NIU softball team welcomes in the top team in the MAC, Marshall, for three games this weekend. The Huskies' (16-15, 6-3 MAC) first doubleheader against MU (34-11, 15-3) is at 4 p.m. today at Mary Bell Field. NIU will play Marshall once more at 1 p.m....

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