A student housing floor for transfer students will be available at NIU next semester. John "Jack" Felver, assistant director of Student Housing, said any transfer student, as recognized by office of admissions, who has earned at least 12 credit hours...

Affirmative action, student retention and leadership are three focuses of the third candidate for NIU vice president for student affairs. The candidate, Narbeth Emmanuel, spoke Tuesday at an open forum of about 15 people in the Holmes Student Center....

Louis Farrakhan spoke at NIU because people want, and have the right, to hear him speak, Black Student Union officials said Tuesday. BSU members held a small news conference after the Hillel Student Organization's anti-racism rally in the King Memorial...

Students renting from some off-campus housing agencies will experience increasing rent rates when signing a 1990-91 lease. "In addition to the normal 5 percent cost of living increase, rents in Greek Row had to be raised more because of the new assessment,"...

In selecting apartments for the next semester, students consider cost, location, size, cleanliness and a few individual whims, before making their decision. The distance of an apartment from campus is one of the primary concerns for students. NIU student,...

An anti-racism rally Tuesday found speakers urging people to fight racism while some comments termed Louis Farrakhan as being racist. The noon rally, sponsored by the Hillel Student Organization—an NIU Jewish group—came eight hours before black Muslim...

The NIU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will hold a meeting Wednesday at 8:45 p.m. in the Cole Hall basement. Meetings are held every other Wednesday at the same location and time. SPJ members can hear guest speakers and make contacts....

Two NIU students can live as inexpensively as one at University Apartments, 501 Annie Glidden Road, if they are married or have children. The apartments for married students, married students with children and single parents with children are referred...

A panel discussion on the upcoming Nicaraguan elections and United States intervention in Central America drew a crowd of about 50 people Sunday night. The event was sponsored by the DeKalb Area Interfaith Network and featured panelists Michael Gonzales,...

Members of the Student Association will try to answer questions, concerns and suggestions students have about anything at NIU with a "passing the buck" service. Students can put their comments in any of the "passing the buck" boxes located in Altgeld...

At any time during the semester, about 3,500 NIU students are employed on campus. Most campus employers are near their capacity for students this semester, but some positions open during the semester, said Melody Amundsen, NIU coordinator of student employment....

Jean Moreno is a foot soldier in the battle for nurses in the growing war known as the nursing shortage. Moreno is a recruiter from St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Il., and she has been in the war zone at 12 job fairs since last September. "We attend...