A resounding 70 percent of DeKalb County voters approved the 911 emergency telephone system in an average turnout at the nonpartisan election. The DeKalb County Board is expected to act on the referendum by approving a nine-member emergency telephone...

Implementation of the pending federal minimum wage law might soon result in salary increases for many of the 5,000 on-campus student employees. Recently approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, and pending approval in the Senate and by President...

The Undergraduate Coordinating Council approved a proposal last week which drops the constitution test as a requirement for NIU students graduating after December 1989. This legislation officially withdraws the requirement in the Illinois School Code...

Feminist therapist Adrienne Smith came to the NIU campus Tuesday to speak on "Empowerment as an Ethical Imperative in Feminist Therapy". The lecture, which was sponsored by the psychology department, was attended by a group of about thirty persons including...

Commonwealth Edison customers will receive a total refund of $245 million, the largest rebate ever, as result of action taken in the Cook County Circuit Court against the company's rate hike for the Byron One nuclear power plant near Rockford. The Citizens...

I find it harder and harder to deal with the annual birthday and the upcoming nightmares that soon folllow. Sunday night I received belated birthday wishes from an unbelievably distant cousin and his roommate from Bradley University in Peoria. I had to...

Brad Burzynski, governmental affairs director for the DeKalb Farm Bureau, is seeking the Republican nomination for state representative of the 76th District. The 76th District encompasses all of DeKalb County, as well as four southwestern townships in...

Minority students are not being motivated by their community college to continue their education at a four-year university, according to a national report. The Academy for Educational Development report, "Bridges to Opportunity," said a small percentage...

Reaction to last week's Board of Regents appointments is similar: the decision to not reappoint former Regent Harry Wellbank is regrettable. Regents Chairperson Carol Burns and Regent D. Brewster Parker were reappointed to five-year terms by Gov. James...

Sorry, NIU might save more money, but it will not get any free bikes or VCRs when it buys furniture from the government. The U.S. government, the nation's largest employer, sells surpluses of office materials which it stores in warehouses in Illinois....

The Student Association Supreme Court reached its five-member status Sunday after the senate appointed two additional justices. Cam Davis and Brad Camis were appointed Sunday night, but not without controversy about the candidate interview process. Former...

Improving the student activity center in the Holmes Student Center basement and extending the Pow Wow hours until 2 a.m. are decisions the Holmes Student Center Board of Directors will soon face. Lack of study space in Founders Memorial Library is one...