The University Council Wednesday will discuss the proposed NIU Faculty Senate, as well as hear the first reading of additional bylaw changes to the NIU Constitution. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Clara Sperling Skyroom in the Holmes Student...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Both sides in the abortion rights dispute are mobilizing to battle for the state legislatures that will decide the highly charged issue if the Supreme Court, reshaped by Ronald Reagan, retreats from the 1973 decision legalizing abortions....

An engineering professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago will lecture on fluid, thermal and energy research on Thursday, April 20, at the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology in Sycamore. The lecture will be held in conference...

NIU's Student Association will begin its study of the Illinois Student Association April 21, about two weeks after the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana completed its investigation of the ISA. Greg Kurth, U of I Student Government Association...

The first phase in asbestos removal and emergency roof repairs at the University Health Services will begin on Wednesday. Conrad Miller, Physical Plant project manager, said the health center repairs, totaling more than $360,000, include the removal of...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I realize that cliches are taboo in journalistic circles, but sometimes these phrases express exactly what happened so well that not to use them would be a crime. Yes, with the election fervor subsiding...

Bodybuilder Anthony Kirsch, class winner of the Mr. Illinois Contest and owner of Barbells Gym, will speak on weightlifting, nutrition and competition Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the lobby of the University Plaza, 900 Crane Drive. Kirsch will be a guest poser...

When it comes to working with food, NIU students consider it taboo. Jerry Arshem, food service student manager at Grant Towers South, said, "We've had quite a number of people apply this semester," although he said that toward the end of the semester,...

The newly elected Student Association executives face a lot of work in the upcoming year. Several issues are so important that they readily present themselves as an agenda for the Executive Board. First and foremost, the new officers should bring more...

Six or seven job openings in the NIU Physical Plant that "are or will become available within the next three months" will remain vacant until fiscal year 1990, said Physical Plant Director John Harrod. Harrod said these positions, such as the campus planning...

The King Commons/Carroll Avenue Renovation Project Advisory Board will meet Tuesday to discuss and hear views from the public on the possible removal of Wirtz House. The board will meet at 9 p.m. in Room 306 of the Holmes Student Center. The board will...

"When you get into educational politics in this state, you can throw away the R's and the D's," said Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, referring to Republicans and Democrats. Countryman and Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, joined forces Saturday to urge a group...