The Northern Illinois Stage Company will perform in St. Charles this summer as the result of an agreement between NIU and the Dellora A. Norris Cultural Arts Center in St. Charles. The Stage Company is a professional production company of the NIU Department...

The owner of the DeKalb County Landfill must provide information demonstrating that operations will not pollute the ground water before the county will approve his request for expansion. In a hearing Friday, the DeKalb County Board's Landfill Committee...

NIU is the only school in Illinois with an accredited Marriage and Family Therapy program. A division of the Applied Family and Child Studies emphasis, the program began in 1973 and was accredited about eight years ago by the American Association for...

With the fall of winter's first snow comes a hush. Those animals not lucky enough to be classified as waterfowl move to more hospitable environs in order to feast on the vegetation that is so sparse during Jack Frost's stay in DeKalb. Those waterfowl...

The NIU InterFraternity Council voted Tuesday to continue the colony status of both Delta Chi and Kappa Sigma colonies for this semester because they do not meet the 2.39 grade point average required by the IFC. The council voted to grant both organizations...

An ad hoc committee decided Friday to request student input on the possible renovations to the Holmes Student Center since fees could increase from $10.40 to $25.20. A report conducted by Jon Dalton, vice president for student affairs, states the student...

Where can you go to taste free food, plan special dinners for NIU residence halls or observe a Human and Family Resources class learn about sensory perception? The answer is Douglas Hall's test kitchen. Patty Lee, NIU food specialist, said the test kitchen...

There are only one or two black conductors of major symphonic orchestras in the United States and Chelsea Tipton II would like to become another one. Tipton, who was born in North Carolina, has a bachelor's degree in music from the Eastman School of Music...

"I'm on your side," Gov. James Thompson told about 20 students protesting the lack of funding for higher education Thursday evening at a Republican party fundraiser. Students from the Student Political Education and Action Committee, the Young Democrats,...

NIU will receive $113 million if vote passes The Illinois Board of Higher Education will vote Tuesday to approve Gov. James Thompson's fiscal year 1990 higher education budget. The governor's allocations fall 60 percent below the board's recommendations...

The NIU Parking Committee approved the Parking Division's fiscal year 1990 budget at its Thursday meeting. Business and Operations Controller Robert Albanese said the division had $289,000 left in its budget at the end of FY88. The division will have...

FRANKFURT, West Germany (AP) - The U.S. Army said Thursday it is baffled by the disappearance of a "good, clean-cut" American soldier who had access to classified information and vanished near the East German border. An Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Jake Dye,...