SPRINGFIELD - NIU students will be asked to pay a $1 refundable fee beginning in the 1989 fall semester in an effort to help stengthen the Illinois Student Association. The Board of Regents approved the fee without discussion at their meeting in Springfield...

The newly-formed Greater DeKalb Partnership is in the midst of a month-long membership drive. Partnership Vice President Karen Remen said the organization "works with area business to help insure a favorable business community for DeKalb." Remen added...

The Comprehensive Health Insurance Program, a state-funded plan to secure insurance for Illinois residents having difficulty obtaining coverage, is now accepting applications, said John Countryman (R-DeKalb), Wednesday. Countryman estimated that around...

There's a brand new coming, and it's on Rockhill; Slammin‘ and Jammin' and Shooting the Pill. So goes the rap song "The New Coming" by Missouri-Kansas City forward and amateur rapper Baxter Russell, who reportedly writes a new rap after every Kangaroo...

An overall lack of employees in the physical plant at NIU has caused an overload of work orders, and some describe the problem as getting serious. Keith Strutz, superintendent of building services, has lost ten janitorial positions in the last three years...

Several issues concerning the Student Association that have emerged during the first two weeks of the semester will be discussed at the first SA meeting Sunday. SA Treasurer Diana Turowski said the redistricting of senate distrits will be one subject...

In what some members of the Student Accosiation are calling a landmark decision, the SA Sumpreme Court found the 1986 senate voting redistricting plan unconstitutional Thursday night. The decision, a response to a petition by Andrew Shankman, states that...

It's seems like every time the NIU women's basketball team takes the court these days there is some new accomplishment. Thursday night's 103-65 trouncing of Valparaiso University at Chick Evans Field House was no different. Five minutes into the first...

Huskie wrestling coach Ed Vatch is hoping that a pair of victories this weekend will open the eyes of the athletic administration. "It's been kind of hard to get attention," said Vatch, who has stated his desire for more scholarships. "Hopefully, we'll...

Frank Wendland Beezhold, a retired NIU music professor, died Wednesday at Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb. Beezhold was 72 years old. Oscar Haugland, Beezhold's colleague and friend, described him as "a wonderful, warm human being," saying that...

Most college basketball players have four years plus to mature, both on and off the court. While Stacy Arrington still has two more years and 10 games to perfect his pull-up jump shot, the 6-2 NIU guard has commpacted the off-court maturity process into...

The Northern Illinois University Alumni Association is sponsoring tours to the Orient and Europe for DeKalb residents and NIU students this spring, and the association has dubbed the European trip "Monuments, Masterpieces and Old Master." Ross Guest,...