The Board of Regents' finance and facilities committee will decide today if the board will vote on a $1 fee for the Illinois Student Association. Sangamon State University student Regent Brian Hopkins said if the finance and facilities committee makes...

Passengers riding Huskie buses this semester will notice slight changes in the schedules of some buses, as well as the locations where buses can be boarded. Since the closing of Carroll Avenue in the fall of 1987, all buses must drive down Lucinda Avenue...

Students interested in improving the quality of NIU academics can apply for the position of Student Association Academic Affairs Adviser, as the previous adviser resigned at the end of last semester. SA President Paula Radtke said a lack of funds kept...

Only about one in 18 United States adults are scientifically literate enough to know how nuclear power, acid rain or health would affect them as consumers and citizens, a recent survey stated. The survey, conducted by the NIU Public Opinion Laboratory,...

Students visiting Founders Memorial Library this semester will notice that the escalators continue to await repairs. A three-phase plan outlining a complete restoration of the escalators estimates the overall cost at $242,500 to restore the operation...

The Organization of Latin American Students is a group designated to "creating an atmosphere where incoming Latino freshmen and transfer students can adjust to a college campus environment," said OLAS President Angel Rodriguez. Rodriguez said the organization...

NIU President John LaTourette's Fee Study Committee reviewed a proposal for a student fee increase for fiscal year 1990 to help fund a Revenue Bond Fee. The Revenue Bond Fee Committee requested a fee of $68.04 per semester from full-time students to help...

NIU's Parking Division put its security phone system on hold until the votes on a Student Association referendum for a security phone system are counted. Public Safety Director Jim Elliott said the parking division had begun a process to install three...

Elections to fill seven Student Association senate seat vacancies created by resignations last semester, and a referendum concerning a security phone system will take place this week. Senate elections will be held today and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6...

NIU's physical therapy program recently has acquired laboratory space and will graduate 21 students this semester, despite being in danger of elimination last April when facility space and a lack of funding posed major problems for the program. Mary Jane...

NIU President John LaTourette's Fee Study Committee met Monday evening to review a proposal presented by the Northern Star Publication Board that would increase student fees for fiscal year 1989. The proposal to charge full-time students $1.80 per semester...

Once again a new semester is upon us, when NIU students spend every free moment of the first few weeks, picking up and dropping classes and braving the lines of NIU's bookstores. However, when students get placed in the classes they request, there is...