A proposal by the Illinois Board of Higher Education to make tougher college entrance requirements optional, rather than mandatory, will not directly affect admissions to NIU. Admissions Director Dan Oborn said if the new requirements, expected to take...

The local United Way chapter is calling on about 1,500 residents to complete questionnaires sent out Wednesday assessing the socail service program in DeKalb. Jack Felver, DeKalb United Way charirman, said the DeKalb Human Needs Survey is the third stage...

The Illinois Joint University Advisory Committee is voicing its concern that the three Illinois universities are competing with their governing board, the Board of Regents, for program improvement expansion (PIE) dollars. NIU, Illinois State University...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board has initiated a DeKalb-Sycamore route that will allow Sycamore resients to use the Huskie Bus Line. SAMTB Chairman Dave Emerick said, "Student fees will not be increase because of the new route. In fact, in the...

Republicans and Democrats are banding together in the DeKalb community to support a senate bill that would grant NIU its own governing system. Senate Bill 0001, submitted by Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, would remove NIU from the Board of Regents' control...

By this time of the year, even the most well-intended of resolutions made for the new year have become just that—well intended. Now come on, you can admit it. It does seem to be the perfect time to put the past behind and break forth into the New Year...

Two NIU students will spend their spring semester conducting research at prestigous national nuclear laboratories through a two-year-old program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The pair, both enrolled in NIU's honors program, are Christopher...

NIU graduates with ambition to succeed in life, as well as polished communication skills, will have excellent chances of finding promising jobs, when they enter the work force, according to Gary Scott, director of NIU Career Planning and Placement. Scott...

A nationwide search will begin this spring to fill the position of former greek advisor Jeff Cufuade who left NIU to take a similar position at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Michelle Emmett, University Programming and Activities director, said...

A resolution concerning the disbanding of the little sister program at NIU fraternities was passed Tuesday night at the first Interfraternity Council meeting of the semester. IFC President Jim Valentine said the termination of the little sister program...

With about $500 million of state funds remaining from an unsuccessful attempt to build the Superconducting Super Collider in Illinois, state universities are hoping to grab a portion of the leftovers to fund additional science and technology projects....

Engineering and technology students at NIU hope to give a lift to some of the nation's senior citizens through "geroengineering," to use the term coined by an NIU sociologist. Mechancial engineering students, in a joint project with NIU's gerontology...