Several plans for flood prevention and stormwater management were presented by DeKalb's Engineering Division and the firm Donohue & Associates of Itasca to the DeKalb City Council in a meeting Monday. At the meeting, Public Works Director Ron Naylor...

The recent U.S. Department of Energy decision to construct the proposed $4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, coupled with inadequate state funding for higher education, could negatively affect the multi-university at the College of DuPage....

A campus-wide food drive has been initiated by two Student Association members, in hopes of helping the needy in DeKalb. Tana Titre, SA public relations advisor, and SA senator Mike Kipp organized the food drive and plan to make it an annual event at...

Radon levels in DeKalb County are consistent with those of counties in the remainder of the state of Illinois, the Department of Nuclear Safety reports. Radon, a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas is a naturally occurring indoor pollutant. The gas,...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education approved a tuition guidelines policy for Illinois public colleges and universities by a narrow margin Tuesday. NIU President John LaTourette said the policy passed 8 to 6, including an opposing student vote which...

Students can get a head start on Christmas shopping at the school of art's 13th annual "deflation sale." The sale will be held Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Visual Art Building's Gallery 200. "The...

State legislators crucial to the passage of State Sen. Patrick Welch's bill to create a separate governing board for NIU were targeted during Tuesday's Student Association Student Political Education and Action Committee meeting. Young Democrat President...

The Faculty Assembly will hold its last meeting of the semester today at 3 p.m. in room 505 of the Holmes Student Center. An announcement is scheduled to be made concerning a visit by Board of Regents' Chancellor Roderick Groves next semester, according...

The chairman of the Student Association Mass Transit Board said Monday that the implementation of a Huskie Bus shuttle to the Geneva train station is high on the board's spring priority list. Although the board has made no decision regarding a start-up...

The Campus Security Advisory Board met last week to discuss several campus security issues, including a campus-wide security phone system. A referendum in January will enable students to vote on a one-time fee of 27 cents per credit hour in fall 1989...

A second open hearing Monday to field faculty input on a proposed faculty senate included the comments of one NIU faculty member who was skeptical about the possible senate. Sociology Professor Herb Rubin addressed Faculty Senate Task Force Chairman William...

A new federal drug law which allows restriction of federal student financial aid to persons convicted of using or selling illegal drugs has raised the question of how it could be enforced by financial aid offices. Jerry Augsburger, NIU financial aid office...