Information regarding a possible Illinois constitutional convention in 1990, which would challenge state legislation, is available in a special issue of NIU's Law Review. Eleven essays in the volume detail issues that could be considered at the 1990 state...

The President's Fee Study Committee might discuss today two proposals to raise the NIU student activity fee. The committee, however, will not make any final decisions today on changing the activity fee. According to one proposal, the activity fee would...

The Board of Regents' eminent domain lawsuit to obtain more land at NIU scheduled for Thursday was postponed to Dec. 1 and will be heard in the DeKalb County Courthouse. The Regents filed the lawsuit on NIU's behalf Oct. 14, 1987 to obtain property between...

Faculty Assembly members have sent a letter critical of Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves' response to questions at a Sept. 28 meeting with the group. The faculty found Groves' answers to questions they asked him insufficient on topics such...

The 24,255 students enrolled at NIU this semester represent a decrease of 1,200 students from the fall of 1987, according to a report by Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves. This semester's figure also marks a decrease of 425 students from the...

Charges of resisting a peace officer for about 75 NIU students involved in the April 13 Day of Action II sit-in at Lincoln Highway have been dismissed. In a letter to the students' attorneys and the state's attorneys, Associate Judge Douglas Engel stated...

The committee deciding the fate of NIU's bookstore has not yet decided if the store will be leased to an outside vendor, but one student member wants the bookstore to stay in university hands and to see students given credit cards to be used in the store....

The number of NIU students caught cheating has increased four times from previous semesters. The University Judicial Office has handled 20 cases of cheating this semester. "This early in the semester there are usually five to six (cheating) cases," said...

Vincent Nall, president of Ideal Industries in Sycamore, was awarded NIU's first Executive Award for Excellence in Corporate Achievement. The award is sponsored by the Marketing Honors Society and is given in recognition of corporate executives, with...

Recent work by Chicago painter Susan Bloch will continue to be on display this weekend through Nov. 12 in the X/S Space at the NIU Art Gallary, 212 W. Superior St., in Chicago. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Bloch's...

Two Greek Row streets will be closed Saturday for a homecoming block party. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow said the city "worked out the particulars" to close Greenbrier Road between Russell Road and Hillcrest Drive for the party. The road, from the Pi Kappa...

Two NIU special education faculty members have received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help prepare educators of the hearing-impaired to work in rural areas. John Luckner, assistant professor in the Department of Educational...