The DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice is coordinating local emergency relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Joan. The hurricane struck the east coast of Nicaragua Saturday with 120-mile-per-hour winds and moved inward through Uganda,...

NIU housing officials say credit card companies are violating university policy when they post applications and sales pieces in the residence halls. "Any solicitation for any for-profit enterprise" is prohibited on residence hall bulletin boards, said...

A pre-trial will be held today in the DeKalb County Courthouse for a Board of Regents' eminent domain lawsuit filed last fall. The lawsuit was filed Oct. 14, 1987, on NIU's behalf to determine how much land south of the NIU campus the university can obtain...

Two student Regents disagree with a state senator's belief that NIU should have its own governing board. State Senator Patrick Welch, D-Peru, said he believes NIU should leave the Regency system in favor of forming a governing board of its own. "I think...

The number 80 has significant meaning for the NIU men's basketball team. A meaning it would just as soon forget. During the last two year's of head coach Jim Rosborough's reign, the Huskies have lost nearly every game when their opponent has reached the...

It is not NIU's job to prevent credit card companies from advertising in unauthorized areas said University Legal Counsel George Shur. "There are certain places on campus where we allow commercial activities to occur," Shur said. Unauthorized posters...

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....

It wasn't pretty. And NIU head volleyball coach Pete Waite will be the first to admit it wasn't very much fun. But the women's volleyball team managed to come away from Valparaiso, Ind., with a five-game North Star Conference victory last night despite...

Within the next few weeks, the Student Association Mass Transit Board will conduct a survey of NIU's handicapped students to get their input on the state of handicapped transportation on campus. Two surveys were presented to the transit board at its meeting...

Maureen Josh, incumbent candidate in the race for DeKalb County Circuit Clerk, responded to charges by a campaign opponent that she mishandled bond money by saying democratic opponent Linda Finn "doesn't know the system." Finn charges that Josh has not...

Two escalators at NIU's Founders Memorial Library are out of service and the library is waiting to receive estimates for the cost of repairs. Lola Straffer, a library personnel assistant, said the "up" escalators between the second and third floors and...

NIU Provost Kendall Baker and his staff are conducting an extensive study of faculty salaries at NIU and comparable universities hoping this analysis will help improve the issue of NIU faculty salaries. Baker said the study will delve into the extent...