Four years ago this week, I made an appointment to have photographs taken for my passport and visa. Now I know that's a strange thing to remember, but it was a step toward a dream that I had been waiting for since my freshman year. I was going to the...

Board of Regents members will vote on salary increases of "about 17 percent" for NIU President John LaTourette and Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves at Thursday's open meeting.e Regents Chairman Carol Burns said the issue was discussed during executive...

Local politicians and community leaders attended a meeting yesterday at Kishwaukee Community Hospital's Murphy Center to support the formation of a DeKalb chapter of a not-for-profit organization involved in advocacy and public awareness of disability-related...

A proposal to construct a Student Life Center which would house a number of NIU student organizations is still in the drafting stages. Jon Dalton, NIU vice president for student affairs, said a proposal is being developed to construct a center that would...

The Eighth Annual New Ideas in History Conference will be Friday, Oct. 21 at 8:30 a.m. in the Holmes Student Center. The conference is sponsored by NIU's department of History, College of Continuing Education, and Department of Clinical Education. The...

The issue of insufficient handicap transportation at NIU was addressed recently when about 200 letters of complaint were delivered to Dave Emerick, Student Association Mass Transit Adviser. Elliott Lessen, associate professor of special education, and...

Student Association Vice President and Internal Affairs Committee Chairman Gregg Bliss said the IAC will meet today at 7 p.m. in the conference room of the SA office, located on the second floor of the Holmes Student Center. The meeting will be conducted...

You can always count on this university to botch just about anything. If you haven't noticed yet, the university is finally starting to mail validation stickers for student ID cards. The stickers are used as proof that a student is currently enrolled...

The CHANCE program should make an effort to maintain a counseling staff with an ethnic balance to best serve the needs of its students. As a result of the recent resignation of Frank Minton and the university's decision not to renew Martha Palmer's contract,...

Concerned citizens from around the county gathered at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau last night to get another look at the candidates running for office this election year. The League of Women Voters of DeKalb County and the DeKalb County Farm Bureau sponsored...

With less than "six months of life" left in the DeKalb County Landfill, the Student Association Recycling Station will now accept magazines and telephone books in an attempt to extend its existence. The DeKalb County Landfill will be filled to capacity...

Starting next semester, NIU's CHANCE program will be left without any black counselors for the 264 black students enrolled in the 451-student program. The program's two black counselors, Frank Minton and Martha Palmer, both will leave the university before...