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Calendar of activities for Unity In Diversity Week

September 22, 1988

September 25 - October 1, 1988 Sept. 25 Combined ecumenical service. HSC, Sandburg Aud.,11 a.m. Panel: "Campus Race Relations." HSC 505, 6:30 p.m. "Inner Circle," Gospel performance. Music Building, Boutell Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 Workshop: "Campus...

Plan of action to confront racism

By Michelle D. Isaacson | September 22, 1988

NIU's vice presidents are trying to prevent racism at NIU with an action plan implemented last spring including affirmitive action and steps to confront racial incidents. "Over the past year and a half, a number of incidents have occurred across the country....

SA pays for missing megaphones

By Greg Rivara | September 22, 1988

Student Association funds were used to pay for two missing megaphones used in last Spring's Day of Action. SA Treasurer Dianna Turowski decided the SA, which is supported by student fees, was liable for the disappearance of the megaphones valued at $290...

Dodge driving contest returns

By Amanda Martin | September 21, 1988

Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is hosting the Dodge National Collegiate Driving Championships on Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Campus Cinema parking lots located at Hillcrest Drive and Blackhawk Road. Students are invited to drive a 1989 Dodge Daytona...

Coalition’s effect focus of conversation

By Greg Rivara | September 21, 1988

Conversation between candidates and constituents waiting for senate election results outside the Student Association office Wednesday night centered more around the effect that a coalition of candidates had on voters' decisions than whether the candidates...

Unity week’s goal honorable but unrealistic time span

September 21, 1988

The organizers and participants in this year's Unity in Diversity week have their work cut out for them. But such education for Americans is necessary. A recent poll by the Los Angeles Times concluded most Americans believe immigrants have had a negative...

SA senate election results announced

By Matt James | September 21, 1988

In what is being called a "close election in both districts," the fall 1988 NIU Student Association Senate roster was announced late Wednesday. Election Commissioner Robert Perry said 751 students voted in the election, and ballots were counted four times...

Library’s budget cuts to be made

By Dina Paluzzi | September 21, 1988

A decision about where to make $240,000 of cuts to the Founders Memorial Library's materials budget should be made by early next week. Library Director Theodore Welch said NIU Provost Kendall Baker has reviewed three options for the cuts and will give...

Police question victims location before accident

September 21, 1988

DeKalb Police are still investigating Saturday's accident in which NIU student Karri Botz, 17, was killed after being struck by a motorcycle and a car on Annie Glidden Road, just north of Crane Drive. DeKalb Police Lt. Charles Beierlotzer said the police...

Affirmative action program to begin

By Stephanie Bradley | September 21, 1988

The amount of $100,000 has been appropriated for NIU's Academic Affairs Division to subsidize an affirmative action program which affects all academic departments. NIU Provost Kendall Baker said the program will "facilitate hiring minority faculty." Departments...

Explicit poster to attract awareness to date rape

By Susie Snyder | September 21, 1988

NIU's Sexual Assault Task force is sharing the $340 cost of printing a poster that is spurring nationwide interest. Blanche McHugh, task force director, said the force is helping fund the printing of 1,000 copies of a poster designed by NIU's Interfraternity...

Pre-entrepreneurs to meet in seminar

September 21, 1988

James Thomson, who has worked to make the idea of young people running small businesses a top priority in American education, will discuss youth entrepreneurship at a seminar Friday. Thomson is the Midwest regional administrator for the Small Business...