Columnist's Note: This is the first in a series of occasional columns presenting the author's arbitrary thoughts, thought-provoking questions and wild suggestions. The Buck$ Stop Here Department: Budget cuts to higher education? Hah! That should be no...

Area residents who have had to travel to the Ecker Center for Mental Health in Elgin will now be able to seek their counseling in a new Sycamore office. The Ecker Center will open its doors at 1101 DeKalb Ave. to the people of Sycamore and the surrounding...

NIU's Office of Resources for Women will begin a special discussion group next month and a late night open house program for older female students. A conversation group for women whose lives are changing will begin Oct. 4. Weekly meetings of "Turning...

The estimated amount of $2 million that NIU was expected to receive in additional funding from the 1989 spring semester tuition surcharge must be reduced by a total of $550,000 to offset the cost of previous commitments. Payment of the $125 surcharge...

Several on-campus student employers have noted a substantial decrease in the number of students taking jobs, starting with a large drop last fall. Robert Frederickson, director of NIU Food Services, said that although student food service employment is...

Talented faculty, staff, students and alumni are encouraged to put an act together for NIU's first annual homecoming talent show, said Dave Reidy, show coordinator. Individuals or groups skilled in singing, dancing, comedy or variety acts can audition...

NIU's College of Education has been conducting a national search for the position of assistant dean and expects to make a final choice sometime in November. "We opened up the position due to the upcoming retirement of Assistant Dean Dr. Robert Karibinus,...

The NIU Faculty Grievance Procedure now might handle the complaints of an NIU professor concerning administrative grade changes issued to students who illegally registered for spring 1988 classes using a fraudulent "REG" stamp. The University Professionals...

Election fever is in the air, but the issues do not seem to be fogging students' minds about whom they support for the next president of the United States. More NIU students interviewed Monday, the day after the first presidential debates of 1988, supported...

A new NIU Student Association policy is aimed at improving poor attendance records of student representatives on university committees. SA President Paula Radtke said alternate representatives will be assigned to certain committees this year. She said...

A DeKalb City Council member called for the resignation of an alderman in a press conference Tuesday attended by several city officials, local media and six of the seven aldermen. Fifth Ward Alderman Bessie Chronopoulos, who called the press conference,...

Although the primary issue on the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting was the preparations for a political awareness festival, the item of debate that refused to die was weather or not SCOPA's actions represent those...