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....

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...

Charges by State Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, that the Board of Regents sent the wrong message to legislators when they approved a tuition surcharge, should be taken seriously. Higher education officials have spent the last year screaming about the...

A variety of social and cultural programs are slated to kick off NIU's "Unity in Diversity" Week, which begins Sunday and runs through Oct. 1. "Inner Circle," a husband, wife, and sister-in-law gospel group, will perform Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Music...

The Big What? Chapter two of NIU's quest for national respect against Big Ten Conference teams takes place Saturday night when the Huskies venture north to face Minnesota in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Huskies, coming off a 19-17 win at Wisconsin,...

The NIU men's golf squad left Thursday afternoon for Madison, Wis., to participate in the Badger Invitational, which will be held at the Cherokee Country Club. There are 18 teams in the field, including all of the Big Ten teams with the exception of Ohio...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The reduction of NIU on-campus enrollment by 655 students this fall from last fall will have both a positive and negative impact on NIU and the DeKalb area. John Lewis, NIU director of corporate relations, said the result of the reduction, or "downsizing"...

Criticisms about the conviction rate of the DeKalb County State's Attorney's office have ended in a dispute between the incumbent and the democratic state's attorney candidate. Jerry Shapiro, democratic nominee for state's attorney, said, "Between December...