You've just made the date of a lifetime. With an NIU student who enjoys diversity and culture. You really want to impress the person. What to do? Well, you could drive to the city and for an evening at Ravinia or the Chicago Theater, dinner, a couple...

A $240,000 budget reduction for Founder's Memorial Library will be needed to balance the library's budget for fiscal year 1989. The reduction has been recommended to NIU Provost Kendall Baker by library directors. Baker said, "They didn't ask for a reduction....

Questions over the controversial firing of CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer possibly will be answered at a meeting being held tonight. Tom Rainey, Student Committee on Political Action member, said, "A lot of people have questions (concerning Palmer's dismissal)."...

"Racism on Campus: An Agenda for Action" will be the topic discussed tonight at a lecture on campus by Charles Morris, vice president for administrative services at Illinois State University. "We're trying to get a lot of people to come hear Dr. Morris...

In order to help increase interest in the teaching profession, NIU recently awarded five scholarships to students pursuing education majors here, College of Education Dean Charles Stegman said. "One way to increase interest in the teaching professions...

A number of organizational issues were addressed at the first University Council meeting of the 1988-89 academic year Wednesday. NIU President John LaTourette distributed the general fund appropriations figures from the Illinois Board of Higher Education...

NIU's Community Music School is offering lessons for voice and all instruments for both children and adults from Sept. 12 through May 6. "Kaleidescope" is a group of classes which includes music for children, children's chorus, children's recorder ensemble...

Although WNIU might not move to the Palmer Building, 801 N. First St., as proposed in February, the station is continuing negotiations to move its operations out of Kishwaukee Hall. "The origianl plan appears to be dead," WNIU General Manager Mike Lazar...

In response to Chris Sigley's recent story titled "NIU coeds highlight recruit's visits," we would like to suggest a comparable program for Northern's women athletic recruits—in the spirit of Title IX of the education amendments of 1972. Agile, skillful...

Three NIU participants in the state prison education program are saddened by, yet supportive of, a university refusal to renew contracts this year because of a mandatory drug testing requirement. NIU chose to end a decades-long program at Stateville and...

The NIU chapter of the University Professionals in Illinois union unanimously recommended to support the filing of a class action lawsuit against NIU concerning the grades given to students who illegally registered for spring 1988 classes using a fraudulent...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education will meet today to discuss the approval of fiscal year 1989 grant allocations, which include a $40,000 interinstitutional grant to a multi-university center located in Rockford. A grant of $60,000 was approved by...