After reviewing the Music Performance Activities budget recommendations for a second time, the Student Association Finance Committee decided Wednesday to keep the budget at $9,405. The SA Senate asked the committee Sunday to look over the budget again...

The Board of Regents Finance/Facilities Committee Wednesday recommended the Regents approve the Holmes Student Center Tower reconstruction design. The schematic design was presented to the committee by the Ware and Associates, Inc., the architectural...

If the Institute for Excellence in Selling does not deliver a portion of about $3,000 owed to the Student Association Mass Transit Board for advertisements on the Huskie Bus Line, the board will present the matter to the SA senate asking for sanctions...

A search committee will decide Friday which candidates to interview for the vice president for business and operations position. "The committee will review recommendations, gather information and make phone calls about references," said Curtiss Behrens,...

Although a 1987 inspection revealed asbestos-containing materials in NIU buildings do not pose a hazard to occupants, a second evaluation will be conducted to check the safety level. "We are systematically going through the campus and evaluating various...

The ad-hoc committee formed to investigate the Holmes Student Center Bookstore security policies and procedures is in the process of drafting a report of recommendation, Committee Chairman William Parker said. Committee member Bertrand Simpson said there...

Student Association senators questioned the effectiveness of Day of Action II in which 79 protestors were arrested after blocking Lincoln Highway for about 90 minutes. SA President Jim Fischer said at Sunday's SA meeting, "The state didn't allot any more...

State university officials said incidents of racial discrimination on their campuses have been minimal during the spring semester. NIU has had to deal with occurences of racial discrimination this semester such as the shoplifting incident at Holmes Student...

A survey implemented in April found that alcohol is the most predominant drug used on campus with marijuana coming in a distant second. Michael Haines, health enhancement services coordinator, said of the 500 students surveyed, 60 percent said they had...

Some community and student leaders oppose a bill which would require state universities to submit lists of registered voters in residence halls to the county clerk's office. Sixth Ward Alderman Steve Brody said there are two legal problems with House...

A bill to help counties keep track of students who are registered to vote might not come before the General Assembly because the rules committee has not released it. Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, said he did not expect the bill to pass this session,...

About 14 percent of private investments in the United States belong to South African citizens. Speaking to members of the NIU History Club Thursday, NIU history professor John Higinson said the investments were at first thought of as Dutch assets by U.S....