Two law school students running for Student Association executive positions announced Thursday they will withdraw from the race because of a recommendation from the law school dean. SA presidential candidate Dan Donnelly and vice presidential candidate...

Demonstration participants and DeKalb authorities commented about arrests which occured during Wednesday's protest of the U.S. military involvement in Honduras and aid to the Contras. "We (members of the DeKalb Interfaith Network and the John Lennon Society)...

Now that plans for the renovation of the Holmes Student Center tower have been approved in concept by the Board of Regents, NIU will move to develop more specific plans to submit to the board next month. Conrad Miller, physical plant project manager,...

Fifty full-time and about 150 part-time Amoco workers will be relocated or lose their jobs by the end of this year. The Amoco Oil Company decided to close its Telecommunications Center in DeKalb and transfer the activities to West Des Moines, Iowa, said...

DeKalb County's death toll from car accidents in the last two months nearly equals the total from 1987. Six people died in traffic accidents in 1988, compared to eight fatalities in 1987. DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott said he partly attributes the...

The Illinois State Scholarship Commission is working for a tax increase for higher education because of the General Assembly's $224 million cuts below the 1986-87 ISSC appropriation. Robert Clement, ISSC director for agency relations, said the commission's...

The Board of Regents Thursday approved NIU's proposed academic and capital improvement plans for next year, even though four members did not attend the meeting. The capital improvement plans approved by the Regents include the renovation of the exterior...

Copies of Thunderbolt, the racist newsletter found on Greek Row last fall, appeared again off-campus and in at least one NIU residence hall Thursday. Thunderbolt was mailed to students through bulk-rate mail in 8-by-11 gold-colored envelopes with a P.O....

The Student Association Mass Transit Board will vote Monday on proposals to decrease NIU handicapped transportation services by as much as 50 percent because not enough students are using the service. Linn Sorge, Services for Handicapped Students coordinator,...

About 20 faculty from Sangamon State University quietly protested the Board of Regents meeting Thursday as they held picket signs in the back of the Holmes Student Center Skyroom. Ron Ettinger, president of the Sangamon chapter of the University Professionals...

Two Kishwaukee Community College students were arrested on a burglary charge March 23 in connection with stolen tires, rims and stereo equipment from vehicles located in parking lots near NIU residence hall towers. University Police arrested Michael Cornelious,...

Although the Board of Regents did not take a stand on whether or not to raise tuition next year, the board adopted a resolution Thursday endorsing the Illinois Student Association's Day of Action set for April 13. The resolution was presented to the Regents...