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SA finance council OKs budgets

By Dina Paluzzi | February 12, 1988

Budgets for the Black Student Union, Health Enhancement Services, the Northern Illinois Malaysian Student Association, el Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Azlan (MECHA) and the Chess Club were approved by the Student Association Finance Committee at...

Credit to be earned at weekend get-a-way

By Stephanie Bradley | February 11, 1988

Students can receive credit for winter activity classes which will be held at NIU's field campus the weekend of Feb. 19-21. The weekend, entitled "Season of Serendipity," is at the Lorado Taft Field Campus in Oregon, Ill., about 35 miles west of DeKalb....

Financial aid laws change; recipients decline

By Tammy Sholer | February 11, 1988

A change in laws regarding students' independent status for receiving financial aid has caused a decline in the number of students who received aid in 1987-88. Financial Aid Director Jerry Augsburger said under the new laws about 5 percent of NIU students...

Universities using I-88 as battlefield

February 11, 1988

WHEATON (AP)—The stretch of Interstate 88 west of Chicago may be Illinois' industrial Disneyland, but it's also turning into a battlefield for the state's universities. The business boom spawned by the area's high-tech industries has led local governments...

SA adviser asked to resign position

By Joelle McGinnis | February 11, 1988

A former Student Association Senator last week called for the resignation of SA Minority Relations Adviser Larry Robertson. "(Gary Stittgen) said I was a militant, paranoid black and I should be more concerned with the university's image," Robertson told...

Alpha Blondy and The Solar System Apartheid Is Nazism

By Allen Roscoe | February 11, 1988

The apartheid system in South Africa has placed a ban or restriction on everything from peaceful gatherings to free speech. And what's more, P.W. Botha has even exiled musicians from the racially segregated country. Joseph Shabalala of Ladysmith Black...

NIU works to meet coorridor’s needs

By M. Michelle Byrne | February 11, 1988

NIU has had off-campus courses for a while, but how NIU responds to the academic needs of the "high technology corridor" near the East-West Tollway in the western suburbs might determine its future. Bill Young, dean of the College of Continuing Education,...

Parking limited for plowing

February 11, 1988

A forecast from the U.S. Weather Bureau prompted the DeKalb emergency snow route system to go into effect late Wednesday afternoon. The DeKalb Office of Public Works based the restrictions on a forecast from the U.S. Weather Bureau, which projected a...

Fed. bill inceases education funding

By Claudia C. Curry | February 11, 1988

A bill which increased funding in the fiscal year 1988 budget for several higher education programs was passed by the U.S. Congress in December. The bill included funding for all levels of education, including elementary and secondary education programs....

headline: TORN BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS

By Lynn Hammarstrom | February 11, 1988

It may be difficult for many to picture the queen of the transparent dress, Cher, as the gray-haired, widowed daughter of a repressive Italian-American family. Well, as difficult as it is to picture, it is still harder to believe, although in "Moonstruck"...

LaTourette talks on future of ed.

By Katrina Kelly | February 11, 1988

NIU President John LaTourette spoke about future funding for higher education at a University Council meeting Wednesday. "Are we going to invest in our young people and provide further higher education?" he asked. The Board of Regents' Resolution report...

Officials investigate plane crash in Ohio

February 11, 1988

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP)—Federal officials on Wednesday began their investigation of the crash of a commuter plane that killed a flight instructor from Illinois and two recently hired pilots. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board...