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Senator proposes bookstore boycott

By Dina Paluzzi | February 1, 1988

Black students might be asked to boycott the Holmes Student Center Bookstore in reaction to an incident last week in which four black students were accused of shoplifting. Larry Robertson, Student Association minority relations adviser, introduced the...

Hazardous waste issue of bill

By Bitrus Gwamna | January 29, 1988

A bill requiring businesses to obtain permits from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for on-site storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste was introduced to the Illinois Senate Jan. 25. Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, who sponsored the...

IBHE could fund NIU’s renovation

By M. Michelle Byrne and Suzanne Tomse | January 29, 1988

Several construction projects to improve NIU's campus soon might be started if the Illinois Board of Higher Education capital budget recommendations of about $25 million are approved by the state. NIU President John LaTourette said four proposed major...

DeKalb employees petitioning for union

By Marianne Renner | January 29, 1988

Eighty DeKalb County non-professional employees are petitioning to become unionized because they believe they do not have enough input in their working policies. After the last county board meeting, Steve Trossman, spokesman for the American Federation...

Center’s usage up in 1987

By Joelle McGinnis | January 29, 1988

The number of students using the University Health Service increased 3.1 percent by the end of November as compared to the same time last year, Health Service Director Dr. Rosemary Lane said. Lane estimates 29,641 students came to the health center for...

Abandoned 7-month-old girl termed ‘fine’

January 29, 1988

CHICAGO (AP)—A 7-month-old baby found abandoned in an unheated apartment in a wet snowsuit with no shoes, socks or gloves will not need surgery to save her limbs, doctors said Wednesday. "Medically, she's fine," a spokeswoman at Mount Sinai Medical...

Opening of Gabel’s pool aids scheduling

By Matt James | January 29, 1988

Instructors and coaches who use Gabel Hall's pool are breathing a sigh of relief this semester, now that repairs to the roof and pool there are completed. The pool was renovated after it was closed in December 1985 because of damage caused by a leaking...

Accident takes life of student

By Marianne Renner | January 29, 1988

A 19-year-old girl died and three others were severely injured after their car collided with a semi tractor-trailer on Route 38 and Malta Road Thursday morning. Dina C. Parish, 19, 5231 W. Adams, Chicago, was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. by the DeKalb County...

Prof. alters course to protest cuts

By Sean Noble | January 29, 1988

An NIU political science professor said he is teaching the "economy version" of a course to protest the Illinois state legislature's failure to provide university faculty with pay increases this year. In the syllabus of his Political Science 385 class,...

Judge finds transient unfit

January 29, 1988

CHICAGO (AP)—A circuit judge found a 50-year-old transient mentally unfit Wednesday to stand trial in the slaying of a Roman Catholic nun. Cook County Judge Robert J. Collins ordered Karl Caldwell, charged with murder in the Oct. 14 beating death of...

Firemen’s wage arbitration continues

By Paul Wagner | January 29, 1988

Both sides involved in a dispute over firemen's wage increases said the matter is unlikely to be resolved quickly. The City of DeKalb and The International Association of Firefighters Local 1236 are in arbitration concerning a retroactive wage increase...

Meetings held to inform public of supercollider

By Scott A. Doolittle | January 29, 1988

Illinois is still in the running for the Superconducting Super Collider as meetings were held this week to inform the public of residential areas which would be affected by the project. Illinois is one of the seven candidates for the site of the SSC....