The University Police are reorganizing their department in order to become nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The main objective of the program is to help the police departments nationwide standardize...

Employers and recruiters will be on campus speaking to NIU students about internships and co-op programs Wednesday at the Co-operative Education Career Fair. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., about 44 employers will be at the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes...

Tobacco smoke, asbestos, radon and other air pollutants that can pose health hazards in campus buildings will dominate discussion at NIU's first "environmental concerns" open forum next week. NIU's interest in "indoor air quality" stems from last year's...

A DeKalb man was hit by a train early Thursday morning after an unsuccessful game of "chicken" on the railroad tracks. Steven Brooks, 30, 209 S. Second St., was killed after he was hit by a westbound train at 1:17 a.m. at the South First Street railroad...

The approaching completion of Byron nuclear station should help bring President Reagan's "supercollider" program to Northern Illinois. According to Robert Dwyer, Nuclear Spokesperson for Commonwealth Edison, a major consideration in locating a project...

City of DeKalb officials are considering plans for the construction of "spec" buildings in order to encourage industries to locate in DeKalb. The construction of the buildings is part of the city's economic development plan. DeKalb City Manager Mark Stevens...

Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS) is a program which allows NIU students, the DeKalb community and area visitors who have no place to stay spend the night at various DeKalb and Sycamore churches. Kathy Black, PADS member, said PADS is run entirely...

Commonwealth Edison asked the Illinois Commerce Commission on Feb. 3 to raise energy prices by $660 million, and then freeze that rate for the next five years. ComEd asked the Commission to speed up hearings on the issue which would raise individual rates...

A proposal to increase the price of parking permits by 285 percent over the next two years and change lot usage was rejected by the Campus Parking Committee Thursday. obert Bornhuetter, NIU professor of art and member of the committee, said he was concerned...

In an effort to discover ways of preventing injuries that occur in public places, a conference on injury in America will be held Feb. 16-19 in Atlanta to discuss beginning research programs and centers for injury control. Tom Leamon, NIU chairman of industrial...

The President's Fee Review Committee tentatively voted Thursday to pass the recommended $2.04 per semester fee increase for the University Health Service. All three student committee members abstained from the tentative vote to approve the proposed 11-cent...

NIU Nursing Professor Nola Pender has been named to the advisory council for the new Center for Nursing Research of the National Institute of Health. The National Institute of Health (NIH) is in charge of forming health policies in the federal government....