The Campus Activities Board's Fine Arts Committee needs to stabilize its funding before it can hire big-name acts and construct a fine arts facility. "There is a need to improve cultural programming," said Stan Madeja, dean for Visual and Performing Arts....

"The first impression is a lasting impression," said Vanessa Weathersby, staff assistant for campus recruitment at Sears. Weathersby and Gary Scott, NIU's Career Planning and Placement director, offered the following interviewing tips for students: Have...

A proposed increase in DeKalb's garbage collection fee was rejected by the DeKalb City Council at their regular meeting Monday. The council voted 4-2 against accepting the city staff's recommendation to allow a $2.97 per unit per year increase in the...

The Student Association Finance Committee Thursday ratified $5,000 to pay for a news wire service for WKDI in the 1987-88 school year that was almost zero-funded by the SA Senate last semester. The United Press International (UPI) wire service enables...

editor Jerry Williams lost another round in his efforts to finish the season as a playing member of NIU's basketball team. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Norgle on Friday denied Williams a preliminary injuction that would have allowed the academically...

Alternatives to increasing DeKalb residents' taxes or cutting city services will be considered tonight in a special joint meeting of the DeKalb City Council and the Finance Advisory Board. City Manager Mark Stevens said the purpose of the meeting is to...

The middle class is collapsing, and this generation's challenge is to implement laws against racism and unite against economic violence, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday. The United States has lost 500,000 manufacturing jobs in the last seven years,...

campus editor A group of demonstrators calling themselves "Students For America" gathered in the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons Wednesday night to protest the John Lennon Society. NIU history instructor and graduate student Michael Hickey said he...

In response to Mike Murvihill's letter about Star Wars (Feb. 9), I would first like to say I find it hard to believe we could build the whole Star Wars system for $30 billion to $60 billion when we have just recently spent $26 billion on Star Wars research...

Broken windows and pried open cash registers were the trademarks of four burglaries to West Lincoln Highway businesses late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. DeKalb Police Detective Jim Kayes said the burglaries were probably all committed by...

NIU Students will have to pay an additional $16.32 in fees if Thursday's recommendations to the President's Fee Study Committee are approved. The recommended increases in four fees totaling $16.32 per semester will be sent to NIU President John LaTourette...

Cooking and reading sound like simple tasks to NIU students, but many handicapped students need help, which they can receive through NIU's Services for Handicapped Students. "Students can go around in a wheelchair, as a game, knowing they can get up or...