The Joint Committee on College Tuition realizes its decisions on tuition rates won't please everyone, but maintains it is working on an agreeable policy. Created last June by the General Assembly, the committee will review current tuition-setting policies....

Caution, class of 1991: expect fewer promotions and smaller salaries if you aren't able to do more with less. According to the fall issue of the Wall Street Journal's college edition of Managing Your Career, more companies are looking for more contributions...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board made its first connection with DeKalb this year in an effort to get a Metra passenger train into town, but many obstacles need to be resolved before service can be realized. Board member Kate Donovan contacted...

Glasnost has arrived at NIU. A research agreement between NIU's biology department and a group of Soviet research institutes has culminated in one Soviet scientist's arrival, with many more expected. Bio-physicist Sergei Gavrilits, a specialist in theoretical...

Minority students will have the chance to put a tear in the eye and a framed essay in the hand of their special parent. For the first time at NIU, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the Black Interphi Council are sponsoring a "Minority Parent of the Year"...

The State Senate candidates seated side by side in debate Tuesday evening at the DeKalb Farm Bureau shot words at each other like bullets as members of the League of Women Voters looked on. Republican candidate Nancy Beasley's stand to "just say no" to...

There are three times as many male teachers than there are female teachers at NIU. The UCLA Higher Education Research institute's survey found that 26 percent of NIU's teachers are women and 74 percent are men. This resembles the proportion of tenure-tract...

A student who tried to get Coors advertisements off the Huskie buses ran into a wall from Coors and bus officials after an hour of speeches Monday night. In an effort to have the Student Association Mass Transit Board remove Coors advertising from NIU...

Students not abiding by rules set up by the U.S. Postal Service might find their letters lost in the shuffle or taking longer to reach family and friends. Every customer of the DeKalb Post Office should receive a booklet this week which will guide them...

During the month of October, pictures of ghosts and other ghoulish figures disguise youngsters, are hung in store windows and department stores, but are ghosts actually real? Richard T. Crowe, a ghost hunter for 11 years, seems to think so. Crowe spoke...

Nancy Beasley has proposed a special lottery fund for education. Beasley, the Republican candidate for state senate, said she wants to see lottery profits go directly into a separate fund for schools. Currently, the profits go to the general education...

DeKalb area residents have a chance to learn about world culture today without having to travel far. For the fifth year, the Mini-World Showcase will represent cultures and traditions from all around the globe. Annette Johnson Serrano, coordinator of...