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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Students want JUAC seat

By Vickie Snow | September 21, 1990

NORMAL_ Some NIU students are still fighting for a seat on the committee advising the universities governing board while students from ISU and SSU already hold positions on the committee. The Joint University Advisory Committee reports its opinions on...

Lot ‘a minor inconvenience’

By Stewart Warren | September 21, 1990

NIU's University Police are merely inconvenienced by the torn-up Wirtz Quadrangle, although the force's usual parking lot is impassable to cars and students. "It's a minor inconvenience, but we'll live through it," said University Police Chief James Elliott....

IFC makes float optional

By Amy Julian | September 21, 1990

NIU's fraternities and sororities might not be working together this year to create floats for the Homecoming parade. While the Panhellenic Council voted Wednesday night to produce three floats with three sororities working on each float, the members...

Resources available

By Jami Peterson | September 21, 1990

Need information about a campus organization? NIU's Leadership Resource Center provides an information booth for students and advisers interested in learning about "everything you need to know in running an organization," said Z. Ahmad, University Programming...

La Dourette defends project

By Sabryna Cornish | September 21, 1990

NORMAL—NIU President John La Tourette defended NIU's veiled secrecy in branching out to Hoffman Estates Thursday, while university officials and the village of Hoffman Estates aren't sure which approached the other on the venture. "It was their (Sears...

NIU beast’s hunger too big for stomach

By Mark McGowan | September 21, 1990

It hasn't been a good week for NIU. It was just seven days ago that a suburban newspaper leaked the news that NIU was planning to expand and build a "regional education center" in Hoffman Estates. No one from NIU was quoted in the story; the paper attributed...

Relocation efforts futile for historic Wirtz House

By Sean Thomas | September 20, 1990

The recent renovation of King Memorial Commons did not begin without heartfelt efforts to find a new location for the Wirtz House. Formerly the home to NIU's foreign studies and resources for women programs, the Wirtz House was considered a central landmark...

Exhibit will feature games and animals

By Fred Heuschel | September 20, 1990

Dina Marie Lucia wants to make you feel like a child again. Lucia, a senior art student at NIU, will have an exhibit of drawings opening on Sept. 23 in the Holmes Student Center Art Gallery called "At Play" which features "games you enjoyed as a child,"...

Professor portrays ‘Criers’ clearly

By Sean Leary | September 20, 1990

Life before convenience stores and shopping malls may be a dismal and bleak picture to most individuals. But it is a far from dismal picture as painted by NIU English Professor Sean Shesgreen. Shesgreen has edited "The Criers and Hawkers of London," an...

Bands play this weekend at NIU

By Greg Dunlap | September 20, 1990

While NIU was visited by its share of major label acts last semester, many were disheartened by the lack of opportunities to see smaller bands play in a more intimate setting. This was primarily due to two things. First, the closing of the Eagle's Club...

PHC constitution revised

By Amy Julian | September 20, 1990

NIU's Panhellenic Council will be operating under a revised constitution this year. Despite some controversy, the PHC constitution was accepted unanimously Wednesday at the group's second meeting. "Although no major changes were made, the revisions make...

Visually impaired adapt to daily life

By Heidi Diaz | September 20, 1990

Imagine eating a spaghetti and meatball dinner with garlic bread and jello for dessert. Now imagine being blind and eating this meal. The spaghetti slips off the fork, but you don't know it. The meatball keeps rolling around the plate and the jello slides...

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