Most DeKalb businesses support the recent minimum wage increase but there are mixed feelings over the second increase that goes into effect next year. The first increase in nine years took effect April 1 raising the minimum wage from $3.35 to $3.80. This...

SPRINGFIELD_ Money—that's what NIU wants. The Board of Regents will decide today if the Arndt house at Lincoln Highway and Normal road is worth the $192,800 NIU wants to use for remodeling. However, regents questioned the cost-effectiveness of the plan....

NIU students should become aware of recyclable plastics and join in the battle to save Earth. Jim Hauck, chairman of the Society of Plastics Engineers Recycling Committee, said the group's goal is to recycle 25 percent of all plastic packaging by 1992....

Two NIU programs are planting a Japanese tree Monday to commemorate Earth Day. The Community Health Program and NIU School of Allied Health Professions will sponsor activities Monday to make students more aware of Earth Day, said assistant professor Gina...

NIU Cine Club will hold a free showing of "Wild Strawberries" Thursday at 8.45 p.m. in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. "Wild Strawberries" is a poetic Swedish film that weaves together dreams and reality, and the past and present into a beautiful seamless...

SPRINGFIELD—NIU's Health Center will move somewhere in May so asbestos can be removed from the building before the carcinogen exceeds allowable standards. However, the center's location will be decided later. Rising airborne asbestos levels were detected...

July Fourth came a little early for University Police Tuesday. Police said someone made a hole in the wall in Lincoln Hall. The person then put a smoke bomb in the hole to create the appearance of a fire, said UP Sgt. Ralph Taylor. "It's the spring time...

DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow presented two area Civil Air Patrol cadets with the General Billy Mitchell Award Monday. The award is earned by successfully completed the specific requirements in two phases of the CAP program, said DeKalb Composite Squadron...

Native Americans have always been environmentalists whose model should be copied. Sam Keahna, an Esquakee Indian and American Indian Center program director, said Wednesday that American Indians have always respected the earth. "We have always taken care...

Only a few highly-qualified freshman applicants will be granted admission when NIU raises its acceptance standards Friday. NIU Admissions Director Daniel Oborn defined highly qualified applicants as students in the top third of their graduating class...

While the NIU College of Law dean claims minority student recruitment and retention "significantly" improved, one minority group said the results are inadequate. This year, there was a "significant increase" in the number of minorities, said Law Dean...

An African National Congress representative to the United States was unable to give his speech for Africa Day Tuesday at NIU. Zeph Makgetla, assistant to Lindiwe Mabuza, chief ANC representative to the United States, was to speak as part of Africa Day....