Serious shortages of coins all across the nation are causing their own kind of problem in the economic system, and DeKalb and NIU are right in the middle of the most severe shortage.

Local bankers and NIU officials agree the current shortage is the most critical in recent times. The situation will not improve until at least after the Christmas buying season, they say...

The Tass announcement that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has been released could mean two possible things: a power struggle over foreign policy and internal problems, or Khrushchev's health may be causing him to retire...

College counselors and faculty should be encouraged to change their orientation toward women students as people only seeking an MRS. degree, a Northern professor writes.

Dr. Marvin Powell also says counselors and teachers in high schools must become aware of their better female students and encourage them to continue their education...

After 61 years, an NIU alumnus returned to the campus where he was a student in the class of 1903.

Earnest A. Anderson, a former Joliet, Ill., resident, brought gifts with him. He presented the University with bound volumes of the first three years—1809-1902—of The Northern Illinois, predecessor to NIU's student newspaper The Northern Star, which now publishes four times each week. He also presented a 1904 Northern yearbook...

Testing: one, two, three...

Bradley University will test Northern's revised defensive football credentials tomorrow afternoon.

At the same time, NIU fans-in-the-stands will have a chance to check the merits of the wide-open spread formation which attained such popularity during the George Bork reign. Jack Dean will be the new allied commander of the air and ground troops when the spread is employed by head coach Howard Fletcher...

Illinois Sen. Paul Simon will be among the speakers to address tomorrow's meeting of the Northern Illinois Professional Journalistic Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi at 8 p.m. in the Lincoln Room of the University Center...

NIU's physical therapy program will have its first graduate this June. Dave Erickson, Rockford, completed three years of class work at NIU and currently is doing clinical practice work at Mayo Clinic School of Therapy. Also at Mayo Clinic is Donna Quigley, Arlington Heights...

Sen. Barry Goldwater's stand in favor of income tax credits to encourage contributions to institutions of higher learning has been supported by 15 past and present college and university presidents, who criticized President Johnson for advocating direct federal aid to such schools.

NIU President Leslie A. Holmes declined to comment on Johnson's decision...

Lowden Hall, NIU's new $1 million administration building, will be completed in mid-November or early December.

Ground was originally broken for the new hall during fall 1963. Its completion has taken slightly over one year.

At the time of its completion, Altgeld Hall, which has served as NIU's administration building for over 60 years, was considered one of the best buildings of its type in existence...

"With a quack quack here, a quack quack there, here quack, there quack, everywhere..." So it goes not only at Old McDonald's Farm but also at NIU's Lagoon, where approximately 22 ducks take up residence.

It all started two or three years ago when someone brought some ducklings to the lagoon. The ground crew took care of the ducks, sending them to a farm in the winter and bringing them back in the spring...

NIU said formal farewell to its eighth Peace Corps program last night with a banquet in the University Center Ballroom...