Skip to Main Content
Advertisement
 
Ensure student journalism survives. Donate today.
The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

Student fees might increase

By Ken Goze | December 5, 1989

Student fees might be automatically increased as a result of efforts to standardize the fee review process used by NIU President John La Tourette's Fee Study Committee. Committee Chairman Anthony Fusaro said an increase might be part of a set of expected...

Concerns about court actions voiced

By Mark McGowan | December 5, 1989

Concerns about recent actions of the Student Association's Supreme Court Chief Justice and the court were voiced publicly at the group's Sunday night meeting. Supreme Court Chief Justice Ed Gil was not present at the meeting to hear the 45-minute discussion,...

Questions on missing art

By Maureen Morrissey | December 5, 1989

At least 12 art works in the Student Association Art Collection, including an original Andy Warhol print signed by the artist, are reported missing or stolen. The Warhol print, "Mao Tse Tung," and three other works have been identified as stolen. No one...

BSU to form night hotline

By Mark Gates | December 4, 1989

The Black Student Union plans to implement a supplemental hotline to help combat the lack of response to the NIU Discrimination Hotline. The discrimination hotline is ineffective because victims and witnesses are not using the hotline to report incidents,...

Santa Watch 1989: The legend lives on

By Dan O’Shea | December 4, 1989

Boy, did I have a wild Friday night! I met this girl with bodacious—We interrupt your regularly scheduled Monday column to take you live to Northern Illinois University for our special edition report, "The Search for Santa." Here's your special report...

Environmental group formed

By Stephan L. Lopes | December 4, 1989

Concerned NIU students have started a local group to analyze NIU's impact on the environment and create awareness by participating in Earth Day 1990. The local group, which has yet to be named, is affiliated with the Student Environmental Action Coalition,...

Students host NIU Madrigal Dinners

By Maureen Morrissey | December 4, 1989

Twenty-nine NIU music and theater students performed this weekend in the 26th annual Madrigal Dinners. Elwood Smith, director and NIU music faculty member, said Saturday's audience was "extremely good." He added, "It was the best we have ever had, they...

System plans underway

By Dana Netzel | December 4, 1989

Plans for the installation of a future enhanced 911 emergency phone system are underway. Members of the DeKalb County Emergency Telephone Safety Board met in a special meeting to elect officers and discuss the 911 system, passed in the Nov. 7 general...

Seniors cited as Regents scholars

By Ellen Skelly | December 4, 1989

Four NIU seniors have been named as 1989 Board of Regents Scholars. Christina Fauser of OakLawn, Sandra Finn of Darian, Sandra Kaufmann of Brookfield and Elainie Lillios of Melrose Park each received $400 and a certificate of recognition from the Board...

NIU discrimination hotline sets rules for handling calls

By Mark Gates | December 4, 1989

NIU's discrimination hotline has established procedures to handle calls involving discrimination. First, operators are told to ask the caller to give his/her name and telephone number. Operators also ask for the details of the problem or incident and...

Wage increase to occur

By Jeff Cutler | December 4, 1989

Implementation of the new federal minimum wage law might cost NIU more than $450,000 in salary increases by April 1991. The new law will affect nearly 5,000 on-campus NIU employees as the federal minimum wage will increase to $3.80 per hour in April 1990...

Dillon returns to U.S.; signs with Lightning

By Joe Bush | December 1, 1989

Tim Dillon, whose done as much globetrotting as those guys from Harlem, can pull his passport from his pocket and put in a drawer. Dillon, third on the Huskies' career scoring list with 1,559 points, signed Wednesday with the Rockford Lightning of the...

Sign In

Register

Reset Password

Please enter your username or email address, you will receive a link to create a new password via email.