While the wait continues for Gov. James Thompson's release of the $500,000 approved last week for development of an NIU branch in Rockford, the search for a campus site goes on. Rockford Mayor Charles Box said he wants the "educational center," as NIU...

Find a penny, pick it up, and then all day you'll have good luck. Words to live by. You can usually find me around DeKalb and on campus stooping over and staring intently at the ground, as if I'd lost a precious contact lens or earring back. Actually,...

Saturday initiates a major switch in the phone system of all Chicago suburbs. Suburbs with the 312 area code will change to 708 as a result of a three year plan to accommodate the communities. "Chicagoland is running out of phone numbers," said MaryBeth...

Students and faculty can improve their educational output by participating in a one-hour workshop focusing on the Wordperfect computer program. The department of educational psychology, counseling, and special education will sponsor "Using Wordperfect...

Brad Burzynski, governmental affairs director for the DeKalb Farm Bureau, is seeking the Republican nomination for state representative of the 76th District. The 76th District encompasses all of DeKalb County, as well as four southwestern townships in...

Minority students are not being motivated by their community college to continue their education at a four-year university, according to a national report. The Academy for Educational Development report, "Bridges to Opportunity," said a small percentage...

NIU students will face increased student fees next fall to ease a $36,000 deficit in the Student Association mass transit system. The deficit was caused by overestimation of chargeable credit hours and high gasoline prices. Students currently pay $2.42...

A resounding 70 percent of DeKalb County voters approved the 911 emergency telephone system in an average turnout at the nonpartisan election. The DeKalb County Board is expected to act on the referendum by approving a nine-member emergency telephone...

Implementation of the pending federal minimum wage law might soon result in salary increases for many of the 5,000 on-campus student employees. Recently approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, and pending approval in the Senate and by President...

The Undergraduate Coordinating Council approved a proposal last week which drops the constitution test as a requirement for NIU students graduating after December 1989. This legislation officially withdraws the requirement in the Illinois School Code...

Feminist therapist Adrienne Smith came to the NIU campus Tuesday to speak on "Empowerment as an Ethical Imperative in Feminist Therapy". The lecture, which was sponsored by the psychology department, was attended by a group of about thirty persons including...

Commonwealth Edison customers will receive a total refund of $245 million, the largest rebate ever, as result of action taken in the Cook County Circuit Court against the company's rate hike for the Byron One nuclear power plant near Rockford. The Citizens...