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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

Third World debt idea

April 5, 1989

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration's Third World debt initiative won key endorsements Tuesday from the two international agencies expected to implement the strategy. Both Michel Camdessus, the managing director of the 151-nation International Monetary...

Radtke puts year into perspective

By Holly Schubert | April 5, 1989

One situation frustrating Student Association President Paula Radtke is that she cannot guarantee NIU students that they will not face a tuition increase next fall. Students do not have a vote on the Board of Regents—NIU's governing board—and are...

Program top in IL

By Chris Lind | April 5, 1989

NIU's Communicative Disorders Department ranks first among eight Illinois public university programs in seven of eight categories, according to a new report by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Acting Chairman of the Communicative Disorders Department,...

HFR to host education seminar

By Bill Schwingel | April 5, 1989

The first Annual Textile, Merchandising and Home Economics Education seminar will be held Saturday at Wirtz House from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The alumni day, sponsored by the three divisions of the NIU Human Family Resources department, will include a seminar...

Fitness study conducted

By Michelle Landrum | April 5, 1989

A sports medicine specialist who visited NIU last week tested students to collect data which he will incorporate into his international fitness study. George Jurcisin tested members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity Thursday and Friday in the Gabel...

Frat.‘s bid to sell ads approved

By Holly Schubert | April 5, 1989

The Student Association Mass Transit Board voted Monday to continue their contract with Pi Sigma Epsilon to sell Huskie bus line advertising for the 1989-1990 academic year. The board spent only 20 minutes in executive session before making its decision...

Events planned for siblings

By Allen Roscoe | April 5, 1989

Everyone will have a chance to bring out the kid in themselves this weekend, as NIU residence halls will sponsor activities for the annual Little Siblings Weekend. Beginning Friday, both on- and off-campus students can register their lil‘ sib for a...

Fat, dumb and happy?

By Greg Rivara | April 4, 1989

Let's get out the vote! Hopefully, Student Association Vice President Gregg Bliss won't be right again. Bliss assessed last September's voter turnout in the SA senate election this way: "Even with all the press we received, people still walked past the...

Course data found wrong

By Amanda Martin | April 4, 1989

When it comes to the seemingly endless and tedious process of class registration, NIU students should learn to accept complications as "just one of those things." That is how Director of Registration and Records Richard Durfee referred to the more than...

Census to recruit NIU students

By Nissin Behar | April 4, 1989

The U.S. Department of Commerce is hiring NIU students and area residents to help in compiling a list of correct addresses to begin its 200th nation-wide census. People that are hired to work in DeKalb will begin Aug. 10, Barbara Peterson, recruiting...

NIU could receive state funding

By Dina Paluzzi | April 4, 1989

About $53 million in state funding for new buildings, renovations and repairs could be allotted to NIU over the next three fiscal years, Illinois Lt. Gov. George Ryan announced Wednesday during a trip to the NIU campus. The funding will be used to construct...

Fight damages to be settled without legal action

By Greg Rivara | April 4, 1989

Despite the attempts of one NIU official, damages resulting from the March 24 fight between Phi Kappa Sigma and members of the NIU football team will be settled between the groups without legal action. Larry Bolles, director of the University Judicial...

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