A recent survey of 360 accounting professors nationwide rates NIU's accounting department as the sixth best in the nation. The survey, conducted by the Public Accounting Report, a bi-weekly newsletter, asked the professors which schools they consider...

NORMAL—NIU students will pay about $300 more for tuition, student fees and room and board for the fall 1989 semester. The Board of Regents approved the increases at its meeting Thursday at Illinois State University at Normal. A $2.40 annual fee for...

The Illinois Student Association Board of Directors evaluated state legislation introduced for the upcoming session and decided which ones they will lend support to. The ISA staff researched about 48 bills dealing with higher education issues and made...

NORMAL—The Board of Regents reviewed Illinois Board of Higher Education college admission requirements Thursday. Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves said the "controversy is far from over" and the IBHE is willing to continue the study of different aspects...

Columnist's note: the following information is all in good clean fun so don't jump all over my ... ! P.S. The following names have not been changed to protect the guilty. Do you know what time it is? Yea! It's that time of year when the candidates come...

NIU will be reimbursed $243,800 this year for tuition increases charged to students in the Monetary Award Program, said Robert Clement of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission. Legislation recently signed by Gov. James Thompson appropriates money...

A former NIU administrator received an annual salary increase that was more than double the average increase given to faculty and staff after he announced an October 1988 retirement. William Parker, former NIU associate vice president for business and...

Imagine yourself in a new country, able to speak only fragments of the language. All around you life rushes on, people too caught up in the frenzy of daily living to explain confusing cultural quirks. You feel lost, anxious to be given the cues to fit...

"We've got talent and we want to be THE rock band in DeKalb," said Jim Howatt of the band Red Line. The name is familiar to anyone who saw their performance in Battle of the Bands this year, where the group received second place. The group was formed...

All right, three weeks ago I bared my liberal soul to the world in a brief "coming out" period. It was a painful but necessary therapeutic move for me, and although my friends gently warned me I might regret it, I think it was for the better. Soon after...

One man is in critical condition and another is in fair condition after a helicopter leased by Commonwealth Edison apparently suffered engine failure and crashed in Huber Park Wednesday. Com Ed employee Robert West, 51, Rockford, Ill., was transported...

"We should recognize the good times while we have them because they are lost so easily, and once they are lost they are lost forever." This is what Director Patricia Ridge wants the audience to realize when they come to see NIU's production of "Diviners."...