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Lack of workers causes build-up of recyclables

By Tammy Sholer | January 30, 1989

A build-up of garbage, left over the winter break, has caused an eye sore at the Student Association's Recycling Center since a lack of workers caused an overflow of milk jugs, cans and newspapers to accumulate. Jane Oehler, assistant director of the...

Winter brings flu epidemic to NIU

By Gail LaBarbera | January 30, 1989

This winter season has brought yet another flu epidemic to NIU and the DeKalb area. Changing weather conditions have forced students to spend more time indoors. Rosemary Lane, University Health Service director, said a flu epidemic occurs every year because...

Public favors tax hike for higher education

By Diane Buerger | January 30, 1989

Eighty-nine percent of Illinois adults would favor a tax increase if the money was used to improve education, according to a survey conducted by the NIU Center for Governmental Studies. Of a random sample of 805 Illinois residents, 65 percent favor an...

Wirtz House fate unsettled

By Elizabeth M. Behland | January 30, 1989

The fate of Wirtz House, located in the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons, has "not yet been decided," said Eddie Williams, vice president for finance and planning. The renovations of the commons, scheduled to begin in the summer of 1990, originally...

Regents approve refundable $1 fee

By Dina Paluzzi | January 27, 1989

SPRINGFIELD - NIU students will be asked to pay a $1 refundable fee beginning in the 1989 fall semester in an effort to help stengthen the Illinois Student Association. The Board of Regents approved the fee without discussion at their meeting in Springfield...

DeKalb partnership plans membership drive

By Dan O'Shea | January 27, 1989

The newly-formed Greater DeKalb Partnership is in the midst of a month-long membership drive. Partnership Vice President Karen Remen said the organization "works with area business to help insure a favorable business community for DeKalb." Remen added...

Insurance available for high-risk clients

By Steve Herbert | January 27, 1989

The Comprehensive Health Insurance Program, a state-funded plan to secure insurance for Illinois residents having difficulty obtaining coverage, is now accepting applications, said John Countryman (R-DeKalb), Wednesday. Countryman estimated that around...

Kangaroos hop into town; Harmon expected to play

By Mike Morris | January 27, 1989

There's a brand new coming, and it's on Rockhill; Slammin‘ and Jammin' and Shooting the Pill. So goes the rap song "The New Coming" by Missouri-Kansas City forward and amateur rapper Baxter Russell, who reportedly writes a new rap after every Kangaroo...

Work order requests overload physical plant

By James Danca | January 27, 1989

An overall lack of employees in the physical plant at NIU has caused an overload of work orders, and some describe the problem as getting serious. Keith Strutz, superintendent of building services, has lost ten janitorial positions in the last three years...

SA to analyze pressing issues

By Tammy Sholer | January 27, 1989

Several issues concerning the Student Association that have emerged during the first two weeks of the semester will be discussed at the first SA meeting Sunday. SA Treasurer Diana Turowski said the redistricting of senate distrits will be one subject...

Redistricting unconstitutional

By Holly Schubert | January 27, 1989

In what some members of the Student Accosiation are calling a landmark decision, the SA Sumpreme Court found the 1986 senate voting redistricting plan unconstitutional Thursday night. The decision, a response to a petition by Andrew Shankman, states that...

Huskies crush Valpo, 103-65

By Bob Regan | January 27, 1989

It's seems like every time the NIU women's basketball team takes the court these days there is some new accomplishment. Thursday night's 103-65 trouncing of Valparaiso University at Chick Evans Field House was no different. Five minutes into the first...