Designs are being developed for an addition to Faraday Hall which is expected to cost almost $950,000, said Eddie Williams, NIU vice president of finance and planning. Richard Preston, physics department chairman, said the Faraday facilities are "inadequate"...

The Student Association Supreme Court will hold a hearing Thursday regarding a petition that challenges the constitutionality of the current SA senate voting districts. The petition, filed by SA senate candidate Andy Shankman, states that the redistricting...

The Board of Regents' finance and facilities committee will decide today if the board will vote on a $1 fee for the Illinois Student Association. Sangamon State University student Regent Brian Hopkins said if the finance and facilities committee makes...

Passengers riding Huskie buses this semester will notice slight changes in the schedules of some buses, as well as the locations where buses can be boarded. Since the closing of Carroll Avenue in the fall of 1987, all buses must drive down Lucinda Avenue...

Students interested in improving the quality of NIU academics can apply for the position of Student Association Academic Affairs Adviser, as the previous adviser resigned at the end of last semester. SA President Paula Radtke said a lack of funds kept...

Only about one in 18 United States adults are scientifically literate enough to know how nuclear power, acid rain or health would affect them as consumers and citizens, a recent survey stated. The survey, conducted by the NIU Public Opinion Laboratory,...

Students visiting Founders Memorial Library this semester will notice that the escalators continue to await repairs. A three-phase plan outlining a complete restoration of the escalators estimates the overall cost at $242,500 to restore the operation...

The Organization of Latin American Students is a group designated to "creating an atmosphere where incoming Latino freshmen and transfer students can adjust to a college campus environment," said OLAS President Angel Rodriguez. Rodriguez said the organization...

NIU President John LaTourette's Fee Study Committee reviewed a proposal for a student fee increase for fiscal year 1990 to help fund a Revenue Bond Fee. The Revenue Bond Fee Committee requested a fee of $68.04 per semester from full-time students to help...

NIU is one step closer to seeing a security phone system installed on campus after the Student Association's referendum passed by 64 percent Tuesday. The phone system would cost each student a maximum of $3.24, and students would see the one-time fee...

The DeKalb City Council said Monday it would encourage development of a local shopping mall and expressed disapproval that DeKalb County Board members voted against selling land to Wilmorite, Inc. for an enclosed shopping center. DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow...

Once again a new semester is upon us, when NIU students spend every free moment of the first few weeks, picking up and dropping classes and braving the lines of NIU's bookstores. However, when students get placed in the classes they request, there is...