A proposal by the Illinois Board of Higher Education to make tougher college entrance requirements optional, rather than mandatory, will not directly affect admissions to NIU. Admissions Director Dan Oborn said if the new requirements, expected to take...

The local United Way chapter is calling on about 1,500 residents to complete questionnaires sent out Wednesday assessing the socail service program in DeKalb. Jack Felver, DeKalb United Way charirman, said the DeKalb Human Needs Survey is the third stage...

The Illinois Joint University Advisory Committee is voicing its concern that the three Illinois universities are competing with their governing board, the Board of Regents, for program improvement expansion (PIE) dollars. NIU, Illinois State University...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board has initiated a DeKalb-Sycamore route that will allow Sycamore resients to use the Huskie Bus Line. SAMTB Chairman Dave Emerick said, "Student fees will not be increase because of the new route. In fact, in the...

"(Jim Rodger's) death has stopped us all dead in our tracks ... and made us evaluate how we want to live our lives ...." These were the words of Father Stephen Potter as he spoke at a memorial service for the 21-year-old NIU senior who was shot and killed...

Students interested in running for one of seven Student Association senator vacancies have until 4:30 p.m. today to submit their completed petitions. Fourteen petitions for five off-campus seats and eight petitions for two on-campus seats had been picked...

Students enrolled in NIU foreign language classes will be able to earn master's degrees in foreign languages and literatures beginning in the fall of 1990. Approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education at its December meeting, the new degree will...

The possibility of a split between NIU and the Board of Regents, teacher evaluations and the rewording of University Council bylaws headed the agenda of the council's Wednesday meeting. While neither NIU President John LaTourette or Provost Kendall Baker...

I don't usually like to comment on arguable issues. It is much easier to just nod my head, keep my mouth shut and smile when people say things I don't necessarily agree with. But there comes a time when you have to decide to either take a stand or a backseat....

James Harder, NIU vice president for business and operations, recently accepted the NIU Holmes Student Center Bookstore Evaluation Committee's recommendation to retain NIU-ownership of the bookstore. The recommendation was made at the committee's Dec....

After protests by Sycamore merchants, a proposal to sell county farm land for the development of a shopping mall was defeated by the DeKalb County Board at its meeting Wednesday, but the dispute could resurface in several months. The motion to sell 113...

A convicted murderer, whose attempted escape routed him through parts of DeKalb County and ended in Sycamore Sept. 26, received an additional 30 years to his prison sentence Thursday after abductiong a Kendall County farmer during his flight. During a...