A recent statewide law, called the Minority and Female Business Enterprise Act, will require NIU to make at least 10 percent of all its purchases from minority and female-owned businesses. Although the law was first enacted in Illinois in November 1987,...

TIPS, a Training course for Intervention Procedures by Servers of alcohol, will be offered at Otto's, 118 E. Lincoln Hwy. on Dec. 10. TIPS is part of Euclid Beverage, a Miller-project which educates bartenders, bouncers, waitresses and other bar employees...

Two NIU administrators contested on Tuesday charges by Black Student Union members and two Chicago-area legislators that the university is a racist institution. Ken Beasley, assistant to NIU President John LaTourette, said that "out of the nearly 30,000...

Several plans for flood prevention and stormwater management were presented by DeKalb's Engineering Division and the firm Donohue & Associates of Itasca to the DeKalb City Council in a meeting Monday. At the meeting, Public Works Director Ron Naylor...

The recent U.S. Department of Energy decision to construct the proposed $4.4 billion Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, coupled with inadequate state funding for higher education, could negatively affect the multi-university at the College of DuPage....

A campus-wide food drive has been initiated by two Student Association members, in hopes of helping the needy in DeKalb. Tana Titre, SA public relations advisor, and SA senator Mike Kipp organized the food drive and plan to make it an annual event at...

Radon levels in DeKalb County are consistent with those of counties in the remainder of the state of Illinois, the Department of Nuclear Safety reports. Radon, a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas is a naturally occurring indoor pollutant. The gas,...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education approved a tuition guidelines policy for Illinois public colleges and universities by a narrow margin Tuesday. NIU President John LaTourette said the policy passed 8 to 6, including an opposing student vote which...

Students can get a head start on Christmas shopping at the school of art's 13th annual "deflation sale." The sale will be held Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Visual Art Building's Gallery 200. "The...

State legislators crucial to the passage of State Sen. Patrick Welch's bill to create a separate governing board for NIU were targeted during Tuesday's Student Association Student Political Education and Action Committee meeting. Young Democrat President...

The Faculty Assembly will hold its last meeting of the semester today at 3 p.m. in room 505 of the Holmes Student Center. An announcement is scheduled to be made concerning a visit by Board of Regents' Chancellor Roderick Groves next semester, according...

State funding for higher education in Illinois is the lowest in the country due to a lack of state support, NIU President John LaTourette said at a speech he gave Tuesday night, sponsored by the Economics Club. LaTourette said NIU is budgeted with $170...