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...

Five candidates, including incumbent Greg Sparrow, are running on the mayoral ticket in April's elections, and most promise they will not run mudslinging campaigns. Mayoral candidates include Sparrow, 7th Ward Alderman Mark Powell, Adolph Miller, Nick...

An Illinois Board of Higher Education official said "it would be very unfortunate" if NIU does not change its college entrance requirements to meet the requirements recommended by the board. NIU Admissions Director Dan Oborn said Wednesday that NIU probably...

NIU's Parking Division put its security phone system on hold until the votes on a Student Association referendum for a security phone system are counted. Public Safety Director Jim Elliott said the parking division had begun a process to install three...

Elections to fill seven Student Association senate seat vacancies created by resignations last semester, and a referendum concerning a security phone system will take place this week. Senate elections will be held today and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6...

NIU's physical therapy program recently has acquired laboratory space and will graduate 21 students this semester, despite being in danger of elimination last April when facility space and a lack of funding posed major problems for the program. Mary Jane...

NIU President John LaTourette's Fee Study Committee met Monday evening to review a proposal presented by the Northern Star Publication Board that would increase student fees for fiscal year 1989. The proposal to charge full-time students $1.80 per semester...

Police officers patrol stadium, neighborhoods MIAMI (AP)—Police set up checkpoints at Joe Robbie Stadium and patrolled black neighborhoods on Super Bowl Sunday, which dawned quiet and rainy after days of rioting. Some 300 police officers assigned to...