Consumers of Commonwealth Edison Co. are due to receive refunds of summer rate overcharges that could amount to up to 20 percent of their total electric bill for the last seven months, according to an analysis conducted by the Citizens Utility Board....

NIU President LaTourette's Fee Study Committee will meet Monday to begin discussion on a proposed student fee increase to provide revenue for the Northern Star for the fiscal year 1989. The meeting wll begin at 7:45 p.m. in the Lowden Hall Conference...

The December balances in the State of Illinois General Funds are up to $71 million from the previous year. However, available funds for higher education remain about the same, despite a cash flow problem experienced last year. igher education funding...

NIU senior Sandra Kaufmann was honored last week at the American College Dance Festival at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa by being chosen as one of the finalist to perform a choreographic work at the festival's gala performance. Alan Bernstein, a...

I've always learned that you can't put a price tag on concepts like friendship, kindness, and gentleness. I seem to have been wrong. Today's the day. This is the beginning of a kinder, gentler nation. Only it's costing about $25 million, give or take...

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...

Bryan Sims knew something was a little fishy when his boss told him to move some helicopter equipment one day in 1986. His superiors at the Corpus Christi, Texas Naval Air Station were asking him to transfer parts from a Huey helicopter to a search-and-rescue...