A final decision for the renovation of the Holmes Student Center tower is expected to be made this week at the Board of Regents meeting in Springfield. NIU has received bids for the renovation of the student center, which were discussed last December...

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"...

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...

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...

I really didn't think my New Year's celebration would leave me sober. Instead, I imagined the itchy teeth, twisting intestines and red-hot pipes that so commonly accompany my bouts with post-consumption blues. I wasn't hung over for the first time in...

Two DeKalb County road improvement projects, holding a total price tag of about $550,000, are scheduled to receive bids Feb. 3, said Rep. John Countryman (R_DeKalb). The first project proposed by the Illinois Department of Transportation involves the...

A change in Student Association senate voting districts, administrative decisions involving student groups and group funding are some major issues the SA senate will discuss this semester. SA Vice President Gregg Bliss said redistricting will be debated...