Board of Regents members will vote on salary increases of "about 17 percent" for NIU President John LaTourette and Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves at Thursday's open meeting.e Regents Chairman Carol Burns said the issue was discussed during executive...

Local politicians and community leaders attended a meeting yesterday at Kishwaukee Community Hospital's Murphy Center to support the formation of a DeKalb chapter of a not-for-profit organization involved in advocacy and public awareness of disability-related...

A proposal to construct a Student Life Center which would house a number of NIU student organizations is still in the drafting stages. Jon Dalton, NIU vice president for student affairs, said a proposal is being developed to construct a center that would...

The Eighth Annual New Ideas in History Conference will be Friday, Oct. 21 at 8:30 a.m. in the Holmes Student Center. The conference is sponsored by NIU's department of History, College of Continuing Education, and Department of Clinical Education. The...

The issue of insufficient handicap transportation at NIU was addressed recently when about 200 letters of complaint were delivered to Dave Emerick, Student Association Mass Transit Adviser. Elliott Lessen, associate professor of special education, and...

Although validation sticker distribution has been delayed, students should be receiving stickers for their university identification cards later this week. NIU Bursar Richard Cochrane said distribution of the validation stickers is about one month behind...

Methods of crime prevention for local citizens will be the subject of a training session to be held tonight. Sponsored by Citizens Against Crime, the session will take place at 7 p.m. at the DeKalb County Public Safety Building, 150 N. Main St., Sycamore....

More people registered to vote Oct. 11, the final day to register, than DeKalb County has ever seen in a single day, said DeKalb County Clerk Terry Desmond. Desmond said his office registered more than 1,000 people in one day. He said, "It was the biggest...

The occasional "chaos" found in the Student Association is no longer a concern for SA Vice President and acting president pro tempore Gregg Bliss since the senate selected a permenant pro tempore. Sunday night the SA approved the Internal Affairs committee's...

No, I'm not paying up on a favor I owe, and I'm not trying to schmooze anyone. But I really have to give three cheers to the Student Association Mass Transit Board and the Huskie Bus Line. On a cold and rainy day like Monday, I rode the early a.m. number...

GLEN ELLYN—About 5,000 campaign supporters for George Bush, vice president and republican presidential nominee, waited impatiently for about an hour for Bush to appear at a rally held at the College of DuPage Monday. Supporters sporadically shouted,...

Improving communications between NIU students and the DeKalb Police Department is the goal of a new liaison program between university groups and DeKalb Police Detective Bill Feithen. The NIU Community Relations Program is set to start this week and involves...