With President-elect George Bush's administration on the brink of beginning, two NIU professors believe he will not jump into arms talks with Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev during his visit to the United States, which began Tuesday. Gorbachev...

The NIU Faculty Assembly voted to require college-wide faculty elections for open faculty positions in the University Council after a lengthy discussion at its meeting Wednesday. Elections Committee Chairman Jeff Parness said there will be at least one...

A lawsuit between NIU and a university employee who did not pay $530 in parking fines was settled Monday at a pre-trial hearing. Court records indicate that both parties, the university and laundry facilities repairman Wayne Fetzer, agreed to a $400 settlement....

Studies upon studies have been conducted about television's influence on the education of children. Interest groups have tried to prove television's negative influence, but what people do not think about are the positive aspects and programs television...

Printing operations in Altgeld Hall Room 108 will be closed on Dec. 19 for a semi-annual inventory. Printing Director Ron Barnett said the printing shop produces a wide variety of of materials including envelopes, brochures and fliers. The purpose of...

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...

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...