People speaking in favor of constructing the proposed Superconducting Super Collider in Illinois faced strong, and sometimes hostile, verbal opposition on the second day of the Environmental Impact Statement hearing at Waubonsie Valley High School in...

NIU students who have received merit scholarships will be recognized at the Presidential Awards Convocation today in the Holmes Student Center's Regency Room at 4 p.m. Marion Miller, director of the University Honors Program, originated the convocation...

NIU's first annual fall Sexual Assault Awareness week, which runs today through Friday, will involve communicating information to students about sexual assaults, which have a "high risk" period in autumn. Jeff Cufaude, NIU activities adviser for University...

For the time being, the monkey was taken off the back of the Student Committee on Political Action at Sunday night's Student Association meeting. A proposal to accept the recommended bylaw changes and additions made by the SA's Internal Affairs Committee...

The NIU Admissions Office is expecting about 400 high school students this Monday for an open house, said Undergraduate Admissions Assistant Director Craig Kolins. The visiting students will take a bus tour of the NIU campus, visit a residence hall, meet...

Although the blackboard used to outline the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting read "SCOPA: An Endangered Species," the committee worked as though its future was secure. Details for the "Political Awareness Festival"...

DeKalb-Taylor Municipal Airport will have expanded, safer runway facilities soon with the help of about $5.5 million in federal and state monies. Plans include extending the runway in the summer of 1989 and building a second east-west runway south of...

Unless adequate state funding is available, NIU will not be able to provide technological education through a multi-university in the DuPage County research and development corridor. NIU Provost Kendall Baker said the concept of a "multi-university has...

After hearing statements from members of about seven Illinois universities regarding a state-wide tuition policy Tuesday, the Illinois Board of Higher Education decided it would form a guidelines policy at its December meeting prior to budgeting in January....

When the going got tough, some NIU students got going...out the door. The MATH 101 students who walked out of Noca Ervin's class lecture and later scrawled chalk protests on sidewalks outside the lecture hall chose the wrong answer to their problems....

The death of an 18-year-old NIU student, which occurred on the first day of fall classes, was ruled accidental by a DeKalb County Coroner's jury last Thursday, who recommended that the traffic signal and speed limit be changed at the intersection of Annie...

Illinois Bell Telephone has underwritten a series of seminars designed for small businesses, with sales of $5 million to $20 million, going through the "growth" period of the business cycle. Bell and the College of Business's management department will...