An extra $2 million will be added to NIU's budget from the $125 mid-year tuition surcharge students must pay this spring. NIU's fiscal year 1989 internal operating budget will total $178 million after the additional revenue is added. During an Oct. 20...

Complaints of no-smoking violations has prompted the installation of fans in Altgeld Hall to create a smoking area. Shey Lowman, NIU publications associate director, said there has been a problem with violators of the policy in Altgeld because it was...

NIU students might have the opportunity to register for courses to be applied to a Peace Studies minor as early as the spring of 1989. Wesley Foundation Director Dave Schmidt said he hopes several existing NIU courses will be available to students for...

Information regarding a possible Illinois constitutional convention in 1990, which would challenge state legislation, is available in a special issue of NIU's Law Review. Eleven essays in the volume detail issues that could be considered at the 1990 state...

The President's Fee Study Committee might discuss today two proposals to raise the NIU student activity fee. The committee, however, will not make any final decisions today on changing the activity fee. According to one proposal, the activity fee would...

Faculty Assembly members have sent a letter critical of Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves' response to questions at a Sept. 28 meeting with the group. The faculty found Groves' answers to questions they asked him insufficient on topics such...

The 24,255 students enrolled at NIU this semester represent a decrease of 1,200 students from the fall of 1987, according to a report by Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves. This semester's figure also marks a decrease of 425 students from the...

The Board of Regents' eminent domain lawsuit to obtain more land at NIU scheduled for Thursday was postponed to Dec. 1 and will be heard in the DeKalb County Courthouse. The Regents filed the lawsuit on NIU's behalf Oct. 14, 1987 to obtain property between...

A pre-trial will be held today in the DeKalb County Courthouse for a Board of Regents' eminent domain lawsuit filed last fall. The lawsuit was filed Oct. 14, 1987, on NIU's behalf to determine how much land south of the NIU campus the university can obtain...

Two student Regents disagree with a state senator's belief that NIU should have its own governing board. State Senator Patrick Welch, D-Peru, said he believes NIU should leave the Regency system in favor of forming a governing board of its own. "I think...

The number 80 has significant meaning for the NIU men's basketball team. A meaning it would just as soon forget. During the last two year's of head coach Jim Rosborough's reign, the Huskies have lost nearly every game when their opponent has reached the...

The committee deciding the fate of NIU's bookstore has not yet decided if the store will be leased to an outside vendor, but one student member wants the bookstore to stay in university hands and to see students given credit cards to be used in the store....