NIU housing officials say credit card companies are violating university policy when they post applications and sales pieces in the residence halls. "Any solicitation for any for-profit enterprise" is prohibited on residence hall bulletin boards, said...

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....

The number of NIU students caught cheating has increased four times from previous semesters. The University Judicial Office has handled 20 cases of cheating this semester. "This early in the semester there are usually five to six (cheating) cases," said...

Vincent Nall, president of Ideal Industries in Sycamore, was awarded NIU's first Executive Award for Excellence in Corporate Achievement. The award is sponsored by the Marketing Honors Society and is given in recognition of corporate executives, with...

Recent work by Chicago painter Susan Bloch will continue to be on display this weekend through Nov. 12 in the X/S Space at the NIU Art Gallary, 212 W. Superior St., in Chicago. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Bloch's...

It is not NIU's job to prevent credit card companies from advertising in unauthorized areas said University Legal Counsel George Shur. "There are certain places on campus where we allow commercial activities to occur," Shur said. Unauthorized posters...

Enrollment of foreign graduate students is up by 15 percent from last year despite a drop of 6 percent in the overall enrollment of graduate students at NIU. Nobody knows the specific reason. Romualdas Kasuba, College of Engineering dean, said one reason...

Margariete Montague Wheeler, 49, NIU associate professor of mathematics, died Saturday in Chicago of heart failure. Wheeler was born Dec. 10, 1938, in Oakland, Calif. She attended Mills College in Oakland and graduated with a bachelor's degree in teaching...

It wasn't pretty. And NIU head volleyball coach Pete Waite will be the first to admit it wasn't very much fun. But the women's volleyball team managed to come away from Valparaiso, Ind., with a five-game North Star Conference victory last night despite...