All too often at this university, administrators and student leaders alike spend more time talking about and calling attention to problems than they do trying to solve them. Such is the case with Unity in Diversity Week's physical awareness day. Yesterday,...

Once again the university's "parking problem" has become a scape goat for people too lazy to get out and walk. Now the complaint has turned from not enough parking to parking that is too far from campus. The approval of a proposal made to the Student...

NIU's Office of Resources for Women will begin a special discussion group next month and a late night open house program for older female students. A conversation group for women whose lives are changing will begin Oct. 4. Weekly meetings of "Turning...

The estimated amount of $2 million that NIU was expected to receive in additional funding from the 1989 spring semester tuition surcharge must be reduced by a total of $550,000 to offset the cost of previous commitments. Payment of the $125 surcharge...

Several on-campus student employers have noted a substantial decrease in the number of students taking jobs, starting with a large drop last fall. Robert Frederickson, director of NIU Food Services, said that although student food service employment is...

Talented faculty, staff, students and alumni are encouraged to put an act together for NIU's first annual homecoming talent show, said Dave Reidy, show coordinator. Individuals or groups skilled in singing, dancing, comedy or variety acts can audition...

NIU's College of Education has been conducting a national search for the position of assistant dean and expects to make a final choice sometime in November. "We opened up the position due to the upcoming retirement of Assistant Dean Dr. Robert Karibinus,...

The NIU Faculty Grievance Procedure now might handle the complaints of an NIU professor concerning administrative grade changes issued to students who illegally registered for spring 1988 classes using a fraudulent "REG" stamp. The University Professionals...

Election fever is in the air, but the issues do not seem to be fogging students' minds about whom they support for the next president of the United States. More NIU students interviewed Monday, the day after the first presidential debates of 1988, supported...

A new NIU Student Association policy is aimed at improving poor attendance records of student representatives on university committees. SA President Paula Radtke said alternate representatives will be assigned to certain committees this year. She said...

The addition of a tenth bus route to the Huskie Bus Line's present daily service was discussed by the Student Association Mass Transit Board Monday, but no decision was made on the proposed route. The transit board did decide, however, to add a bus stop...

A female NIU student reported to University Police that she was the victim of a criminal sexual assault in a Douglas Residence Hall room Saturday between 1:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. UP Lt. Ron Williams said two of three suspects involved in the assault have...