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Are Americans hooked on short term-payoffs

November 17, 1988

WASHINGTON—The reason so many inner-city youngsters are tempted into the high-risk, high-profit drug racket, a Washington police official ventured the other day, is that they are fundamentally fatalists, neither demanding nor expecting more from life...

Sunday’s races expect 450 runners

By Joel Guggenheim | November 17, 1988

On Sunday, about 450 runners will line up to compete in NIU's 10th Thanksgiving Classic races. Both a 5-kilometer (3.1 miles) and a 15-kilometer (9.3 miles) walk/run are scheduled to start north of the Recreation Center on Lincoln Drive. The rec center...

Panhellenic Council picks executive board for spring

By Tammy Sholer | November 17, 1988

Next semester's Panhellenic Council's executive board and subcommittee members were chosen Tuesday night at the council's regular meeting. Debbie Mitchel, Panhellenic public relations chairman, said the next council president will be Leslie Wegworth of...

Consultant offers opinion of bookstore

By Greg Rivara | November 17, 1988

A college bookstore consultant told the Holmes Student Center Bookstore Committee the bookstore already has the resources to provide anything a private vendor could offer. William Minney, President of College Bookstore Management Consulting, Inc., told...

Student leaders argue on hehalf of REG appeals

By Katrina Kelly | November 17, 1988

Student Association President Paula Radtke and Student Regent Nick Valadez argued vehemently Wednesday on behalf of the NIU Judicial Board appeals system for more than 100 students who illegally registered into spring 1988 classes using a fraudulent "REG"...

SPEAC studies strategies to separate from Regents

By Greg Rivara | November 17, 1988

Strategies that will help NIU break the reigns of the Board of Regents and find support for State Sen. Patrick Welch's (D_Peru) proposal asking for a separate governing board for NIU were discussed during Tuesday's Student Association's Student Political Education and Action Committee meeting.

The committee plans to send letters in support of Welch's proposal to "wishy_washy" senators.

SA President Paula Radtke said "Northern has outgrown the Board of Regents. If a lot of people get involved, it will send a strong message to the Regents that they need to clean up their act."

SPEAC member John Martin said the committee will ask for letters of endorsement from the faculty and other government officials. The committee will organize a petition for NIU students to sign and send copies of the petition to the Illinois Senate and Illinois House of Representatives.

Martin said the bulk of the opposition against NIU receiving its own governing board is coming "from people who have an interest in the University of Illinois Champaign_Urbana." People see the proposal as competition for U of I, he said.

The committee intends to send a package to gain support from senators who are undecided or against Welch's proposal. "With this packet, we are going to show why the Board of Regents sucks," Martin said.

Radtke said an amendment to the Regency Act is necessary for NIU's separate governing board.

"If we get it through the Senate, we've got a pretty good shot," she said.

Passage by the House of Representatives will not be as difficult because the proposal will be a smaller issue than it is in the Senate. "There is not as much of a vested interest in the House," Radtke said.

However, SPEAC member Mark Brierton said it will be difficult to pass the proposal through the Senate. Senators will see the proposal as a "Pat Welch re_election bill."

Brierton said the Senate's discussion on voter redistricting in 1990 also will cause problems for the proposal's passage.

Martin said he will contact Illinois Republican Party Chairman Al Jordan in an attempt to get Gov. James Thompson to endorse Welch's proposal.

Gaining support for NIU's own governing board will take time. "We need to wait until spring until we really push for this," Radtke said.

The committee decided to wait until they receive a copy of Welch's proposal before they plan strategies to create a student vote on the proposed governing board.

Sorry, the ‘80s will be here to stay for a while

By Sean Noble | November 17, 1988

Boy, am I disappointed. It was my understanding that the 1980s were over. That was one of the major things I was going to be thankful for next week at this time when I'm at home for the holiday, stuffing myself with stuffing. I was happy that the decade...

Wirtz House ‘fits’ in at NIU

November 17, 1988

NIU's womens organizations are not the only ones who need a place that has memories and traditions. If administrators continue with their plans to demolish the Wirtz House they will be depriving the entire NIU community and subsequent generations a piece...

LaTourette to address Palmer issue

By Susie Snyder | November 17, 1988

NIU President John LaTourette will meet with the President's Commission on the Status of Minorities today at 3:30 p.m. in room 201 of Lowden Hall to outline goals for the commission for the next two semesters. Walt Owens, commission chairman and assistant...

Faculty research can benefit students

By Stephanie Bradley and Katrina Kelly | November 17, 1988

While research provides faculty with knowledge and insight into their field, it also can draw teachers away from the classroom. Students, however, do not have to suffer from this situation. James Norris, dean of NIU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,...

Police seize drugs, arrest two residents

By Suzanne Tomse | November 16, 1988

DeKalb police seized a quantity of cocaine and marijuana with a street value over $2,000 at 835 Edgebrook Apt. 210, where two residents were arrested Monday. The residents, Phillip Greene, 21, and Ryan Thompson, 22, were arrested for the possession of...

Research, published materials vary

By Stephanie Bradley and Katrina Kelly | November 16, 1988

NIU professors' research and published material are as diverse as all of the different departments on campus. History Department Chairman Otto Olsen said every faculty member of NIU does research and is a publishing scholar, but there is a difference...

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