The Eighth Annual New Ideas in History Conference will be Friday, Oct. 21 at 8:30 a.m. in the Holmes Student Center. The conference is sponsored by NIU's department of History, College of Continuing Education, and Department of Clinical Education. The...

The issue of insufficient handicap transportation at NIU was addressed recently when about 200 letters of complaint were delivered to Dave Emerick, Student Association Mass Transit Adviser. Elliott Lessen, associate professor of special education, and...

Student Association Vice President and Internal Affairs Committee Chairman Gregg Bliss said the IAC will meet today at 7 p.m. in the conference room of the SA office, located on the second floor of the Holmes Student Center. The meeting will be conducted...

You can always count on this university to botch just about anything. If you haven't noticed yet, the university is finally starting to mail validation stickers for student ID cards. The stickers are used as proof that a student is currently enrolled...

The CHANCE program should make an effort to maintain a counseling staff with an ethnic balance to best serve the needs of its students. As a result of the recent resignation of Frank Minton and the university's decision not to renew Martha Palmer's contract,...

Concerned citizens from around the county gathered at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau last night to get another look at the candidates running for office this election year. The League of Women Voters of DeKalb County and the DeKalb County Farm Bureau sponsored...

With less than "six months of life" left in the DeKalb County Landfill, the Student Association Recycling Station will now accept magazines and telephone books in an attempt to extend its existence. The DeKalb County Landfill will be filled to capacity...

Starting next semester, NIU's CHANCE program will be left without any black counselors for the 264 black students enrolled in the 451-student program. The program's two black counselors, Frank Minton and Martha Palmer, both will leave the university before...

GLEN ELLYN—About 5,000 campaign supporters for George Bush, vice president and republican presidential nominee, waited impatiently for about an hour for Bush to appear at a rally held at the College of DuPage Monday. Supporters sporadically shouted,...

Improving communications between NIU students and the DeKalb Police Department is the goal of a new liaison program between university groups and DeKalb Police Detective Bill Feithen. The NIU Community Relations Program is set to start this week and involves...

The Board of Regents will meet Wednesday at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal to discuss salary increases for university administrators and further action on the rehabilitation of the Holmes Student Center tower's exterior walls. NIU Student...

The Interfraternity Council will discuss and possibly vote tonight on implementing a risk-management policy to reduce NIU fraternities' liability for alcohol-related accidents. Two members from each fraternity chapter sit on the IFC and will attend the...