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Council OKs motion for transfers

By Stephanie Bradley | October 9, 1988

Members of the NIU Undergraduate Coordinating Council at their meeting Thursday approved a motion to allow transfer students to use MATH 120 as a core competency class. UCC Chairman Lou Jean Moyer said MATH 120 no longer satisfies a general education...

Awards recognize NIU-DeKalb cooperation

By Joel Guggenheim | October 9, 1988

The Office of the President needs nominations for the second annual Community-University Awards. The awards were established in 1986 to recognize organizations, one from DeKalb and one from NIU, that have broadened understanding and cooperation between...

Wesley Foundation to sponsor weekly band

By Jill Stocker | October 9, 1988

The Wesley Foundation, NIU's United Methodist student ministry, will begin their weekly coffee house program, presenting a different musical band each Friday, said Dave Schmidt, foundation director. "These coffee houses provide a good alternative source...

Help save lives by contributing in blood drives

By Michelle D. Isaacson | October 9, 1988

NIU students can do their part to help save lives by donating blood at one of the 17 blood drives this semester at NIU. Heartland, a blood bank, depends on NIU blood drives for five percent of its blood supply. Heartland supplies blood to 26 hospitals...

Opposing candidates explain court case

By Tammy Sholer | October 9, 1988

The two candidates running for DeKalb County state's attorney have faced each other only once in a court of law defending opposite sides—in a sexual abuse case last summer. Republican nominee Mike Coghlan, first assistant state's attorney, opposed Democratic...

Association seeks prominent graduates

By Amanda Martin | October 4, 1988

The NIU Alumni Association is seeking the nominations of outstanding NIU graduates for the 1989 Alumni Association awards to be presented at the May 13 Graduate School Commencement and the April 10 honors banquet. NIU Alumni Programs Director Sue Lund,...

LaTourette calls on students for support

By Paul Wagner | October 4, 1988

NIU president John LaTourette called on student leaders earlier this week to continue work toward a tax increase for higher education. LaTourette said at Sunday's Student Association meeting that redistributing state allocations cannot produce more funds...

Open House to show off NIU

By Diane Buerger | October 4, 1988

The NIU Admissions Office is expecting about 400 high school students this Monday for an open house, said Undergraduate Admissions Assistant Director Craig Kolins. The visiting students will take a bus tour of the NIU campus, visit a residence hall, meet...

Festival to run regardless of SCOPA’s fate

By Greg Rivara | October 4, 1988

Although the blackboard used to outline the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting read "SCOPA: An Endangered Species," the committee worked as though its future was secure. Details for the "Political Awareness Festival"...

Runways to improve at DeKalb-Taylor Airport

By Mike Lacy | October 4, 1988

DeKalb-Taylor Municipal Airport will have expanded, safer runway facilities soon with the help of about $5.5 million in federal and state monies. Plans include extending the runway in the summer of 1989 and building a second east-west runway south of...

Funds needed for corridor

By Elizabeth M. Behland | October 4, 1988

Unless adequate state funding is available, NIU will not be able to provide technological education through a multi-university in the DuPage County research and development corridor. NIU Provost Kendall Baker said the concept of a "multi-university has...

IBHE to form tuition guideline policy

By Claudia Curry and Dina Paluzzi | October 4, 1988

After hearing statements from members of about seven Illinois universities regarding a state-wide tuition policy Tuesday, the Illinois Board of Higher Education decided it would form a guidelines policy at its December meeting prior to budgeting in January....