With the rising cost of tuition and budget cuts imposing a greater financial burden on students and the university, alumni contributions are becoming increasingly important in areas such as alumni-funded scholarships. However, future alumni donations...

The Illinois Student Association will hold a referendum at Sangamon State University in Springfield next week to propose the addition of an annual mandatory, refundable $1 fee to their student fees. A similar referendum was held at NIU last spring to...

What began Thursday as a day of peaceful student protests within and outside the Board of Regents meeting at NIU ended in an explosive confrontation between students and university administrators. A group of about 125 chanting students marched into the...

A motion to dismiss a charge of resisting a peace officer will be examined today at a status review hearing for about 75 NIU students who were involved in last year's Day of Action II sit-in on Lincoln Highway April 13. The demonstrators filed the motion...

The Student Association Senate might consider a proposal this year to form two different off-campus districts in an effort to ensure equal student representation on the senate. The proposal, which SA Vice President Greg Bliss said might not be addressed...

A $125 tuition surcharge will be imposed on students of all Regency universities, including NIU, for the spring 1989 semester and every semester thereafter until it is removed by the Board of Regents, the Regents decided Thursday. Through a compromise...

Thomas Burton may not look, talk, act or think like the typical NIU student, but that's because he's anything but "typical." Burton has accomplished something few of his peers would even consider attempting. Burton, at the age of 70, received his doctorate...

When it comes to sexual assault response, NIU is way ahead of the "pack." Kathy Guimond, a member of NIU's Sexual Assault Task Force and a University Police dispatcher, said NIU's force is one of the best in the country. And with a much-increased budget...

Although the University Police have not decided whether to have police on hand at the Board of Regents meeting today, they are aware of the potential problems which might develop because of protesting students. UP Capt. James Webster said the UPs are...

The NIU Faculty Senate Task Force approved changes made to Article 12 of the NIU constitution and bylaws at a meeting Wednesday. William Monat, task force chairman and NIU regency professor, said the purpose of the changes was to prepare the document...

A Sept. 12 report by Insight magazine stated that last year alone, "$10.8 billion was donated to education, up 7.5 percent over 1986." A good portion of this money can be attributed to the fundraising efforts of university alumni associations and foundations....

About one hundred people gathered in the HSC Capitol Room last night to listen as College Republican Chairman Mark Brierton and Young Democrat Chairman John Morreale debated national campaign issues, including educational funding and the Persian Gulf...