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...

A DeKalb City Council member called for the resignation of an alderman in a press conference Tuesday attended by several city officials, local media and six of the seven aldermen. Fifth Ward Alderman Bessie Chronopoulos, who called the press conference,...

Although the primary issue on the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting was the preparations for a political awareness festival, the item of debate that refused to die was weather or not SCOPA's actions represent those...

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...

NIU might be asked to pay more for fire protection next year, and the university already is crying to the city about the lack of funding from the state. NIU has paid the same rate for the last three years. Yet technology has been upgraded and services...

University Programming and Activities is investigating a fight between two fraternities at a mixer in the Holmes Student Center Diversions Saturday shortly after midnight. Van Amos, program coordinator for the Center of Black Studies and a chaperone at...