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Simulation promotes student understanding of disabilities

By Diane Buerger | September 27, 1988

Jon Dalton, NIU vice president for student affairs, and two student leaders relied on wheelchairs instead of their feet yesterday, but two disabled students point out simulations alone will not bring about changes. Sue Haas, a physically disabled student...

Escaped killer returned to jail after shooting spree

By Holly Schubert | September 27, 1988

Convicted murderer Jessie Donald Sumner, 51, who escaped from the Pontiac Correctional Center and was captured Monday night north of Sycamore, was returned to Kendall County late last night. Sumner's last of four hostages, department of correction employee...

Master Plan discussed

By Elizabeth M. Behland | September 27, 1988

The recently released Campus Master Plan recommends renovations of the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons and construction of pedestrian walkways to improve the safety and beauty of NIU's campus. Eddie Williams, NIU vice president for finance and planning,...

Morley guilty of harassment

By Holly Schubert | September 27, 1988

Robert Morley, the man accused of harassing NIU Judicial Office Director Larry Bolles by telephone last spring, was found guilty and was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum penalty of six months conditional discharge and 40 hours of community service. Morley,...

Scholars exempt from surcharge

By Dina Paluzzi | September 27, 1988

Students with full Illinois State Scholarship Commission Monetary Award Program scholarships will not be required to pay the $125 tuition surcharge for the spring 1989 semester. The Board of Regents Chancellor's report stated that the increase would be...

Action needed, not simulation

September 27, 1988

All too often at this university, administrators and student leaders alike spend more time talking about and calling attention to problems than they do trying to solve them. Such is the case with Unity in Diversity Week's physical awareness day. Yesterday,...

Plan for new bus route a mistake

September 27, 1988

Once again the university's "parking problem" has become a scape goat for people too lazy to get out and walk. Now the complaint has turned from not enough parking to parking that is too far from campus. The approval of a proposal made to the Student...

Resource office hosts special discussion group

By Jeneva Garrett | September 27, 1988

NIU's Office of Resources for Women will begin a special discussion group next month and a late night open house program for older female students. A conversation group for women whose lives are changing will begin Oct. 4. Weekly meetings of "Turning...

Commitments deplete share of surcharge

By Claudia Curry | September 27, 1988

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...

Employers report lack of applicants

By Sean Noble | September 27, 1988

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...

Artists welcome to participate in first talent show

By Jill Stocker | September 27, 1988

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...

Hunt for assistant dean almost over

By Dan Young | September 27, 1988

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,...