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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Controversy over who was consulted about former NIU president and political science professor Clyde Wingfield's assignment in Washington, D.C. continues despite Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves' claims. At a special Faculty Assembly meeting...

Trained to handle certain problems at certain times, volunteers are needed to run crisis lines and refer people to professional counselors at two organizations in DeKalb. Rick Johnson, community education coordinator for the Ben Gordon Mental Health Center,...

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,...

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...

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...

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"...

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...