A pre-trial and trial will be held in the DeKalb County Courthouse for the Board of Regents eminent domain lawsuit filed last fall to determine how much property south of the university NIU can obtain from current landowners. The Regents filed the lawsuit...

Helping make a connection between people of different races and playing fun music is what blues and folk artist Judy Gorman-Jacobs hopes to accomplish when she performs at NIU on Friday. Gorman-Jacobs will appear at 7 p.m. in the NIU Music Building Concert...

The NIU men's golf squad left Thursday afternoon for Madison, Wis., to participate in the Badger Invitational, which will be held at the Cherokee Country Club. There are 18 teams in the field, including all of the Big Ten teams with the exception of Ohio...

September 25 - October 1, 1988 Sept. 25 Combined ecumenical service. HSC, Sandburg Aud.,11 a.m. Panel: "Campus Race Relations." HSC 505, 6:30 p.m. "Inner Circle," Gospel performance. Music Building, Boutell Concert Hall, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 Workshop: "Campus...

NIU's vice presidents are trying to prevent racism at NIU with an action plan implemented last spring including affirmitive action and steps to confront racial incidents. "Over the past year and a half, a number of incidents have occurred across the country....

Student Association funds were used to pay for two missing megaphones used in last Spring's Day of Action. SA Treasurer Dianna Turowski decided the SA, which is supported by student fees, was liable for the disappearance of the megaphones valued at $290...

Charges by State Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, that the Board of Regents sent the wrong message to legislators when they approved a tuition surcharge, should be taken seriously. Higher education officials have spent the last year screaming about the...

A variety of social and cultural programs are slated to kick off NIU's "Unity in Diversity" Week, which begins Sunday and runs through Oct. 1. "Inner Circle," a husband, wife, and sister-in-law gospel group, will perform Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Music...

The Big What? Chapter two of NIU's quest for national respect against Big Ten Conference teams takes place Saturday night when the Huskies venture north to face Minnesota in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. The Huskies, coming off a 19-17 win at Wisconsin,...

In what is being called a "close election in both districts," the fall 1988 NIU Student Association Senate roster was announced late Wednesday. Election Commissioner Robert Perry said 751 students voted in the election, and ballots were counted four times...

A decision about where to make $240,000 of cuts to the Founders Memorial Library's materials budget should be made by early next week. Library Director Theodore Welch said NIU Provost Kendall Baker has reviewed three options for the cuts and will give...

DeKalb Police are still investigating Saturday's accident in which NIU student Karri Botz, 17, was killed after being struck by a motorcycle and a car on Annie Glidden Road, just north of Crane Drive. DeKalb Police Lt. Charles Beierlotzer said the police...