NIU administrators will be meeting with students to discuss a proposal to increase student input into management of the Holmes Student Center—a proposal which could alleviate problems which Student Association President Paula Radtke calls "a form of...

Last-minute schedule changes can be hectic for students who have to wait in long lines, but in the future, these changes can be made by telephone from anywhere in the world. NIU is now developing software which will one day enable the installation of...

Police are searching the Wisconsin Dells area for NIU student Richard Church, who is charged with the slayings of his ex-girlfriend's parents. Woodstock Police Chief Herb Pitzman said a fugitive warrant was issued Aug. 25 for Church, who had crossed the...

NIU faculty will receive an 8.5 percent salary increase this year, 75 percent of which is based on performance and 25 percent across the board. NIU President John LaTourette said the Board of Regents passed a salary increase for those faculty members...

A no-smoking ordinance effective Sept. 1 which will strengthen the existing policy was approved after brief debate by the DeKalb City Council Aug. 22. In a 5 to 1 vote, the council passed the policy after voting to delete a section regulating private...

Holmes Student Center Bookstore Director Stanley Shedaker will leave NIU on September 16 to take a job as a marketing developer for Missouri Book Services. Shedaker, whose last few months at NIU were fraught with controversy over the allegedly racially-induced...

The Board of Regents Executive Committee held a telephone conference call meeting Aug. 18 mainly to discuss personnel transactions at Illinois State University and NIU. Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves said the meeting was of routine character. He said...

Many seniors find themselves making a pilgrimage to an office on the second floor of Swen Parson Hall, where they can receive help in finding employment after graduation. The Career Planning and Placement Center offers many services to students who are...

"You gotta be willing to starve for a while—but the starving's over now." NIU alumnus Howard Hill is a certified public accountant with a south Chicago firm headed by Darius C. Bolling, also an NIU alum. Hill, a 1980 graduate, was Black Student Union...

Most college basketball coaches would fear losing five of their top six scorers and starting a season with one junior and no seniors. Third-year Huskie coach Jim Rosborough is in that situation, but instead of looking to the 1988-89 season with apprehension,...

Cutting through red tape to help students solve their problems is part of the job of NIU Ombudsman Bertrand Simpson. "The university, like any good bureaucracy, is a very intricate institution and has its share of red tape to go through in dealing with...