The Board of Regents is hoping the $125 tuition surcharge they passed last week in place of a straight tuition increase will send a message to state legislators that Illinois needs increased higher education funding. However, some legislators have said...

NIU's Fine Arts Series is offering subscription savings for its upcoming 1988-1989 season. "Students can see great acts for $4 or $5 for which they would normally have to pay $20 or $25 in Chicago," Michelle Emmett, NIU director of programming and activites,...

With football season already underway and leaves beginning to change colors, memories of weekends spent on the beach are fading into the realization that autumn has arrived—and officially at 2:29 p.m. today. "Autumn, which usually arrives on Sept. 23,...

Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is hosting the Dodge National Collegiate Driving Championships on Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Campus Cinema parking lots located at Hillcrest Drive and Blackhawk Road. Students are invited to drive a 1989 Dodge Daytona...

Conversation between candidates and constituents waiting for senate election results outside the Student Association office Wednesday night centered more around the effect that a coalition of candidates had on voters' decisions than whether the candidates...

The organizers and participants in this year's Unity in Diversity week have their work cut out for them. But such education for Americans is necessary. A recent poll by the Los Angeles Times concluded most Americans believe immigrants have had a negative...

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...

Questions concerning whether Democratic Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis' Massachusetts economy is strong enough for the United States could be answered at a lecture today. Roger Schmenner, associate professor at the Indiana University School of Business,...

The DeKalb Festival Chorus has added between five and 10 new members for the fall semester. Auditions were held Saturday in room 134 of the Music Building. However, those who are interested still can join. Elwood Smith, an NIU music faculty member and...

Tom Rainey, member of the Student Committee on Political Action, said Tuesday at a Black Student Union mass meeting that SCOPA and the John Lennon Society will stop leading the fight to regain fired CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer's position and will wait...