Three state legislators will discuss the state of education funding with the DeKalb County Farm Bureau and area educational leaders today. At the forum entitled "The Education Crisis in Illinois," Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, Rep. John Maitland, R-Normal...

About this time last year, a group of us from the community college I transferred to NIU from, were sitting around the newspaper office discussing our next moves after graduation. As discussion rounded the room, one voice said "I'm going to pay my way...

A proposed policy concerning the assignment of rights to patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets developed at NIU will be voted on at the University Council meeting next month. Larry Sill, Technology Commercialization Center director, said the...

The DeKalb City Council will discuss the 1988-89 budget proposal at a special meeting Wednesday. City council members are scheduled to meet with the Finance Advisory Board to discuss new proposals and upcoming changes in the new city budget. This meeting...

Three NIU parking committees are searching for solutions in dealing with the parking problems on campus. The Campus Parking Committee, in existence at NIU for more than 15 years, is a long-term advisory committee, said committee member Kenneth Bowden....

NIU's Health Enhancement Services has proposed putting condoms in vending machines to help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Band-Aids, toothbrushes and aspirin are several items which also might be placed in the vending machines, said...

Is there an NIU student out there who traveled to Pittsburgh this weekend? If so, did you lose a comparative politics textbook? While traveling from Pittsburgh to Chicago Feb. 14 on U.S Air flight 205, DeKalb resident Mike Maher found the book entitled...

The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded NIU's Center for Southeast Asian Studies a grant of $572,000. "Eight centers (including NIU's) known for their SEA programs were invited to apply for the grant," said Michael Aung-Thwin, director of NIU's center....

DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow proclaimed the week of Feb. 15 through 19 as Marketing Week in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday night in the Wirtz auditorium. Sparrow read a proclamation from his office and presented the document to Patrick Kagan. Kagan is...

NIU this fall will enforce its "core specific admission requirements" which will affect freshmen enrolling for the 1988-89 school year. NIU has changed its admission standards to include successful completion of a sequence of high school courses in addition...

If anything positive possibly could come out of the whole bookstore/shoplifting farce, it could be a security system that will prevent similar episodes from happening again. The incident, during which a group of black students were followed as they walked...

Letters announcing a meeting concerning a second Unity Through Diversity Week were sent to student organizations. The informational meeting will be held Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. in Holmes Student Center Room 305. Gary Henderson, graduate assistant at the student...