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WKDI to petition for student vote on UPI

By Susie Snyder | January 19, 1988

WKDI will continue attempts to re-activate its United Press International wire service for which the Student Association Senate cut funding Dec. 6 after deciding the campus radio station could operate without the $5,000 service. WKDI will submit a petition...

Police obtain 15 road signs after search

By Marianne Renner | January 19, 1988

A few Suburban Estates residents were in for a surprise when they returned from their semester break to find their collections of road signs missing from their apartments and replaced with search warrants. The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office obtained 15...

ISU president resigns in frustration over funding

By Suzanne Tomse | January 19, 1988

Citing frustrations with the state's continuing problems of funding higher education, Illinois State University President Lloyd Watkins resigned Jan. 14. "The lack of commitment to adequate funding for higher education is more than regrettable, it is...

Regents to hear HSC repair pleas

By Paul Wagner | January 19, 1988

NIU will ask the Board of Regents to allow the university to seek bids for a contractor to perform an estimated $923,000 in repairs to the Holmes Student Center tower. Conrad Miller, NIU physical plant project manager, said representatives from Raths,...

UC approves constitution

By Suzanne Tomse | January 19, 1988

The University Council approved NIU's proposed constitution Dec. 16 despite student concerns regarding changes in the amendment procedure. In the current document, a three-fourths vote is needed to amend the constitution. However, in the revision the...

Professor Rink fired from NIU

By Marianne Renner | January 19, 1988

NIU Marketing Professor David Rink was fired effective Dec. 17, 11 days prior to a court decision dismissing evidence against him for the charge of two counts of felony forgery. A five-member NIU faculty review committee recommended the firing of Rink...

IBHE approves new budget for operations

By Suzanne Tomse | January 19, 1988

A budget recommendation of nearly $112 million for NIU's operation and grants for fiscal year 1989 was approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education Jan. 5. Eddie Williams, NIU vice president of finance and planning, said the IBHE's recommendation...

College racism meeting scheduled

By Sean Noble | January 19, 1988

Several Midwestern college administrators in association with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators will gather at NIU on Feb. 4 to discuss ways of combating recent waves of racism on American campuses. The all-day conference at...

Prof. inspires trip to ruins of Honduras

January 19, 1988

The expeditions of a NIU assistant anthropology professor have inspired plans for a spring break trip to the ruins of Copan, Honduras. NIU's anthropology department and the international and special programs department are finalizing plans for the trip...

SA gives computer study go-ahead

By Alan Marcus | December 25, 1987

The Student Association Senate approved a motion Sunday night to recognize an ad hoc committee to study the feasibility of purchasing a new computer for the SA.

SA Sen. Micheal Goldstein said he has devoloped a five-part plan for developing a proposal which the committee will present to the full senate sometime next semester.

"The computer we have is outdated and it dos not fulfill the Student Association's needs," Goldstein said.

e said "Phase one is to detemine current and future computer needs of both the SA and the SA-recognized organizations. To accomplish this, we will conduct a phone survey of all the organizatons and speak with those who use the computer within the SA, such as (SA President) Jim (Fischer) and the secretaries, advisers, and senators.

"Phase two is identifiying sources and amounts of funding. We will work together with (SA Treasurer) Todd Lipscomb to that end," Goldstein said.

e also said the third phase will involve determining which actions are open in terms of available computer systems.

"There are many types of systems we can use, ranging from stand-alone microcomputers to multi-user/multi-tasking computer systems," he said.

"Phase four will involve solicitng bids on recomended systems. There is a possibility that we will mix bids for different aspects of the system. For example, we may accept a bid from one company on the printer and another from a different company on the mainframe," he said.

"Mixing bids will allow us to save money by using the most cost-effective part of each bid we receive.

"The final phase will be to make a final recommendation to the senate in the form of a propsoal document.

"Currently we are working on phases one and two, and we are in the process of conducting the phone survey," he said.

In other business, the senate unanimously voted to accept the resignation of Sen. Melinda Hoeft.

oeft said her resignation was prompted by "uncontrollable circumstances which I feel will make me unable to devote the time required to be an effective SA sentator."

The senate also unaminously vote to provide the Phillippine Student Association with $118.90 in supplemental funding.

Lipscomb said, "The PSA was zero-funded by the senate last year because it was not clear whether or not they would even exist and have 60 members."

Lipscomb said $32.80 of funding will go to pay for advertising. $15 for office supplies, $8.10 for printing and $63.00 for automobile expenses.

The senate also voted $76 in supplemental funding for the Visual Commications Committee.

"When they (the VCC) went to arrange transportation to a conference, they were told that the money which had been previously approved by the senate was not there," he said.

Second City touring co. performs for NIU crowd

By Laurie Swearingen | December 25, 1987

Second City's National Touring Company performed before a standing-room only crowd in Duke Ellington Ballroom Tuesday night. This particular performance showed much of Second City's "new stuff," said Dave Reidy, a Phi Kappa Sigma member who arranged for...

SA to study univ. parking committee

By Nancy Broten | December 25, 1987

A report of an NIU parking committee "proposed proposal" given by committee member Henry Windsor prompted Student Association senators Sunday to create an SA subcommittee to study the compostion of the parking committee. enry Winsor, one of the three...

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