Gov. James Thompson will address higher education budget recommendations for fiscal year 1989 Tuesday at a joint meeting of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the State Board of Higher Education in Chicago. A $1.8 million budget for higher education...

The Student Association this week will encourage students to register to vote in DeKalb County. The SA has begun a voter registration drive this week so students "will be able to voice their opinions," SA Sen. Joe Annunzio said. Primary elections will...

The Student Association Ad Hoc Parking Committee today will present the University Parking Committee with a proposal the SA believes will benefit both students and faculty. At Sunday's SA Senate meeting Henry Winsor, the student appointee to the university...

"Pass the Buck," a complaint box for students, allows them to make any complaints they have and get results. Paula Radtke, Student Association public relations adviser, said the program is controlled by the public relations department and allows students...

CHICAGO (AP) _Inside Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, some 1,000 people sang spirituals, prayed and donated money to Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign as part of a "Super Sunday" nationwide church collection. "The possibility of Jesse becoming...

Three budgets approved by the Student Association Finance Committee Jan. 27 will be used to benefit organizations. The budgets must get final approval from the SA senate. The SA Recycling Center was allotted $8,095.16 which will be used for salaries of...

NIU's enrollment has increased measurably from one year ago, despite a drop in the number of new freshmen and transfers, NIU Provost Kendall Baker said Friday. Preliminary figures for the spring semester show total campus enrollment, including all continuing...

Black students might be asked to boycott the Holmes Student Center Bookstore in reaction to an incident last week in which four black students were accused of shoplifting. Larry Robertson, Student Association minority relations adviser, introduced the...

Several construction projects to improve NIU's campus soon might be started if the Illinois Board of Higher Education capital budget recommendations of about $25 million are approved by the state. NIU President John LaTourette said four proposed major...

Eighty DeKalb County non-professional employees are petitioning to become unionized because they believe they do not have enough input in their working policies. After the last county board meeting, Steve Trossman, spokesman for the American Federation...

The number of students using the University Health Service increased 3.1 percent by the end of November as compared to the same time last year, Health Service Director Dr. Rosemary Lane said. Lane estimates 29,641 students came to the health center for...

CHICAGO (AP)—A 7-month-old baby found abandoned in an unheated apartment in a wet snowsuit with no shoes, socks or gloves will not need surgery to save her limbs, doctors said Wednesday. "Medically, she's fine," a spokeswoman at Mount Sinai Medical...