Students will be able to voice their concern about next semester's tuition hike and budget cuts to higher education at a forum tonight at 8 p.m. in Grant Towers North cafeteria. State Rep. John Countryman, R-DeKalb, NIU President John LaTourette and Student...

An NIU laboratory recently received the skeletal remains of a number of Guale Indians excavated by an NIU anthropology professor from a Spanish mission cemetery along the coast of Georgia. Anthropology Associate Professor Clark Larsen has been studying...

NIU Provost Kendall Baker has asked college deans to plan for a 5 percent budget decrease and a possible re-allocation of funds for fiscal year 1989 although no decisions have been made. The deans are to present budget proposals to Baker which will define...

Funding for NIU radio station WKDI was finally approved Sunday at the Student Association Senate meeting after prolonged negotiations caused by "a classic case of miscommunication" between the SA and WKDI. The negotiations began in July when the SA approved...

Although NIU's Constitutional Task Force has revised parts of the proposed constitution and bylaws, members decided not to make some additional changes which were suggested by university constituents. Task Force Chairman Jim Giles said the task force...

An NIU professor recently was presented with a medal and plaque honoring his 30 years of research on health issues related to aging as well as other projects. Biological sciences Professor O. Arne Schjeide was honored by the Institute for Arteriosclerosis...

DeKalb community residents' letters protesting the possible cut of an area disablity program recently were recognized by state-level administrators. More than 40 letters protested cuts to the Disabilities Access Network (DAN) program from the Family Service...

NIU's Huskie line was second in ridership in Illinois only to the Chicago Transit Authority, as it carried about 3.2 million people during the last academic year, said its General Manager Charles Battista (cq). About 100,000 people a week use the Huskie...

DeKalb County State's Attorney Philip DiMarzio said he will be viewing a videotape today to try to determine the driver of a car which hit a protester during last week's Day of Action protest. DiMarzio said his office has received the name of a suspect...

Although the Student Association Mass Transit Board tabled its discussion concerning the scheduling problems on bus route 3, construction on the Holmes Student Center has complicated the situation and forced the board to make emergency decisions. During...

NIU's Graduate Council will vote Monday on a recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Effective Classroom Instruction which will require foreign students to earn a minimum score of 200 on the Test of Spoken English before becoming teaching assistants....

The small but inventive troupe of dancers known as the Theater Ballet of Canada will perform Saturday at 8 p.m. in DeKalb's Egyptian Theater. The company, which has been in existence since February of 1981, was formed when two dance troupes, EntreSix...