"Quality music always withstands the test of time." So said Dick Gerhard, leader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, who will perform at NIU this Parents' Day Weekend. If ticket sales are any determinant, Gerhard's words are true. The concert has been sold...

Musical humorist Utah Phillips will perform the first night of his current Mid-Western tour in the New Prairie Cafe tonight at 8:30. The admission-free concert, sponsored by NIU's Campus Activities Board, is sure to bring smiles with Phillips' songs and...

New Zealand invades DeKalb in two weeks. Are Jim Rosborough's troops ready? "To this point we've put in about 98 percent of what we need to play," Rosborough said. Notice he said "play." The New Zealand Nationals are coming here the 19th to play basketball,...

Deputy City Clerk Donna Johnson said DeKalb allows an organization to purchase three class "G" licenses per year at a total cost of $50. Before being eligible to purchase the one-day license, the organization must purchase liquor liability insurance,...

NIU Provost Kendall Baker will meet with the Faculty Assembly today to discuss his "Working Priorities" paper which was written in response to the university budget and funding priorities across campus. In addition, Baker will be discussing the physics...

Students can register by mail today through Nov. 20 for Spring, 1988 semester classes to avoid the last-minute problems of late registration. egistration and Records Director Dick Durfee said Nov. 20 is the deadline for students to mail in their class...

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...