A new NIU patent policy for inventions of members of the university community and the formation of a task force to improve the teacher evaluation process were approved by the University Council Wednesday. The new patent policy, available to NIU students,...

Some people will be going to jail in May in an effort to kick some bad habits and raise money for the American Heart Association. The DeKalb County Heart Unit is sponsoring a new fund-raising event for the American Heart Association called "Cardiac Arrest,"...

NIU acting Vice President and Provost Daniel Wit withdrew his application for the position of provost yesterday and has been replaced by an alternate candidate. James Lankford, co-chairman of the Provost Search Committee, said Wit removed his name from...

General education requirements and teacher evaluations were among the issues addressed by two provost candidates at open forums held recently at NIU. Members of the university community questioned Mark Auburn of the University of Arkansas last Tuesday...

John Callaway, WTTW-TV's senior correspondent, will receive the NIU journalism department's award for 1987 Illinois Journalist of the Year at the 39th annual journalism banquet Friday. "He (Callaway) is a great interviewer. You could use him as a text...

For the second year in a row, NIU graduate student Jeff Cufaude has placed in the National Association for Campus Activities' Prize Papers Competition. Cufaude won second place and $150 for his paper based on the the book, A Passion for Excellence, and...

Students are questioning the motives of University Judicial Office Director Larry Bolles, who cancelled a judicial advisory board meeting last Wednesday to discuss revisions in NIU's judicial code. The meeting, which was planned to discuss a Student Association...

Single women with dependent children have the hardest time finding housing in the Chicagoland area, said Sociology Professor Kathy McCourt. McCourt, chairman for the sociology department at Loyola University of Chicago, has worked extensively with various...

Maya Dunayevskaya, a Marxist humanist writer, will speak of today's youth and the youth of the 1960s at Carl Sandburg auditorium on April 13 at 7 p.m. The speech is entitled, "Youth of the 1980s, Youth of the 1960s, the Other America and the Idea of Freedom."...

A high-speed car chase by DeKalb Police ended in the arrest Saturday of an NIU student who may be responsible for up to 45 burglaries. Police caught up with Michael Montpas, 24, 424 Lincoln Hall, in an alley near 318 S. Second St. at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday....

NIU will be hosting the 30th annual Northern Illinois Industrial Education Exhibit this Friday and Saturday. NIU will display work by industrial arts students from junior and senior high schools in 22 northern Illinois counties, said Gary Lintereur, exhibit...

Transfer student applications to NIU for the fall of 1987 will not be accepted after June 15 due to limited resources and an increase in applications. As of Feb. 19, transfer applications increased 13.6 percent since last year. Although the percentage...