The approaching completion of Byron nuclear station should help bring President Reagan's "supercollider" program to Northern Illinois. According to Robert Dwyer, Nuclear Spokesperson for Commonwealth Edison, a major consideration in locating a project...

City of DeKalb officials are considering plans for the construction of "spec" buildings in order to encourage industries to locate in DeKalb. The construction of the buildings is part of the city's economic development plan. DeKalb City Manager Mark Stevens...

Public Action to Deliver Shelter (PADS) is a program which allows NIU students, the DeKalb community and area visitors who have no place to stay spend the night at various DeKalb and Sycamore churches. Kathy Black, PADS member, said PADS is run entirely...

Commonwealth Edison asked the Illinois Commerce Commission on Feb. 3 to raise energy prices by $660 million, and then freeze that rate for the next five years. ComEd asked the Commission to speed up hearings on the issue which would raise individual rates...

A proposal to increase the price of parking permits by 285 percent over the next two years and change lot usage was rejected by the Campus Parking Committee Thursday. obert Bornhuetter, NIU professor of art and member of the committee, said he was concerned...

In an effort to discover ways of preventing injuries that occur in public places, a conference on injury in America will be held Feb. 16-19 in Atlanta to discuss beginning research programs and centers for injury control. Tom Leamon, NIU chairman of industrial...

The President's Fee Review Committee tentatively voted Thursday to pass the recommended $2.04 per semester fee increase for the University Health Service. All three student committee members abstained from the tentative vote to approve the proposed 11-cent...

Members of the Faculty Assembly had the opportunity Wednesday to informally discuss problems and issues of higher education with Board of Regents Chancellor Rod Groves. Issues included public criticism of the costs and the quality of higher education....

Nearly four times as many Illinois motorists lost their licenses in 1986 than in 1985 as a result of a new, stricter law concerning arrests for driving under the influence (DUI). Secretary of State Jim Edgar said statistics show that changing the law...

Two Student Association recognized organizations were approved funding for next year by the SA Finance Committee Tuesday night, which totalled about $17,000. The first request from the Student Association Recycling Station for $7,336.66 was unanimously...

With spring break only five weeks away, NIU students must soon decide where they might want to vacation and how much money they can afford to spend. Students representing different companies are competing with each other to sell the most trips. According...

NIU students can meet future employers at NIU's Fourth Annual Cooperative Education and Internship Career Fair on Wednesday in the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center. The career fair, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is being...