NIU faculty member Arnold Hampel was chosen to direct NIU's new Plant Molecular Biology Center after an extensive nationwide search. In addition, Arthur Hooker, a former executive of Dekalb-Pfizer Genetics, 3100 Sycamore Road, a company involved in agricultural...

NIU discontinued freshman admissions Tuesday for the summer and fall semesters of 1987 due to a lack of resources for incoming and present NIU students. "The budget and the space is not sufficient for 3,500 freshmen and 2,000 transfers," said NIU President...

The voter registration deadline is March 9 for Dekalb County residents who want to vote in the April 7 aldermanic elections. In order to register, a resident must be 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States and have resided in their precinct for...

It may not be the NBA playoffs that are coming to NIU, but a basketball tournament, sponsored by NIU's Special Physical Education Teaching-Research Clinic, will be just as important for about 60 mentally retarded athletes. The clinic is sponsored by the...

A fire that broke out early Wednesday at Peggy Kay Apartments, 830 Greenbrier Road, apartment 1, was apparently caused by electrical wiring, the DeKalb Fire Department reported Thursday. The fire, which caused $10,000 worth of damage, was started by the...

Finding summer employment is the emphasis of workshops being held this semester at various NIU residence halls by the Career Planning and Placement Center. These workshops are aimed at helping students locate summer employment by discussing the necessary...

The University Police are reorganizing their department in order to become nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The main objective of the program is to help the police departments nationwide standardize...

Employers and recruiters will be on campus speaking to NIU students about internships and co-op programs Wednesday at the Co-operative Education Career Fair. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., about 44 employers will be at the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes...

Tobacco smoke, asbestos, radon and other air pollutants that can pose health hazards in campus buildings will dominate discussion at NIU's first "environmental concerns" open forum next week. NIU's interest in "indoor air quality" stems from last year's...

The "Oral Roberts Memorial Funeral Fund" has been established this month at NIU by members of The John Lennon Society, a student activist organization. The fund is based on the idea that if the T.V. evangelist dies on March 31, as he has claimed God told...

A case involving two legally blind NIU students charged with voluntary manslaughter was continued again Tuesday after the attorney for one of the defendants failed to show in DeKalb County Court. Gerardo Diaz and Peter Gogola, both 22, are charged in...

About $3,000 was approved for 1987-88 budget requests from several SA recognized organizations at the Student Association meeting Sunday night. The first request from ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity, for $1,105.55, was approved by the SA Senate. The organization...