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...

In an attempt to obtain a stronger faculty voice in University Council matters, a proposal to restructure the council will be presented later this semester by the Constitutional Task Force. The task force agreed Wednesday with the proposal after much...

NIU President John LaTourette addressed the Athletic Board Wednesday at a special meeting regarding the start of a study to define the university's athletic direction. The meeting was held to explain to the Athletic Board the objectives of the self-study...

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....

NIU's accounting program received another honor when it moved from eleventh to seventh place in the nation according to a ranking published by "Public Accounting Report," an independent newsletter for accounting professionals. According to John Engstrom,...

Combating high utility rates and protecting the environment from hazardous wastes are the top priorities of the Illinois Senate Committee on Energy and Environment according to newly appointed chairman Pat Welch, D-Peru. "The committee can be of help...

Many NIU students experienced scheduling problems this semester due to past and present high enrollments and a shortage of faculty, especially in some departments of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "We are having very heavy enrollments in our...

Because of a greater demand on campus, NIU's Health Enhancement Service is providing more sex and health risk information. The service has been spending a lot of time emphasizing problems and solutions of sex issues. "The service is focusing a greater...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board is trying to boost the number of Huskie Bus riders, especially DeKalb residents, in hopes of improving relations with DeKalb's City Council and eliminating the need to raise student fees. Ideas to increase bus...

The DeKalb City Council is considering proposals for revision of the existing ordinance regulating automobile relocation in response to continuing controversy over towing practices. Under the current ordinance, the city must issue an annual license before...

NIU might sue the Marriott Corporation for breach of contract if the corporation makes good on its threat to cease Roy Rogers operations at the start of this year's spring break, March 6. In a brief letter dated Jan. 26, 1987 to NIU Business and Operations...