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Christmas lights aren’t all the Huskies will be seeing

By Bob Regan | December 9, 1988

Talk about bright lights and big cities. The NIU women's basketball team will be making its holiday tour in some of the United States' most popular cities. Teams from all over the country—from Las Vegas to New Orleans to Champaign to Akron to Cleveland—will...

Wrestlers’ holiday treat? X-mas in DeKalb

By Eric Burt | December 9, 1988

Right about now everyone is preparing to go home for the long awaited Christmas vacation. Except for the NIU wrestling squad. The Huskie grapplers will remain on campus for a good part of the break, practicing and participating in tournaments. "Keeping...

Life on road for cagers a journey never ending

By Mike Morris | December 8, 1988

On the road again... Willie Nelson may enjoy life on the road, but for college basketball teams there's no place like home. Yet, less than 24 hours after arriving at O'Hare International Airport from a successful 1-1 road trip, the NIU men's basketball...

Women’s club to host Holiday Ball

December 8, 1988

NIU's annual Holiday Ball for faculty and staff is scheduled for Dec.9 at 9 p.m. and will be held in the Duke Ellington Ballroom at the Holmes Student Center. The event, which is sponsored by the University Women's Club, will feature music by Dee Palmer...

Over 1700 to graduate this December

By Amanda Martin | December 8, 1988

More than 1,700 undergraduate and graduate students will bid farewell to their alma mater on Dec. 18 when NIU will celebrate its 90th annual December Commencement ceremonies.

Ceremonies are scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. and continue throughout the day until 4 p.m.

Staging times and locations for individual colleges will be as follows: the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at 8:15 a.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at 9:15 a.m. in the south end of the Chick Evans Fieldhouse, the College of Education at 10:15 a.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall, the College of Business at 11:15 a.m. in the Holmes Student Center's Sandburg Auditorium, the College of Visual and Performing Arts at 12:45 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall, the College of Professional Studies at 1:15 p.m. in the student center's Regency Room, and the Graduate School at 3:15 p.m. in the student center's Regency Room and Sandburg Auditorium. Graduates are encouraged to be prompt for staging times.

Individual ceremonies are scheduled as follows: the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at 9 a.m. in the Music Building Concert Hall, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at 10 a.m. in the fieldhouse, the College of Education at 11 a.m. in the Music Building Concert Hall, the College of Business at noon in the Duke Ellington Ballroom, the College of Visual and Performing Arts at 1:30 p.m. in the Music Building Concert Hall, the College of Professional Studies at 2 p.m. in the ballroom and the Graduate School at 4 p.m. in the ballroom.

Graduates will be able to pick up graduation robes and mortar boards in the student center's Illinois Room on Dec. 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dec. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on graduation day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. All graduation attire should be returned immediately following the ceremonies.

Questions regarding commencement can be directed to the office of evaluations at 753-1197 or the graduate's major college.

Three gridders win MVP award

December 8, 1988

For the first time since 1978, three NIU football standouts—outside linebacker Mike Hollingshed, offensive guard Bob Montel and quarterback Marshall Taylor—will share the school's Most Valuable Player Award in 1988. By no coincidence, all three seniors...

NSC recognizes NIU’s Owens for play against NIU, N.C. State

December 8, 1988

North Star Conference Player of the Week honors went to NIU's Carol Owens. The 6-foot-3 Huskie cager was tabbed as the league's standout player following a week in which she scored 77 points, grabbed 33 rebounds, blocked four shots, made 19 steals and...

AD: football crowds must grow

By Kari Brackett | December 8, 1988

NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell spoke Wednesday at the monthly athletic board meeting about how football scheduling works and how the Huskies stand in terms of classification and attendance. In his report, which was requested by the board in November,...

Volleyball squad matures into conference champs

By Mike Morris | December 7, 1988

Another women's volleyball season came to an end. Not exactly earth-shattering news, unless 13-game winning streaks and conference championships count for something. For a team that started the season with a new coaching staff, NIU's 22-8 record is pretty...

Clock, ‘Cats prove to be NIU’s enemy

By Bob Regan | December 7, 1988

Tuesday night's NIU women's basketball game lasted the regulation 40 minutes, but the last 41 seconds decided who would wear the crown—and it wasn't the Huskies. Head coach Jane Albright and her troops traveled to Evanston, Ill., only to fall 83-78...

Huskies hope to run it up on ‘Cats’

By Dave Elsesser | December 6, 1988

When the NIU women's basketball team takes on Northwestern tonight in Evanston, it will try to establish one thing—tempo. In a battle between teams with the opposite offensive philosophies, how much success the Huskies have might be determined by how...

NIU holds on to beat Bengals, 73-66

By Chris Sigley | December 6, 1988

Jim Rosborough got his birthday cake on time last Friday. But the NIU men's basketball coach's present was belated. The Huskies never let go of their second-half lead Monday at Idaho State, but had to struggle to the finish to beat the Bengals, 73-66....