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Victor E. Huskie ‘looks like a dustmop’

By Kathy Sisler | January 26, 1987

Victor E. Huskie, NIU's canine mascot, has the mange!"His coat is motley. It's a disgrace," said Pat Hewitt, president of NIU's Operating Staff Council, which represents Northern's 1,700-member Civil Service staff. She brought the subject up at the Jan....

Chicago is Huskies’ kind of town in Flame dousing

By Dan Moran | January 26, 1987

CHICAGO—When a team is looking to win on the road for the first time in close to a year, it helps to have the home court advantage. The NIU women's basketball team found out how strong its Chicago base is when it turned a 10-point halftime deficit into...

Huskies deflect Rocket attack

By Jim Wozniak | January 22, 1987

Unable to understand his team's defense, NIU Coach Jim Rosborough followed the defensive yellow brick road, picked up some new starters and traveled to the land of his 70-point goal. After nine straight games of giving up more than 70 points, the NIU...

Pettibone juggles staff

January 22, 1987

NIU football coach Jerry Pettibone announced Wednesday the appointment of Gary Evans as defensive secondary coach. Evans joins Pettibone's staff after seven seasons—the last four as defensive coordinator—at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. With the...

Cagers beat old MAC foes

By Jeff Kirik | January 22, 1987

When the NIU men's and women's basketball teams swept a double-header from their Toledo counterparts Wednesday night, the Huskies gained a little more than a pair of wins. The Huskie cagers also picked up the extra satisfaction that comes with beating...

Rockets shoot cold, set up women’s win

By Kari Brackett | January 22, 1987

When a basketball team shoots 21 percent in the second half, the other team can't help but win. The NIU women's basketball team used Toledo's poor shooting to its advantage by winning 71-56 in Wednesday night's opening game in Chick Evans Field House....

Huskie double-header tonight

By Jim Wozniak | January 21, 1987

If you see more people wearing suits and ties than uniforms on the NIU bench, you will not be seeing things. With Huskie forward Jim Edmondson now ineligible, the NIU men's basketball team will have only 10 men available the rest of the season. NIU's...

Four arrested in connection with local burglaries

By M. Michelle Byrne | January 21, 1987

An NIU student is a suspect in a DeKalb "burglary ring" thought to be responsible for up to 10 home burglaries and four attempted burglaries. Susan Wood, 19, was one of four subjects arrested Dec. 11 in connection with a home burglary at 1510 Kent Place....

Scoop out two flavors of Huskie basketball

January 21, 1987

"Let's play two." Ernie Banks may have been talking about baseball but the same can be said of college basketball. The NIU men's and women's basketball teams have their own twinbill tonight against Toledo starting at 5:15 with the women's contest. This...

Arnold beats odds, turns to coaching

By Jeff Kirik | January 17, 1987

Kenny Arnold dealt with a personal tragedy in the way he competed in Big Ten basketball. He battled his opponent and he won. Arnold, currently a graduate assistant on Jim Rosborough's men's basketball staff at NIU, discovered he had a brain tumor in 1984,...

Tests on horizon for Peat, Bartlett

January 17, 1987

NIU offensive guard Todd Peat and defensive lineman Doug Bartlett head for the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis this week. The 1986 Huskie co-captains were among about 300 players across the country to be invited to the National Football League BLESTOV Combine...

Gymnasts lose to Big Ten foes

January 17, 1987

The NIU women's gymnastics team ventured to the land of the Big Ten Conference for a double-dual meet Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. ost Michigan won the meet with a score of 177.45, followed by Wisconsin at 176.40 and NIU with 171.90. The double loss gave...