Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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F-lTl ElE'i'Ul'l fur nerr ern? Dorm food may be condensed into a squeezable tube, supplemented by a vitamin pill, causing the pain only a few seconds rather than a few months. Campus traffic could consist of machines run on non- polluting freon. There may still be students who will be forced to take their place on DeKalb streets with rundown '72 Fords and Chevys showing signs of age. The parking towers, now in the planning stage, should be completed, adding many homes for these freon eaters. Overcrowding will probably still prevail. Advice for today's pre-schooler: Purchase a bike. Athletics. . . the big time . . . Huskies could be as common a word as lllini, Boilermakers, Fighting Irish. Yes, national television could bring NlU athletics to the NCAA Game of the Week or Wide World of Sports. A new stadium should be packing them in while a new addition to the old Huskie to last stadium will handle the overflowing football crowds. Dress styles . . . trends . . . fads . . . sex . . .drugs . .. what will the outlook be? Student government. . . may be hiring and firing all the staff in the university as well as budgeting the entire university. Life in 1984 could possibly go on without your ever leaving your room. It sounds impossible, improbableg but in 1969, the United States put a man on the moon In 1984 manned excursions to lVlars could be a regular trip . . . for Easter vacation maybe? Progress seems to be the University's destiny. As long as man continues to encounter life, and keeps trying to understand and improve it, progress will always go on. Come back to NIU in 1984 and encounter a new way of life. Remember the days when you were a student and then try to understand the youth of this day---1984 and Beyond. 13

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32900 ' O Businessmen don't agree with Gilmore. Students drop S60 million in DeKalb each year, causing some businessmen to call Northern their university. l personally don't have any problems with the uni- versity, declared DeKalb Mayor Jesse Chamberlain. l think the conflict between the university and the townspeople points to a lack of understanding in the university community to the townspeople and the townspeople to the university. The university is bound to affect you socially be- cause it has changed the type of person in the city, in the organizations, and so forth, said Joseph P. ..Q.5'2' DE KAZ11 srsrs s HOME. RN ii.L2?:. s 'CUUL6 Faivre, farmer of the 1,700 acres on rural Fairview Road, and I just can't help having some of this rub off. lt has changed the social setup in the com- munities, city as well as rural. Students at Northern come almost exclusively from the Chicago area. DeKalb offers its farm atmosphere, its fresh country air, its surroundings. lt is a rural community. As Faivre said, l think that the city fathers were dedicated to a program of keep- ing DeKaIb a university town, a rural town rather than an industrial town. lt's surrounded for miles by farms--the post office may as well classify it RFD.