U.S. relations with Nicaragua will be the focal point of a presentation tonight by Leonor Huper, Nicaragua's council general in Washington, D.C. Monique Lemaitre, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, said Huper's lecture also will...

The Student Association Finance Committee Thursday ratified $5,000 to pay for a news wire service for WKDI in the 1987-88 school year that was almost zero-funded by the SA Senate last semester. The United Press International (UPI) wire service enables...

editor Jerry Williams lost another round in his efforts to finish the season as a playing member of NIU's basketball team. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Norgle on Friday denied Williams a preliminary injuction that would have allowed the academically...

Alternatives to increasing DeKalb residents' taxes or cutting city services will be considered tonight in a special joint meeting of the DeKalb City Council and the Finance Advisory Board. City Manager Mark Stevens said the purpose of the meeting is to...

The middle class is collapsing, and this generation's challenge is to implement laws against racism and unite against economic violence, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday. The United States has lost 500,000 manufacturing jobs in the last seven years,...

NIU Students will have to pay an additional $16.32 in fees if Thursday's recommendations to the President's Fee Study Committee are approved. The recommended increases in four fees totaling $16.32 per semester will be sent to NIU President John LaTourette...

Cooking and reading sound like simple tasks to NIU students, but many handicapped students need help, which they can receive through NIU's Services for Handicapped Students. "Students can go around in a wheelchair, as a game, knowing they can get up or...

NIU students can get a good laugh and support a worthy cause at the same time when Delta Upsilon fraternity sponsors a comedy night to be held on behalf of homeless children. The Comedy Club, a professional group of three comics and an emcee, will perform...

DeKalb County will open its first Day Surgery Center at Kishwaukee Community Hospital Sunday with an official "gauze cutting" ceremony and open house. The center, which occupies over 2,100 square feet of space within the hospital, includes several operating...

I‘d like to correct the impression created by Wednesday's story on Jesse Jackson's visit to NIU. When I was interviewed about Jesse Jackson, the reporter asked me how Rev. Jackson was approached and asked to speak at NIU. What I told the reporter, which...

Eliminating the use of sexist language in the NIU Undergraduate catalog was one of the goals discussed at the Council on Instruction's Thursday meeting. Continuing a process started in 1985 to change all the sexist terms in the catalog, the council wants...

campus editor A group of demonstrators calling themselves "Students For America" gathered in the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons Wednesday night to protest the John Lennon Society. NIU history instructor and graduate student Michael Hickey said he...