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...

Commonwealth Edison's Byron Nuclear station was given the go-ahead to operate at full power Jan. 30, although an environmental group claims widespread safety and procedural violations existed at the plant. The Sinnissippi Alliance for the Environment,...

The NIU women's athletic program officially gained membership to the North Star Conference Wednesday after the Athletic Board voted to accept a formal invitation from the league. As a result, NIU will join Notre Dame, DePaul, Marquette, Dayton and Valparaiso...

epresentatives from junior colleges and universities from all areas of the state attempted to formulate solutions to student drug abuse last week at a conference on illegal drugs. The two-day conference, held at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson will be at NIU Saturday to discuss issues related to Black History Month and his views on world peace. Jackson, who ran against Walter Mondale in the 1984 Democratic presidential primary elections, is the founder of People United...

More than $17,800 was approved Sunday for four organizations' 1987-88 budget requests by the Student Association senate. A majority of the Residence Hall Association's $14,924.40 budget was approved for events related to Black History Month and for various...

The DeKalb County Farm Bureau will celebrate its 75th anniversary Saturday with a dinner and dance at NIU's Holmes Student Center. "This is a big event for the DeKalb area—with 1,200 to 1,300 people expected to attend," Don Guehler, County Farm Bureau...

A proposed $6 increase in student athletic fees could wipe out the athletic department's $370,000 deficit within the next two fiscal years. The proposed increase was discussed but not approved at Thursday's President's Fee Study Committee meeting. A decision...

Police say factional struggle bloodiest in three years; neighborhoods blazing BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)—Shiites fought an alliance of Druse and communist gunmen for the third day Tuesday in a battle for control of Moslem west Beirut that has caused scores...

A fire at the Kishwaukee Professional Building, 8 Health Service Dr., caused $250,000 worth of damage to a dentist's office Monday afternoon, a DeKalb Fire Department report stated. The cause of the fire, which began in the office of Dr. Dennis Collins,...

NIU raised more than $40,000 for the 1986 DeKalb United Way Campaign, bringing the total city effort to $312,000, said campaign chairman Jack Felver. "This is the first time we surpassed the $300,000 mark. We raised just over $13,000 above our goal, which...