A proposed increase in DeKalb's garbage collection fee was rejected by the DeKalb City Council at their regular meeting Monday. The council voted 4-2 against accepting the city staff's recommendation to allow a $2.97 per unit per year increase in the...

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...

Increasing the awareness of Multiple Sclerosis and raising money for research are the major goals of NIU's Students Against Multiple Sclerosis. SAMS is the college chapter of the national Multiple Sclerosis organization which has more than 200 campuses...

NIU gamblers and dancers can participate in "Casino_Dance Night" Thursday at Grant Towers South. The Resident Hall Association and the hall councils for Grant Towers North and South are sponsoring this event, said Kevin McLean, a resident assistant for...

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,...

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...

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...