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,...

Broken windows and pried open cash registers were the trademarks of four burglaries to West Lincoln Highway businesses late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. DeKalb Police Detective Jim Kayes said the burglaries were probably all committed by...

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...

In response to Mike Murvihill's letter about Star Wars (Feb. 9), I would first like to say I find it hard to believe we could build the whole Star Wars system for $30 billion to $60 billion when we have just recently spent $26 billion on Star Wars research...

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...