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Star Alumni events planned Feb. 25-26, 2011

December 17, 2010

The 2011 Northern Star Hall of Fame induction dinner is Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, at Kish Corner Family Restaurant in DeKalb. And that's just one part of a two-day series of Star-related events. Caron Weil Blitz (Star editor 1979-80) is organizing the...

Ted Bacino

How the Star became the Star

By Joelle McGinnis '89 | September 20, 2010

The Northern Star was a joke to Ted Bacino. He never really gave it a second thought. In reality Bacino, editor-in-chief of the then weekly Northern Illinois student newspaper (1954-1955), had bigger plans - a professional newspaper format with a serious...

Alice Crosby

Editors in Chief, 1899-present

September 20, 2010

Northern Star Hall of Fame members and Young Alumni Award winners are linked to their bio stories. An advisers list also is included. Northern Illinois (1899-1954) 1899: Alice Crosby 1900-02: Ethel Phillips 1902-03: Jessamine Crapser 1904:...

Northern Star Hall of Fame Constitution and Bylaws

September 20, 2010

Northern Star Hall of Fame Constitution / Bylaws Article I PURPOSE / HISTORY The Northern Star Hall of Fame honors former students, former advisers, and friends of the Northern Star who have made significant impacts on the Northern Star, journalism and...

40 years ago, NIU riots placed Northern Star student journalists in spotlight

By Barry Schrader | September 3, 2010

Greetings to my fellow Star survivors from your Northern Star Alumni president. I wrote this column below for the Daily Chronicle this May as a look back on the 40th anniversary at the student protests in May 1970. Some of you were either students here...