The Convocation Center has teamed up with the Big Time Entertainment committee to bring Ja Rule and Eve to perform on campus. Charli Baltimore, female rapper and former girlfriend of Notorious B.I.G., will open for the hip-hop megastars at the concert,...

As winter looms on, the NIU gymnastics team kicked off the 2003 season with a convincing 191.675 to 182.950 victory over Winona State University on Sunday at the Convocation Center. Sophomore Kristina Campos showed no signs of a sophomore jinx as she...

Students will be stamping out their butts next fall if they live in the residence halls. Next year, all the residence halls will be smoke-free, said Michael Coakley, executive director of Student Housing and Dining Services. As of now, the option to smoke...

Katy Melzer was in for a surprise when she returned to DeKalb after break. Tuning into the only radio channel she could get in her residence hall, the junior math education major discovered Energy 92.7-5 WDEK-FM had become a Spanish-language station called...

Like all of you, I should be studying with the fury of a thousand suns for finals - but instead, I’m writing a column for the Northern Star. It’s not really in my job description (see the byline, folks) but when I was asked to write this for the finals...

Classes are over, and it feels as though a weight has been lifted from your shoulders. Now, it’s time to get rid of the real weight - your textbooks. The University Bookstore and the Village Commons Bookstore offer similar prices when students bring...

After the recent launch of the Student Association’s book exchange program, students now have another option to get money for their books. The new program, which was budgeted for $5,335 from the SA’s administrative budget, began late last week without...

ollege students in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin may lose the right to freedom of press next month. The future of college newspapers in the three states rests on the outcome of the court case Hosty v. Carter. Oral arguments for the case have been rescheduled...

While seniors are finishing up with classes and finalizing their papers, freshmen are studying for their first finals, or at least they should be. "I haven’t started studying," said Marinelle Dionela, freshman international business and marketing major....

It’s the stressful mix of anticipation for winter break and dread over a week of hour-long tests that gives finals its bad reputation. Every student copes with the responsibility differently, and some people have more at stake than others. Junior history...

As finals near, many of us are frantically preparing for a series of doomsdays. Some might call it finals week and others might call it time to pass this class finally. Well, look at it this way, at least there won’t be any paper evidence of your grades...

It’s finally the end of the semester, but don’t forget why you’re here in college. After all you (or your parents) didn’t spend thousands of dollars to party all semester. When you get that grade you want, there will be something to party for....