Trick-or-treating doesn’t have to mean greedy children begging for candy. Members of Lambda Sigma, a sophomore honor society, practiced the time-honored Halloween tradition by collecting canned goods and other non-perishables from DeKalb residents Wednesday...

Making friends, getting along with your roommate, getting involved on campus, choosing the right classes and getting good grades are just a few of the fears students are overwhelmed with during their first year at a university. For NIU students, the university...

Are you sending the wrong signals? Through a unique combination of improvisational comedy, education and audience participation, "Sex Signals" raised issues dealing with the good, the bad and the ugly of interpersonal relationships Tuesday night at the...

Martin Forward, a professor of religious studies at Aurora University, urged lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender students Tuesday night to keep faith in their religion despite scriptural objections to their lifestyle. Forward spoke to an audience of more...

Scan the Northern Star’s editorial page and there’s a good chance another column has popped up complaining about nothing to do in DeKalb. Disregarding all the clubs, sporting events and mingling on your residence hall floor, the Campus Activities...

f your family is looking for something different to do this Halloween, one option is the 10th annual Halloween concert presented by NIU’s School of Music. The concerts will be held at 6 and 8 p.m. today at the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert...

All the hard work that the NIU wrestling squad put in last season has paid off this season. Though the Huskies were picked to finish third in the MAC, behind Central Michigan and Ohio, it was the only MAC team to get national attention, by way of a top...

Forget the candy. The Latter Day Saint Student Association wants your cans. This Halloween, the LDSSA will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the corner of Fox Avenue and Sycamore Road to go door-to-door collecting...

It’s now mid-October, the heart of the fall season. Days are shorter and darker, and unfortunately this means some people’s moods will get darker too. If you’ve ever noticed that you get gloomy as the days get shorter, psychologists say the reasons...

Members of the NIU community shared messages for confronting and dealing with hate during the Stop The Hate Candlelight Vigil Monday night. "We are not only here to say no to hate, but to the violence that comes with it," said the Rev. Wendy Witt, director...

Candidates for the DeKalb County Board’s Seventh District were present at Douglas Hall’s Big Blue Room Monday to speak with political science majors and any others who wished to attend. The forum was sponsored by NIU’s political science department....

Imagine that you are a parent who wants the best for your child. You would drive from county to county because each service that your child needs is located in a different area. Many parents in DeKalb and its surrounding counties have been doing just...