In the olden days of MTV, back when retaining at least a little bit of anarchist edge mattered to programmers, the music network aired truly original programming during the late-night hours. And no, that doesn't include "Behind the Scenes of ‘Behind...

Year after year since the early '90s, DeKalb has rested in a weekend slump that seems inescapable. But one local establishment hopes to wake up the sleepy weekends with a slick, new atmosphere and bigger-name bands. Otto's Niteclub, 118 E. Lincoln Highway,...

Thinking about the rest of this semester is like realizing at 4 a.m. that you have to work in three hours. You've got to do it, but there's no guarantee you'll make it. Not to worry, because the Weekender is here to take your mind off things during the...

Sun, the beach, surfing and orange groves - with all of these, is there a reason not to move to California and save yourself from corn and more corn? Any place other than where you have grown up seems better and just more exotic. Well dude, that's until...

A discussion of problems linked with off-campus student parties brought NIU administrators, members of the Student Association and city of DeKalb officials together Thursday. DeKalb City Manager Mark Stevens said the meeting was a response to the growing...

"When people think of homosexuals, they imagine them meeting in the bathroom and having sex in two minutes. They don't exchange names and feel no emotion," said Paul Schmig, co-president of the Gay/Lesbian Union. Minority discrimination has been, and...

NIU students and faculty can return to prehistoric times and wander inside a paleolithic cave exhibit in the Anthropology Museum. Milton Deemer, anthropology instructor, built "The Oldest Masters," a cave depicting the Paleozoic era from 10,000 to 30,000...

About 38 would-be Resident Assistants attended a candidates' reception Tuesday night to meet with staff members and set up interviews on which final decisions will be based. The residence halls are in the process of choosing students to become R.A.s for...

Awards of up to $10,000 annually can provide financial assistance to qualified minority students of NIU's graduate school. The Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program (ICEOP) provides the awards to Illinois students from a $1 million fund...

Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, said NIU is "advancing very well" in the areas of education and development during a campus visit Friday. Madigan, a 15-year veteran of the Illinois General Assembly, spent...

A unique course, focusing on aging from infancy to death, is being offered for the first time this semester by NIU Professor John Stolte. "Social Structure and the Life Course," part of NIU's gerontology program, deals with all the stages encountered...

Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles on the "high technology corridor" which will be published in the Star periodically throughout the semester. NIU might join four other Illinois universities to provide graduate level engineering...