Students seeking to rent an apartment in DeKalb have many alternatives to consider, including rent, tenant life and relations with management. Peter Renick, manager of Bob's Friendly Apartments, 810 Kimberly Drive, said he gets along well with student...

Prisoners of conscience, deprived of their basic human rights and tortured needlessly, will be heard through poems they have written Friday at Amnesty International-NIU's reading. About 50 poems, representing such countries as El Salvador, Hungary, the...

The disclosure of an internal memo from NIU's public administration division might be discussed Friday at a regular meeting of NIU's political science department staff. The memo, sent anonymously to The Northern Star, details a proposed personnel evaluation...

What to be for next Halloween. It kinda‘ has a nice ring to it, but the question, no matter how simplistic it would appear, is actually quite difficult to answer. Costume hunters might want to begin searching for next year's perfect costume now, to...

A Soviet Christian who was imprisoned for eight years in a Siberian labor camp will speak in the Holmes Student Center's Sandburg Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Georgi Vins, author of three books on Christian persecution in the Soviet Union, will present...

Robert Martens, assistant controller at NIU, was recently named vice chair of the Employee Advisory Committee, a 19 member group which governs the State Universities Civil Service system. Martens also serves as NIU's representative to EAC. He represents...

The recent beating of an NIU student sparked tempers and emotions around the NIU campus, leaving many local authorities on opposing sides of the issue of increased campus violence. Some campus groups have claimed the incident that occurred in the 900...

The American Marketing Association will hold a walk-a-thon today to raise money for the Starlight Foundation in the King Memorial Commons at 3 p.m. The Starlight Foundation is a service organization whose purpose is to grant the wishes of "critically,...

Several NIU service organizations will take part in university-wide fundraisers the week of Nov. 13-17 to raise money for the Red Cross to help victims of the Bay Area earthquake and Hurricane Hugo. Each organization will approach the fundraisers differently,...

A panel of leaders from six campus groups spoke about racism and oppression at a mass meeting Tuesday night to more than 150 audience members. The six groups, the Black Student Union, Feminist Front, BROTHERS, Freedom Now, Organization of Latin American...

A ban on Halloween street parties in Carbondale reduced crowds, but police still could not completely contain those who assembled downtown. Carbondale officials, with the approval of Southern Illinois University officials, cancelled the Halloween Fair...

NIU Student Accountancy Society is holding a charity raffle from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Thursday in Wirtz Hall and the Pow Wow Cafeteria in the Holmes Student Center. Tickets are $4 and the proceeds will go to PADS. Prizes include a 19-inch color...