The nights of September 8 and 9 will be hopping at the O'Connell Theatre as the Northern Illinois Stage Company production of "Noises Off" returns for two encore performances. The original play was written by Michael Frayn in the early 1980's, was first...

Susan is an NIU sophomore and has no idea what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She filled in "pre-business" on all documents, but now finds herself dangerously close to failing her tool courses. She glumly estimates she will graduate a year...

The Student Association does not have enough names on their election ballot to fill the available seats. Only 35 people turned in petitions for the 45-seat senate by Wednesday's 4:30 p.m. deadline. Candidates had to collect 200 in-district student signatures...

Retail licenses will be revoked if taverns do not obey the recently signed legislation prohibiting happy hours in Illinois. "The governor's action recognizes that happy hours and other drink promotions encourage people to drink too much alcohol, too fast,...

DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow is accepting resumes for the position of 7th Ward alderman, a job vacated Aug. 10 by Mark J. Powell. Sparrow is in the process of selecting candidates for the position, which can be held by a student, to present to the DeKalb...

What ever happened to the classic love story? Nowadays it seems that a love story isn't complete if there isn't a torrid love affair, murder, drugs, bizarre, kinky sex scenes or any combination of the above. Good, old fashioned true love with a twist...

The University Council passed a resolution Wednesday showing NIU's opposition to proposed Board of Regents policy changes by asking the Regents to delay action. The four points of the resolution include recommendations made by the Joint University Advisory...

Just when you thought all of the rock ‘n' rollers from the ‘60s had traded in their amplifiers for rocking chairs—just when you thought the last of the "anniversary_but_no_new_album" tours were finished—just when you hoped no one over 45 would...

Editor's note. The following letter was presented to the Students' Legal Assistance Office in order to be printed in The Northern Star. This letter is relevant to the From the Bar column below. In response to a recent complaint filed with the U.S. Department...

Many Hollywood movies have derived their story lines from comic books, but Mark A. Nelson, NIU Associate Professor of Art, recently illustrated a comic book version of the 20th Century Fox movie "Aliens." "Aliens" is the story of parasitic creatures that...

Inadequate funding has led to the alteration of NIU's dietetics program. The cooperative undergraduate program was replaced last spring by PLAN 4, which accepts graduate students instead of undergraduates. The CUP program was eliminated due to a lack...

The Sigma Chi fraternity has been on suspension since December, but carries a "deferred suspension" status. The fraternity had been put on suspension in December of last year because of a racially insulting skit that was performed at The Jungle, a local...