About 25 students marched to the CHANCE office July 13 to show their solidarity in demanding an explanation for the firing of CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer. Protester Jim Fabris said the group had gathered to "protest the firing of Martha Palmer and...

Washington— America's employers need what America's schools are failing to produce; literate, diciplined, responsibly competent workers. Even at the entry level, there is a serious—and growing—gap between what our young people are learning and what...

About 75 NIU students filled a Sycamore courtroom Tuesday as a judge reviewed the case in which they are charged with resisting a peace officer and obstructing a highway. The charges resulted from an April 13 sit-in on Lincoln Highway, but defense attorneys...

The $1,995,000 budgeted by the Board of Regents for the Holmes Student Center Tower renovation is not enough to cover bids submitted by contractors July 7. The Northern Star has learned that bids for the project came in at more than $3 million, $1 million...

A DeKalb police officer recently attended a "Vehicular Homicide/Driving While Intoxicated Conference" at the Northwestern University Traffic Institute. The four-day conference attended by Officer Donald Gladden, held June 26 through 30, focused on vehicular...

NIU soccer coach Willy Roy hauled in an impressive freshmen class with his first try at the college recruiting game. National Letters of Intent were signed by forward John Lechner of Waukegan West, forward Frank Sparacino of Elk Grove, defender John Kelly...

The latest offering from the "male model of pop," Robert Palmer, is an anomalous work that attempts to encompass every conceivable form of contemporary music. But while Palmer experiments a great deal with styles on Heavy Nova, there's basically only...

Some NIU students might be involved with the new engineering and research park, but as employees rather than students. NIU has started efforts to obtain tenants to rent space in the park located about four miles south of NIU at the former Wurlitzer Piano...

A homeless woman and her husband. An onlooker to violence in racially integrated cities. A neighbor who hears the sounds of domestic violence each night. A dreamer dreaming for mountains of material things to keep sadness and loneliness away. A runaway...

A CHANCE counselor, her job is to "work with students and work to get them admitted (to NIU)," she said. Palmer said her way of doing things often conflicts with her superiors'. For instance, "my relationship with the Black Greek Council was interpreted...

The NIU Office of Development and Alumni Relations concluded their 1987-88 Alumni Phonathon in June, receiving their largest donations to date. More than 5,500 NIU alumni pledged $113,000, compared with the 3,800 donors who pledged $63,811 in 1986-1987....

A bus trip to Great America is planned for the weekend by the Campus Activities Board. Jerry Reedy, a spokesman for the board, said the bus will leave NIU Friday morning, and will return at about 10 p.m. the same day. Students wishing to go on the trip...