ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON (AP)—Most of the presidents of 190 leading colleges and universities are receiving more than $155,000 a year in pay and benefits and top earners exceed $400,000, said a survey released Sunday. The survey by The Chronicle...

I pay student fees like 25,000 plus students at NIU. I therefore pay, or help to fund The Northern Star. I consider The Northern Star to be a valuable source of information and an instrument to express ideas. I look forward to reading this publication...

As the future editorial board of The Northern Star, we would like to assure students that they have been heard. We will use that input, the input of our dedicated staff and our own experience to provide the best newspaper possible for NIU. We do plan...

CHICAGO (AP)—Hispanics, who represent about one-fifth of Chicago's residents, may be carrying heavier clout into local elections after changes in immigration laws that are letting more Hispanics become citizens. More than 100,000 illegal immigrants...

I am writing in response to Brenda Sanger's article concerning saving Otto's. I was personally offended when Sanger said that she "empathized" with someone that had to endure a "frat party" to see one of her favorite bands. Sanger is referring to Phi...

This letter is in response to an editorial written by Kevin Lyons on April 22 entitled "Abortion: Without Loaded Language." The other day I found myself agreeing for the first time with someone who was against women having the right to obtain an abortion....

Students who need a break from studying for finals and would like to see Otto's open again, should attend an all-ages benefit concert on Sunday at The Jungle. The benefit to reopen Otto's is from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Clyde Brown, Master of Ceremonies for...

Two members of NIU's governing board, the Board of Regents, have attended less than half of the last 11 public meetings of the full board. Regents Joseph Ebbesen and Carol Burns have not attended any of the Regents meetings since December 1992, according...

At last, the playoffs. The NIU men's tennis team finally gets to see the fruit of their labors when they travel to Valparasio University for the Mid-Continent Conference Championships this weekend. Favored to claim the title for a third straight time,...

I want one of those great 100 days in which Congress would adopt my health care and education policies, my energy and economic initiatives, and where the private sector would become engaged in a whole new partnership to make this country great again.'‘—Candidate...

We would like to respond to the letter written by Nairobi Evans on April 13, 1993. As middle-class white students, we have also had our share of difficulties in ascertaining such resources as: finances, education and employment. It is because many African-Americans...

After reading Eric Krol's article entitled "The group that cried racism" from the April 26 edition of The Star, I decided that I had to write to support him. First of all, I have grown up believing that all people are created equal. I don't believe that...