NIU can start looking for branch sites in Rockford after the Illinois House of Representatives passed a $500,000 site study bill Thursday. Gov. James Thompson vetoed the bill earlier, but it was overridden at the fall veto session of the General Assembly...

Today the NIU Marketing Honor Society will present the Award for Excellence in Corporate Achievement to the partners of Arthur Andersen and Company, an accounting company based in Chicago. NIU President John La Tourette will present the award to company...

The Faculty Assembly approved Wednesday to add a Student Association member as a non-voting student liaison. SA President Huda Scheidelman will appoint an SA member who will be subject to the approval of the SA Senate. William Monat, chairman of the assembly's...

The Student Association Supreme Court announced Monday the reinstatement of one of the SA's advisers, and deemed the limiting of his term unconstitutional. SA Community Affairs Adviser Brian Subatich was reinstated Monday after a 2-1 decision of the court....

Recently The Northern Star has come under some pretty vicious attacks. My favorite unfounded attack is that we, who work here, lie about the things in the articles. Oh, rats. You guys found us out. You are so clever. It's true, you know. It's all a complete...

An exiled Russian preacher who spent eight years in Soviet prison and labor camps will speak on being a Christian in an aetheist nation. Georgi Vins, one of five Soviet prisoners exiled to the United States in exchange for two Soviet spies in 1979, will...

Hunan House, 1221 W. Lincoln Hwy., offers the DeKalb area a spectacular taste of the Orient night nearby, or if you wish, without even leaving home. Hunan House offers a wide variety of dishes in Mandarin, Cantonese or Szechwan (spicy) style. By choosing...

NIU's show choir, the "Northern Lights," will present its Fall Showcase on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Music Building Concert Hall. The program features 21 performers along with 10 combo players. The choir is under the direction of Ramona Quinn, School...

An NIU associate professor of technology is pioneering a project that might change the way high schools teach physics and technology. The National Science Foundation awarded NIU a $298,921 grant for Jule Scarborough's project, "Frontiers of Applied Physics—High...

Imagine ditching stuffy classroom settings twice a week to play games like "Candyland" and watch movies like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Many NIU students spend some of their spare time decorating pumpkins, painting t-shirts and swimming at the YMCA with...

"sex,lies and videotape" is a strikingly original film that explores the psycological motivations behind sex. It features a unique love quadrilateral that consists of an uptight and sensitive housewife, her crude but bold sister, her traitorous husband...

This month, Warner Brothers releases the fourth album from The Jesus and Mary Chain. Their first three albums, "Psychocandy," "Darklands," and "Barbed Wire Kisses," were all mighty good. A bit annoying, but rather enjoyable if taken in small doses. The...