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...

In the latest issue of ROLLING STONE, the writers went poll happy. Remember the top 100 albums of the last twenty years? Well, this issue contains yet another useless poll, the top 100 albums of the 80's. Someone at ROLLING STONE seems to be Prince happy;...

One student interned in the Philippines, working in international banking, living in the home of a mafia kingpin and unknowingly eating dog for the first time. Another student spent the summer in Turkey, applying classroom knowledge in his marketing job,...

Unsigned bands from around the country will have a chance to have their demo tapes heard by top performers during the annual "Best Unsigned Band" contest sponsored by MUSICIAN Magazine. MUSICIAN, along with Warner Bros. Records, is inviting artists and...

It's been a bad week: three exams, two papers, you got dumped, the rent is due and you caught a cold. You're convinced you'll never laugh again. Take heart and head to the Paradise Club, 1212 W. Lincoln Highway, for a night full of chuckles, giggles and...

What's in a name? Flipping through the birth announcements in my hometown paper (yes, I read obituaries too), I noticed an alarming rash of Caitlins, Ashleys, Brittanys, Tylers and Ryans. Ah yes, the 80's names. The Baby Boomers are reproducing and many...

While the annual un-official Halloween Parade of Youth stumbled its way down the sidewalks of this quiet East-Side neighborhood of DeKalb, Tuesday night brought the return of one of the most creativity-influenced jazz bands to the area for the second...

I purchased my ticket for the movie "Shocker" with a heavy sense of dread. I wasn't in the mood for another mindless horror flick loaded with guts and gore. After the film had ended I sat and comtemplated what I had just viewed on the screen and guess...

Even though Roddy McDowall has acted in more than one hundred feature films and made more than two hundred television appearances, he also has worked as a professional photographer for the last thirty years. In 1968 he published "Double Exposure," a gallery...

Timbuk 3, the Austin, Texas-based rock duo, has recently taken some quality steps in becoming one of the most socially-minded and musically-competent bands today. Following an impressive 4th of July performance this past summer before throngs of people...