About 40 NIU students volunteered this February to help teach elementary school children about hearing impairments. Barb Peterson, student education coordinator for the award-winning Learning About Handicaps Program, said the classroom sessions had effected...

Just wonderin‘.... If Chicago Cubs manager Don Zimmer's nickname is "Popeye," doesn't that make his sidekick, Jim Frey, "Wimpy"? When the ECAC North Atlantic Conference holds its postseason tournament, wouldn't the most obvious site be NIU's very own...

Concerns questioning the design and safety of the proposed DeKalb County Landfill expansion plans were raised in testimony during yesterday's hearing. Rodney Engstrom, owner of the landfill located near the intersection of Somanauk Road and Interstate...

Due to a lack of academic space on the NIU campus, graduate art students who previously worked in Altgeld Hall art studios now must travel to the Art Annex in Sycamore. "We were told that this (Altgeld) was our temporary space," said Carl Hayano, graduate...

The Crystal Pistol, 1312 W. Lincoln Hwy., recently won three awards from DeKalb County Magazine for the best steak, best seafood and most romantic atmosphere for a restaurant in DeKalb County. "I'm very pleased with these awards," said Crystal Pistol...

Last Saturday, The Jungle got the bright lights and big city as DeKalb band JP And The Cats shot a video as part of a promotion package. Originally scheduled to be shot at either Chicago's Traffic Jam or maybe the Baja Beach Club, Jim Tulk, the lead singer...

Repairs on escalators in Founders Memorial Library, which have been out of order since early last semester, might soon be underway. Conrad Miller, physical plant project manager, is optimistic about repair plans for the broken escalators. "We're hopeful...

A DeKalb resident was arrested by DeKalb Police Friday for delivering cocaine. Kerry D. West, 335 S. First St., was charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Additional charges might be filed after the State's Attorney's office reviews...

One day a reporter from The Northern Star left the newsroom in search of student opinions regarding their campus representative body—the senate. The question posed to students on campus during the "man on the street" interviews was: What has the Student...

The Student Association Mass Transit Board voted Monday to spend $1,500 on three radios for the board's late night ride service. Board Chairman Dave Emerick said the radios will be bought with money that was not spent after bus route 3-C was discontinued...

"Language is the preparation for world leadership," said Geneva Smitherman, ending NIU's observance of Black Heritage Month Tuesday with the lecture "Black English Revisited: Talking and Testifying." Smitherman, a social linguist, is the author of more...

Living conditions in Central America might improve under the Bush administration, a scholar of Central American affairs told members of the Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice Sunday. Fred Morris, a minister for Malta United Methodist Church and...