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...

NIU residence hall security is not perfect, but officials say they cannot rectify the problems themselves. NIU President John LaTourette said residence hall security is operating as expected, and is doing the best possible job. "We don't see anything...

A 1968 NIU mathematics graduate has been appointed director of the computing and telecommunications division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Naperville resident David Weber is in charge of the "overall running of Argonne,"...

The statistics are often shocking: Nearly one-fourth of college females have been or will be raped or sexually assaulted before they graduate. As many as 90 percent of victims will know their attacker. As little as 1 to 10 percent report their experience....

Political hats soon will be tossed into the gubernatioral ring in Illinois, and a majority of Illinois residents would like to see the next governor's stay in Springfield limited to eight years. Accordingly to a recent NIU poll, 62 percent of Illinois...

NIU might have missed a chance to block the expansion of the University of Illinoin's off-campus engineering program into areas that could conflict with NIU's own program. Bob Wallhaus, deputy director for academic affairs at the Illinois Board of Higher...

Although the suspected arson fire on the 10th floor of Stevenson Towers North occurred four hours after residence hall night security went on duty, floor residents do not believe they are living among the persons responsible. Tim Taylor, a 10th floor...

Faculty upset over pay raise recommendation Some NIU faculty are disgusted with the Illinois Board of Higher Education's staff recommendation of a 5 percent salary increase. The IBHE's orginal request for a 10 percent increase was reduced to 5 percent...

A few weeks ago, NIU President John LaTourette expressed his frustration about the lack of a state commitment to properly fund education. The exasperated administrator suggested (and this is a paraphrase) that he would throw himself in front of a train...