Alcohol is the basis of many social events and good times on campus—just look at the facts: Thousands more students turn up for the tailgating before a Huskie football game than actually attend the game. DeKalb bars are crammed with area residents each...

The 2,100 teenage traffic deaths in 1985 has prompted more than 75 DeKalb High School students to inform others about the dangers of drinking and driving. The DeKalb chapter of Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD) informs students about alcohol-related...

Anyone out there ever read "Slaughterhouse Five" or listen to the Beatles? You know that they were once banned, burned or just generally condemned along with a score of other materials now widely accepted. It seems like NIU is facing a similar situation...

There are some topics which evoke concern by their very mention. Sexual harassment is one such problem difficult to combat because people have trouble even discussing it. Fortunately, at NIU steps are being taken to correct this. A new policy concerning...

A program has been started by Secretary of State Jim Edgar to review and develop highway safety education programs in elementary and high schools. The Council on Youth Highway Safety is comprised of leaders from education, business and transportation...

During last night's Student Association senate meeting, SA President Jim Fischer ripped Gov. James Thompson and the NIU administration. Fischer said Thompson's cuts in the state's higher education budget "made his blood boil" because they produced the...

A new sexual harassment policy, which includes harassment examples and a provision for due process, needs final approval from NIU President John LaTourette before being implemented. Affirmative Action Director Marilyn Monteiro said the new policy was...

Although no official recommendation has been sent to the President's Fee Study Committee, students can expect to see an increase for their health care. Even though the Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) has not taken a final vote, the committee...

People interested in befriending children of single-parent families can learn more about the DeKalb County Big Brothers/Big Sisters program at one of two fall orientation sessions. Program director Susan Petersen said the orientation session serves two...

The Ellwood House Fall Festival Sunday will feature some of NIU's campus organizations including the NIU Steel Band and the American Association of University Women. "The festival commemorates the end of the growing season and the beginning of fall,"...

"Continued U.S. Involvement in Central America would be Undesirable" is the topic for a 40-team intercollegiate tournament to be held here this weekend. Competitors from each school will be debating this topic at the same time in various rooms in DuSable...

This week only in The Northern Star Journal of Medicine: Dan on Health. It all started many, many years ago, before the dawn of the Seattle Seahawks, back in the days when my mother was just a nurse and not a skiing/world-traveling/amateur pilot/nurse....