"When people think of homosexuals, they imagine them meeting in the bathroom and having sex in two minutes. They don't exchange names and feel no emotion," said Paul Schmig, co-president of the Gay/Lesbian Union. Minority discrimination has been, and...

NIU students and faculty can return to prehistoric times and wander inside a paleolithic cave exhibit in the Anthropology Museum. Milton Deemer, anthropology instructor, built "The Oldest Masters," a cave depicting the Paleozoic era from 10,000 to 30,000...

Calling a 16 percent pay raise for Congressmen "irresponsible" and "an insult to the American people," Congressman Dennis Hastert yesterday introduced legislation to stop it. astert, a Republican from the 14th District, which includes DeKalb, said his...

A contested State Representative election, decided by only four votes, is being reviewed by the House Committee on Elections, which includes newly appointed member John Countryman, R-DeKalb. There seems to have been a problem with the "conduct of the...

About 38 would-be Resident Assistants attended a candidates' reception Tuesday night to meet with staff members and set up interviews on which final decisions will be based. The residence halls are in the process of choosing students to become R.A.s for...

Awards of up to $10,000 annually can provide financial assistance to qualified minority students of NIU's graduate school. The Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program (ICEOP) provides the awards to Illinois students from a $1 million fund...

Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, said NIU is "advancing very well" in the areas of education and development during a campus visit Friday. Madigan, a 15-year veteran of the Illinois General Assembly, spent...

Freshman Congressman Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, will be overseeing federal activities and monitoring their efficiency as a newly appointed member of the House Government Operations Committee. Bob Welling, Hastert's press secretary, said the committee...

A unique course, focusing on aging from infancy to death, is being offered for the first time this semester by NIU Professor John Stolte. "Social Structure and the Life Course," part of NIU's gerontology program, deals with all the stages encountered...

A plan which could bring long-term savings for DeKalb property taxpayers will be discussed at tonight's meeting of the DeKalb City Council. First Ward Alderman Ron Matekaitis said Illinois requires city governments to make an "actuarial analysis" of city...

Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles on the "high technology corridor" which will be published in the Star periodically throughout the semester. NIU might join four other Illinois universities to provide graduate level engineering...

NIU tae kwon do instructor Mike Park might be a competitor in the 1988 Olympics—if the sport is accepted. Coincidentally, tae kwon do originated in Korea, as did Park, a 20-year-old business major and instructor of the NIU Ji-Do-Kwan-Tae Kwon Do Club....