Plastic is everywhere; Not a day goes by where we don’t use it. It is ubiquitous, from water bottles to medicine. However, its prevalence comes with a significant problem: Plastics are made from non-renewable resources and are not biodegradable.  More...

It was 2022 when I received the worst news in my life. Little did I know that 2022 and half of 2023 would follow suit. In December 2022, my father was diagnosed with Stage 3C colon cancer, which was one step away from metastatic cancer, which is cancer...

Editor's note: Express Yourself pieces are the author's opinion alone. Many students have complained about the lack of hours that Founder’s Memorial Library (FML) provides students during the academic school year. On Friday and Saturday, FML closes...

Soon, NIU, you can stop stressing about finals and start thinking about what presents you want for the holidays: clearly a much more important issue.  Some students across campus have a few ideas already.  But whether you have a holiday to...

Picture a newly-developed drug that lightens the mood, decreases inhibition and takes the edge off people’s stress-filled lives. As you would imagine, the drug is very popular. In social spheres, use of the drug becomes less of a question and more of...

One month past the election, President-elect Donald Trump has moved swiftly with his presidential Cabinet and White House official selections. His choices continuously expand the terrifying reality of the second Trump administration the United States...

Editor’s note: Express Yourself opinion pieces are the author’s opinion alone. As a U.S. disabled veteran (10%) and member of American Veterans for Ukraine (AVU), I want to urge the NIU community not to forget Ukraine and what some have called...

Estimations for when humanity can colonize Mars vary from 2050, according to Elon Musk, to 2117, according to the United Arab Emirates. Space travel is notoriously dangerous, and any entity seeking to expand it should ensure astronaut safety over enterprise...

THE 24-HOUR CLOCK IS SUPERIOR By: Ethan Ernst, Opinion Columnist In the United States, we spend a lot of time using the suffixes a.m. and p.m. to clarify what time we are referring to. However, people sometimes forget to include these suffixes,...

Editor’s note: This story contains discussion of sexual assault.  Giving birth to a new life is a huge responsibility. Every parent, especially the mother, has to prepare mentally, physically, emotionally, socially and economically for a child....

Coming from the third largest city in the United States, living in a small town has been a big change for me.  Although only an hour and a half away, DeKalb’s scene proves to be the opposite of Chicago’s. However, as I spend more time here, I...

President-elect Donald Trump has discussed plans to change higher education as we know it, and the implementation of these plans could be problematic. Trump claims his administration’s plans will remove liberal bias from the education system and...