Here's a game to play: You have $150 million to spend on anything you want that you think would help the United States. Really, you can spend it on anything. Education, environmental issues, the war effort, you name it. President Bush is spending that...

Almost all day Tuesday, DeKalb - along with most of the Midwest - was slammed with sheets of snow. NIU was one of a scant few universities brave enough to stay open - Northwestern University, Western Illinois University and the University of Illinois-Champaign...

We live in a fast-paced, futuristic world where we have mechanisms in place that can feed millions of people in a day, where small pox and polio are unhappy memories of our parents, where fascism has been dead for so long that the generation that defeated...

On the surface, it would seem as though something has changed in President Bush's policies. Suddenly, higher education seems to be a greater priority. Bush recently proposed legislation that would increase Pell Grants for the first time in 20 years -...

The severity of the incident at the Holmes Student Center almost two weeks ago was summed up by the individuals who yelled that the ruckus was "E2 all over!" while a crowd of 600 people fought the cold waiting to enter a dance. What happened is not quite...

Brent Keller, barring an amazing write-in campaign for Mickey Mouse, is a shoe-in for 7th Ward alderman. It's great that a student is running for City Council, but why is he our only choice? The 7th Ward encompasses Grant and Stevenson Halls, as well...

After fifteen minutes, you've finally talked yourself into braving the cold and going to class. You know the weather in DeKalb is rivaling that of Siberia, but you feel obligated to be a good student. So, you bundle up in eight layers of clothing and...

To hear Michael and Nyssa duke it out, visit northernstar.info and check the "News Podcasts" link for the Feb. 5 podcast. Sports fans and non-fans make up the Northern Star's editorial board. Editor in Chief Nyssa Bulkes represents the non-fans in a debate...

You can tell the presidential race has kicked off when the political mud starts flying around. Barack Obama has, in the last two weeks, gotten a glimpse of the kind of ridiculous scrutiny and speculation only presidential contenders must face. And it...

Ethics training in Illinois is a joke. It is like giving cough medicine to an emphysema patient. In a state known for political corruption, taking a simple test is intended to curb the behavior of years of indoctrinated misbehaving. As state employees...

"This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but this is the fight we're in." Nothing else in President Bush's State of the Union Address sums up the war in Iraq better. Three years after Bush announced "Mission Accomplished" on the deck of the USS Abraham...

In his State of the Union Address, George W. Bush's report on education touched on the flaws of the No Child Left Behind Act. That, however, seemed to be the country's only pertinent issue in education. The agenda for the Jan. 23 telecast stated: "Reauthorization...