Poor George Ryan. The unapologetic former governor was found guilty on all counts in his racketeering, fraud and corruption trial Monday. But to him, he's still the victim. Ryan chatted with a CBS reporter in the bathroom of Chicago's Dirksen Federal...

College athletics promote unity and camaraderie across campuses of every size and shape. The reason collegiate sports are so passionately followed is because the events offer a chance for students to root for their fellow student athletes. It creates...

Spring is a strange season. It's warm, it's cold. It's raining, it's raining harder, it's raining horizontally. Little ducks, Asian beetles, zooming motorcycles, tan people, baseball and flowers. Spring is like a typhoon wind that sweeps away Old Man...

The idea of "porn curriculum" being taught in university classrooms is bound to have at least a squirmish after-effect. "Sex in the Syllabus," an April 3 Time magazine article, highlighted schools across the country developing new classes that would discuss...

Hallelujah! Usually such religious exclamations are reserved for, well, religion. But not this time. As students, we should all be very happy, in a non-religious sort of way. NIU's overhaul of the aging, annoying, cumbersome, excuse-for-good-technology...

The Northern Star has commended DeKalb Mayor Frank Van Buer for sticking to his campaign promise that he would be a hard-line Liquor Commissioner. But after Van Buer decided at Monday's meeting to fine Mardi Gras Lanes and Lord Stanley's for serving alcohol...

Patrick Fitzgerald, lead prosecutor in the CIA leak case, refused to address the topic on everyone's mind during his presentation at the NIU College of Law Friday. The day before the his lecture, Fitzgerald presented documents linking President George...

DeKalb High School has been at the center of security issues this month, as a result of a shooting death involving two local teenagers. Following the death of the 19-year-old victim, DHS took several steps to further ensure the safety of students. One...

DeKalb residents faced frightening times with the recent gang-related homicide last week. At least they came away feeling a little less helpless after attending Wednesday's town hall meeting. More than 500 people attended the event at the Egyptian Theatre,...

Last week the Northern Star published a three-part investigative piece about steroids. The extensive, two-month research turned up many interesting scenarios, from NIU staff speculating about availability in the Campus Recreation Center to a Huskie athlete...

Long gone are the days of sitting in Reavis Hall on a hot, sticky August day waiting for your professor to say, "That's it. See you all Monday." Now students will be able to control the temperature of the class by simply — gasp — opening a window....

It's a startling statistic for Western Europeans: While they held about 20 percent of the world's gross domestic product three years ago, the U.S. Department of Energy predicts that number will shrink to 13 come 2025. That, while the U.S. sees only a...