A study conducted by a fertility clinic in Texas is paving the way for couples to be able to choose the sex of their baby - and that is just plain wrong. The study was conducted by the Baylor Clinic, part of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston,...

Getting a college degree has become more and more important in the 21st century. It has pretty much become the equivalent of what a high school degree meant for previous generations. To get a decent job a college degree is a must because we are seeing...

Americans, pay attention to what has been going on in France the last two weeks. These events show the same kind of explosions that virtually formed American practices in the ways of racial treatment. What better way to show your distaste and anger with...

On Friday, two Northern Star editors and a reporter were returning to the Lincolnshire West apartment complex, 1307 W. Lincoln Highway, when two DeKalb County Sheriff’s squad cars screamed down Lincoln Highway headed east past Fatty’s Bar & Grill,...

Last week the Northern Star ran an article Wednesday and a staff edit Friday regarding NIU's appropriated funds to promote safe sex. In fact, sex-related topics have been all over the Star's pages and DeKalb's news lately. Wednesday featured additional...

Imagine this: it is a dark, cold, rainy night. You ride your bicycle home after getting off work around midnight. As you approach the intersection of Annie Glidden Road and Lucinda Avenue, you imagine coming home to your warm, dry residence hall room....

DeKalb Mayor Frank Van Buer gave the first State of the City Address Thursday. He thanked people who normally don’t receive thanks and talked about a multitude of issues. That’s the good news. The speech lasted seven minutes. That’s the bad news....

College students have a tendency to have sex. Whether with "Mr./Ms. Right" or with "Mr./Ms. Right Now," and the campus spends $15,000 a year making sure, whichever the case, a student is safe. Each year 150,000 condoms are made accessible by Health Services...

Oil is big business, that much is obvious. What might not be so obvious is just how big. As The Associated Press reported Oct. 27 Exxon Mobil Corporation posted $100 billion in sales during the third quarter, marking the first time a U.S. company had...

Northern Illinois University has a no-track mind. That's not to say university officials have lost their collective smarts, or the heads of the school have been derailed. Quite the opposite really. Plans to remove the outdated track next to Huskie Stadium,...

Recent political wounds have left America bleeding red. Literally, not liberally. The events of the last few weeks in Washington seem to play out like a poorly-written children’s book. First, House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Texas had to step down...

Sgt. Charles Caldwell was killed Sept. 1, 2003, when the Humvee he was in struck a roadside bomb near Baghdad. Spc. Gabriel Palacios was killed during a mortar attack in Baquba, Iraq on Jan. 21, 2004. Spc. Nicholas Idalski was killed by small-arms fire...