Last night as one of the Northern Star’s editors left Taco Bell, he headed home toward Eco Park and was greeted by a swarm of celebrating White Sox fans. It was about 12:35 a.m. when he met the mob of nearly 100 people parading in the middle of Annie...

Be afraid, be very afraid. The avian flu is coming to a parakeet near you. As the infamous bird flu ravages chicken and crow populations from Ukraine to Romania to, (gasp!), even the United Kingdom, Americans are inundated with headline after headline...

So the NBA now has a dress code. It’s not the shorts, gym shoes and jerseys players wear for 60 minutes during the game. Although a case could be made that the league has had a dress code all along, since players have uniforms they are required to wear...

A recent plan being considered by NIU has our ears ringing in disagreement. Information Technology Services announced recently it was considering eliminating landline-based phones in residence halls. Considering most residents don’t use the phones in...

There’s a new game in town for the MAC. Until very recently the conference’s football squads were making a name for the smaller, gentler version of the Big Ten. The conference’s apex season was likely 2003, when in one weekend NIU beat No. 22 Alabama,...

Green, blue, yellow, orange and red are beautiful primary and secondary colors used to brighten the vibrant existence we embrace as Americans. Since the summer of 2001, however, fear has been circulating through our veins and swimming right alongside...

Health insurance for All Kids, a Gov. Rod Blagojevich program, should be applauded. The Oct. 11 Northern Star stated 253,000 Illinois children are without health insurance. That is simply unacceptable. Some Republicans, such as Robert Pritchard, 70th...

Monday marked the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March, which captivated Washington DC and not enough of the rest of the country Oct. 16 1995. Authorities at the original event estimated more than 100,000 people attended. A decade later, in honor...

The midnight train to DeKalb is leaving and we’d like to go back and find a simpler place and time - one without noise pollution from trains. The City of DeKalb announced last week it was delaying the installation of wayside horns, citing a delay in...

Support for the war in Iraq is dwindling steadily. In a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll, more than half of the respondents said the war is a mistake. The death toll continues to rise. Soon 2,000 American soldiers will have been killed in Iraq. No wonder...

NIU expands more every day, whether in the knowledge of the student body or in steel and brick structures. This weekend it will expand with a celebration of both. Many who had once been built by this institution to take on the real world have now helped...

It’s time for NIU dining halls to recognize not all students are carnivorous. In the Sept. 23 issue of the Northern Star, Jill Kohn, a nutrition and dietetic graduate assistant at the test kitchen, revealed that while vegetarian options are available...