Point:Brooklyn HarperColumnistStudents should feel safe on campus because NIU has taken many precautions to ensure the safety of students. Regardless of the activities happening in the DeKalb area, students have a safe place here. That is the beauty of...

Pass: Corn Fest bring college and community togetherCorn Fest is DeKalb's annual free festival ended this past weekend in downtown DeKalb. With all the basics of a fun festival — carnival rides, live music and greasy, fried foods — the fest has...

Counterpoint:Kara MercerColumnistFree Application for Federal Student Aid could have kept the Jan. 1 acceptance date while still allowing the previous year’s tax information. This would allow students to get through a full semester before having to...

NIU did not practice inclusion when it hand picked which parking permit prices would increase this fall because the justification for increasing certain permit prices is not applied equally.Reserved parking permits will see a $172 price increase, if the...

Thank you, House Café.Thank you for offering DeKalb and NIU eager support of local music and art — as well as great food and of course, $2.50 Hamm’s Beer.Thank you for being a place that fostered my own growth as a musician, as well as others’...

Faith MellenthinColumnistMicrosoft Outlook is easy to use, but the transition from Gmail has not been smooth. As an avid user of Gmail, I was very surprised Outlook is so user friendly. With a single login, I can access all Microsoft Office downloads...

The Northern Star is the voice of students, but the perspective section is unique in that unlike the news section that must be completely unbias, the perspective section allows students and faculty to comment on the news. The perspective section will...

Is NIU’s CHANCE program an effective tool for students? Should it continue to be provided to students in the future?NIU’s Chance program offers further consideration for enrollment to students who don’t meet the requirements of an admitted student...

Does the Pokemon Go app create an unsafe environment for those who play during late hours?Christopher LogginsAlthough DeKalb can become unsafe at times, I don’t think the playing of the Pokemon Go app wll create too much of a problem in the community....

Forget the days of seeing civilians swiping left or right on their off time to find a Tinder match, because a new app from '90s sensation Nintendo has made a striking comeback with a swift swipe up to catch ‘em all — Pokemon GO.The app has netted...

The price of parking permits incurs its first increase since 2011 in order to fund $5 million worth of identified parking lot repairs on campus. For a list of parking pass prices, go to bit.ly/1UdcobQ.Jay IbarraScene EditorI could easily see the recent...

A tenure-track faculty union at NIU is a long time coming and I say that having been here only four years.As a graduate student in the Graduate Employees’ Organization at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I earned yearly cost-of-living raises...