What would Christmas be without the Christmas tree? According to the DeKalb County Extension Office, the Christmas tree has a long past and tradition in holiday culture. Christmas and decorated evergreens are synonymous today. The decorated Christmas...

Editor's note: this is the second of a two-part series on AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in accordance with Safe Sex Week. Throughout the United States, the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), such as chlamydia, herpes, AIDS and...

Safe sex or death. Shouldn't be that hard of a choice. But there are still those who figure it'll never happen to them, they won't get AIDS because they're lucky or smart enough not to get it. However, there are 12,000 names on a memorial quilt that say...

Here we go again, time to make front page news of three football players involved in a fight. Personally,I thought that Police Beat covered the incident well enough. Obviously that wasn't enough for some people. I'm curious to see just how long this will...

Thanks for team effort! I would like to thank the following people for teaming up to the challenge Jefferson School students and other area elementary students to "Say No to Drugs" during specially planned school assemblies in November: Don Berke, DeKalb...

NIU should be congratulated for its efforts to clear campus sidewalks and roads after Monday's clobbering snowstorm. The snowstorm dumped about four inches of the white stuff on DeKalb, but Mother Nature was no match for snowplowing crews. The crews hit...

In response to Robert Ferrara's commentary last Friday, I would like to perhaps straighten out what he had to say. His first point, that of subsidization of the tobacco industry by the government is true, but the government does not subsidize killing....

Editor's note: This column is the first in a two-part series on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in accordance with Safe Sex Week. AIDS is a disease which cripples the immune system and can cause those with the disease to die from infections which...

Oregon State University is in a town similar to NIU's, but unlike the Huskies, OSU has struggled with the success of its football program lately. Dave Kragthorpe left his helm as OSU's head football coach last week by mutual consent. Kragthorpe had three...

Disgusting. After an entire semester of hearing Barbara Henley cry, moan and bellyache about how she was persecuted because of the Student Association/allocating money mess, it is absolutely repulsive that she now hides behind close doors. As with the...

May I offer my solution to the problem of the dangerously depleting ozone layer. All chlorofluorocarbons (C.F.C.‘s) should be internationally banned. Then, to repair the ozone layer, implement the following method: First, manufacture liquid ozone (L.O.Z.)....

Editor's note: This is the first part of a two part series on NIU's communicative disorders program. In this part students talk about their major and jobs related to it. by Amy Julian They don't all look or act like William Hurt as the teacher of the...