With Saturday's 426-yard team rushing effort against Murray State, the Huskies find themselves unofficialy atop the NCAA's team-rushing rankings. NIU, pending the release of official statistics from the NCAA, leads the country with 2,929 yards in eight...

Four NIU supportive professional staff members have received faculty development awards totaling $3,000. The staff members are Deborah Booth, a coordinator in external programming; Sara Susamo, University Health Services medical staff chief; Marybeth...

Paperbacks and hardbacks, fiction and non-fiction, autographed books of all sorts for children of all ages will be for sale at the Children's Authors Festival and Book Sale. The festival, set for Nov. 3, is a chance for adults and children to buy books...

NIU political science Professor Lettie Wenner said she believes the judicial branch of the U.S. government is as much influenced by politics as the legislative and executive branches. A specialist on courts and environmental policy issues, Wenner has...

Just to show that Scott Stocking's light side is just as misinformed as his dark side, allow me to correct his "correction." (He's not all wrong; that was just my lighter side speaking.) I am now quoting extensively from "More of the Straight Dope," by...

I am writing in response to Bruce Kremer's suggestion to remove the benediction and invocation from graduation ceremonies at NIU. Not only do I believe this action would be a regressive move by an institution that fancies itself as progressive, but, as...

Although the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is not planning functions for parents and students this Saturday, several departments are making their faculty available to parents. The communication studies department is holding a reception in 233 Watson...

The Northern Illinois Association for the Education of Young Children will hold a conference Nov. 3 at Kishwaukee Community Campus. Richard Wilson, a naturalist form the Chicago Junior School, Elgin, will present the opening address and Kathy Stephens,...

Where are your facts? This letter is in response to Marc Alberts' "Separation furthers racial segregation" in the Oct. 8th issue of The Northern Star. After reading and re-reading this column, I found no quotes of African or African-American people, nor...

A pulitzer prize-winning American historian and professor will be the first speaker in NIU's newly-established "Distinguished Lecturer Series." Arthur Scheslinger, Jr. will discuss the post-Cold War world in a free public lecture Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. in...

A ‘give-higher-education-money storm' is brewing. And Illinois legislators should be wary. Staff and faculty at Sangamon State University in Springfield and the Board of Regents need to get together to find an acceptable compromise for both parties....

NIU officials need to be wary of the upcoming elections and how it might affect their plans to expand in Rockford. Officials from NIU and Rockford are examining 16 site proposals for an educational center in Rockford. Once the site is chosen, Gov. James...