Students exercise option to cancel by Sean Thomas About 8,000 of NIU's roughly 25,000 students cancel their student health insurance each year, exercising an option available for several years. As in previous years, any registered full-time students who...

One small step for the NEA, one huge setback for freedom of expression. John E. Frohnmayer, the National Endowment for the Arts chairman, vetoed federal funding Monday for four performance artists because their work didn't better people's understanding...

To relieve the stress of first-week lines, moving in and homesickness, the University Bookstore is sponsoring a two-hour comedy show tonight. "We Can Make You Laugh," a comedy trio from New York, will perform at 8 p.m. in Diversions. The show is free....

What are genital warts? Condyloma, what's that? Can it be cured? These are questions that the Health Service is hearing a lot lately from students who have become infected with the Condyloma virus. In 1989, the Health Service saw over 1100 cases of condyloma...

This is your newspaper. Use it. The Northern Star offers the NIU and DeKalb communities a forum for which to express ideas. Those ideas might be an advertiser telling the consumer why they should shop at the business, a student or long-time DeKalb resident...

Approximately every seven minutes there is a rape occuring somewhere in America. The legal definition of rape is a victim having sexual intercourse against her will and without her consent. In some states only a woman can be legally raped by a man. The...

Just ask some of the 30 people ticketed Thursday for evading tollbooths while heading into DeKalb. Master Sergeant David Charnicky of the Illinois State Police said Thursday about 10 officers were detailed to the DeKalb exits at Peace and Annie Glidden...

Just a quick thank you to NIU for your remodeling project, that being the new library collections area to be located in the space of the former graduate lounge in the basement of Founder's Memorial Library. It gives me great pleasure to see this space...

Marc Alberts College life can be a barrel of laughs sometimes, but there is nothing funny about trying to pick a major. In a truly civilized society someone shouldn't have to make an irreversible career choice at 18 or 19 years of age. Of course, anyone...

The Northern Illinois University Gay/Lesbian Union (GL/U) is the second oldest gay organization in Illinois and is one of the oldest in the United States. It was recognized by the NIU Student Association on April 12, 1970. The original name, Gay Liberation...

The oil companies seem to be making a killing, possibly before they have to. Kuwait has imposed an oil embargo on Iraq for invading its land. The rest of the world seems to be following in its footsteps. The result: gas prices skyrocket. The oil companies...

OK, who saw "Say Anything"? Remember at the beginning of the movie, everybody's graduating from high school and Ione Skye is giving her valedictorian speech and she says to all her classmates that she's already had a taste of the real world and she's...