Michelle Landrum Did you know your sneakers are making a social statement? Like it or not, the kind of sportswear you buy—or choose not to buy—is a hot topic ever since Operation PUSH went for Nike Inc.‘s throat Aug. 11. The plan: to force the sportswear...

Mobster movie have come and gone, with films like "The Godfather," "Scareface," and "Married to the Mob" creatively making the bad-guy formula work. "My Blue Heaven," on the other hand, probably will end up shelved in video stores in the near future....

The United States citizenry should not be fooled by the Middle East's latest strong man. Saddam Hussein's lame attempts to ease public sentiment after over-running Kuwait should be thrown away as pure bunk. The propoganda transmitted via satalite throughout...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...