I'm writing this letter in response to the two letters of complaint from David Lasker (Feb. 12) and Gerald Berkowitz (Feb. 15). The Campus Activities Board (CAB) is aware of the noise problem at some of the weekend movies. It is the Sunday 10 p.m. show...

Colleges should release crime statistics to prospective students. Doris Karpiel, R-Roselle, introduced Bill 1515, which would force colleges to publish their crime statistics. NIU, along with many other schools across the state, does not publish the statistics....

The Student Association seems to have latched on to a big student concern that involves bad communication, but not in the way it might seem at first glance. The SA Academic Affairs Committee has received about 75 complaints from students in a Statistics...

We, the victims from the Feb. 16 fire at 355 Augusta Ave., would like to thank the DeKalb community and the university for your support and concern for our welfare. Often when tragedy strikes, the capacity to recognize, accept and acknowledge proffered...

The following story is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, and a few little white lies have been added to make it a hell of a lot more interesting. Victor E. Huskie, Part II: The Revenge. The scene: The office of Philip Marlowe,...

"NINTENDO TRUCK HIJACKED,""WOMAN CHARGED IN REAL LIFE ‘FATAL ATTRACTION' MURDER,""SAKHAROV'S BRAIN WILL BE STUDIED,""BOY LOSES LEG IN MINE FIRE." These were some of the headlines in the state, nation, and international sections in The Star on Feb. 9....

I would like to comment on the editorial apearing in The Northern Star Feb. 13, "VP Hunt Going Nowhere." If the intention of the editorial was to discuss the direction of the vice president search, then I missed the point. The editorial states "the biggest...

After the admission confusion some students faced when more than 1,000 were unable to get into a women's basketball home game against DePaul without buying a ticket, something needs to be done to better the policy. Some students were upset because they...

In view of the debate between Sarah Weddington and Phyllis Schlafly last Wednesday night, I'm sure we will be reading a lot more about abortion in the pages of The Star. I would like to address a different issue which was highlighted again during this...

If you had to label this past decade as an age of "something," what would you say? It's difficult to pinpoint a single word for describing such a long period of time, but what was the driving force which shaped our nation to become what it is today? The...

The Board of Regents should not have put themselves in a questionable position with bidding for new turf on NIU's and Illinois State University's football fields. The lowest of four companies submitting bids lodged a formal complaint against the board...