Friday will mark the 10th anniversary performance of George Fredrick Handel's Messiah at DeKalb's Egyptian Theatre, 132 N. Second St. Handel's most popular oratorio was first produced 247 years ago in Dublin, Ireland. The music of the Christmas section...

I am writing in response to the letter titled "Hike Unneeded" by Greg Webster and Jay Gehlhausen on Nov. 28 concerning their complaint of an article in the Nov. 21 issue of The Northern Star. This article stated that "NIU's Late Night Ride Service might...

NIU offers tutoring to minority students, first generation college students, students receiving financial aid and handicapped students. The Board of Regents might expand tutoring services to all NIU students, not only those admitted through special programs....

A very good friend of mine died Monday. His name was Jeff Lunsford, a doctoral student at NIU. I met Jeff last year when he was president of the Black Graduate Student Association. Saturday night, an aneurysm exploded in his brain, and Monday, his life...

As the Heartland Blood Center's representative to DeKalb County, and specifically Northern Illinois University, I would like to commend everyone who has been involved in the campus blood program. This includes the generous donors and the volunteers who...

The Washington Post A trip behind the Iron Curtain by an influential conservative leader might have significant impact on the restructuring of U.S.-Soviet relations that could emerge from the Bush-Gorbachev summit. Paul Weyrich, conservative activist...

So, the Student Association has not done much for NIU students lately. But, what about one branch of this student government body—the SA Supreme Court? How has the SA Supreme Court faired this semester? Things are a bit rocky. Of course, there is that...

Politics is not a playground game. That's something the Student Association has to learn. Not only has the SA as a whole proved to be very ineffective this semester, but it also has proved that it cannot coexist with the big boys on the block. In its...

Holiday cheer apparently is not in the Board of Regents' vocabulary. The Board of Regents and Local 3389 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees—AFSCME—have met in negotiations regarding catch-up increment raises for union...

Congratulations on choosing "Freedom of the Press" as the focus for your 25th anniversary celebration as a viable, daily newspaper. Never before in our 200-year-plus history have we had to reminded as we do now that we must be ever-vigilant in protecting...

As Executive Vice President and a Judicial Board member of the InterFraternity Council, I have become acutely aware of some of the misconceptions associated with Greeks or Greek Row that were/are regularly expressed by the typical college student. I thought...

This is in response to the Nov. 29 letter, "Racial incident." The writer of that letter obviously was referring to the Greek Row incident. You were wondering why people put so much focus on that incident and not on yours (when the roles were reversed)....