Yes, it's the Christmas time again, and in the spirit of the season, the Student Association Mass Transit Board is asking for handouts. The results of a Huskie Bus survey printed in about 17,000 Northern Stars show that a whopping 80 percent of those...

One place to start browsing in Geneva, provided you could use a little snack, is Graham's Homemade Chocolate, located in the Berry House at 227 S. Third St. The specialty here is chocolate, although homemade ice-cream, hard candy and other gourmet foods...

If country living is your style then be sure to stop in at Connie's Country House where the theme is "country elegance," according to owner Connie Wiley. This shop at 302 S. Third St. offers many, many country inspired gifts, but the specialties are Amish...

A host of rather plump ducks can often be seen outside the Mill Race Inn waiting for satisfied patrons to emerge carrying a small, leftover sample of the food that lies within. Getting past these numerous birds isn't easy but the effort is worth it, for...

If you're seriously hungry, the place to stop at is Dad's Place, 306 W. State St. in Geneva. It's a dark but cozy homestyle restaurant and tavern where you can grab a booth and some good food, too. The half-pound hamburgers are the favorite food of the...

Grunwald Antiques has been serving the Geneva area since 1962. Its high quality specialties are estate jewelry, (especially silver), enamels and glass products. Marge Shepard has been a Grunwald employee for 17 years and said that Geneva has kept the...

After visiting the numerous shops Geneva has to offer, you most likely will have worked up quite an appetite. If so, your next stop should be the Ristorante Chianti, at 207 S. Third St. Italian and Cajun-Italian entrees make up the menu at this restaurant...

The five hearings throughout Illinois to evaluate the effectiveness and garnish support or criticism for the state's higher education governing boards has concluded. However, it is not the time for those truly concerned about education to be optimistic....

The editorial, "Representation not ‘OK'," which in essence states that Dave Murphy is unqualified to be appointed to the Board of Regents because he has been a Community College Trustee for McHenry Community College, challenges me to respond. 1. I am...

If you're short on time and can't go to separate places for eating and browsing, try the Wilson House, 327 Franklin St. in Geneva, where you'll find everything under one roof. If you enter on the ground floor you'll find yourself in Barrels "N" Bins shop,...

I don't belong to Freedom Now, nor do I wear the round spectacles. The fact of the matter is helping the hungry has nothing to do with being a campus radical—it has to do with understanding. A couple of decades ago, man thought slavery was an economic...

Things are changing so rapidly in Eastern Europe that the majority of the world is a bit shocked. Who would have guessed just last year that Communist countries such as Poland, Hungary and Czechoslavakia would be adopting major changes in their systems....