An editorial in this space last week urged the Illinois Board of Higher Education to go ahead with its original plans to upgrade the admissions standards of state universities. The IBHE had been balking at finally putting into effect its newly-proposed...

Kishwaukee Community Hospital will offer a six-session program called "Eater's Choice" aimed at improving eating habits and reducing cholesterol. The course will be offered at 7 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays from Feb. 7 until April 18. The $150 registration...

Today is the last day for students to get out and vote for Student Association Senate candidates, who are running for very important and responsible positions. Senators make decisions about such matters as distribution of student fees—your fees—to...

The members of Congress would do well to reject their proposed 50 percent pay increase. Too many arguments can be made against raising our representatives' and senators' pay by this amount for Congress to accept former president Reagan's endorsement of...

Plans for a Student Accounting Society-sponsored income tax assistance program dissolved after it was discovered that the date for a qualifying exam that the volunteers should have taken passed unnoticed in December. SAS President Christine Smith said...

The death of an NIU graduate student mauled by two pit bull dogs on Nov. 10 has been ruled accidental by a DuPage County coroner's inquest. However, the jury has recommended that the investigation be continued because 72 glass viles, possibly intended...

Before the word "geek" came into common usage, I was a common example of the subspecies. My sixth grade school photo shows an Alfred E. Neumann look-alike whose hair was cut with the aid of a wooden soup bowl and a jagged pair of scissors. The shirt's...

NIU's governing body, the Board of Regents, will be asked this week to approve a $1 NIU student fee which would generate new funds to go toward the Illinois Student Association. Like the fee for health insurance, this fee would be refundable at the end...

Elbert Woods and his Ickey Shuffle will long be remembered as the epicenter of Super Hype XXIII. It seems only justice that Woods didn't get a chance to smear the history of the Super Bowl by strutting his stuff on the sidelines of Joe Robbie Stadium....

The Student Association will hold elections Tuesday and Wednesday to fill five off-campus and two on-campus senate seats. The Northern Star asked candidates why they seek a position with the senate and what issues they feel the senate should address in...

A candidate for Student Assocaition senator has filed a petition with the SA Supreme Court that could postpone this week's elections by challenging the constitutionality of the 1986 SA redistricting plan. Off-campus candidate Andy Shankman's petition...

NIU will become the second university to have a refundable $1 fee supporting the Illinois Student Association if the Board of Regents passes the fee at Thursday's Regents meeting in Springfield. ISA Executive Director Dave Starrett said the University...