DOA III seems like the title to a sequel of a bad action/horror film, and that might be the case if the event is not planned properly. Already there is talk of a Day Of Action III at NIU to protest cuts to higher education. Hopefully the third attempt...

Before the 1989 season began, Chuck Ehrlich knew tonight's triangular with Penn State and Iowa would be a difficult meet to win. However, there was no way the NIU men's gymnastics coach could have predicted that he would face the two national powers with...

For more than a year, NIU and the Board of Regents have been conducting surveys and trying to find a way to curb the high dropout rate of minorities in the CHANCE program. As the program is now, CHANCE students are guided and counseled only their freshman...

The recent efforts of the Soviet Union to mediate peace between nations of the Middle East is admirable, even if such moves seem somewhat premature considering existing conditions. However, in dealing with Iran, the USSR is becoming a little too friendly....

Two concerts sponsored by the school of music this weekend will feature works by NIU faculty composers. The first concert is 8 p.m. Friday in the recital hall of the school of music. The annual event will feature works by Jan Bach, Tim Blickhan, Robert...

The controversy regarding secretary of defense nominee John Tower should not be one of mere politics. One of the three arguments against Tower is his alleged past of extreme drinking, which Tower originally denied. As often happens in politics, Tower...

The College of Engineering is holding its second annual Career Day at 10:00 a.m. today in Sandburg Auditorium. The program, held in conjunction with National Engineering Week, is geared toward both undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers...

It seems students are not the only ones to forget when their assignments are due. When the University of Illinois at Chicago told the Illinois Board of Higher Education that they wanted to move their engineering programs to nearby community college districts,...

The approval of one Bush cabinet member all but disappeared last Thursday in the shadow of controversy surrounding the nomination of John Tower for defense secretary: the Senate Finance Committee's approval of the nomination of Dr. Louis Sullivan for...

The Reagan outcry against a chemical factory in Libya was ballyhooed as a plan to produce chemical weapons. For our public via the media, former Secretary of State George Schultz publicized Libya's chemical factory, ignoring the existence of our own vast...

We are writing to set a few things "straight." On Feb. 15, an editorial was written about the overcrowding at Cook County Jail and a misleading illustration by E. Dietz accompanied it. The illustration depicted many males sleeping in one bunk and one...

We were shocked to see that The Northern Star allowed "Beachin‘ Times," a Miller Beer insert, to be carried in its paper. There has been much concern over alcohol-related deaths of our students here at Northern. And there has likewise been concern over...