As an avid reader of The Northern Star, I was very disappointed to see the bad timing on their part with the way the paper handled the Homecoming King and Queen story. A major racial barrier was broken when Willie Fowler and Marthony Longo, both black...

DeKalb will get an extra police officer to participate in multi-jurisdictional drug enforcement task force. The city council voted Monday to allocate about $43,500 per year for an additional police officer and vehicle to work with 4 to 5 officers from...

An eight-hour dance-a-thon fundraiser Saturday was a success, raising between $1,200 and $2,000 for the Jennifer Ettema Scholarship Fund. Ettema, a senior communications major, died of Marfan's disease one week before this semester started. Her one goal...

If the high-and-mighty Editorial Board had bothered to discuss the matter of the SCOPA name change to SPEAC with some of the members of IAC, it would have discovered some important information. This information would have included the fact that we spent...

A class action lawsuit against NIU is on hold pending the outcome of a University Council committee's analysis of grades issued to students who illegally registered for spring 1988 classes using a fraudulent "REG" stamp. Charles Larson, a communications...

A spokesman for the DeKalb County Coroner's office said an autopsy revealed a man found dead Sunday underneath a railroad bridge in DeKalb died of internal injuries. Further details into the cause of death will not be known until a toxology report is...

Experiencing a few extra "minor" problems with your vehicle lately? For example, does Ole Beater start only on calendar days that are prime numbers? Are you starting to keep track of miles per quart rather than miles per gallon? Do friends suggest you...

Once again, NIU has made news in the Midwest about racial tensions on campus, but apparently university officials have forgotten that in the United States one is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Sigma Chi fraternity was suspended for the acts of...

Student Association Sen. Bill Kraemer, who was nearly impeached Nov. 20, said Senate Speaker Joe Annunzio plans to impeach about seven or eight senators before Christmas vacation. Kraemer, who the senate failed to impeach by one vote, said Annunzio is...

Thanksgiving at Jeff's What did the Monday columnist do for Thanksgiving? Allow me to take you on a little journey into...Thanksgiving at my house. Picture yourself fast asleep in your bed at home. (Assuming your parents didn't rent it out when you left.)...

Wouldn't it be nice to read a column in The Northern Star and find an informed, intelligent discourse on an important issue? Not so, though, with Jeff Vogelsang's Nov. 7 tirade about drug testing. Vogelsang doesn't think "anyone should be forced to take...

Steriod users risk both injury and some long-term ill effects. Anabolic steroids are forms of testosterone artificially created in a laboratory. Testosterone is a hormone necessary to build muscle and is produced naturally in the human body. It is produced...