Next week is an important time for students. On Wednesday and Thursday we will be electing Student Association senators. For every election, whether national or campus, students are encouraged to get involved and to go out and vote. This year your vote...

Well Now Health Enhancement Services "Hey, did you see the new condom machines in the restrooms? Do you think anyone buys those things? Fifty cents for a condom! Do they think we're made of money? Are these name brand condoms or generic ones?" These are...

The Founder's Memorial Library staff is in a difficult predicament. Although NIU is trying to expand its library's capabilities to simplify the search for books, a lack of immediate funds is preventing them from adding enough space to house new materials....

Former NIU assistant women's basketball coach Sue Hansen was named assistant athletic director and head women's basketball coach at Carroll College. As an assistant athletic director, Hansen will be responsible for Carroll's seven-sport women's program....

Speaking from the bar Last semester three students contacted the Students' Legal Assistance Office and stated that they believed that the manager of a local apartment complex had refused to rent an apartment to them because of the students' race and/or...

What would be your reaction if a person wearing a green shirt ran into your classroom today and opened fire on you and your classmates? What would you think if someone with a red shirt did the same? Most likely, your attention would focus on the shooting...

While there is much in your editorial of Tuesday's edition about which we would differ, one statement really disturbs me--I think understandably. It is totally untrue to say that I stated that "faculty members have no place in governance." If you can...

"I guess we have to put on a better dog and pony show." That was said to me by one of the geology professors on Saturday. We were two of only four non-Student Association people who showed up to lend a hand at the NIU Recycling Center over the weekend....

The scenes depicting fraternity pledging in the movie Animal House might be slightly exaggerated, but the intent spelled out by the actions is alive and well in some of the nation's fraternity houses. Some of the results of these pledgings and hazings...

In his Aug. 30 meeting with the NIU Faculty Assembly, Chancellor Groves stated that proposed changes in the Board of Regents policies are, at least in part, a response to campus pressure for a separate governing board. The assembly could not elicit from...

I am writing this letter in response to an editorial printed in the Aug. 29 issue of The Northern Star. The editorial to which I refer called for military intervention in Colombia to curb drug trafficking. I am refraining from stating my opinions on the...

Parents have the right to be concerned about their children and the problems the children might encounter with drugs and alcohol. What they do not have the right to do is prevent NIU from accepting legal sponsorship for athletic events from alcohol distributors....