Experts are saying that in a few short years, everyone in this country will know someone who either has AIDS or has died from the disease. To counter the growing number of AIDS cases, New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph pushed for a hypodermic...

Let's see if I've got this straight. Jack Potts, the homeless person who was to speak at the JLS meeting Oct. 27, had been charged with retail theft, had a warrent on file for his arrest and was a passenger in a stolen car when he was arrested before...

When service organizations at NIU run out of funds or start to lose money, the common solution is to raise student fees. The University Health Service has come up with something different. The health center provides 24-hour emergency medical service but...

While the rest of the campus community reaps the "fruits of its labors" in terms of salary increases, there are two groups of employees which still have not received increases and which are operating under wages established in July 1986. These are the...

In the Oct. 25 issue of The Northern Star two stories gained my attention. The first was about yet another NIU student and two non-students killed as a result of alcohol abuse. The second, a column by Marianne Renner about student issues: "Does the alcohol...

The NIU journalism department, The Northern Star and the entire NIU community lost a dear friend with the death of Irv Kummerfeldt this weekend. Kummerfeldt made many contributions to the university and journalism during his 27-year stay at NIU. Perhaps...

Once again the ugly head of racism has surfaced on the Northern Illinois University campus. This latest episode is most troubling in that instead of the overt predictable racism, we have been graced this time by the oft indistinguishable, highly deceptive...

The article in The Northern Star on Oct. 26 regarding travel costs reminded me of headlines in the National Enquirer. When I called Jill Stocker about the story, she explained to me that she did not write the headlines or even the lead paragraph in the...

The question of the day. Would you rather have the bookstore run by the university or a capitalist-pig infiltrated private firm? Let's look at the issues. The bookstore made $250,000 last year that went back into a bond revenue fund. This means the more...

Three of six charges of unlawful towing against Michael Fitzgerald, owner of NI Towing, were dismissed Nov. 2 because of witness unavailability on part of the city of DeKalb. However, the case has been continued until Dec. 12 in order to try by jury the...

This is the last of The Northern Star's political endorsements for Tuesday's general election. George Bush should be the next U.S. president. While the Reagan administration has failed in providing support for social programs, foreign policy gains and...