The DeKalb County Board will vote on whether to sell county farm land to developers for an enclosed shopping center at tonight's meeting at 7:30 p.m. Officials from Wilmorite Inc. have offered to purchase 119 acres for $1.9 million to build a 300,000-square-foot...

The recent university decision to end all NIU fraternity little sister programs by the end of this semester has brought the issue of sexual assault to the front pages of the newspaper once again. The university's action, initiated by Jon Dalton, vice...

I feel moved to make a few comments about the anti-racism rally of Friday, Dec. 2. As Franklin Roosevelt once said, the speakers who were present "are a credit to their race; the human race." They presented intelligent, articulate criticisms of white...

The recent coverage of the new "Stealth Bomber" just unveiled by the government got me thinking about the wisdom of producing such weaponry. This new super plane has cost the government billions to produce; each plane incidentally costs more than $500...

Findings from a one-and-a-half year study conducted by the University Council's Ad Hoc Committee on Teacher Evaluation will be presented at the council's meeting Wednesday. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Clara Sperling Skyroom of the Holmes Student...

The airports are closed, the mail isn't coming, the corporations are disfunctional. Go ahead. Scream it again. Scream "racism" and our whole country shuts down. Is it a game to see who can get the most attention? Well, I think we have a winner: Martha...

It is amazing that we are all required to pass a test on the U.S. Constitution and yet many of us seem not to know what it truly means. I am referring to the incident regarding Sigma Chi's suspension. It seems to me that the key issue here is freedom...

Two pit bull terriers that fatally mauled 25-year-old Kevin Cull in a rural Geneva home Nov. 10 were put to sleep by lethal injection Jan. 5. Cull, a NIU chemistry graduate student, was attacked by the dogs while visiting 29-year-old Thomas Kennedy. Kennedy...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream that changed the nation—a dream of equal rights that now has the power of law. And on Monday, Illinois joined the nation in honoring his legacy. "Yes, Martin, you're gone, but your dream is still a reality,"...

BSU president Tracy Deis' opening remark in the Dec. 5 issue of Star on the Sigma Chi situation of "I'm pissed, and I'm sure everyone else is" struck a discordant note in me. To use such poor language only serves to draw attention away from the issues...

It has come to a time in America where it apperars to me that whites are subject to oppression. In response to the sanctions against Sigma Chi, I get so angry and frustrated that all I can really do is laugh. The university is obviously using the fraternity...

I just wanted to take the time to commend you and all the staff at The Northern Star for the excellent job I feel you're doing with the paper. Once I started at NIU three years ago I've noticed an unmistakable increase in both the quality of the reporting...