The one place with tighter security in Illinois than the Holmes Student Center yesterday only could have been Marion Federal Penitentiary. The difference, though, was that Marion's guards try to keep people in and NIU's University Police were trying to...

Attention students of NIU, take caution when reading the editorials of The Northern Star. For once again, the Star's editorial board has shown its ignorance and stupidity. Regarding the editorial "SCOPA by any other name...", printed on Nov. 4, the board...

Janelle Martin, NIU's assistant sports information director, recently resigned to accept an athletic administrative position at Kansas, her alma mater. Martin was named the administrative assistant and compliance auditor at Kansas. Her new responsibilities...

Hi. I am currently a junior at NIU. This is my third year here and also my third year as a Sigma Chi little sister. So you probably can guess what I am going to write about. This letter is in regard to a column on Nov. 22. I guess what I should first...

It was more than a bit ironic that Durward Long, Sangamon State University president, spoke to the Board of Regents Thursday about a new sexual harassment policy at his university. Seven SSU faculty members filed charges of sexual harassment against Long...

Why don't we all look at the whale rescue like it really is for once, OK? Sure, the media jumped all over this story and made it a "national concern," but the underlying fact is that those people helping the whales to survive were simply doing their jobs...

Just about everybody likes a good practical joke. Unfortunately these jokes have a bad reputation because they hurt people. A joke at an Interstate-57 overpass killed a 57-year-old construction worker who lived in Chicago. According to a story in The...

The recent decision by U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz to bar PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat from entry into the United States can best be summed up by two quotes. The Swedish government, in an appeal to Washington to rethink the American position,...

If the recommendation to retain university control of the Holmes Student Center Bookstore is an indicator, then NIU might have a chance to start turning its reputation and the bookstore around. William Herrmann, Bond Revenue Operations director, had something...

The Board of Regents that governs NIU is sure to be asked about the firing of CHANCE counselor Martha Palmer during its meetings at NIU today and Thursday. Hopefully, the questions will not fall on deaf ears. When protesters interrupted a meeting in September,...

Well now here's an interesting little tid bit... A professor was forced to resign because he was found guilty of plagiarism. That's not setting a very good example for students all over the U.S., now is it? What's even worse is that the 67-year-old professor...

Students who are interested in learning more about Tae Kwon Do can attend a demonstration on Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. in Anderson Gym. Jim Shipley, vice president of NIU's Tae Kwon Do Club, said, "(The demonstration's) basically to enlighten people about it (Tae...