Certain unmistakable harbingers of the change of season are starting to appear around town. Soft ice cream shops have closed, back pages of magazines are advertising clothes for pets and the local t-shirt emporiums are gearing up to sell "I survived the...

I am writing in response to Marianne Renner's column about little sister programs. While I completely agree that the program her friend from Western was subjected to was thoroughly degrading for the girls involved, I resent the implication that all little...

Oh no! It's a little sister! You know Marianne, the "almost extinct" girls in the greek system? Well, you've got a lot to learn. First of all, little sisters at Western Illinois University don't even compare and shouldn't be compared to us here at NIU....

Charges of obstructing persons in a highway for about 75 students involved in the April 13 Day of Action II sit-in protest on Lincoln Highway will be reviewed at a hearing Friday. The hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. at the DeKalb Municipal Building, 200...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's visit this week to the United States comes at a time, he said, when the world is "going through some very crucial changes." That, in reference to Gorbachev's country and the country he is visiting, seems an understatement....

It was unfair of Marianne Renner to base her Nov. 22 column on a program at Western and imply it is the same at NIU without ever talking to a little sister here. We have a more informed definition of NIU's Little Sister programs. Our pledges are not forced...

We would like to address the column regarding little sister programs written Nov. 22 by Marianne Renner. The one-sided treatment given to the column and her obvious ignorance of the facts truly made this column a waste of paper, space and ink. Little...

Taking a ride or taking a stride. This statement accurately assesses the elevator situation for individuals living in the towers. It is absolutely ridiculous the way the elevators keep breaking down. Living on the upper floors, at times, can be very frustrating...

As NIU faculty who do research at Fermilab, we feel that the negative impact on NIU due to the Texas siting of the Superconducting Supercollider will not be as great as the article in The Northern Star implies. Fermilab will continue to be the world's...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education today might vote to keep tuition at one-third the instructional cost of running the university. Officials at state universities, including NIU, have not followed the one-third rule because the State of Illinois has...

Reading about Sigma Chi fraternity's current troubles the thought occurs to me, that NIU Vice President Jon Dalton and other officials may have overreacted. Sigma Chi's skit in blackface is widely agreed to have been in bad taste. Consequently some people...

The Nov. 13 episode of "60 Minutes" underscored a growing problem in America's educational system. One segment dealt with a Dartmouth University newspaper editor who, after a confrontation with a professor, was suspended from school for more than a year....