Once upon a time a little white boy stood on the corner of Michigan and Congress. This was quite a big deal since it was the boy's first trip to the big city. Tall buildings, busy streets, fancy cars and, most of all, black people. Big, ugly, scary black...

When Republican presidential candidate George Bush announced last month that his running mate would be Indiana Senator James Danforth Quayle, a funny thing happened in the press. Somersaults. Somersaults on the part of print and broadcast journalists...

A damaged pipe located in the Holmes Student Center will cause the Pow Wow Room, located on the first floor, to be closed for part of the day. The pipe, which transports kitchen sewage away from the Pow Wow Room, caused an undetermined amount of damage...

Jill Stocker MUSH!, a progressive alternative newspaper that published only once at NIU last year, will start over this semester with a fresh approach and a new name. The paper, which will be called "The Public Address System," will have a more serious...

The beginning of student's college career is a time for a person to adapt to and build impressions about college life. These impressions can be positive or negative, but each student has a right to form impressions for themselves. Wednesday, at the first...

As I read Gretchyn Lenger's Sept. 2 Column, "Listen up freshmen...this column's for you," I couldn't stop thinking about those freshmen who paused over a cup of coffee to hastily read the column, addressed to them, before rushing off to their two jobs,...

Once again criticisms surrounding the assignment of available parking permits have been brought to the attention of university parking committee members for debate. Even with the creation of 1,091 additional parking spots by the ad hoc parking committee,...

NIU Legal Counsel George Shur said Thursday that CHANCE program officials are under no obligation by university policy to disclose reasons behind the firing of Martha Palmer. "The university has a general policy of confidentiality for personnel transactions...

DeKalb County Hospice will offer a Bereavement Care Orientation class starting Sept. 22. The program will be held on 6 consecutive Thursday evenings, beginning Thursday, Sept. 22 through Oct. 27, 6:30_9:30 p.m. at the Sandwich Community Hospital, 11 E....

This summer, I involuntarily became part of a very brief social survey of the American educational system that was, to put it mildly, a humbling experience. I was sitting in an English pub, sipping my cider, minding my own business when an Englishman—an...

This is in response to Gretchyn Lenger's infamous column, "Listen up freshmen...this column is for you." I don't know what year in college you're in, but I can tell you, you write as a high school sophomore would. You see, high school sophomores seem...

As I was talking to a friend, the discussion of the bars came up, and why these bars don't let college students ages 19 and up into the bars. Here are some ideas of how to make this all possible. . If the students are coming from the dorms or apartments,...