This letter is prompted by a call I made to NIU's personnel office to inquire about the staff and faculty policy for Election Day. The first time I voted in a Presidential Election (1980) the company I worked for provided an hour of time off (paid) in...

Students who want a Master's of Business Administration degree can obtain information at an MBA Forum in Chicago this weekend. The forum, sponsored by the Graduate Management Admission Council, will be held at the Palmer House, 17 E. Monroe St., Chicago,...

Displeased that they were no longer allowed to attend Holmes Student Center Bookstore Evaluation Committee meetings, bookstore employees sent a letter to the committee stating they have had "the rug pulled out from under" them. The letter was sent because...

The condition of an NIU student who was struck by a car Saturday night has improved from serious to fair, a spokesman for St. Anthony's Medical Center, Rockford, said Wednesday. Andrea Ford, 19, 907 Kimberly Drive, was transferred to St. Anthony's from...

A preliminary hearing for two NIU basketball players charged with theft of a check is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Sycamore. NIU students Brian Banks, 20, 9130 S. Merrill, Chicago, and Antwon Harmon, 19, 6911 S. Dorchester,...

This is the fourth of The Northern Star's political endorsements for Tuesday's general election. In the the race for state representative in the 76th district, which includes DeKalb, John Countryman deserves a third term. Countryman is running against...

The Board of Regents' days of governing NIU might be drawing to a close shortly. It's about time. A new bill to be introduced by State Sen. Patrick Welch, D-Peru, to separate NIU from the Regency governing system has earned support from State Rep. John...

The "teflon presidency" era of Ronald Reagan is in its final months, and it's only a matter of days before we discover who will step into the Oval Office upon Reagan's retirement. Reagan surely will leave behind him the legacy of having been one of the...

Both Ed Diedrich and State's Attorney Phil DiMarzio are well qualified to be the next circuit judge of the sixteenth judicial district, but Diedrich has more experience and is more qualified to be the next judge in DeKalb County. Diedrich has been a lawyer...

Here's something for all students who work their way through school to consider: A minimum wage, already long overdue for an increase, held at the current $3.35 rate for the next four years or more. That's what many voices in the Republican Party are...

While George Bush has repeatedly told the American public that there is nothing wrong with the economy. There has to be something that is not quite right when there is massive deficit that is being ignored, and the present administration has decided that...

I saw something that really bothered me today. It was a flyer done by the NIU College Republicans depicting Michael Dukakis as a flaming Communist (sickle in hand) with Lenin lurking in the shadows thinking "maybe we can put an ally in the White House...