I stopped home last Saturday afternoon to run a few errands and catch up on some of those family responsibilities that mothers are always reminding their children to do. It was a nice change of pace for a Saturday afternoon. So after I had accomplished...

In response to Ms. Renner's column in the Sept. 6 edition of The Northern Star, the main issue before the people of DeKalb is, what type of government do we want? Do we want a closed and secretive government or do we want an open and honest administration?...

With the bungling bureaucracy and the terminal case of committeeitus prevalent here at NIU, many items and problems slip through cracks in the floor, where they stay until a roaring blaze is set under the administration. Unfortunately, such is the case...

When I was in grade school, I learned that two plus two equals four. When I was in junior high, I learned that girls were not that bad after all. In high school, I learned that my older brother was not joking when he said that the cafeteria food was like...

The Faculty Senate Task Force, an arm of NIU's Faculty Assembly, will meet Wednesday to discuss the possible formation of a faculty senate at NIU. Last year, the Faculty Assembly discussed the possibility of replacing itself with a faculty senate which...

St. Mary's School of Sycamore is holding its twelfth annual fall festival and auction, featuring the sale of celebrity memorabilia, on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Among the items to be auctioned are a bow tie from Sen. Paul Simon, autographed pictures of former...

It's kind of ironic that last year, a group of students ran for the Student Association Senate claiming they were "students for all students." But these "students for ‘all' students," in fact, represented only about 10 percent of the student population....

It has been an interseting past few months in the Educational Services and Programs office (yes, where the CHANCE program is located.) With unfounded and ludicrous accusations flying, I feel there is a need for a voice to be heard other than that of Martha...

Opponents in the controversy regarding new requirements for prison instructors to take urine tests for drug use detection cannot agree on the accuracy of the tests. While research done by an independent prison watchdog group indicates a five percent minimum...

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...