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,...

The Board of Regents consistantly have shown poor judgement in their choice for university presidents. The past two presidents for NIU have generated plenty of negative news for the university. And most recently, the president of Sangamon State University,...

The sound of a jazz big band—popular from the 1920's and 1930's, flows from a downtown DeKalb drinking establishment one night a week, providing the town and NIU students with the jazz sound that they cannot get anywhere else in the area. NIU Graduate...

An NIU accountancy professor said NIU might regain its national first rank status for the Certified Public Accountant exam overall passing rate. NIU Accountancy Professor John Simon said the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy ranked NIU...

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,...

The IRA never ceases to amaze me. As a point of clarification, I'm not referring to "Individual Retirement Accounts," although they amaze me too. (The only things I understand about money are that I like it, and I want more.) I'm talking about the Irish...

NIU officials are still in the process of forming a search committee to find a new director for the Holmes Student Center, despite promises made last spring to have a new director chosen by the start of the fall semester. The director's position has been...

While the Sept. 7 story in The Northern Star entitled "Instructor to take NIU to court" was correct in most parts of its reporting of my actions in response to the "REG" stamp fraud of spring semester, 1988, I would like to clarify several points. I never...

Affirmative action, though once touted as the solution for all complaints of racism and discrimination, has not turned out as expected or even as hoped for those it was intended to benefit. Even as defined now in current dictionaries, affirmative action...

Southern Illinois University was the first university in this country that brought college-level education to Illinois' inmates 34 years ago. And now SIU as well as NIU will not be renewing their contracts with the Department of Corrections because they...

NIU's Student Housing Authority deserves a pat on the back and at very least a thank-you from students living in Grant North, Stevenson South, Douglas Hall and now Neptune North residence halls for finding a way to give students something during a time...

Powell won't go away The other day I had a conversation with a fellow student, and it went something like this: He said, "Hey, what about this Mark Powell guy?" I replied, you mean DeKalb's 7th ward alderman. Yeah, what about him? "Well I heard he was...