On Thursday evening, Jan. 22, members of the DeKalb County/NIU National Organization for Women commemorated the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade which ensured a woman's right to reproductive freedom. We wish to express our most sincere thanks...

It's Friday Time for me to get serious. I know what you're saying right now. You're saying something like "Why does this clown always write ‘I know what you're saying right now?'" I'll tell you why. Because, before today, I was a funny guy. But not...

President Reagan's proposed budget for 1987 contains a segment which would drastically change the nature of federal student aid. As a result, loan processing is being delayed and confusion about the proposed changes reign. The budget, which will now go...

The Northen Star's editorial of Jan. 12, "Regents' meetings belong on campus," has a sound premise, but this is only indicated in the headline. There are several misconceptions in that editorial that should be cleared up. First, the "magnaminous board"...

Not even Bruce Springsteen could have attracted more college-aged students than the mad rush for add/drop and schedule completion earlier this week. NIU administrators should be darn proud of what they have done to increase enrollment at this fine institution...

Remember the good old days when NIU had a good basketball team and played teams like Indiana, DePaul, Iowa, etc. in Chick Evans? Boy that was great for the city of DeKalb. Times really changed because now NIU is playing some real powerhouse basketball...

It's sad but true that most people do not concern themselves with an issue unless it directly affects them. This gives those in power the ability to take things into their own hands and manage them in whatever manner they see fit. Freedom of the press...

Today, January 15th, is Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s birthday. In honor of Dr. King, the Regency universities will be closed on January 19th. At NIU, where our most central and significant open space bears King's name, it seems especially appropriate that...

Over the Christmas holiday my goal was to read the first four James Herriot novels and it was a wonderfully worthwhile goal. In one of the books he stated how good it was to be a small cog in British agriculture, and that made me think about my part at...

There's a debate these days in the upper echelons of intelligentsia as to whether or not Democrats should gloat over the Reagan administration's current troubles. It takes a certain type of person to even sit back and think about such things in the middle...

We've all heard the story of when a farmer cuts the head off of a chicken and it runs around the yard a bit before finally dying. And once the hatchet falls, there's no way to put the head back on the bird so it can live a little longer. But it seems...

Alas, a major sports team here at NIU is showing up clearly in the media spotlight after months and months of trying. However, the men's basketball team probably isn't going about drawing public attention in quite the way men's Athletic Director Robert...