A lot of people enjoy the mound of frosting that is almost bigger than the cake on most desserts you can buy from the grocery store, but that frosting deserves to be scrapped off into the trash and forgotten.
The problem is that cake is already very...
***Editor's Note: Letters to the editor are the author's opinion alone***
For the past year, the rallying cry has been “follow the science.” The Center for Disease Control has done a tremendous job in providing guidance as we continue...
Election Day of the DeKalb consolidated election is April 6, and this year DeKalb has two candidates running for Mayor: Carolyn Morris and Cohen Barnes. With the election less than two weeks away, the Northern Star Editorial Board would like to offer...
On March 8, DeKalb named Illinois State Police Col. David Byrd DeKalb’s police chief, making him the first Black man to ever hold the position in DeKalb’s 135 year-long history.
The Northern Star Editorial Board is excited to see a needed change...
Every day it seems there is a new person that has been “canceled” and cast out of social or professional circles either online or in person; however, cancel culture has become too broad recently, and it is being misused to cancel people who do not...
The rights of voters are under debate in the Senate after the House of Representatives passed the For the People Act of 2021 intending to expand voting rights.
The House of Representatives just passed the For the People Act of 2021 almost solely with...
On March 9, 2020, the world as we knew it stopped. This was the date that some say was the official start of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. As college students, we have a very unique perspective that no other age group has. We are coming into our...
Once classes resume in-person, the Northern Star Editorial Board thinks students should still be able to attend class virtually if they are unable to attend class in person. We suggest a Zoom or virtual class being set up alongside the regular in-class...
By Jalen Smith, Guest columnist
| February 26, 2021
Hello my name is Jalen Smith, also known as Visionary J. Being a Black person is something I wouldn't trade for the world. We have a very unique experience in this life, and a history of so many triumphs. We experience racism, systemic oppression and...
By Northern Star Editorial Board
| February 23, 2021
Thursday marked the first of two administrative closure days, but the “break” did not do what the university intended it to do.
The administrative closures were decided at an Oct. 7 University Council meeting.
These dates were Thursday and...
As the winter keeps dragging on, I grow more excited for spring. The most recent two months have been an especially gruelling winter so here are a few things I look forward to every spring.
The Warm Weather: I am a very skinny person so, in the name...
By Northern Star Editorial Board
| February 12, 2021
As COVID-19 vaccines roll out in Phase 1B in Illinois, college students wait eagerly for their distribution in Phase 2 to go back to social events and a proper classroom setting. However, speculation continues to interject, and vaccines remain optional,...
