The Northern Star's integrity and fierce independence may have reached fruition in the 1960s and '70s, but only after Paul Street helped plant those seeds decades earlier. As adviser to the weekly Northern Illinois, he saw the paper through World War...
To understand Mike Korcek, you really need to know about Jim Tillman. Tillman played center for the Loyola basketball team in the mid-1960s. At 6-foot-5 -- small for a center even by 1960s standards -- he was a ferocious rebounder and once even blocked...
Take every media image of college students in the late 1960s, and think "opposite." That was Gene Mustain as the Northern Star sports editor. Few of Gene's friends back then would have predicted he'd become one of the nation's best investigative reporters...
