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...
In the spring of 1967, Michael O'Connor created a special section for the Northern Star that he knew exceeded press capacity. "There were five or six of us who hand-inserted those, all 18,000," the Kankakee native said. "I was the only one who had experience...
